[PJ-Comix]

It will be interesting to see if Politico can make their payroll this week.

[Vaduz]

Funding Falls Flat With Readers = USAID
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[parmamenian]

That’s one expensive subscription! I think the Cleveland Press used to be about $1.25/week when I was a kid!

[DeplorablePaul]

Politico CEO Goli Sheikholeslami I bet she had a lot of cute nicknames as a kid.

[Right_Wing_Madman]

To its credit, the BBC statement mentioned "USAID."

The BBC received $6 million from USAID in 2021-24.

Our statement on USAID funding

[BobL]

“Funding Falls Flat With Readers”

Funding was ALWAYS flat with readers.

[GOPJ]

The money went for 'subscriptions'? With fewer than 10 people in that department? My question is what did they tell their advertisers? Did Politico take the dirty money then turn around and act like they just signed up 80,000 new readers?

Eyes on is what they sell their advertisers and they lied?

That's a big part of this graft story... It's NOT just the USAid bought them off or that they accepted the bribe and pretended it wasn't a bribe - it's also did they do a con job on their advertisers.

Oh, and remember all those 'fact checks' that helped democrats?

[bobbo666]

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?

[Herakles]

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

[Bob434]

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.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

"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."

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.

[Farmerbob]

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.

[VeniVidiVici]

Sheik hole salami? Are you serious?

[jmaroneps37]

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

[The Antiyuppie]

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

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

[mmichaels1970]

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?”

[grey_whiskers]

I must confess that I misread the name "Goli Sheikholeslami" as "Sheikholesalami" and burst out laughing.