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Monday, January 10, 2005
The GOP's paid hatchetman speaks out
Armstrong Williams, the conservative pundit paid by the administration to propagandize speak favorably about the No Child Left Behind law let The Nation's David Corn know something very interesting.
"This happens all the time," he told me. "There are others." Really? I said. Other conservative commentators accept money from the Bush administration? I asked Williams for names. "I'm not going to defend myself that way," he said. The issue right now, he explained, was his own mistake. Well, I said, what if I call you up in a few weeks, after this blows over, and then ask you? No, he said.It's no big surprise to this blogger that this administration frequently pays conservatives to shill its message. As Kos notes, "Until names are named, we can assume every conservative pundit is on the White House's payola rolls."
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