Yet Another Columnist has been Caught with his Hand in the Till
Writing by on Friday, 28 of January , 2005 at 6:55 pm
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Well if you can't convince them to trust you through your actions, buy off good media. Yet another columnist has been caught cashing the government check.
From Solan.com
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.
It has gotton so bad that some lawmakers will introduce a bill, The Stop Government Propaganda Act, in the Senate next week.
You can read about this on Editor & Publisher’s web site.
When is the people that put him in office wake up and realize they have been brain washed, none of it is real. The lead to war was manufactured; the Social Security Crisis is not a crisis at all. You all are being lead to the slaughter, you are sheep.
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