At 5 a.m. D.C. time, Monday morning, D.C. firemen were called to a garage fire. After they put it out, they realized that there was a woman in her car (a BMW), dead.
Ashley Turton, 37, was a high powered lobbyist for a company called Progress Energy. I say high powered because she formerly worked as an aide to a Democratic congresswoman and her husband works directly for Barack Obama, in the White House, as a congressional liaison. Also, because the company she worked for is worth billions and billions of dollars.
They had a merger set to go through on Monday. I’m not sure if it did or not. That’s just one of the unanswered questions in this case.
She had twin boys, 4, and a daughter, 21 months
By Tuesday it wasn’t even front page news at Huffington Post or Msnbc.msn.com. I had to turn to Google to get what little information I have. Why?
Question 3: Isn’t it a conflict of interest for a lobbyist’s husband to work for the President?
“Honey, it’s your turn to change the baby.”
“Not until you get us an exemption from offshore drilling safety regulations, it’s not.”
“Oh, all right, I’ll talk to him.”
Question 4, and now we get to the crux of the matter. Authorities said her death appears to have resulted from “a low-speed crash, an unknown medical condition, the fire, or some combination of the three,” the Washington Post reported. Now the Washington Post is not famous in recent times for great journalism, but this is really pretty lame. A good journalist would have added “However, it appears that the authorities are lying through their teeth.”
First off, which is it? A low-speed car crash, an unknown medical condition, or the fire? If it was a combination, how do those things combine? Secondly, it had to be an extremely low speed crash, as she was inside her own garage. Seriously, I think BMWs are built better than that. Thirdly, what is this unknown medical condition of which they speak, or are they just pulling stuff out of their ass? From the contacts I have had with authorities in my life, I’d say the latter is a distinct possibility.
http://www.rollcall.com did a little bit better. “It’s quite possible that the victim was maneuvering the car and came in contact with some kind of flammable chemical materials,” D.C. Fire spokesman Pete Piringer said. I suppose it’s theoretically possible, in the same way that it’s theoretically possible that a 47 story steel skyscraper, which was not hit by any airplane, would collapse straight down at freefall speed.
I must confess, at this point, that I am not a journalist. I sit here and spew my opinions, which are based on what I find in the media, which I know is not the pure truth. A journalist would be calling everybody involved in the case, consulting with experts, and getting to the bottom of the matter.
The sad part is, while I cannot provide the answers, the “real journalists” are not even asking the questions.
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