I know nothing about this but if an administraton wanted to gets its ideas out in the media who should they hire?
They can hire anyone they wish, and pay for it out of pocket. The issue seems to be that WE paid for it with our taxes. Don't know if there's any substance to the suggestion. Maybe it's another way CFR has been sidestepped; like water flowing around a damn.
In this case I don't think that they needed to hire anyone, as the pro-marriage initiatives are wonderful and can stand on their own without any help. Beyond that, you have all sorts of Conservative columnists, talk radio hosts as well as naturally charged-up people who will simply WANT to talk positively about it because they believe in it.
Getting money mixed up with this at all was a bad idea....it was unnecessary to promote the programs and they should have known that the Left would eventually dig it up and twist it into an overblown and irrelevant scandal....twisting the facts at every opportunity. They should have known to stay miles away from anything like this, even if what they were doing was completely legal. Anyone could have told them that it was an accident waiting to happen..