N.C. Aizenman of the Washington Post delivers a wet sloppy one on Ana Margarita Chavez, El Salvador's Washington DC consul general. With her "long black curls" and "bubbly laugh", she makes sure that the one-quarter of that country's population that lives in the U.S. keeps sending their money back home to the tune of $3 billion per year. The only discordant note in the whole two-screen piece is some expats complaining about not having the right to vote in their elections. Never fear, the consul is here to win everyone over!

Don't expect the WaPo to ask tough questions about, for instance, whether El Salvador promotes illegal immigration in order to bring in money. Don't expect tough questions about whether that country has an extremely unhealthy dependence on our country.

Those are questions a real newspaper would ask, and the WaPo just isn't in that league. (You can send their ombudsman an email through this form.)

On our "GushOMeter", this only gets a 6, but we suggest that Aizenman keeps trying. He/she is joined at that level by Janie Har of the Oregonian, who also got a 6. They've both got their work cut out for them, since the current leader is OCRegister columnist Yvette Cabrera with an 8 for her gushing profile of a meddling Mexican consul.

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