I imagine this is it.
Where was the poly thread about this conservative commentator that got paid $250,000 by the Department of Education to speak for No Child Left Behind? Anyone?
I mean, with all the salivating we had from the right about CBS, one would think the keepers of "journalistic integrity" would have loudly jumped out to denounce such a grievous act, like the Government paying commentators with taxpayer dollars to shill for their own policies...
So, where was the thread?
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I imagine this is it.
Well, that is sad, since the story came out early in the week.Originally posted by Kuciwalker
I imagine this is it.
You would think revelations of the government using $250,000 to pay pundits to shill for their policies would cause great outrage- I know a few posters who like to pontificate about "journalistic integrity". I am dissappointed they did not continue doing their "job".
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"it is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong" Voltaire
"Patriotism is a pernecious, psychopathic form of idiocy" George Bernard Shaw
You would think revelations of the government using $250,000 to pay pundits to shill for their policies would cause great outrage
Only if you're an idiot.
So young, yet so cynical...
You should move to NYC.
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i heard about this, but i wasn't posting on apolyton at the time.
i figured sava or someone else would have posted it.
you know why there's no outrage?
because bush is t3h r0x0r, and he can do no wrong.
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Armstrong Williams is not a journalist, but I agree this was outrageous. For those who don't know, Armstrong is a black conservative from S Carolina and was friends, perhaps employee of at one time, with Strom Thurmond. According to Armstrong anyway... He's also one of these people who ooze religion and morality so we have yet another hypocrite to sneer at.
On a sidenote, under Reagan we saw the beginning of the militarization of law enforcement (drug war) which resulted in Waco, Ruby Ridge and the bombing in Okla City, etc., now we're apparently seeing the CIAzation of other bureaucracies - s black budget for the Dept of Education? Or did Congress specifically pass an expenditure to bribe commentators? Of course, Congress gives other groups/people money, like AARP.
I'm just no longer shocked by corruption in banana republics.
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Incidentally, the WSJ (carried by pundits on TV like that paragon of journalistic ethics Bob Novak and Falafal) recently published an article asserting that Dean paid a couple bloggers to secretly shill for him in an attempt to draw some kind of equivalence between Dean and Dear Leader. Of course, if they spent a tiny bit of effort to check their single source, they would've found that one of the bloggers shut down his site while working for the Dean campaign, and the other displayed on his site a prominent disclaimer that he was working for the Dean campaign. No retractions from the WSJ have been forthcoming. Much less, resignations.
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250 000 to speak? Hey, for 100 000, I'd speak there too, and bet your tight buttocks that everyone would go home wanting to praise the education and no child left behind, for they lives sake.
In da butt.
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Yeah, I heard about this as well... I was outraged when I heard of it
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I did
face it, conservatives know how to run a country better than liberals.
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Iraq
wait....
Iraq was not a problem of conservative policies, but a problem of a warmonger president.
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Armstrong Williams isn't worth starting a thread over. He's just a run of the mill Bush-wh0re.
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