With all these "journalists" coming out of the closet

[MichaelHarris]

It's time they had new logos:





"The administration spent at least $88 million in fiscal 2004 on contracts with major public relations firms, the analysis found, compared with $37 million in 2001, Bush's first year in office."


"The Education Department, through a Ketchum contract, paid $240,000 to conservative commentator Armstrong Williams for helping to promote Bush's No Child Left Behind program."

"syndicated columnist Maggie Gallagher, an authority on marriage and family issues, had received two federal contracts totaling $41,500 for writing brochures, a magazine article and a report and briefing government employees in support of the president's marriage initiative. That program called for redirecting welfare funds to pay for premarital counseling and abstinence education."

Bushes response, after the election of course,

"We will not be paying commentators to advance our agenda. Our agenda ought to be able to stand on its own two feet"

Guess what, the agenda can't stand on it's own two feet, that's why you payed people to promote that dead horse.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-01-26-williams-usat_x.htm

That 88 million dollars was your money, money used to buy an election.

[RagingInMiami]

1. It's a sad, sad world

[MichaelHarris]

2. it sure is

there should be outrage over this and investigations into media and churches to see who else took money and if they paid taxes on that money. That was 88 million dollars of taxpayer money used during an election year to promote bush, that's wrong and unfair. We are still looking at black boxes when we have real violations right here. Who was paid, who knew, and who authorized it? It is wrong for journalists to campaign, plain and simple.