BBC's Beale Takes Doublemint Commercials Literally

We all know it’s brutal out there, but are times so desperate that the BBC’s top State Department correspondent can’t afford a fresh pack of chewing gum?

We told you that TWT‘s Joseph Curl had traveled with a pack of reporters down to Guantanamo Bay to cover several pre-trial hearings for the 9-11 terror suspects. Curl ragged on his British buds from the BBC in a postcard he sent us on Wednesday. Now another another source (we swear it wasn’t Khalid Sheikh Mohammed) has stepped forward with this:

“Just before the plane took off from Gitmo’s airstrip to head back to Andrew’s Air Force Base, someone noticed this small, white glob stuck to the back of the ear of the BBC’s Jonathan Beale.

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