Wolf in wool
So they're passing off propaganda as news? And paying their cronies to come onto talk shows and news segments praising their programs and misleading the public into thinking that this it was an unbiased viewpoint?
Does anyone find this disturbing?
Federal auditors said on Friday that the Bush administration violated the law by buying favorable news coverage of President Bush's education policies, by making payments to the conservative commentator Armstrong Williams and by hiring a public relations company to analyze media perceptions of the Republican Party...
The report also sharply criticized the Education Department for telling Ketchum Inc., a public relations company, to pay Mr. Williams for newspaper columns and television appearances praising Mr. Bush's education initiative, the No Child Left Behind Act.
When that arrangement became public, it set off widespread criticism. At a news conference in January, Mr. Bush said: "We will not be paying commentators to advance our agenda. Our agenda ought to be able to stand on its own two feet."
But the Education Department has since defended its payments to Mr. Williams, saying his commentaries were "no more than the legitimate dissemination of information to the public."
So they're passing off propaganda as news? And paying their cronies to come onto talk shows and news segments praising their programs and misleading the public into thinking that this it was an unbiased viewpoint? How low can this administration get? They used a loophole, a technicality to pull off this stunt, weaving their brand of lies into news segment, deceiving viewers into thinking that politics was actually news. Where is the righteousness, the moral majority?