Media Commentator paid $240,000 by Bushco to promote No Child Left Behind

[Sandpiper]

In case anyone had any doubt, Armstrong Williams is a certified Uncle Tom on the payroll of Bushco.



Commentator was paid to promote schools initiative
Williams got $240,000 from Education Dept.

Prominent commentator Armstrong Williams on Friday defended a contract under which the U.S. Department of Education paid him $240,000 to promote President Bush’s No Child Left Behind education initiative, but he said he understands why critics are questioning whether the deal was ethical.

Williams, a conservative pundit who has a syndicated television show and writes op-ed pieces that appear in many newspapers, made numerous TV appearances on Friday to respond to a front-page article in USA Today detailing the contract.

Citing documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request, USA Today said that in exchange for the payments, Armstrong was required “to regularly comment on the (initiative) during the course of his broadcasts” of his television show, "The Right Side," and to interview Education Secretary Rod Paige for TV and radio advertisements that aired on his show in 2004.

Report: Williams encouraged others to promote law
The newspaper the contract also required him to to encourage other black journalists to promote the law, which dramatically increased the role of the federal government in guaranteeing the quality of public education.

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http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6798618/

[Wind Dancer]

1. Typical repuke behavior - "bought and paid for" pushers.

[slor]

2. Did you see him with MW bill hemmer...

this morning? hemmer was trying his best to feign indignation with armstrong, when he whored for the nazi-chimps too.

[atre]

3. Armstrong Williams is small potatoes... why throw so much money at him?

I'm willing to bet that this scheme of money for press is much more widespread than just this isolated incident. I can't imagine an editorialist asking for a bribe; the offer, I bet, came from BushCo.

[flordehinojos]

4. HOW MUCH MORE DID BU$CO PAY KEN BLACKWELL THE OHIO SECRETARY OF STATE FOR

HIM TO DELIVER OHIO TO BUSH? AND INVESTIGATION INTO THAT SHOULD NOW OPEN ITSELF UP ...because ... when it comes to the Bushes..... you can believe that THEY buy and steal their way in... they are not worthy of getting in on their own merits and neither are their policies and each one of them bushes knows exacactly that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Wind Dancer]

5. No doubt.

I remember reading how Bob Dole was sending his assistant to the BCCI to pick up $8,000 in cash on a regular basis. The BFEE have been doing this for generations, nothing new to their MO.