Posted on 02/09/2025 6:54:12 AM PST by PJ-Comix
Politico issued an emergency "Note to Our Readers" on Thursday about evidence uncovered by Team Doge that Politico has been paid at least $8 million indirectly via high priced government agency subscriptions to its Politico Pro service.
Bizarrely in the entire note the agency at the center of the scandal dares not mention its name. Yes, you will not see the word "USAID" even once in the note issued by Politico's CEO Goli Sheikholeslami and Global Editor-in-Chief John F. Harris.
The damage control starts with the subtitle of the emergency note: "POLITICO has been the subject of debate on X this week. Some of it has been misinformed, and some of it has been flat-out false. Let’s set the record straight."
"Misinformed" as in Hunter Biden Laptop misinformed which was perpetrated as flat out election interference in Politico in October 2020?
And now the flurry of excuses which very carefully avoids naming a certain agency (emphasis Politico).
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
Funding Falls Flat With Readers = USAID
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That’s one expensive subscription! I think the Cleveland Press used to be about $1.25/week when I was a kid!
“Funding Falls Flat With Readers”
Funding was ALWAYS flat with readers.
In the interest of fairness they should charge all their readers several thousand dollars a year.
In the interest of fairness they should charge all their readers several thousand dollars a year.
The game being played her, the semantics game, is the same as the other commie trash like Fauzcahontas and Bernie play. Both insist that they have received nothing from Phargm CEO’s. Well, OK, so when in the ‘Ell did anyone ask how much your buddy CEO gave you? HOW MUCH DID YOU RECEIVE FROM pHARGM?? Don’t care who signed the check, or who’s fingerprints are on the cardboard box.
How much did your outfit receive from THAT outfit?
The mother of all paywalls.
When are we going to start clawing this money back these douchebags don’t work for a living and they don’t deserve our money they need to give us a refund I suggest Trump starts suing them to get our money back. We claw money back in financial situations how is this any different
I tried to talk to my neighbor about this issue, but he was in another coma. Poor guy has been in like 32 or so comas- He lives pretty close to me, a stone’s throw away actually.
Not in Iran.
Here is what you can ask your neighbor.
Should battered wives be forced to pay for a publication that encourages men to beat their wives?
Should battered wives be forced to pay for a legal defense fund for their husbands?
That is what the left/Democrats do to average Americans.
LOL. This is C-rate crisis management-speak. Come on, put some effort into it. Its so lazy and uninspired to simply pull out the "what they're sayign about us is misinformation." If you're going to do that, at least pay some intern to find at least one off-the-walll Tweet that says that Politico got $1 billion so you can point to that as if it is central to the stories about you.
Why do government officials need an expensive subscription to politico-pro to find information? They should have to search through the crappy .gov websites like us peasants.
Maybe use smaller stones. Or the phone.
The phone........ doh, why didn’t I think of that? Lol
Sheik hole salami? Are you serious?
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