Third columnist on the WH payroll: (link)

[It's On A Slab]

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/01/27/mcmanus/index_np.html

Michael McManus, conservative author of the syndicated column "Ethics & Religion," received $10,000 to promote a marriage initiative.

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[ValuJet]

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[NYBamaFan]

We have already covered this ground and shown that the Democrats do the same thing. There is no intent to deceive the public...

 

[Bamaro]

We have already covered this ground and shown that the Democrats do the same thing. There is no intent to deceive the public...

I would say that BOTH sides show intent to deceive.

 

[NYBamaFan]

I would say that BOTH sides show intent to deceive.

My father used to tell me that we usually see what we want to see. Right now, your party is on the outs, so all you see are lies and deception. When your party is back in power, I bet that your perspective will change...

 

[Root4Bama]

Right now, your party is on the outs...

It couldn't have happened to a more deserving bunch! :biggrin: :biggrin:

 

[It's On A Slab]

On this we agree.

My father used to tell me that we usually see what we want to see. Right now, your party is on the outs, so all you see are lies and deception. When your party is back in power, I bet that your perspective will change...

I've been on both sides of the fence.

I voted for Reagan, Bush 41, Dole, Bush 43(first time).

 

[Queasy1]

I don't know about this '3rd' one but Gallagher was contracted by the Health and Human Services Department to help them write promotional material for the President's marriage initiative. She had written many pro-marriage columns long before the contract began and was even contracted by the Clinton administration to do something similar.

Armstrong William's PR group was contracted to run commercials alongside his syndicated television program for No Child Left Behind. Something he already wrote and spoke in favor of several times before. The commercials indicated that they were funded by the Education department.

They could have wrote disclaimers in their columns indicating that they were contracted for work. That's about all Gallagher and Williams are guilty of.

This looks like a tempest in a teapot to me from the MSM that is eager to needle every little thing surrounding the Bush administration. I don't recall the MSM going ga-ga over this while two Kerry campaign advisors co-hosted a show on CNN.

Pundits and experts have been regularly contracted by government agencies to do similar work all the way back to FDR and before. It's all part of the D.C. world.

 

[Pachydermatous]

Pundits and experts have been regularly contracted by government agencies to do similar work all the way back to FDR and before. It's all part of the D.C. world.

I get a large chuckle when some politician discovers a "terrible wrong" which has been a routine of the Washington wallpaper since Woodrow Wilson. If you are doing a marriage manual, brochure, broadcast script, or news release, you would hire someone expert in the subject. You do not dial San Francisco and ask to speak to the PR for Dykes on Bikes --- even if it would get you an attaboy from the Chronicle.

Most of the bellyachers here --- even those who hold with the theory of evolution --- have no idea how the modern media evolved into its present state. Pardon me if I indulge in another laughing fit. :biggrin2: