I’m telling you it’s bad when you have to pay between $25,000 to $250,000 just to get a blow job from a Washington Post, Newsweek, or Slate writer/journalist. These meet and greet events, “the first of which Post Publisher Katharine Weymouth would host at her home on July 21,” were cancelled AFTER “Mike Allen's early-morning report in Politico that the Washington Post intended to sell access to its newsroom to lobbyists forced the paper's publisher and editor to back down from their plan at record speed.” <link>

Yeah, yeah, I know that there were no actual sexual favors being offered to Obama Administration officials, although Washington Post Publisher Katharine Weymouth certainly seemed willing with HER slutty flight attendant’s look [that’s for the Post’s ownership of Slate ezine and Dahlia Lithwicks’ endorsement of David Letterman’s sexual ‘jokes’ about Sarah Palin and her daughters]. The irony being that Katharine Weymouth DOES look like a slutty flight attendant in her publicity photos. Go figure.

Anyway, as I’m sure we all know by now, Weymouth and Executive Editor Marcus Brauchli tried to elicit bribe money for bringing together at Weymouth’s home for off-the-record, nonconfrontational access "lobbyists and association executives . . . those powerful few Obama administration officials, members of Congress, and . . . even the paper's own reporters and editors." What these adults did after that behind walls was to be their own private business – wink, wink.

AFTER the paper’s intentions became public Executive Editor Brauchli claimed that he was "blindsided . . . by the flier, which made it look as if the paper's reporters and editors were for sale.” Well, OBVIOUSLY, there was no intention by Publisher Weymouth and Executive Editor Brauchli to SELL their reporters and editors to upper level Obama officials . . . merely to rent or lease those ETHICAL journalistic professionals for whatever the market would bear.

Ahem! One does wonder if, however, it cost $25,000 to get a blow job from a low level Slate political reporter like John Dickerson [who’s been giving Barack Obama head for nothing more than his basic Slate salary since the start of the campaign season] which more powerful and influential Post reporter or journalist or editor would go for $250,000 and what that ‘employee’ would be expected to do for it. OR was that the price outright for Publisher Katharine Weymouth to climb into bed [figuratively -- wink, wink] with some upper level Obama official complete with her slutty flight attendant look?

Yep, yep . . . these are the ETHICAL people who swore up and down that they WERE NOT campaigning for Obama during the election season process. Obviously we can all believe their protests of innocence on that matter. What were we thinking?

Enjoy

Yeah, yeah, I know that there were no actual sexual favors being offered to Obama Administration officials,

Only because they did not ask for any.

Jack

post with tongue in cheek in regard to these 'incidents' the truth of the matter is that we ARE talking about the outright selling of journalistic favors, which the WP publisher and her executive editor evidently fully intended to do. Ethics, integrity, honesty?

How in the hell can ANYONE trust the political neutrality of any of these press people any more?

One does wonder just what those Obama officials WOULD have asked for their bribe money and just what the publisher would have demanded that her peons do for it. Hmph! On the other hand, since the Washington Post and Slate e-zine have remained essentially a propaganda arm of the Obama Administrations, would one have noted any significant changes after all?