Last week CNN ran an article on alleged “DC Madam” Deborah Jeane Palfrey, managing to spell her name wrong and quoting the Politico’s Anne Schroeder as “one of the first Washington journalists to seize on the scandal potential of Palfrey’s case.”

Well!

Many political insiders, including Palfrey herself, were like, “WHAT???” This is the girl whose weakly-branded “not sayin’, I’m just sayin’” coverage indicated early on that the “DC Madam” case was not about sex. (Yeah, double-check with Sen. Vitter on that one.)

“Anne Schroeder is a gossip columnist, pure and simple,” Palfrey told Big Head DC. “My attorney, Mr. Sibley and I spent almost an hour with Ms. Schroeder and a colleague on May 24th – similar to what I did with you – trying to detail/explain my situation. The fruit of Mr. Sibley’s and my efforts, if I am not mistaken was a one/two line gossip blurb, in her column the next day.”

Then we asked whether the Politico has covered her case well.

“Not that I have seen,” said Palfrey. “Reporting the news is very easy from what I have been able to ascertain; this and constant pontificating. Investigative journalism/pushing and prodding a story is another matter entirely. Once more, the real story with me is not the ‘Who’s Who List,’ but the puzzling and disturbing genesis and continuation of my case. I am an American citizen. Yet the manner in which my case has been conducted and prosecuted by the Government, one easily could make the observation – and rightly so – that I am about one step above a ‘Gitmo’ detainee. My constitutional and civil rights have been obliterated. It is obvious to me, that the media and press are asleep at the wheel, here. The bloggers are not; however, they do not have the requisite resources, i.e. clout, money and often, the time to devote to getting to the bottom of a rotten case like mine.”

Rest assured, Big Head DC is on the case.

UPDATE: Schroeder has been spotted drinking with DC’s own too-tan-for-his-own-good media socialite Patrick Gavin.