Posted on 05/25/2004 10:22:49 PM PDT by kattracks
Meet the new Monica Lewinsky. Jessica Cutler, a 24-year-old mailroom clerk and phone receptionist, worked for Sen. Mike DeWine, R-Ohio, until last Friday -- when he fired her for using Senate computers to post to an Internet Web log that chronicled her trysts with six different men in Washington. Cutler's partners reportedly included government officials who gave her money for her sexual services.
Diary excerpt: "I just took a long lunch with F and made a quick $400. When I returned to the office, I heard that my boss was asking about my whereabouts. Loser." In another entry, Cutler explains: "F(equals)Married man who pays me for sex. Chief of Staff at one of the gov agencies, appointed by Bush."
Cutler, who aspired to be a journalist, spouted: "I'm sure I am not the only one who makes money on the side this way: How can anybody live on $25K/year??" When I was 24 and making less than that, I did it by eating Spaghetti-O's, Ramen noodles and Swanson pot pies for dinner; driving a Toyota Tercel with no air conditioning; and sleeping on a $30 futon. I did it the way most parents teach their daughters to succeed: through hard work, thrift, faith and perseverance.
I don't usually write about such inside-the-Beltway gossip, but Cutler's indecent conduct, glib rationalizations and in-your-face shamelessness, and the accompanying feeding frenzy over her, deserve a firm outside-the-Beltway lashing. This vulgar little episode reflects a larger, disturbing media trend toward normalizing and glamorizing sexual promiscuity among young working women. It harms those trying to succeed on their merits in the professional arena.
And it also harms our own daughters, who will be forced to fight harder to protect their dignity and credibility in a "Girls Gone Wild" culture.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post featured Cutler, who dubbed herself and her online diary "Washingtonienne," in a prominent story last Sunday headlined "The Hill's Sex Diarist Reveals All (Well, Some)." Cutler posed for a fetching photo and supplied juicy soundbites. "It's so cliched. It's like, 'There's a slutty girl on the Hill?' There's millions of 'em," Cutler told the Washington Post's Richard Leiby. Millions? Follow-up dispatches appeared in Roll Call, the New York Post, the London Independent, United Press International and the Associated Press, whose wire reports on Cutler were reprinted everywhere from the Akron Beacon Journal to the Houston Chronicle to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
The news media originally caught whiff of Cutler from an online D.C.-based gossip site, Wonkette.com, authored by "edgy" (read: profanity-laced and sex-obsessed) writer Ana Marie Cox, who herself has been recently touted extensively by adoring media fans. CNN terrorism analyst Peter Bergen hosted a tony party for Cox last month; Washington Post reporter Howard Kurtz invited her on his CNN show, where she boasted, "I'm the expert at talking dirty."
Cutler and Cox, 31, appeared together on Fox News Channel this week, where they giggled and guffawed and rolled their eyes as they reveled in their sleazy celebrity. When Fox anchor Brigitte Quinn (who deserves a medal for her restraint) asked Cutler whether her parents knew about her raunchy sex life, she snorted: "They do now!" Cox cackled and went on to coo about Cutler's writing talent and future book publishing prospects. Cox generously mentioned she didn't want too much "credit" for Cutler's newfound notoriety. ("Credit?" Quinn mused subtly. "That's an interesting word.")
This female Beavis and Butthead duo illustrate what normal Americans hate about the Capitol scene: narcissism, moral bankruptcy and self-congratulatory media-political incest. The Washington Post's legitimization of this shallow "story" illustrates something else: the mainstream media's perverted moral values. The paper's recent profiles and features of social conservatives drip with condescension and ridicule. Religious activists are portrayed as intolerant homophobes; Republicans as gun-toting rubes; abstinence promoters as freaks.
But give The Washington Post two vain, young, trash-mouthed skanks who couldn't care less about what their parents think of their sex-drenched infamy, and the newspaper can't wait to help make them full-fledged members of the media elite.
Cutler and Cox apparently have no trouble looking at themselves in the mirror every morning. I pity the mainstream journalists-turned-pimps who can do the same.
©2004 Creators Syndicate, Inc.
Many of their bosses are full time whores!
If the American people really knew what went on in WDC, there would be another revolution!
Right, again!
I suscribe to the Weekly Edition, having moved FRom Springfield, VA to Jacksonville, FL in Feb.
Damn! I miss the daily WT!
(Cue Hall and Oates) "Oh, oh here she comes. Watch out boy, she'll chew you up. Oh, oh here she comes. She's a maneater."
I subscribed to the weekly and daily editions, and I live in New York City!
I try to keep up as much as I can via the Internet, but it's just not the same.
Wesley Pruden, Donald Lambro, Suzanne Fields, Balint-my dear, departed friend-the syndicated columns of Sowell, Feder, Geyer...I could go on for days.
I'm not really surprised at what she did, just surprised that she would write about it so publicly. I understand what you are saying and I really shouldn't be surprised at anything that goes on in DC or any other state, for that matter. And the answer to your question is "NO" I really don't go to many movies because they all seem to have the same script.
Yes, TV has been for a while on a frenzied crusade to promote this kind of behavior. Many films also. It's one reason I kept my daughter busy with sports and other activities and away from those kids who were nearly mesmerized by this trash.
The professional photo was properly strobe blended and staged from the beginning....most likely using ice cubes.
Give the skank a hand. And have her give names.
You want to impress,by listing euphemisms and slang denoting a prostitute? You left out some of the most interesting ones AND threw in < B> "John" ,which is a prostitute's client,not a prostitute!But then,you also have posted a HUGE,glaring,error on your personal page as well;but more of that later.
For your further edification and education,here are a few more,which you might enjoy adding to your limited list....
wanton,wench,harlot,a dress-lodger,baggage,ammunition wife,buttered bun,lefthanded wife,canary,jade,night-trader,soiled dove,doxy,and rabbit-pie.
There is no reason for any of us to be "circumspect,since the moll in question,has posted her paid for favors,in detail,on line,in her own words.You now say that this is America and we all have free speech...so just why is it.,pray tell,that you decided that you are the arbiter of who can say what and where?
You are allowed to say whatever you want to,but you are here to tell the rest of us what we should and should not say? LOL...you really are a humor break.
Now,as to your personal page....
Sir William Schwenk Gilbert,one of THE best poets,lyricists,and all around wit,was NOT a composer.Sir Arthur Sullivan was the COMPOSER of not only the Gilbert&Sullivan operettas,but the composer of ONWARD CHRISTIAN SOLDIERS,THE LOST CORD,other comic operas such as COX AND BOX,not to mention his grand and now long forgotten opus,IVANHOE,which the then Prince of Wales attended on opening night.
Don't bring a cap-gun to a gun fight and imagine that you're well armed.:-)
You sound like a creep and so do your "lawyer" friends, who are as bad as the women in this article.
Yep. She reminds me of a pro who moved into a house where I was a longtime renter. Once my landlord realized what she was about (after about a week), he enlisted my help in getting her out. He lied, and told her he'd rented her place out from under her. He was afraid that if he told her the truth, she'd come back and burn the place down.
BTW, did you take a look at any of her blog entries? Like, vapid. Valley girl with a gutter mouth. She is incapable of writing a book or anything else. It would have to be ghosted for her.
I couldn't find her blog entries. Do you have a link, because I'd be interested in knowing if there is anything redeeming about her. Viva la college diploma!
Are you saying that you were renting a room in a house, and a prostitute moved in? Yikes!
Maybe you should examine your hatred for men.
Why? Because they use their success to attract women? What do you find objectionable about successful guys dating women interested in having a good time that they could not otherwise afford?
Oh, I have no hatred for men. I love good men. I just have hatred for men who play games with women and who use them. Men like YOU.
Because it's only about the "good" time. And they pay for female company without their money, they could NEVER have, much like pimps.
You are responsible for the truth even if you think you were hurt. You do not speak the truth. You are just a coward behind a keyboard until you speak the whole truth.
No, YOU are the COWARD. I am generally, honest to a fault.
BTW, our discussion was private. You had to go and make it public. Are you hoping for backup?
So? Everyone involved is an adult. Nobody is lying to anyone or promising anything that they don't intend to deliver. Look, women are drawn to successful guys, everyone knows that. Guys with good jobs and money aren't "pimps" for using their success to attract women any more than beautiful women are whores if they use their looks to attract successful, rich men.
I'm really not sure what you find so offensive about the whole situation. If a guy buys a woman dinner, or flowers, or jewelry, does that make it prostitution if they end up in bed together?
No I want the truth. You are hiding behind lies.
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