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Politico 'Note to Our Readers' on Funding Falls Flat With Readers
Newsbusters ^ | February 9, 2025 | P.J. Gladnick

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 ...


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To: PJ-Comix

..”POLITICO has been the subject of debate...” Yes the debate is over how much of our money they stole.


21 posted on 02/09/2025 8:36:43 AM PST by jmaroneps37 (Freedom is never free. It must be won rewon and jealously guarded.)
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To: PJ-Comix

“Let’s set the record straight.”
“Let’s be perfectly clear”.

These are “tells” that liberals are about to lie.


22 posted on 02/09/2025 8:41:55 AM PST by The Antiyuppie (When small men cast long shadows, it is near the end of the day.ing )
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To: All

It’s called a bribe.

“Interesting story you’re about to publish. Be a shame if we had to cancel our thousand subscriptions wouldn’t it?”


23 posted on 02/09/2025 8:50:46 AM PST by mmichaels1970 ( )
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To: PJ-Comix
I must confess that I misread the name "Goli Sheikholeslami" as "Sheikholesalami" and burst out laughing.
24 posted on 02/09/2025 9:20:07 AM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: DeplorablePaul
Let's play "Hide the salami USAID *Backdoor* Funding"
25 posted on 02/09/2025 9:21:31 AM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: DeplorablePaul

By golly, she’ll shake a whole salmi.


26 posted on 02/09/2025 11:03:24 AM PST by Repeat Offender (While the wicked stand confounded, call me with Thy saints surrounded.)
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To: Repeat Offender

Darn, drank coffee, now need new keyboard.


27 posted on 02/09/2025 11:43:23 AM PST by miniTAX
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To: BobL

exactly! that’s why they sucked it out of tax payer dollars to keep themself afloat.


28 posted on 02/09/2025 11:48:35 AM PST by b4me (Pray, and let God change you. He knows better than you or anyone else, who He made you to be.)
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To: DeplorablePaul
Hmm, wonder if she is BFFs with ValJar?

Goli Sheikholeslami
President and CEO, New York Public Radio (2020 bio)

The daughter of an Iranian diplomat, Goli Sheikholeslami was born in Kuwait. When she was 10, her family fled Iran on the eve of the country’s 1979 revolution, arriving in the United States as political refugees.
Sheikholeslami grew up in suburban Washington, D.C., and received her undergraduate degree in international economics from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service.... She went on to earn an MBA from the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business. ...[more]


29 posted on 02/09/2025 8:58:29 PM PST by Albion Wilde (“Did you ever meet a woke person that’s happy? There’s no such thing.” —Donald J. Trump)
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To: cgbg
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.


30 posted on 02/09/2025 9:06:46 PM PST by Albion Wilde (“Did you ever meet a woke person that’s happy? There’s no such thing.” —Donald J. Trump)
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To: Albion Wilde

Perfect—thanks.


31 posted on 02/10/2025 3:35:28 AM PST by cgbg (The Democrat Party is a criminal enterprise.)
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