He was clandestine after all!

President-elect Barack Obama went wooing [last] night, having a private dinner a week before his inauguration with a prominent posse of profoundly conservative thought-control writers at columnist George Will's comfy Chevy Chase house that has windows that other reporters could peek through and scope them all.

David Brooks of the N.Y. Times and the Weekly Standard's William Kristol were also spotted there. Also the ever-perspicacious Charles Krauthammer. Could el Rushbo be there too? He had a guest host on-air today. Nah, too hard to believe.

It's called reeling.