Today I received a message asking if I thought the whole Washingtonienne thing could be a made-up situation. A little bit later, I received two other messages and a comment on the same - the comment from The Commissar, who wrote about this theory earlier today.
The Commissar’s skinny consists of a few things:
- a link between Washingtonienne (Jessica Cutler) and Wonkette (Ana Marie Cox), namely both of them working at National Geographic - not confirmed
- a similar penchant for anal sex - or at least talking about it.
- the strange deletion of the blog - and sudden rehashing in multiple places.
- dumping $20K, even from The National Enquirer, is a tough task.
I’m not sure we have enough for a case here, but I’m kind of fascinated by the number of people curious about this and posting about it already… What do we think?
Personally, I have no reason to doubt anyone’s motives - I don’t get that impression from Ms. Cox that she’d be anything but upfront on such matters. However, I don’t know squat about Ms. Cutler at all, so I can’t comment. The question that arises then is - could it just be a faked story written up by Ms. Cutler alone? I’m not so hot on that idea because I don’t see the point and it doesn’t seem to be such a “sure thing” as one’s 15 minutes goes.
[update] Calico Cat points out that Wonkette & Washingtonienne didn’t work *together* at National Geographic - but it looks like they both have the pub on their resumes.
4 responses so far ↓
1 The Commissar // May 27, 2004 at 10:12 pm
The Nat Geo connection is all over the web. Both of their readily available “pre-hype” resumes/bios mention Nat Geo.
As I noted, at different times.
2 The Commissar // May 27, 2004 at 10:12 pm
“As I noted, they worked for Nat Geo at different times.”
3 Tom // May 27, 2004 at 10:20 pm
Commissar - just updated that myself after re-reading your info and that from Calico Cat’s site. I was trying to say that I hadn’t confirmed whether or not they happened to be there at the same time - which they weren’t.
4 The Commissar // May 27, 2004 at 10:26 pm
You make a good point. “Motive” is weak here.
From the get-go, Jessica’s warm reaction to Wonkette struck me as odd, as I posted. I would have made that the #1 item, but the Nat Geo connection was hard & factual. JC’s ‘warm and friendly’ reaction is soft, subjective, and inferential.