Abramoff: I WAS SWIFT-BOATED!Washingtonian magazine editor Kim Eisler, a personal friend of Jack Abramoff’s, has posted excerpts from old emails he received from the imprisoned former lobbyist.
Nothing particularly new — Abramoff is modest about his golfing abilities, and immodest about his power, access, and tickets to sporting events — but they’re a fun read nonetheless.
“Sue Schmidt is making a career out of me,” Abramoff wailed to Eisler in a September 2004 e-mail, reacting to the Washington Post reporter unfurling the evidence against him in her paper. “seems [sic] I am on the front page of the Post more than Kerry is. She’s my swift boat veterans all rolled into one.” (Schmidt later won a Pulitzer prize for her reporting on the Abramoff scandal.)