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  • Williams admits to being paid White House shill (And I'm royally pissed!)

    01/07/2005 7:49:08 PM PST · by mhking · 362 replies · 5,705+ views
    Ramblings' Journal ^ | 1.7.05 | Michael King
    Armstrong Williams has admitted getting paid to the tune of $240,000 by the Bush Administration to promote the Administration's No Child Left Behind legislation in his syndicated column, on his radio and television shows and to "encourage" other blacks in the media to do the same. The campaign, part of an effort to promote No Child Left Behind (NCLB), required commentator Armstrong Williams "to regularly comment on NCLB during the course of his broadcasts," and to interview Education Secretary Rod Paige for TV and radio spots that aired during the show in 2004. The contract, detailed in documents obtained by...