He says that if he had it to do over again, he would not take the money for the ads, because of the appearance. He also says he has lost his Chicago Tribune syndication contract because of this.
Seems like an honest mistake to me, if what Williams says is true.
Now I would ask why the MSM isn't outraged by Paul Krugman's taking money from Enron while writing columns for the New York Times promoting that corporation?
I was PO'd about this earlier today, but now that I have additional information I am not so sure.
Paul Krugman was the first person I thought of when I realized what a big deal this was becoming. The left's hypocrisy knows no bounds.
I think he made a mistake. Armstrong is a good guy and yes, the money may have looked good and maybe he didn't think anyone would notice- but I'm not so upset about this. Sure it doesn't look good but hey, worse has happened. I'm willing to chalk it up to bad judgement and hoping that no one would find out.
Oh yes, honest mistake. But heck, it's only $240,000. Compared to the $28 billion of tax dollars wasted on yet another big-government program that won't do what it's promised (like any of them ever have), what's an extra quarter million?
Now I would ask why the MSM isn't outraged by Paul Krugman's taking money from Enron while writing columns for the New York Times promoting that corporation?
That's the 'conservative' spirit!! They did it, so why can't we? Who cares about holding oneself to a higher standard? Republicans have yet lowered another bar by basing the argument on the level of corruption. That's real good.
I was PO'd about this earlier today, but now that I have additional information I am not so sure.
About the fact that the national government, under 'conservative' leadership, is continuing to expand the government's role (and size) at rates not seen since Lyndon Johnson? Or just the fact that they paid someone to sell it as a good idea for them?
...hired by DOE to run ads for the NCLB Act featuring Rod Paige....
I'm confused by this. If this is about accepting ads how is that different than accepting an army recruiting ad or a anti-tobacco ad? The news I saw tonight made it sound like Armstrong had advocated personnally, influenced by this 'contract'. What gives?