The coincidences are mounting (good word, right?):
1) Jessica Cutler and Wonkette both worked for National Geographic. At different dates, but Plutocrat Grosvenor network is extensive.
2) Within two days of being outted by Wonkette (losing her job, being exposed to the world, upsetting any current relationships, etc.), Jessica was absolute best friends with Ana Marie Cox. Whatever visions of sugar-plum book deals may have danced in her head, wouldn't she be a little distant toward a stranger who had thus intruded on her life? Supposedly not, she was very comradely and very blase
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- Jessica's blog was first dated May 5. Within two weeks, Wonkette found it; "someone sent me a link," she says. It is very unusual for a blog to be discovered in such a short time. Blogs known only to the author and a few friends are essentially invisible, "hiding in plain sight." Could the "someone" have been Jessica herself, thus technically true, but wholly misleading?
- The day after the blog started, Jessica supposedly began her affair with married RS, which immediately proceeded apace to near daily sex. Some affair. Not commenting on the morality, just the logistics and timing. Did RS ever have to make any excuses to his wife? (Update: Apparently not; Calico Cat says RS is divorced.)
Jessica wrote "a week into our relationship, and we already have a routine," referring to near-daily sex. It could happen, but all within two weeks, bracketed by the start of her blog and its discovery by Wonkette?
The whole "I'm fucking six guys, but there are seven days in a week," idea seems exaggerated.
5) Ass-fucking. Wonkette's favorite sex act. And ... an anonymous blog suddenly appears, not merely devoted to sex ---
not just Washington DC sex,
nor Washington DC sex-for-money,
nor just Republican Capital Hill sex-for-money,
but ... Republican Capital Hill ass-fucking sex-for-money!
Chyort! Is small (but anonymous, unrelated, and coincidental) world!
6) The events of 5/18, as reported, can be summarized thus:
- 8AM - Jessica Cutler is totally unknown.
- mid-AM - Wonkette posts Washingtonian, headlined, "She's So-ooo Getting a Book Deal out of this." (Just in case no one understood. Is called 'laying groundwork.')
- 2PM - JC posts final, incriminating $400 lunch post. Her boss is asking questions, apparently already has hard copy of Wonkette's post. Within two hours, "someone" has read Wonkette's blog, researched the characters, identified Jessica, gotten the word to her boss, a copy has been printed, and Jessica has been confronted. Khorosho! Too bad these resources had not mobilized on 9/11 to shoot down second airplane.
- 3?PM - Jessica, knowing her job is over, heads for the door, pausing only long enough to delete her blog, while Wonkette, apparently having the blog on 'permanent instant reload,' immediately updates with "Washingtoniene blog appears to be busted/pulled down/a figment of my imagination." Last explanation is very good, da?
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http://acepilots.com/mt/archives/000917.html
Not to mention this has faux-scandal has done wonders for the popularity of her Drudge-wannabe blog:
The controversy sounds made up to me. But the two of them should get a job with a marketing firm. Wonkette's pulling Instapundit level traffic and selling ad space at $1,500 per month. And it's not for the content, which is insightful in the same way that Cathy isn't.
The Commissar (linked above) tells us why this is big for blogging. Yes, it's big in terms of volume. However, it's bad in terms of credibility, which was just (giggle) blown out the ass.
http://saysuncle.com/archives/002958.html
Then there's the fact that Jessica Cutler lied about her age and education:
After five days, Richard Leiby finally puts in print the truth about Jessica Cutler's age and lack of a college degree. Appearing in today's Washington Post:
Everything is true," Jessica Cutler, the Senate staffer fired for posting her intimate diary on the Internet, declared when we asked the other day whether she really led such an active sex life. But various bloggers have since called into question two prosaic details. Cutler is not 24, but 26, according to voting records, and she did not earn a bachelor's degree from Syracuse University, the school's registrar confirmed Friday. Cutler did not return a call for comment.
Jessica Cutler's age being 26, not 24, was first blogged about here five days ago: Evidence that Jessica Cutler is 26, not 24.
And four days ago, the blog Destiny-land first posted that Jessica Cutler didn't graduate from college: SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY SPEAKS!! DESTINYLAND EXCLUSIVE!! MUST CREDIT DESTINYLAND!!!.
http://www.calicocat.com/
(FYI -- feel free to page down on the calico cat site for a good William Bennett-Dominatrix post)
This is obviously a big set up and any of us who believed Wonkette for an instant should now realize they've been had.
This should be your rule going forward for Wonkette: Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me.
There's no reason any of us should click on the Wonkette site.
Grrrr. I hate liars.
By the way, do you remember when Sean-Paul of the Agonist took it on the chin for a blog scandal over not sourcing material properly?
Why isn't Instahack calling for Wonkette's head on a platter, the same way he did with Sean-Paul?