Aye, but we need to establish the degree of the breach. Was the $240,000 all spent to buy his opinion, or were 4 TV commercials legitimately delivered through his company?
Posted on 01/08/2005 11:07:44 AM PST by JustAnotherSavage
Aye, but we need to establish the degree of the breach. Was the $240,000 all spent to buy his opinion, or were 4 TV commercials legitimately delivered through his company?
They get to wallow like pigs in the stye of their moral relativity.
We win the elections.
I'm not complaining well, at least not too much...
I disagree. The money he takes in diminishes his credibility.
If I say "I'm a computer analyst and I say that Microsoft Doesn't Suck" - do you believe me?
If I say "I'm a computer analyst and Microsoft pays me to say that Microsoft Doesn't Suck" - do you believe me?
I disagree. If ten bucks were paid for punditry, it IMO would be a serious ethical breach.
I wouldn't believe you one way or the other... :^)
Good analysis you are right.
Agreed. He's got a business, but he could have separated the PR aspects from his punditry. Wow, I just like it when conservative can catch liberals doing this.
That's no disagreement. If Armstrong's contract specified that he was to give his own voice to a specific opinion for hire, then obviously it would be an ethical violation to fail to disclose that you are on someone's payroll...however, it would be an even greater sin if the contract said "deliver us 4 TV commercials" that never got delivered...with both parties to said contract winking and nudging, knowing that an opinion was being purchased on the sly.
If Armstrong delivered the 4 TV commercials, then that part of the deal was legit and needs no disclosure, on the other hand.
Then we would merely need to establish if his contract for those 4 commercials also specified that he was to give voice to a specific opinion.
Yeah get that filty republican blood money out of politics. /sarc
Conservatives start circling like sharks when they smell another conservative's blood. They Dims love it. They sit back and laugh while we tear each other apart.
Yes!
"The Conservative Media now must out a Journalist who took Federal Funds from the Clinton Administration to promote a policy of that Regime.
I am sure if the current administration has done this that the Clinton Regime must have done the same thing a hundred times.
We just have to find the transgression and neutralize the impact of this current story."
Oh, OK, I get it.
Let's just flood the air with squeels of "See, they did it too, so it OK if we did it..."
Sorry Chief, but that stuff didn't fly in Kindergarden, and it ain't gonna fly now.
If the Administration wants to tout its Ethics and such, it needs to take responsibility for lapses in those ethics, and since Dubya is the Head of this administration, then what happens on his watch, is his responsibility.
"The Buck stops here"
Face it, if this had been a Clinton Cabinet member who authorized this, the sound of the nashing of teeth from this place would still be echoing.
"Face it, if this had been a Clinton Cabinet member who authorized this, the sound of the nashing of teeth from this place would still be echoing."
This is 2 now in what a week? Bernie Karik. This administration better start paying attention to their "own". Look at all the problems they've had from the Clinton holdovers, Clark, Tenent, Minetta. WHY didn't they get rid of these people?
Good. So then what do you object to about what Armstrong did?
What's wrong with Armstrong getting paid for doing something he believes in? Why is that unethical?
The complaint sounds liberal to me.
I love Michelle but she's wrong on this one. The person who thought this up should be fired but Armstrong is a commentator and I couldn't care less what his motives in pushing a point of view are. It's views that count not the motive. If Armstrong were a strait reporter representing himself as presenting straight news I would think differently.
Oh. So there is nothing wrong with taxpayer funds being misappropriated to spend bribing people to advance Administration policy. But I'll bet you find lots wrong with stuff the socialists do.
It also follows from what you say, that if a white conservative were caught taking bribes from the Bush Administration, there would be no scandal.
Is it pleasant, living without logic or moral principles?
Yeah, but Armstrong Williams was never a great mind, to begin with. For years, I've been as interested in reading his columns as I have that hack, Mona Charen's.
What are you talking about, cy? It sounds like you are saying that Malkin is on the take. If so, please back up your charge or clean up your language.
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