Posted on 01/27/2005 8:08:32 PM PST by Stoat
Dont forget the writer from "SALON" who wrote the story is also paid.
I think that work, in general, is one's agenda because it pays. Without financial incentive, little gets done regardless of the agenda. IMHO
If you are right all that needs to happen is for the GOP to reimburse the taxpayers
"HHS to pay for research."
LOL! Handouts for PR Pimps.
This is really stupid. Not one of these people, not Williams, not Gallagher, not McManus, not ONE, was paid to write a favorable column. Williams sold ads on his show. Galagher was hired to write some brochures. McManus was hired to do some training. I do not see one thing wrong with any of this. It's not like the old radio payola scandals, where DJ's were getting paid to play certain records. Williams has a show that was viewed by an audience the administration wanted to reach. They would have bought the ads irrespective of what he wrote. Gallagher and McManus have expertise that was needed. Nobody got paid to write columns. Sean Hannity talks about Rith's Chris steak house all of the time. they are also an advertiser on his show. Do journalistic ethics require him to recite a disclaimer every time he gives away a steak dinner, or talks about being hungry? If Mureen Dowd rides the bus to work every day, does she need a disclaimer to write a column on public transportation? Come On!
There's nothing to see here, folks. Just move along.
The government is alleged to be in bed with the media to broadcast its agenda to an unknowing people.
"I'm shocked, shocked, I tell you!" exclaims a breathless Senator Clinton.
A deeply saddened Senator Kennedy drunkenly sobs, "It's all George Bush's fault!"
Tape at 11.
Developing...
Well, at least the amount of payola gets less each time around.
Any guesses about who only got a grand?
Bush condemned this and had known nothing about it. But telling you that is useless. I just do it for fun.
I agree with you but all governments do is collect money and spend money.... thats how they operate and my bet is that this is how its been done in past administrations also
You're right of course but as always, Conservatives have to be absolutely spotless in the same arenas where the Left brazenly wallows in filth. The Left has been searching high and low for any whiff of a scandal from the Bush administration, and now they think that they have red meat, even if it's absolutely nothing in the grand scheme of things.
Guess cause they didn't earn it.
How much was Sydney Blumenthal paid to promote the "Sex is Not Sex Initiative"?
I wasn't aware a government agency funded Salon.
ROTFLMAO! Probably a whole lot more than all of these columnists combined, and likely with taxpayer funds as well.
The difference is that the MSM will spin Sid Vicious' payment as "honest pay for honest work" whereas the MSM and the Socialists / Dems will find 'profound and monumental corruption of the worst kind' in these payment 'scandals' ( I hate to use that word because they don't really rise to that level, despite what the MSM would have us believe).
The worst part about it is that despite the facts, the MSM will continually hammer on this as a "huge payola scandal" and it will be a really unnecessary distraction for Conservatives to have to deal with.....another straw man that they have to take down. It's just more noise and waste of time, when we should be talking about real things..
ROFLOL!!!
How true
You show these pics of Michelle, and people wonder why I have a hankering for Philippine women.
; )
Sure, some Republicans have been paid to shill for the administration, but the Democrat media whores turn tricks for free.
Michael McManus? Who? Come on... Turn up Rush, Hannity or someone... McManus? Whats that!
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