Posted on 01/10/2005 6:38:47 AM PST by mhking
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Very sad. But Williams is not the only trusted person taking pieces of silver for betraying us. We must root out all paid propagandists. There are more eggregious ones than Williams, and they must be humiliated.
I like Mr. Williams. I'm glad he apologized. It was a dumb thing to do. Having done a number of dumb things myself, I can understand it happening. He has certainly taken a pummeling over this.
I saw him on O'Reilly. He messed up, and he knows it, and admits it. It's been a learning experience for him. I'm satisfied the problem has been fixed, and I'll continue to read what he says.
You'll get no argument from me on that.
Good thing that Pres. Bush didn't fall into that trap.
Armstrong Williams is a commentator and not a reporter. He should have just said that he never wrote or stated anything that that he didn't already believe and that he wouldn't have written about anyway.
It was their business if they wanted to pay him to KEEP writing what he was already writing and for the rights to publish it in the DOE journals.
Commentator...not reporter. I can't believe he fell into this remorse trap. It's so unnecessary.
I agree and lets start with the ACLU, NEA and MANY tax-exempt organizations that are overtly partisan (NCAA, PUSH, etc).
I am not trying to defend Williams but this kind of thing has been going on in liberal circles for over 30 years and been ignored by the masses.
Okay, I confess! Richard Mellon Scaife is paying me MILLIONS to do the DUmmie FUnnies Blog.
Of course I also wish I had known the lottery numbers before they were shown last week.......
Armstrong is guilty of nothing more than a petty technical oversight. He is and always has been a good and decent man of morals.
OPPORTUNISTS WHO SEEK TO USE THIS MATTER AND ARMSTRONGS BACK AS A STEPPING STONE SHOULD BEWARE!
That does not exclude him from having proper ethics. He said so himself.
Its a fine line. Even though Im not a journalist Im a commentator I feel I should be held to the media ethics standard. My judgment was not the best. I wouldnt do it again, and I learned from it.
I also believe that those ethics are necessary, and certainly follow those standards myself.
Wrong is wrong. And yes, it was unnecessary -- all he had to do was to have full disclosure prior to his commentaries on the matter.
I actually think it has more to do with how they went about financing it.
If Dept of Ed is like any other Dept, they have numerous in-house journals. Hire the guy to write for those.
He gets paid by the papers for his columns. What's the difference?
And I've bitched to high heaven about it.
Just because THEY do wrong, does not mean that WE need to do wrong.
Wrong is wrong.
Mapes should be pounding pavement right now as far as I'm concerned.
As I've noted, I appreciate Armstrong's apolgy, and it is certainly far more than a leftist, caught in the same embroglio, would have done. And as I mentioned, his stock has risen some in my book from where it has fallen as a result.
But that does not negate the issue. And I need to see, over time, if he has truly learned.
If that means that I'm throwing him under the bus, I'm sorry.
I can't believe the wailings of the liberals on this board --- "I can never trust Williams again because he was paid for an advertisement!"
ALL radio shows, tv shows are PAID for advertising you brainwashed fools!
All hosts talk about their advertisers also during their programs --- it is expected in many cases and it is nothing unusual, rare, or below the board --- try listening to a LEFTIST SHOW -- they are easy to find on every tv and most radio news shows.
I see the left-wing radicals in this country have WON the case against the FIRST AMENDMENT and now if you are Christian abnd Conservative you are not allowed the FREE exercise of your rights.
Well I have one (two?) words gfor all of you who scream out that Willimas is GUILTY!!!
BULL-SH*T!!
What?....uh huh... uh, huh.... you mean?.... not D.U.?....!, What do you mean, "this isn't D.U."?.... Huh?.... Really?Oh..... heh heh heh...
never mind...
Stupid is as stupid does.
Those that "scream" Williams is guilty includes himself. Oh, I guess he's a brainwashed fool too.
Advertizers are straight up and acknowledged.
Government propagandists should be dragged through the streets naked.
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