WOULD YOU COMPLAIN TO THIS NEWSPAPER ABOUT THEIR CAPTION?I received several calls about the vulgarity in the Washington City Paper. I decided to pull it up and there it was. A very distubring headline!
In mid-June, Donna Watts-Brighthaupt had an encounter with Ward 8 Councilmember Marion Barry. Watts was driving around, taking care of some personal business, when Barry caught sight of her. He made a point of getting her to pull over, and the two quickly got involved in an intense discussion.
The exchange hinged on their roughly yearlong relationship, a bizarre one even by the standards of one of the District’s most-watched womanizers. As Barry attempted to stake out his position on their fortunes, Watts-Brighthaupt was quick to point out the ways in which she felt mistreated. One stood out:
“You put me out in Denver ’cause I wouldn’t suck your dick,” Watts-Brighthaupt yelled at Barry, according to a tape recording of the conversation.
Watts-Brighthaupt was referring to an incident that had occurred about 10 months prior, at the Democratic National Convention. At the time, Watts-Brighthaupt was working on Barry’s ultimately successful re-election campaign and traveled to the Barack Obama-crowning affair. For reasons that remain murky, she ended up assigned to the councilmember’s hotel room in the Crowne Plaza hotel. Once behind closed doors, Barry allegedly asked Watts-Brighthaupt to perform oral sex on him. She refused, whereupon Barry threw her clothes out of the room and barred her from coming back in. She slept in the hotel’s parking garage, in a Cadillac Barry had rented.
6 comments:
That's pretty crude alright. The only reason I can see they'd put that on the cover was to move more of their fishwraps.
What would make any old ass black ex crack head think that anybody would want to suck on his dried up rusty chitterlin(thang)? What a horrible sight and experience.
Holy S%*#, looks like the typesetter forgot to replace the "uck" and "ick" with "%@#" and "%*%". Gonna be a b%#@* finding another job in newspaper industry these days.
MARION BARRY IS THE MAN. TELL THAT HO TO GO BACK TO 14TH STREET AND BUY A CLUE.
The DC CityPaper is the equivalent of The Houston Press. Now if that caption was on the cover of the Washington Post itd' be a little different.
Either way I think it was pretty sensational and I wanted to read it, but I do think it is appealing to my lowest common denominator.
Pretty weak attempt at ratings.
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