Kitty Kelley and Washingtonian Magazine parting ways

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Kitty, Cut Loose and Put Out

By Richard Leiby

After a relationship of more than 30 years, Washingtonian magazine and writer Kitty Kelley are divorcing, and the terms are not amicable. Kelley is in a snit because the mag unceremoniously booted her from the masthead of its current issue, citing her controversial book "The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty." In an e-mail last week, Editor Jack Limpert lashed Kelley for what he called the book's partisan timing and its irresponsible reporting about President Bush:

"We are always willing to attack the policies, and the behavior, of the President," Limpert wrote to Kelley. "But it seems to us that the office deserves respect. We don't think we should attack a President personally -- his relations with his wife and family, his use of alcohol or other drugs, things like that -- without a very solid basis for doing so. . . . We felt strongly enough that we didn't want readers to feel that your appearance on the masthead meant we endorsed the book."

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45314-2004Dec7.html

Seems to me that Kelley was blackballed by BushCo. The Washingtonian, Larry King, and others who have publicized her books in the past didn't seem to mind when her subjects were people other than the Bushes.