DISQUS

AMERICAblog: Dana Milbank's employer, the Washington Post, planned "Salons" (at $25,000 a pop) offering access to high-level officials

  • blueoysterjoe · 4 months ago
    From their view, the only mistake they made was getting caught.

    The Post is no longer a journalistic entity. It is now a mere influence peddler.

    All Howie "Hand Wringer" Kurtz and the Ombudsman care about is protecting the Post's reputation, NOT the state of journalism. They are basically bag men.
  • Rob Mule · 4 months ago
    Wait a minute, wait a minute...I'm getting a mental picture of Dana and Howie Kurtz giving lap dances as Lally grooves to a smoke-filled sitting room and cops an occasionaly feel of George Will's slack butt.
  • Liza · 4 months ago
    We have a winner.
  • BobSanDiego · 4 months ago
    Ewww, Rob, thanks for sharing that gawd-awful mental picture!
  • nicho · 4 months ago
    If one of these mooks is paying $250,000, they're expecting a lot more than "access." They can get "access" for a $1,000 dinner at a chic DC eatery or for a lithesome young boy or girl delivered to a member of congress at a hotel hideaway.

    For 250 big ones, they're looking for results.
  • Nick_Upstate · 4 months ago
    I get the sense that money is changing hands here. I get very tired of the expression, 'too much on the plate,' as an excuse for not dealing with important issues. Obama may be taking payoffs if a prominent publication like the Washington Post is accepting bribes or attempting to. This is a bigger deal than you think. Quid pro quo?
  • Soundboy_jeff_meanie · 4 months ago
    "Salons"?!?!?

    funny, if a Senator or Congressman asked for $25,000 in order to talk to a lobbyist it'd be called graft.

    I guess the Post isn't saying it will write an article favorable to the lobbyist though... they'll still be objective, when the check clears... yeah right.
  • Nick_Upstate · 4 months ago
    Ask yourself, is this done with knowledge and acquiescence of Obama and his aids. Is this the change we anticipated when we voted for Obama?
  • BobSanDiego · 4 months ago
    I rather doubt Obama and Co. had a thing to do with it. Too much on their plate at the moment. WaPo makes-up this sh*t as they go. These "salons" are merely the death throes of the MSM printed press. Sic transit gloria mundi.
  • Butch1 · 4 months ago
    "Early this afternoon, the Post canceled the Salons. It was all just a big mistake"
    ====================================
    I'm sure it was. ( especially, when the back room deal was dragged out into the light of day )
  • Zorba · 4 months ago
    Joe, the Post "jumped the shark" after 9/11, when it turned into a neocon wet dream. It's been steadily downhill since. This doesn't even surprise me. Further saddens me, yes, but not surprise. The legacy of it's important investigative journalism under Katharine Graham has been completely tarnished- she must be weeping, wherever she is.
  • nicho · 4 months ago
    A. The Post has always been a propaganda arm of the CIA. People got the notion that it was an independent news agency during Watergate, but the evidence is now overwhelming that the takedown of Nixon was a CIA operation.

    B. The corporations and the CIA have always been entwined. Take any corporate executive who travels to lots of countries or even one country frequently, and there's a good chance he/she is working in some capacity for the CIA.

    (The "oh my god you're a conspiracy theorist" bloggers from Langley can begin weighing in in 3..2..1)
  • Ed_Weekly · 4 months ago
    I saw Reliable Sources last Sunday and Milbank really revealed his weaselly inner self. I'm still ticked a Wapo for axing Froomkin.
  • pdodell · 4 months ago
    I too have had it with the Washington Putz, as we call it in my family. We're giving it the old -30- and will just have to catch Gene Robinson through secondary sources and on Countdown.
  • nuthnfiner · 4 months ago
    Why don't we raise $25k and send one of our own to her tea party (er) I mean Salon? Turn their own weapons against them.

    That's the idea, get money in the hands of Think Progress or Move On, and send one of them to lobby for a public option with "the people that will get it done." I think that would be a scream.