Michelle Malkin - The skanks on Capitol Hill

townhall.com ^ | 5/26/04 | Michelle Malkin

[kattracks]

Meet the new Monica Lewinsky. Jessica Cutler, a 24-year-old mailroom clerk and phone receptionist, worked for Sen. Mike DeWine, R-Ohio, until last Friday -- when he fired her for using Senate computers to post to an Internet Web log that chronicled her trysts with six different men in Washington. Cutler's partners reportedly included government officials who gave her money for her sexual services.

 Diary excerpt: "I just took a long lunch with F and made a quick $400. When I returned to the office, I heard that my boss was asking about my whereabouts. Loser." In another entry, Cutler explains: "F(equals)Married man who pays me for sex. Chief of Staff at one of the gov agencies, appointed by Bush."

 Cutler, who aspired to be a journalist, spouted: "I'm sure I am not the only one who makes money on the side this way: How can anybody live on $25K/year??" When I was 24 and making less than that, I did it by eating Spaghetti-O's, Ramen noodles and Swanson pot pies for dinner; driving a Toyota Tercel with no air conditioning; and sleeping on a $30 futon. I did it the way most parents teach their daughters to succeed: through hard work, thrift, faith and perseverance.

 I don't usually write about such inside-the-Beltway gossip, but Cutler's indecent conduct, glib rationalizations and in-your-face shamelessness, and the accompanying feeding frenzy over her, deserve a firm outside-the-Beltway lashing. This vulgar little episode reflects a larger, disturbing media trend toward normalizing and glamorizing sexual promiscuity among young working women. It harms those trying to succeed on their merits in the professional arena.

 And it also harms our own daughters, who will be forced to fight harder to protect their dignity and credibility in a "Girls Gone Wild" culture.

 The Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post featured Cutler, who dubbed herself and her online diary "Washingtonienne," in a prominent story last Sunday headlined "The Hill's Sex Diarist Reveals All (Well, Some)." Cutler posed for a fetching photo and supplied juicy soundbites. "It's so cliched. It's like, 'There's a slutty girl on the Hill?' There's millions of 'em," Cutler told the Washington Post's Richard Leiby. Millions? Follow-up dispatches appeared in Roll Call, the New York Post, the London Independent, United Press International and the Associated Press, whose wire reports on Cutler were reprinted everywhere from the Akron Beacon Journal to the Houston Chronicle to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

 The news media originally caught whiff of Cutler from an online D.C.-based gossip site, Wonkette.com, authored by "edgy" (read: profanity-laced and sex-obsessed) writer Ana Marie Cox, who herself has been recently touted extensively by adoring media fans. CNN terrorism analyst Peter Bergen hosted a tony party for Cox last month; Washington Post reporter Howard Kurtz invited her on his CNN show, where she boasted, "I'm the expert at talking dirty."

 Cutler and Cox, 31, appeared together on Fox News Channel this week, where they giggled and guffawed and rolled their eyes as they reveled in their sleazy celebrity. When Fox anchor Brigitte Quinn (who deserves a medal for her restraint) asked Cutler whether her parents knew about her raunchy sex life, she snorted: "They do now!" Cox cackled and went on to coo about Cutler's writing talent and future book publishing prospects. Cox generously mentioned she didn't want too much "credit" for Cutler's newfound notoriety. ("Credit?" Quinn mused subtly. "That's an interesting word.")

 This female Beavis and Butthead duo illustrate what normal Americans hate about the Capitol scene: narcissism, moral bankruptcy and self-congratulatory media-political incest. The Washington Post's legitimization of this shallow "story" illustrates something else: the mainstream media's perverted moral values. The paper's recent profiles and features of social conservatives drip with condescension and ridicule. Religious activists are portrayed as intolerant homophobes; Republicans as gun-toting rubes; abstinence promoters as freaks.

 But give The Washington Post two vain, young, trash-mouthed skanks who couldn't care less about what their parents think of their sex-drenched infamy, and the newspaper can't wait to help make them full-fledged members of the media elite.

 Cutler and Cox apparently have no trouble looking at themselves in the mirror every morning. I pity the mainstream journalists-turned-pimps who can do the same.

©2004 Creators Syndicate, Inc.

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[I still care]

'Cox generously mentioned she didn't want too much "credit" for Cutler's newfound notoriety. ("Credit?" Quinn mused subtly. "That's an interesting word.")'

I saw this, and thought this comment by Quinn a rip. I don't think the clueless duet got it.

[Joseph_CutlerUSA]

It's not all in the name!

[martin_fierro]

Washington Post reporter Howard Kurtz invited her on his CNN show, where she boasted, "I'm the expert at talking dirty."

Ewww, Howie. I thought you had more class than that.

[lainde]

Thanks kattracks. I saw the Bridgette Quinn interview this morning...Words fail me. Michelle nails it again!

[Sabertooth]

I don't usually write about such inside-the-Beltway gossip, but Cutler's indecent conduct, glib rationalizations and in-your-face shamelessness, and the accompanying feeding frenzy over her, deserve a firm outside-the-Beltway lashing. This vulgar little episode reflects a larger, disturbing media trend toward normalizing and glamorizing sexual promiscuity among young working women. It harms those trying to succeed on their merits in the professional arena.  

And it also harms our own daughters, who will be forced to fight harder to protect their dignity and credibility in a "Girls Gone Wild" culture.

It's GGW, and it's Britney and Christina, and it's the slutty-clothes-only available for girls at the department stores, but I think it's also something else: fathers.

Any woman like Jessica Cutler who thinks so lowly of themselves that they'd get anywhere near the type of creeps with whom she trysted can't have been shown a good example by her Dad.

[Sabertooth]

Michelle Malkin Growl!

Post here to the thread if you'd like to be on the Michelle Malkin list.

[Bonaparte]

The "prize-winning" Washington Post, that loves to turn its snout up at the "tabloids."

[mrustow]

Bingo!

[MHGinTN]

Michelle is a treasure. Sadly, the mainstream (read septic tank) media like the sluts and duds because the media is thoroughly corrupted and functioning as lapdogs for the debauched democrat party in order to achieve some relevancy. Somewhere after a few more 911's, perhaps AMerica will turn from the debauchery and degeneracy, but with the Hillary goons and Kerry dolts achieving so much with their anti-American Military sludge, I'm not hopeful any longer.

[kcvl]

The Skanks

[bayourod]

It's those new campaign finance laws. Congressmen are no longer allowed to accept sexual favors worth more than $50 from lobbyists. They have to pay for it out of their own pockets now. That calls for a Congressional pay raise.

[nopardons]

Nor by their mothers.

[TheSpottedOwl]

Professional prostitutes have more class than her. I'm glad she isn't my kid.

[Rokurota]

$400 for that?

Someone got ripped off.

[NewRomeTacitus]

She resembles a young Alice Krige

without a shred of that woman's class.

[ApplegateRanch]

Any woman like Jessica Cutler who thinks so lowly of themselves that they'd get anywhere near the type of creeps with whom she trysted can't have been shown a good example by her Dad.

She obviously has a sire; but did she ever have a father?

Perhaps the product of a single-parent "upbringing"?

Or just more "parents" like Monica's..."TAUGHT" by Daddy; and competing with Mommy??

[July 4th]

You know he just wants a piece of the action.

[Howlin]

"I'm sure I am not the only one who makes money on the side this way...

Maybe not, but she's the only one who has publicly admitted she's commited prostitution in D.C., a felony.

[BigSkyFreeper]

She's 24 years old for Heaven's sake. There's a thing called "personal responsibility", no matter if she came from a tight knit nuclear household, a single parent, or a broken family.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

Add me to the Michelle Malkin list, please. :)

[martin_fierro]

Ouch.

I would've preferred the Red X.

[MissAmericanPie]

Cutler, who aspired to be a journalist, spouted: "I'm sure I am not the only one who makes money on the side this way: How can anybody live on $25K/year??"

Remember that pay raise congress gave itself awhile back? They claimed they needed $130.00 a day walking around money, while in D.C. doing their duty. Now we understand their need, lol.

If she thinks she can't make it on $25K a year, just wait until our salaries start dropping to meet Mexico's rising salaries, as the globalist plan seeks to do.

[185JHP]

Skank behavior that is rewarded is reinforced. Shaming and shunning works to the degree it is applied. Worked for the Class of '65 - will work now.

[NewRomeTacitus]

Just for that I'll make sure you're next on the Borg Queen's assimulation list. Pearls before swine.

[philman_36]

She's 24 years old for Heaven's sake.
No she isn't.
According to the article...
Cutler and Cox, 31...
Did you misread this...When I was 24...

[martin_fierro]

I'm not sure what you're talkking about, but I'm referring to the graphic calling you an idiot for "bandwidth stealing."

Flush your browser cache and reload the page. You'll see what I mean.

[The Scourge of Yazid]

The only broadsheet in D.C. worth reading is called The Washington Times.

"Moonies" or no "Moonies", that paper rocks Capitol Hill!

[BigSkyFreeper]

Whether she's 24 or 31, I wouldn't be so fast to lay blame on the folks. If she's living with her folks, maybe, but since she seems to be living on her own, she's responsible for her own actions. As Howlin precisely pointed out, she committed a felony.

[jf55510]

Cutler is 24 and Cox is 31.

[BigSkyFreeper]

All I got was a lime green banner that said "You're stupid....", basically saying that if you want to use the image, put it on your server and link to it there. In other words, quit stealing their bandwidth.

[Sabertooth]

Check out Jessica's demeanor when asked "do your parents know the lifestyle you were leading?"

"They do now." Cold as ice.

(The Fox News clip follows the ad for the Marines.)

[nopardons]

Reread the article.Cutler is 24;Cox is 31</ B>!

[BigSkyFreeper]

Cutler is 24 and Cox is 31.

Right, and that's what the media was saying earlier tonight when I was scanning around the news channels.

[philman_36]

Cutler is 24 and Cox is 31.
Naw, she's $400 a pop! /laughing
I guess I'm the one who misunderstood.
24...31...whatever. It apparently doesn't matter to the John.

As Howlin precisely pointed out, she committed a felony.
Pretty dumb on her part to admit it so publicly wasn't it.

[BigSkyFreeper]

Re-read the first paragraph:

Meet the new Monica Lewinsky. Jessica Cutler, a 24-year-old mailroom clerk and phone receptionist, worked for Sen. Mike DeWine, R-Ohio, until last Friday -- when he fired her for using Senate computers to post to an Internet Web log that chronicled her trysts with six different men in Washington. Cutler's partners reportedly included government officials who gave her money for her sexual services.

[philman_36]

Yes, yes...I see that I missed it.
I guess I'm the one who misunderstood.

[philman_36]

See #37!

[bonfire]

Guess it's cool to be a whore nowadays. Mom and Dad must be so proud.

[Sabertooth]

Cutler is 24

Maybe not...

Evidence that Jessica Cutler is 26, not 24

[Howlin]

You missed the American Idol thread tonight!

[nopardons]

Yes,you did,but anyone can make a mistake. :-)

[philman_36]

Yes,you did,but anyone can make a mistake.
I do try to keep them to a minimum.

[k2blader]

("Credit?" Quinn mused subtly. "That's an interesting word.")

Brigitte is as classy as they come, IMNSHO.

[nopardons]

One picture and two red Xs.

How brazen,she is,to talk that way about her parents!

If she were my daughter....oh never mind,my daughter would NEVER have done such a thing when she was 24,or ever.

[nopardons]

Perhaps that's what they raised her to be.

[xm177e2]

I don't think the clueless duet got it.

How are Cutler and Cox lacking clues? They seem to understand exactly how Washington works.

[nopardons]

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm....obviously a liar and a common whore.

[ccmay]

do your parents know the lifestyle you were leading?

I wonder if her parents read the charming part where she describes renting out her anus as a receptacle for the semen of a much older married man whom she despises.

I'm sure this kind of woman has always lived in the shadows and alleys of Washington. In the past, they kept their mouths shut or they turned up floating in the Potomac. I guess they figure that notoriety trumps discretion in the new world of Internet fame.

-ccm

[nopardons]

This one was a doozy,though. :-)