If a sensible man like Anger kept company with aliens and 20-pound cucumbers, perhaps those stories too were true.

ECONOMIST: Eddie Clontz

It seems only elementary editorial prudence to decline to put media institutions ever again at risk of publishing further false stories, by closing their pages and their TV studios against such a man with such a record.

CNN: I'm not a Pakistani spy

Indeed, for a man who is notoriously sensitive about his public image, he has coped with the spate of newspaper stories about his sexuality with admirable coolness.

ECONOMIST: There is no alternative