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Robert Livingston
Citizen
Username: Rob_livingston
Post Number: 755
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 26, 2005 - 9:45 am: | 
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The answer to the awful Ms. Gallagher's question later in the story is "YES."
This Bush administration is going down in flames. The most unethical, secretive, manipulative administration in American history. Ask yourself this question: Why did Bush feel the need to pay off journalists?
From Drudge:
ANOTHER COLUMNIST WAS PAID TO PROMOTE BUSH PROPOSAL
Tue Jan 25 2005 20:13:59 ET
In 2002, syndicated columnist Maggie Gallagher repeatedly defended President Bush's push for a $300 million initiative encouraging marriage as a way of strengthening families.
But Gallagher failed to mention that she had a $21,500 contract with the Department of Health and Human Services to help promote the president's proposal, reveals Howard Kurtz in Wednesday runs of the WASHINGTON POST.
"The Bush marriage initiative would emphasize the importance of marriage to poor couples" and "educate teens on the value of delaying childbearing until marriage," she wrote in National Review Online, for example, adding that this could "carry big payoffs down the road for taxpayers and children."
Gallagher explains to Kurtz: "Did I violate journalistic ethics by not disclosing it? I don't know. You tell me." She said she would have "been happy to tell anyone who called me" about the contract but that "frankly, it never occurred to me" to disclose it.
National Review Editor Rich Lowry said of the HHS contract: "We would have preferred that she told us, and we would have disclosed it in her bio."
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notehead
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Username: Notehead
Post Number: 1941
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 26, 2005 - 10:16 am: |
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This administration and ethics are like oil and water. But don't worry. We're "spreading freedom." Everything's just peachy. I'm sure the families of the 31 marines killed in the recent chopper crash in Iraq are taking heart in the fact that we're "spreading freedom." |
Robert Livingston
Citizen
Username: Rob_livingston
Post Number: 756
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 26, 2005 - 10:19 am: |
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Right. I also love the hypocrisy of Bush's "culture of life." Protect the fetus, ignore the child, and send the young adult off to die in war started based on lies. |
Strawberry
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Username: Strawberry
Post Number: 4360
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 26, 2005 - 10:52 am: |
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Robert Livingston
Citizen
Username: Rob_livingston
Post Number: 758
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 26, 2005 - 10:54 am: |
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Straw: get some new material already. You are boring and redundant. |
Sgt. Pepper
Citizen
Username: Jjkatz
Post Number: 586
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 26, 2005 - 10:56 am: |
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We're spreading freedom by force. "We're gonna give you people Amur'can style freedom whether you want it or not!!"
And Bush's inaugural speech sounded eerily like "Today Iraq, tomorrow ze vorld!" |
Cato Nova
Citizen
Username: Cato_nova
Post Number: 475
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 26, 2005 - 11:06 am: |
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How can Straw have any credibility, now that we know he is in the pay of the regime? |
Strawberry
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Username: Strawberry
Post Number: 4361
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 26, 2005 - 11:07 am: |
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Robert Livingston
Citizen
Username: Rob_livingston
Post Number: 759
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 26, 2005 - 11:10 am: |
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At least all the shill's in the press for Bush have been getting paid. What excuse do these people like Straw have here on MOL? |
notehead
Supporter
Username: Notehead
Post Number: 1943
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 26, 2005 - 11:12 am: |
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Brain damage. |
Strawberry
Supporter
Username: Strawberry
Post Number: 4362
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 26, 2005 - 11:15 am: |
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personal attacks not allowed...
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Albatross
Citizen
Username: Albatross
Post Number: 459
Registered: 9-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 26, 2005 - 11:41 am: |
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I hate to say it, but the picture up there is highly amusing...
...and I've never considered Matt Drudge to be a reliable source. Is there any cooberation? |
Robert Livingston
Citizen
Username: Rob_livingston
Post Number: 763
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 26, 2005 - 11:43 am: |
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Albatross: Here's Maggie's recognition of it and her own lame response.
http://www.uexpress.com/maggiegallagher/ |
Albatross
Citizen
Username: Albatross
Post Number: 461
Registered: 9-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 26, 2005 - 1:13 pm: |
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Well... according to her she recognizes that she was paid to do work for HHS, but says that it was for a legitimate research project.
According to the Washington Post:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38267-2005Jan26.html?sub=new
It's nowhere else yet.
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Robert Livingston
Citizen
Username: Rob_livingston
Post Number: 772
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 26, 2005 - 1:18 pm: |
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What she did was not illegal, Albatross. Just unethical. To say she forgot about receiving more than $20,000 from HHS is weak. As her editor said, it should have been mentioned in her bio that she was shill for the administration.
Anyway, we'll soon see Maggie in the unemployment line next to Armstrong Williams, Jayson Blair, and Stephen Glass...
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Albatross
Citizen
Username: Albatross
Post Number: 463
Registered: 9-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 26, 2005 - 1:23 pm: |
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I didn't say it was; I was just looking for an actual news source. |
LibraryLady(ncjanow)
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Username: Librarylady
Post Number: 2141
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 26, 2005 - 3:23 pm: |
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http://www.cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLITICS/01/26/bush.paidpundits.reut/index.html
Albie..good enough source?? |
Rastro
Citizen
Username: Rastro
Post Number: 666
Registered: 5-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, January 27, 2005 - 9:13 am: |
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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/latimests/20050127/ts_latimes/pr esidentcallsforendtotaxfundedprforhispolicies
Bush Denounces and calls for an end to tax-funded PR for his Policies.
Thank you, Mr. President. While I don't think it should have been done in the first place, this was a very good move. |
Robert Livingston
Citizen
Username: Rob_livingston
Post Number: 779
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, January 27, 2005 - 10:35 am: |
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Maureen Dowd:
"I'm herewith resigning as a member of the liberal media elite.
I'm joining up with the conservative media elite.
They get paid better.
First comes news that Armstrong Williams got nearly a quarter of a million from the Education Department to plug No Child Left Behind.
The families of soldiers killed in Iraq get a paltry $12,000. But good publicity? Priceless."
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Strawberry
Supporter
Username: Strawberry
Post Number: 4374
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, January 27, 2005 - 10:42 am: |
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dumb |
Michael Janay
Citizen
Username: Childprotect
Post Number: 1504
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, January 27, 2005 - 4:38 pm: |
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Taxpayers fund lots of stupid PR.
I'd rather they buy PR for things like NCLB. People need to understand government programs, how they work, and what they do.
But no, They spent millions of dollars advertising the new $20 bill.
Think about that, they were spending taxpayer money to advertise money. Generating awareness of money. I know I went right out and got some of those new 20's. |
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