[Billthedrill]

I confess I haven't the slightest idea of what basis Weymouth could possibly deny what was clearly being advertised. Access to these salons - there were to be eleven of them - was package-priced at $250,000, for which a "sponsor" could send two participants. Individual salons were to be priced at $25,000 (buy 10, get one free!). What that money purchased was a sit-down with influential policy-makers and journalists, if there is a distinction.

How that could be considered anything other than selling access to power absolutely baffles me. It is certainly a presence beyond the means of ordinary citizens. Weymouth's impassioned insistence that it isn't what it looks like is simply not the case - it is what it looks like.

What is most curious about the affair is her equally impassioned insistence that this, or something like it, is common practice in other organizations similar to hers. I'd love to know just how extensive that is. Perhaps an enterprising journalist might find that a proper subject for investigative journalism. It might be Pulitzer material, but he or she could count on never attending one of these affairs again themselves. That may be why no one has.

[abb]

The State-Run Media and the Political Class have been doing this dance forever, to one degree or another. It happens in every county and city in America with the local media and the local Power Structure.

Instead of ‘Salons,’ the locals use their churches and country clubs to access power.

[SeattleBruce]

“Individual salons were to be priced at $25,000 (buy 10, get one free!).”
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LOL!

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“Perhaps an enterprising journalist might find that a proper subject for investigative journalism.”
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Sorry, none of these left in the MSM. The MSM does not practice journalism. The MSM is dead.

[Psycho_Bunny]

"I confess I haven't the slightest idea of what basis Weymouth could possibly deny what was clearly being advertised"

Same basis as these jerkoffs always use: Rules are for the little people.