Continuing losses at the Washing Post, $19.5 million this first quarter, spurred management to foster solutions. So publisher Katharine Weymouth hit upon the idea of selling “off the record” access to “those powerful few” Obama administration officials, members of Congress and WaPo reporters and editors. This was offered to lobbyists and association executives in a informal “salon” environment at the Weymouth home for a mere $250,000 per head.
Hell, if then Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich can sell Obama’s Senate seat for a lump sum, why shouldn’t the Washington Post be able to sell access to Obama’s administration and WaPo editorial positions on an easy payment plan basis? This is probably the only free market idea these leftists have had in recent memory. If you can’t make money selling papers, sell favors!
As comic as this seems, when you think of the way the Cap and Trade ACES bill was put together, it is really tragic in the truest sense. Read about the embarrassment when this story leaked in Mike Allen’s and Michael Calderone’s fine article in Politico, here. As always, FOLLOW THE MONEY!
Tom Motherway, tom@renohayek.com