Health Care BS

For anyone still naive enough to believe the establishment media has any intention of playing it straight on health care reform, the following should be required reading:

For $25,000 to $250,000, The Washington Post has offered lobbyists and association executives off-the-record, nonconfrontational access to ‘those powerful few’: Obama administration officials, members of Congress, and — at first — even the paper’s own reporters and editors.

 Here’s the title of the first influence-peddling session: 

 Health-Care Reform: Better or Worse for Americans? The reform and funding debate.

 And here’s how the Wapo describes it:

Underwriting Opportunity: An evening with the right people can alter the debate … Underwrite and participate in this intimate and exclusive Washington Post Salon, an off-the-record dinner and discussion at the home of CEO and Publisher Katharine Weymouth.

The whistleblower was a health care lobbyist who received the flyer and made it public. The Post, however, claims that the newsroom didn’t know about this offer. Michelle asks the obvious question:

So: We are supposed to believe that WaPo chief and publisher Katharine Weymouth did not know that her business division was planning to use her home to hold lucrative salons cashing in on her connections and and celebrity?

Methinks the Wapo has just exacerbated its credibility problem.