Bush Spent $1.6 Bil. on 'Spin

[Nikki Stone 1]

http://www.adweek.com/aw/national/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001996193

Bush Spent $1.6 Bil. on 'Spin'
February 13, 2006
By Richard Williamson


DALLAS The Bush Administration spent $1.4 billion in taxpayer dollars on 137 contracts with advertising agencies over the past two-and-a-half years, according to a Government Accountability Office report released by House Democrats today.

With spending on public relations and other media included, federal agencies spent $1.6 billion on what some Democrats called "spin."

The six largest recipients of ad and PR dollars were Leo Burnett USA, $536 million; Campbell-Ewald, $194 million; GSD&M, $179 million; JWT, $148 million; Frankel, $133 million; and Ketchum, $78 million. The agencies received more than $1.2 billion in media contracts, according to the report.

Ketchum was embroiled in a scandal last year when it was revealed that the Department of Education had paid commentator Armstrong Williams $250,000 to promote President Bush's No Child Left Behind initiative. There was no suggestion of impropriety for most of the contracts, however. GSD&M, for example, has handled advertising for the U.S. Air Force for several years, an account it won through a traditional government review....


(See the rest of the article. I would call this propaganda and amazed at how much taxpayer money goes into duping the taxpayer.)

[Missy M]

1. It seems Bush spent that much on his silly backdrops with....

all the PR nonsense he as been doing. What a waste of taxpayers money to have this administration selling themselves through public relations and advertising. Nothing is real about Bush and company.

[Nikki Stone 1]

2. It's money spent on manipulating us out of our rights

And we're paying for it.