Posted on 09/29/2014 3:47:21 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
You put someone up at the Ritz-Carlton, what did you expect?
Next time, put your source up at Red Roof Inn.
In the above linked article, the chief of CNN Eason Jordan admits to covering up the evil deeds of Saddam Hussein in exchange for favorable access to the regime.
You wanna talk about "EVIL", CNN???
Now, CNN does the bidding of another Hussein, no doubt in order to get favorable access to the regime.
Don't pontificate about "evil", CNN...you all live in glass house where the panes are mighty thin.
Sounds like a good job for Al Sharpton.
Put me up at the Ritz Carlton on CNN expense. I would invite a couple thousand FReepers.
I’d have dinged the idiots for three times that, minimum.
$3600? I’d bet if you emptied the in-room refrigerator it would come to $3600.
bump
OK I’m a fan now:
George Zimmerman reportedly refused to talk to GQ for the article unless he was provided with a “similar hotel room,” a request that the magazine declined.
Excuse me if I am having a hard time building up rage of righteous indignation Zimmerman ran up a $ 3600 bill for a three day stay at a five star hotel where the low end two bed room clocks out a cool grand per night.
No doubt CNN gets a very good corp rate, but the room bill alone had to have been North of a couple grand if CNN put the Zimmerman's up in an upscale room.
More media assassination at work by CNN
You and I both know that this is a common, every day occurrence within media, Hollywood, academia and the NGOs. They’ll never report on the money that a Rosie O’Donnell or Lena Dunham spend.
They helped ruin GZ. They should have run it up higher.
$3,600 for three nights?
Uhm...k
I’ve blown that much a couple times and way more for two nights, just because I didn’t feel like going to other restaurants.
Lemme see, oh yes, there was a two day stay Four Seasons Las Vegas.
180° view room, 1,600 sq feet, concierge shopping because we wanted to use the kitchen and a friend was an awesome chef.
uhmmmm...booze, wine, foods, steaks and stuff.
I think we blew through $6,500 for two days. For the room.
$3,600 for free stuff? Pikers...
Bingo!
I’ve stayed in all the best hotels and it ain’t cheap.
Then again, when I go snowboarding I slum it and prefer dumpy hotels 1/2 the time.
Culture thing.
This sounds like complete BS
3600 bucks for three days? That’s nothing. I charge 1000 a day just for showing up and that doesn’t include expenses. What does CNN pay for the spoiled interviewer for travel???
I exactly agree. To me, that bill looks reasonable, indeed quite cheap considering it is for two. And the expenses are just normal - laundry, mini-bar, dinner, spa visit (that is probably just a turn in the swimming pool.) I do all that if I am having a weekend away.
We have a controversy in Aust about a union official, suspected of corruption, who clocked up a $10,000 bill in a visit to a luxury hotel in the snow fields. Even that figure would be very easy to reach with a bit of vacation fun.
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