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.
This is what happens when Wonkette buys Washingtonienne "a" drink at 6PM: We didn't get home until 1AM. The evening began at the Four Seasons and ended in a suburban Virginia farmhouse. We did not, in the end, have to buy any of our own drinks. Pictures were taken. A cell phone was lost. This morning, Mr. Wonkette made us scrambled eggs. Now, can we move on?
That made me sick just to think about it. She sure doesn't think much of herself.
Quick...go wash!
You're moving?
The accepted definition of this word-in adjectival form-according to Webster's New World College Dictionary is:
[slang] sleazy, offensive, disreputable, etc. in appearance or character.
Now, I have no problem slamming someone because of a deficiency of character-which appears to be the case with this woman-but I think that it's pretty reprehensible to launch a personal attack against someone based solely upon their appearance.
Neither of them are attractive and both look three sheets to the wind.
Did you miss the title of this thread?
I suggest that you two read my post.
I never suggested that this woman was Scarlett O'Hara when it comes to the formalized rituals of courtship.
However, I also don't quite understand the uproar over a story-that may or may not be true-but that is in any case, not the most pressing item on the agenda of Capitol Hill lawmakers.
What is really sad is that they (Culter and Cox) don't realize that one day they'll be 40 and not quite as attractive to the men as they used to be. Then they'll be looking for a deeper, more emotional love; and they won't find it. Both of them will end up in therapy, I guarentee. No man respects a woman with such a past, esp. one who can't keep her mouth shut about past lovers.
So stop reading it if your time is so valuable. I don't recall anyone forcing you on this thread to read such "horrible" name calling.
SKANK, SKANK, SKANK. They are both SKANKS, SLUTS, WHORES & SLEAZY TRASH!
I can accept that people do it -- that doesn't really bother me -- but I don't understand WHY they do it. I can't imagine running my life that way.
The females in question,and one in particular,write about sex in D.C.,in detail.The whore used to be a clerk in a GOPer's office and claims that she is being PAID FOR SEX,by GOPers,high in the president's team.In case you are having problems analyzing just what this means,it is yet another way to bring down the president/smear him And ALL GOPers, with the Clintonian "they all do it,but GOPers have to pay for it" brush.
Unlike you,I read your post and understood what you thought you meant to say ,but didn't.
If you don't want to worry about this,get off the thread...don't come on it to jump all over a few of us.
That poaster has MISSED everything...the article, the title of the article,as well as what has appeared on which replies and by whom.
Yep,especially newbies,who haven't even been here a month and have REALLY weird personal pages to boot.Go take a look at his. Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesh.
They were really disgusting. I don't know if you took a look at the blog itself. It's hard to think such shallow people exist.
It's all about very empty seeming sex, getting drunk, movies, getting money, and nasty snide comments about people. She seems to think its very funny that she is sleeping regularly with six guys, and then laughing at them behing their backs. Very unpleasant.
I do call that clueless. She has no concept of what life should be.
But when I wrote that post, I was really commenting on that she didn't seem to understand that Brigit was criticizing her lifestyle.
*** As Howlin precisely pointed out, she committed a felony. Pretty dumb on her part to admit it so publicly wasn't it. ***
You should live long enough to see that law enforced .. it's not like she smoked in a bar or some other serious crime ;)
Ick. That news clip was like watching "The Brady Bunch goes to Las Vegas". What a couple of degenerates-- apparently the shame of a lifestyle like that escapes them.
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