Ho no, here we go again. Gas price hysteria from the MSM.
"Here's a troubling look at what some people are doing for gas. A 34-year-old Kentucky woman was arrested for prostitution after she was allegedly trading sex for $100 gas cards."
So began a video story at ABCNews.com, which made today's top headlines roundup with the teaser headline: "Sign of the Times: Sex for Gas." While the short video report included a prosecutor calling it a "sign of the times" that someone would trade sex for gasoline, failing to put the phrase in quotes in the headline implies that ABCNews.com agrees with the prosecutor's personal opinion on gas prices and the criminal desperation supposedly caused by them.
Of course, there's also more to the story that we don't learn from ABCNews.com. Alleged hooker Angela Eversole may be a cheating hussy, but she's no whore, says her jilted boyfriend, according to WCPO-TV.:
"She's wrong for cheating on me, but that's what she was doing, so far as that goes. She definitively isn't a prostitute," Anthony Schaffner tells the station.
Gas cards in lieu of a fancy dinner date?! What are affairs coming to these days?! Must be a sign of the times.
Of course, whether Eversole traded sex for a gas card or whether it was a gift from a paramour is of little consequence to ABCNews.com, which clearly aimed to present the story as proof of the depths of desperation otherwise law-abiding citizens go to due to high gas prices.
But that's not objective journalism, it's whoring out a strange crime story to further a biased media meme on gas prices.
—Ken Shepherd is Managing Editor of NewsBusters
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GAS IS THE NEW GREEN
Mon, 07/07/2008 - 12:08 ET by RMRGood grief! How stupid do these drive-bys think we are? So I guess her policy is, "no cash, gas cards only"?
No wonder they are all going bankrupt.
Now, they're really grasping
Mon, 07/07/2008 - 12:32 ET by Chris NormanNow, they're really grasping for the sensational.
But look at the pic...
Mon, 07/07/2008 - 12:35 ET by sarcasmoCan't they just run another story about Spitzer's girl, instead?
JMR
The tax & spend drug war looks racist in the real world.
Spitzer's gal was one of the
Mon, 07/07/2008 - 13:18 ET by Chris NormanSpitzer's gal was one of the rare examples of reality matching fantasy. I don't think we could expect someone who does something like this for gas to be of the same caliber. :)
I'll be honest, I presented
Mon, 07/07/2008 - 12:34 ET by dvdaughtryI'll be honest, I presented the idea to my wife, but she was a little apprehensive.
So, being the knight in shining armor I am, I simply picked up a 2nd job at Domino's Pizza instead.
You trying to say Jesus Christ can't hit a curveball?
→ She's no ho
Mon, 07/07/2008 - 12:37 ET by Cool Arrow"She definitively isn't a prostitute,"
LYDSEXICS UNTIE
CA, Good call. It's like,
Mon, 07/07/2008 - 13:17 ET by Chris NormanCA,
Good call. It's like, just who is the prostitute here?
This may be.....
Mon, 07/07/2008 - 12:55 ET by ForeverOnTheRighta sign of the times, but I seriously doubt that is has anything to do with gas prices. This more has to do with the immorality that the MSM, Hollywood and the secular humanist left love to push as O.K. unless it's "news worthy" or if a Republican or other "enemy" of the left allegedly violates. How many women during the Great Depression turned to prostitution? I am guessing very very few. The Great Depression was a lot more desperate and I doubt that the rate of prostitution went up. Yes I think this woman prostituted herself for the $100 dollars in gas.
Oh My
Mon, 07/07/2008 - 13:18 ET by Tyler DurbinThat sure is a "full service" station.
"Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience."
These things need to be
Mon, 07/07/2008 - 13:24 ET by Cureboy675These things need to be exposed. As a Sugar Daddy looking for the next hot young thing to spoil in exchange for intimate favors, I need to be kept abreast of these trends.
At least until I can afford that Cadillac.
Those sexist pigs!
Mon, 07/07/2008 - 14:16 ET by Army BratWhy not mention the fact that rising gas prices are causing more men to become Pimps?
It's clear to me that if there is an increase in the number of prostitutes...there must also be an increase in the number of Pimps! To ignore this fact in their story, shows their lack of journalistic integrity!
Bwa ha ha ha ha ha! yeah...right....
Oh crap...I just realized. I'm sexist as well....I completely forgot about Gigolos.
Happy Trails...
Wow
Mon, 07/07/2008 - 17:35 ET by BlondeTalk about "pimp my ride".
:D
David Gregory, do you know which damn network you lie for? ~ Uncle Jimbo, @Blackfive
bullsh*t!
Mon, 07/07/2008 - 14:10 ET by UndercoverConservativesays she "trades" for $100 gas cards. So unless she's driving a fleet of Hummers, or isn't getting and customers, then one single trick would take care of a decent sized car for two weeks minimum. If she does more than that, she's got enough to run a fleet for a month.
So either it's a bullsh*t sob story to get some sort of sympathy, or the b*tch was simply changing her currency to something she thought would go up in value, rather than cash.
But if it was the usual whore trade of drugs, would the Media say drugs cause prostitution? Or if she traded for gold bullion? What if she "services" for stock shares in Apple?
"to call an illegal immigrant an "undocumented alien" is the same as calling a streetcorner drug dealer an "unlicensed pharmacist".
"You spend your money anyway you want and respect other's rights to do the s
Laughing
Mon, 07/07/2008 - 17:42 ET by Copperhead Ridge"So unless she's driving a fleet of Hummers,"
I think it's very funny that you chose that type of vehicle as an example in your comments on this story.
When I read this on the Lexington paper's website the other day I wondered if she was checking the amount on the gas cards before she turned the trick. I have a couple of gas cards that I've used the entire amount but still have the plastic.
I wasn't going to be in northern Kentucky anytime soon, so I didn't worry about it.
Northern Kentucky = Ohio suburb. I can hardly understand the language in that part of the Commonwealth
$100 gas cards, hah i think i'd walk instead
Mon, 07/07/2008 - 20:24 ET by lunaticcringeradioi think instead of sex i'd pay her to push it to the pump. work off a lil of those butter thighs.
lunaticcringeradio
"ABC Pimps New Gas Price
Tue, 07/08/2008 - 00:43 ET by jdhawk"ABC Pimps New Gas Price Bias: Prices at Pump Drive Woman to Prostitution"
Enough already with the stories about Barbara Walters . . .
I Knew...
Tue, 07/08/2008 - 08:23 ET by jkrockoneI knew they would resort to using the A$$ for GA$ card sooner than later!
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