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New York Post picks up Jessica Cutler story

Another major U.S. paper, the New York Post, has picked up the Jessica Cutler story. Link to NY Post article. The Post may not have the prestige of The New York Times (and for good reason), but they scooped the Times on this one.

Along with the story (which contains no details that you don't already know), there's a new picture.

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Richard Leiby of the Washington Post keeps the Jessica Cutler story alive, writing about her again in today's Reliable Source solumn. Most of what he writes about her is devoted to safe sex:

• A public service announcement for the half-dozen men (so far) caught up in the "Washingtonienne" sex scandal on Capitol Hill: It would be prudent to get HIV tests, advises Jessica Cutler, who wrote a diary of her sexual escapades, then posted it on the Internet, causing Sen. Mike DeWine (R-Ohio) to fire her last week for inappropriate use of Senate computers. "I'm not the only one in the world who should worry about this," Cutler, the 24-year-old former staff assistant who kept the Washingtonienne blog, told us yesterday.

"I was practicing safe sex, as much as that is possible," she added. Juggling media interviews and requests, Cutler said she intended to keep a previously scheduled doctor's appointment yesterday to get tested for the virus. "I get tested at least once a year. I'm fine as far as I know. It's not like I'm in a panic or anything."

But in an interview with us Friday, she seemed concerned about the potential transmission of HIV because of some of her partners' preferences or carelessness. "These people, these relationships, have been going on for various lengths of time. There are situations that are very questionable. You never know. . . . With AIDS, who's not afraid of that?"

All this good stuff in there, and all you can write about is how she practiced safe sex? Come on. She was getting it anal from W who paid her good money for it. There's nothing safe about anal. That's the most likely way to spread AIDS.

In the last paragraph about Jessica, he mentions my blog:

Some Web sites are speculating on the names of various sexual partners whom Cutler only identified with initials. The sites are eager to ID a married, Bush-appointed "chief of staff" at a federal agency who she claimed paid her $400 for a lunch-hour tryst last Tuesday. But she held firm to her vow not to name names, declaring: "I'm not going to help anyone figure this out."

Well, he doesn't mention my blog by name, but there aren't that many websites out there speculating on this issue. As far as I know, all the blogs doing such speculating are linked to from my blog in one of my preceding posts.

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Visits to this blog continue to be high as interest in the Jessica Cutler scandal grows. Based upon web traffic this morning, this should be another record traffic day for The Calico Cat.

posted Tuesday, May 25, 2004

3 Comments:

By Joe:

Jeebus, man.

Is this Calico Cat, or JessicaCutlerBlog?

posted at 5/25/2004 11:13 AM

By Calico Cat:

I'm writing about what the people want to read about, and this seems to be what they want to read about.

posted at 5/25/2004 1:39 PM

By Joe:

Makes sense, I suppose.

BTW, nice nipples. (Her, not you.)

posted at 5/25/2004 2:30 PM