Wonkette
America’s neo-con pamphlet the Washington Post can be found festering in certain driveways from Reston to Chevy Chase, but sometimes that’s not good enough for the powerful CEO or lobbyist who wants to, say, beat the shit out of Richard Cohen in person. This is why Post publisher Katharine Weymouth is now hosting intimate sexy gatherings at her home, where for a small admission price (between $25,000 and $250,000), the lonely business leader can dine with WaPo editors and journalists, get a loving hummer from Krauthammer or Kristol or (imagine!) both of them.
BUT WAIT THERE IS MORE: Kat may also trick some “White House insiders” over to dinner, in which case the hard-working industrialist can “make their case” and get a law or whatever written just for them! And people say newspapers aren’t important anymore …. [The Politico]
What are those of us who like to read the comics, sports pages, (and gee, maybe get some actual news) on paper supposed to do when the WaPo is turning into a vapid, content-free (and what content there is reeks of the lack of copy editors) bird-cage liner? Wonkette and DCist are far better news sources 9and better edited) these days. I haz a sad.
I will pay $50 to kick Richard Cohen in the nads. $80 if Eugene Robinson cheers me on while I do it.
Entertainment will be provided by Gov. Sanford, who will sing hits from Evita while moonwalking.
Headline: Washington Post Mistakes Paradise for the Home Across the Road
(you can always tell Layne posts by the Dylan alt text)
How much would it cost to waterboard either Kristol and/or Krauthammer?
Doglessliberal: Print out the online comics and write on the back “the Redskins still suck.” There, problem solved.
Tell you what: For $12,000 a pop, you all can come over to my house and have some barbecue this weekend. This way you get a bargain, and you have just as much chance of meeting a White House insider as if you went to Katherine Weymouth’s shindig. Plus you won’t have to watch Bill Kristol eat.
it’s brain-dead. doesn’t matter how much gets spent, story’s over. go wapo, bury yourself in your own shit, we will cherish fond and rapidly receding memories of when you were good and true.
And even this will be advertised on Craig’s List.
How much is that whore in the window.
The ones with those huge cankles.
Another Palin pictorial? Damn, that slag gets around!
So if I pay WaPo $250,000, the Style section will write a heartwarming article about how much I’m suffering and how downtrodden I am? Now THAT’s a quarter of a million dollars well-spent!
Gee, I can’t see anything wrong with that. Of course Weymouth has deprived CEOs of such companies as Death Star Inc. the opportunity to chill with Dan Froomkin, losing a huge selling point.
The Moonie Times only charge $5000 but they say the same stuff over and over and over.
Hooray For Anything: Hell, I’d do it for free.
chascates: and, they’ll fix you up with a stranger and perform a mass wedding for you, gratis.
Thanks for taking my tip suggestion!
I hear tell that Andy Alexander is going to write about it later today in his column- WaPo is taking it all back and saying they aren’t doing it at all.
“White House insiders”=Chuck Todd and Major Garrett…Helen and Chip will still pretend to be impartial and outraged at the lack of integrity of the press…
It’s almost worth $25K to go down there and tell them to “shut the fuck up” in person. I’ve been dying to bitch slap Satans fluffer, Michael Gershon, ever since he worked for Junior.
Srsly, I’m thinking we need to start up a collection to send Riley into that den of thieves,(don’t look ‘em in the eyes boy, that’s how the steal your soul) he could crazy glue Krauties front wheels to the porch just to watch him crash and burn when they call them in for dinner (picspls).
Could we take up a collection and buy Froomkin back on?
Honestly, for even $25,000, I prefer my orgies a little more discreet.
Disclaimer: Sorry, lonely lady business leaders, Krauthammer gets all emotional if asked to muff-DIVE (get it?). Too cruel?
The thought of an evening with either Krauthammer or Kristol makes me want to set myself on fire.
SayItWithWookies: The Post appears to be hard up enough that they’d might consider it for a few bucks. If they hesitate, we could just tell them it’s for the “Bomb the Shit Out of People Committee” and I’m sure Fred Hiatt would be down.
Will Don McLean note that this is the day the Dead Tree Media Died and write a song about it?
El Pinche: What’s that? You want another Palin picture?
Alright, here ya go: 2 PALINS, 1 STUMP
(For the half dozen of you who still have a job, don’t worry—it is, regrettably, SFW.)
How much for access to Trig?
Tommmcatt:
What about the hummers? Are they extra or part of the 12 large? I ask because times are tight and this might be the deal-breaker
Politico comments section pins this on the Obama administration, predictably. Nice.
Wow!! How low can WaPo go?
So only the elite get to beat up Cohen “in person”? What about the rest of us? Can we send WaPo a cashier’s check for fifty bucks and have an editor go down the hall and kick Cohen’s ass, in our stead?
Doglessliberal: While I do agree no one does what they do better than The Wonkette, it’s not a news-gathering source like the WaPo. It’s a distribution platform with awesome commentary. People are so quick to write off the whole paper, but there’s a lot of great reporting done there — this unethical horseshit aside.
For $12,000, I’d better have a better choice than Kraut or Kristol. Quite frankly, they’d have to pay me to get within licking distance of either one of those creeps.
Barry White Zombie:I’ll pay $25 more just to watch from a respectful distance and applaud politely.
We’ve known they were whores for years, it’s just nice to see the price list for their services.
Jeff Gannon will get to the bottom of this. So to speak.
Kat may also trick some “White House insiders” over to dinner
Oh, so it’s being held in a Kat house. Figures.
I went to two free Post events- very good cookies and punch . No Cohe, Krautie or Kristol- we did get Marc Fisher and the ladies of the Reliable Source. Ben Bradlee also(I thought he was dead- but no)
get a loving hummer from Krauthammer or Kristol
Wouldn’t you first have to be able to get, you know, hard?
Wall Street
Art students
9/11 snow job
Chicken hawks
Moving company
Propaganda media
DNC stealth neocons
Anti-semitism accusers
The chosen the superior
2-3% of the US population
Extortion blackmail bribery
By deception ye shall wage war
AIPAC’s Israel-first dual-nationals
For profit NotFederal NoReserve scam
Words are plentiful deeds are precious!
How much would dinner with Dan Froomkin cost?
Glenn Greenwald going ballistic in 5..4..3..
snideinplainsight: I’m guessing $30 unless you want to buy him a combo at Taco Bell.
If WaPo dies, where will I go for all my insightful columns by the likes of Hiatt, Broder, Krauthammer, Cohen &c.?
Oh happy days.
Does this access come with a Happy Ending?
nader paul kucinich gravel:
We didn’t start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world’s been turning
We didn’t start the fire
No we didn’t light it
But we tried to fight it
Houston, Greenwald has reached orbit. Repeat, Greenwald has achieved orbit.
Joshua Norton: Nope.
In other news, can we please send Rahm to these things with a back seat full of rebar and a volunteer team of Steelworkers?
On the other hand, it’s hard for me to entirely hate on Ms. Weymouth. She was great on REMAIN IN LIGHT and TRUE STORIES.
snideinplainsight: I’ll bet you’ve got a van loaded with weapons.
Mr. Millbank, do you have any comment? Mr. Millbank? Hello?
Shouldn’t this post’s pic be a middle age power broker in the window? That would really be a turn-on.
“get a loving hummer from Krauthammer” a hummer from a hairlip! What if something gets caught in his nasal cavity?
DagNabbit: What a fabulous contribution!
Not even plausable deniability here
Take the rag away from your face.
Now ain’t the time for your tears.
Tommmcatt: Hell, I’ll have a barbecue at my place for free. You probably have just as much chance to meet someone “important.”
Oh. BYOB. Also.
The Post has cancelled this- according to the Post- they say it was the work of an overzealous marketing department. Always a good line to use when you realize your idea was totally shitty.
Citizen Kang:
Send me a picture and I’ll let you know.
Hooray For Anything:
How can we dance when our earth is turning?
How do we sleep when our beds are burning?
finallyhappy:
It’s not about this being a totally shitty idea, rather, it’s being totally shameless and the total embodiement of prostitution. WaPo finally revealed itself to be what everyone else knew it to be: the greatest whore of all of Babylon as the great Jesus book refers to this kind of thing. WaPo just did a bank run on whore diamonds and wiped out our entire national whore diamond reserve. Good going, guys. Now, we have to settle for whore-gold, whore-silver, and whore-platinum.
And somewhere in the Lowlands of South Carolina, Mark Sanford’s whore-senses are tingling…