Posted on 01/27/2005 6:14:20 PM PST by ambrose
Third columnist caught with hand in the Bush till Michael McManus, conservative author of the syndicated column "Ethics & Religion," received $10,000 to promote a marriage initiative.
- - - - - - - - - - - - By Eric Boehlert
Jan. 27, 2005 | And three makes a trend.
One day after President Bush ordered his Cabinet secretaries to stop hiring commentators to help promote administration initiatives, and one day after the second high-profile conservative pundit was found to be on the federal payroll, a third embarrassing hire has emerged. Salon has confirmed that Michael McManus, a marriage advocate whose syndicated column, "Ethics & Religion," appears in 50 newspapers, was hired as a subcontractor by the Department of Health and Human Services to foster a Bush-approved marriage initiative. McManus championed the plan in his columns without disclosing to readers he was being paid to help it succeed.
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Enough of this drip drip drip. How many damn columnists were feeding off our tax dollars to spread RINO propaganda?
The Dems have decided that this will be the second term scandal dejour
It IS a scandal. How can anyone say otherwise? PEOPLE MUST BE FIRED OVER THIS.
Where do you think HHS money comes from? The tooth fairy?
Why did the government do it? That's the question. Some real bonehead plays here.
Probably did it because they couldn't get decent news coverage from the Libs.
If someone doesn't lose their job over this, I am going to be quite annoyed.
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 Democrats do it all the time, it's business as usual... Repubs do it, it is criminal...
I really am a lot more upset about the vote fraud in Wash. & Wisc.
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.
Who is Michael McManus? Never heard of him.
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...
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.
Have you ever read Animal Farm?
Exactly.
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.
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
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