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 DailyKos blogger trashes Armstrong Williams...hypocritical? (hat tip: Little Green Footballs)

 

 The Dems' Armstrong Williams?

Dean Campaign Made Payments To Two Bloggers

[spodefly]

The National Council of La Raza, which opposes all sorts of immigration reforms, received $875,000 in government dollars in 2000.

Huh?

[Stultis]

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[ONETWOONE]

And who do you think funds left wing radio?

[Carry_Okie]

He got all the way through the article without even mentioning National Public Radio or the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

[Hardastarboard]

all the do-gooder "public service announcements"

I especially despise the ones that I hear on the radio telling me not to be a racist. I have friends of literally all races (except American Indians - none of them live in my area), and have African-American relatives, including an African-American god child. Those commercials make me feel murderous, lecturing down to me like I'm some kind of inconsiderate, evil child.

I HATE liberals. There, I said it. I'm a hater.

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[kitkat]

BUMP and thank you for this article.

[ricks_place]

A curious coincidence that the Armstrong Williams story
is released just prior to the CBS report.
It sure looks like a political playbook out of the Clinton Whitehouse.
Release a story that makes it look like all Journalist do bad things.

[marktwain]

It certainly would be good if this happened. Any group receiving government money could not lobby. However, the best way to do this is to just stop giving the money. 40 billion would put a dent in the deficit.

[Tribune7]

For example, the Environmental Defense Fund, which lobbies against Bush Administration positions on everything from the Kyoto Accord to oil drilling in Alaska, received almost $350,000 in taxpayer dollars last year. In 2001, the League of Women Voters, which lobbies for affirmative action legislation and against Bush Administration environmental policies, received $20,000. Planned Parenthood, openly fighting what it calls George W. Bush's "War on Women," received more than $400,000 in taxpayer assistance. The National Council of La Raza, which opposes all sorts of immigration reforms, received $875,000 in government dollars in 2000. The AARP, fervent foes of Social Security and Medicare reform, received a staggering $73 million in a single year during the mid-'90s, according to the Heritage Foundation.

We have to keep harping on this

But once he's been flogged into giving back the taxpayer money he had no right to take

I suspect Williams really isn't all that rich and he might not be able to cough up a quarter-million real easy. Second, of course he had the right to take it. Nobody's accusing him of violating any laws.

(and the Department of Education had no right to give),

This is true, but as noted in the article this applies to a whole of agency spending.

[satchmodog9]

Let's get government money out of the political debate ...


When are people going to learn to not use that phrase.

[A_perfect_lady]

For example, the Environmental Defense Fund, which lobbies against Bush Administration positions on everything from the Kyoto Accord to oil drilling in Alaska, received almost $350,000 in taxpayer dollars last year. In 2001, the League of Women Voters, which lobbies for affirmative action legislation and against Bush Administration environmental policies, received $20,000. Planned Parenthood, openly fighting what it calls George W. Bush's "War on Women," received more than $400,000 in taxpayer assistance. The National Council of La Raza, which opposes all sorts of immigration reforms, received $875,000 in government dollars in 2000. The AARP, fervent foes of Social Security and Medicare reform, received a staggering $73 million in a single year during the mid-'90s, according to the Heritage Foundation.

As Bill and Ted would say... "Whoa!"

[knuthom]

"Remember, this is taxpayer support for a propaganda mouthpiece," Daily Kos's Markos Zuniga fumed. "If Scaife or whoever wants to pay conservative writers a quarter of a million dollars to push their agenda, that's fair game. But using public funds to pay for it is out of bounds."

Keep in mind that Kos took money from Howard Dean as a paid "consultant". If some of the campaign money comes from government funding, does Kos still think it is okay?

[Dutchgirl]

The overall cost of funding...is estimated, variously, as close to $40 billion and going up

Didn't the much hated tax cut only account for about 70 billion? So if the government stops giving money to the groups that decry the "irresponsible" tax cut--the special interest groups will have acheived more than half of their goal! Sounds like a win-win to me.