UPDATE: Washington Post Has Become Obama’s Lewinsky

At 1:04PM today, The Washington Post trotted out Howard Kurtz to do damage control in an attempt to extinguish the firestorm that by 10:25AM was blazing its way through the internet.

Chief Executive of Washington Post Media, Katherine Weymouth, compelled by the outrage that the Washington Post was now becoming “curb crawlers”, feigned “disappointment” that fliers had found their way into the hands of a health care lobbyist who felt it was a “conflict of interest” to charge for access to “health care reporting and editorial staff”.

This is the news publishing organization that brought down the corrupt Nixon Administration. How the mighty have fallen; to charge upwards of $250,000 for access to another corrupt administration and, in so doing, becomes itself corrupt.

"This should never have happened. The fliers got out and weren't vetted. They didn't represent at all what we were attempting to do. We're not going to do any dinners that would impugn the integrity of the newsroom," said Weymouth. You’ll excuse the American people if we aren’t deluded by your betrayal and fraud.

To bolster the ersatz apology, Executive Editor Marcus Brauchli said he was “appalled”.

"It suggests that access to Washington Post journalists was available for purchase," Brauchli said. The proposal "promises we would suspend our usual skeptical questioning because it appears to offer, in exchange for sponsorships, the good name of The Washington Post."

Skeptical questioning? Give me a break. Vladimir Lenin once said, “The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses.” I’d say the Post is well on its way to becoming a propagandist. It certainly has exposed itself as Obama’s Lewinsky.

The Post Co. lost $19.5 million in the first quarter and just completed its fourth round of early-retirement buyouts in several years, prompting Weymouth to resort to ‘curb crawling” for new sources of revenue.

Via Memeorandum
Via Michelle Malkin
Via Michael Calderone’s Blog
Via Politico