Posted on 07/02/2009 11:09:17 AM PDT by Nachum
Washington Post Publisher and Chief Executive Officer Katharine Weymouth said today she was cancelling plans for an exclusive "salon" at her home where, for as much as $250,000, the Post offered lobbyists and association executives off-the-record, nonconfrontational access to "those powerful few": Obama administration officials, members of Congress, and even the paper’s own reporters and editors.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
I don’t know why he’s not there anymore, really. He could have quit in disgust and is happy as a clam now with new-found journalistic independence. Either way, he’s put Politico on the map.
I link to at least one of their stories a day on my site. Politico is very very good.
Lead story on Nightly News with Brian Williams...
Suck it up WaPo, Barry still knows he has you in his pocket....
Uh, huh. I’m sure.
ROFTL! The great demoncRAT-stronghold Washington Post caught with its pants down & appendage erect ready to collect.
$250,000 ? That’s some boner...ah bonus.
The Washington Post, America’s Baobachter Zeitung.
No. It's a concept that applies only to Republicans. Democrats wouldn't have any reason to know.
Poor Rod Blagoveich, although a DemonRat, being nothing but a honkey Bohunk, he couldn't get away with "pay for play" and getting cushy jobs for his wife in return for political favors. But the Won, being the Magic Negro, transcends nonsense like the laws that apply to us mere mortals, and like the Mahdi, can share his grace with his sycophants, shills, and stooges, allowing himself and them to do all the things poor Blago stands indicted and disgraced for.
ON FOX now.
...Something smells rotten about this...July 21st dinner has been cancelled...
What profit a man to gain the whole world, but lose his soul?
Canelled or not, the fact that they even THOUGHT of it speaks volumes.
Sounds like the introduction business is still going strong in D.C. Access to anyone, for a price.
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