Third columnist caught with hand in the Bush till (drip, drip, drip . . .)

Salon ^ | 1/27

[ambrose]

ENOUGH!!!!

Enough of this drip drip drip. How many damn columnists were feeding off our tax dollars to spread RINO propaganda?

[zarf]

The Dems have decided that this will be the second term scandal dejour

[nanomid]

Who cares!

Were they paid for by tax dollars? No one said so.
If no tax dollars were spent, then paying for things is how it works in a capitalist economy.

[ambrose]

It IS a scandal. How can anyone say otherwise? PEOPLE MUST BE FIRED OVER THIS.

[Izzy Dunne]

Were they paid for by tax dollars? No one said so.

Where do you think HHS money comes from? The tooth fairy?

[Izzy Dunne]

I agree - it is a scandal. Why did the columnists do it? Easy - money to push what they already believe in.

Why did the government do it? That's the question. Some real bonehead plays here.

[Bosco]

Probably did it because they couldn't get decent news coverage from the Libs.

[ambrose]

If someone doesn't lose their job over this, I am going to be quite annoyed.

[valkyrieanne]

So if the shoe was on the other foot, and it was a Democratic president paying columnists to push "gay marriage," that would be OK too.

[ikka]

What about Walter Pincus? George Soros' buying of columnists? etc. etc.

The Democrats do it all the time, it's business as usual... Repubs do it, it is criminal...

[Tribune7]

It IS a scandal.

I really am a lot more upset about the vote fraud in Wash. & Wisc.

[FreeRadical]

No, they weren't paid with tax dollars. They were paid with YOUR dollars. Yep, You've been buying propoganda to promote mushy ass government programs that are wholly outside the bounds of the constitution and conservative thouht.

Kinda sucks, huh.

Pray for peace and Pray for either the full on demise of the Republican party, or, at least, a full blown makeover.

[Trippin]

Who is Michael McManus? Never heard of him.

[Lurking2Long]

YAWN!

Yeah, wake me when something really good happens (like Sandy Berger...wait, not that...like George Soros...wait, no one cared about that either...like Dan Rather...

[Tribune7]

So if the shoe was on the other foot, and it was a Democratic president paying columnists to push "gay marriage," that would be OK too.

The way it seemed to mostly work was Big Media hiring pols who they knew supported "gay marriage" at wages higher than government scale.

The point is nobody is paying anybody to "push" these things. The columnists were pushing these things on their own. The money was a subsidy.

[ambrose]

Have you ever read Animal Farm?

[Tribune7]

like Sandy Berger...

Exactly.

[piasa]

I'll trade them all the rightwing journalists with their hands in the till for all the leftwing journalists whose hands are in the till...

Like those folks who arr paid to participate in conferences sponsored by groups receiving special tax deals as "charities" and arts groups and so on, and those receiving book deals indirectly supported by lobby groups in payment for their media services.

[Trippin]

I think Armstrong Williams crossed the line. Maggy Gallagher was paid to do research, which is hardly the same thing as Williams. Whoever McManus is, I'm guessing for $10K he didn't get to do much. Here's an interesting take on the so-called payola situation, and how pervasive it is on the left if you apply the same standards to them :

http://www.nationalreview.com/adler/adler200501271606.asp