Abramoff's BFF
Howard Kurtz today writes up his chat with the Washingtonian’s National Editor Kim Eisler (Kurtz calls Eisler “Abramoff’s Media Pal”), who’s been one of the few reporters to actually speak with Jack Abramoff in the past few months.
Kim Eisler says he’s a decent man who has been unfairly demonized.
For six years, Washingtonian’s national editor has been chatting, dining and exchanging e-mails with the disgraced lobbyist, undeterred by last month’s guilty plea to fraud, tax evasion and conspiracy to bribe public officials.
“There’s been this explosion of hatred toward the guy, far in excess of what any other lobbyist has ever been confronted with,” Eisler says.
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