Feds paid pundit to push Bush policy

It's nothing of value & no laws were broken so nobody seems to care.
 
Gonz said:
I should be
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:grinyes:

rr, I'm reasonably sure that this crap goes on more or less constantly. Someone with an agenda just put this one out in the press. Probably to embarrass someone we've never heard of on somebody else's staff.
 
Shadowfax said:
it's only $240,000 of tax-payers money. nothing of value.
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Ding ding ding! We have a winner! It may not be illegal but it is amazingly unethical.

I'm guessing this hasn't been made a bigger story by the media because it happens more then anyone realizes and this would stop the gravy train.
 
This whole thing is so lame assed
and you guys don't even know the
'particulars' regarding the matter.

I listened to an interview with that guy and
what he supposedly did was not wrong in the least.

"Oh gee I got paid in a legitimate business deal to promote
a govt. program that benefits children"

Guess he should have sold advanced missile guidance technology to the ChiCom military
then it would be alright!
 
ALL AMERICANS!!! Please, write congress & appeal to your legislators to rush this through & get it on the books ASAP. See if we can make this law effective immediately.

NEW YORK In response to continued revelations of government-funded "journalism" -- ranging from the purported video news releases put out by the drug czar's office and the Department of Health and Human Services to the recently uncovered payments to columnists Armstrong Williams and Maggie Gallagher,who flacked administration programs -- Sens. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) and Frank R. Lautenberg (D-N.J.) will introduce a bill, The Stop Government Propaganda Act, in the Senate next week.

"It's just not enough to say, 'Please don't do it anymore,'" Alex Formuzis, Lautenberg's spokesman, told E&P. "Legislation sometimes is required and we believe it is in this case."
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Gonz said:
ALL AMERICANS!!! Please, write congress & appeal to your legislators to rush this through & get it on the books ASAP. See if we can make this law effective immediately.
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Not until the bill includes the legislative branch as well.

.........this is nothing new by any standard, can you say Frank Capra.

All be told, I think its just another attempt to hamstring the Republicans, the dems would weasel on it, they would violate it and say 'whoops' sorry ...til the next time they did it.

McCain Feindgold werk well didn't it.
 
HaHa!

riiiiiiIIIIIIIIIiiiiiiiiiight, It's never been an issue in the past, suddenly it becomes one?

Sounds like whining to me.

Funny how it ONLY effects the executive branch, why does it not effect the legislative as well?
 
Guess he should have sold advanced missile guidance technology to the ChiCom military
then it would be alright!
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Well, at least it would evidently be less offensive.
 
Until they realize exactly how many pet projects are funded thru this, get you legislators on the phone.

Can you imagine, waking up the day this program begins & having the left realize they can no longer fund the Arts or the EPA. :rofl3:
 
LOL, if the pres, congress, and senate had to follow ALL the same law
that the common man does, half of um would be in jail now. :lol2:
 
Gonz said:
It's nothing of value & no laws were broken so nobody seems to care.
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:alienhuh:

Federal law bans the use of public money on propaganda.
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"The issue here isn't just whether a journalist violated ethics, but whether the Bush Administration broke the law," Lautenberg said Friday. "If the GAO finds that the payment to Armstrong Williams was an illegal use of taxpayer dollars, then the money should be returned and Education Department officials should be held accountable."
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,145745,00.html
 
catocom said:
LOL, if the pres, congress, and senate had to follow ALL the same law
that the common man does, half of um would be in jail now. :lol2:
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Half????? I think that's grossly underestimated cat. :D
 
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