Education Legislation PR

My first cousin, once removed, Broadway Danny Heller, has authored a good piece about how the Bush administration uses your tax dollars to promote his legislative agenda. Below I quote from Danny's email to our family. Note that in addition to Danny's complaints and charges I must add that it probably was also an illegal expenditure by the US Government.

"It emerged today that the Bush Administration paid a conservative radio talk show host (Armstrong Williams) $250,000 to pimp its agenda on the air. There is no dispute that he received the money and that it came from the federal government. Of course, it's completely unethical on Williams' part to accept the money, but more importantly it shows beyond a shadow of a doubt that the Bush Administration has paid stooges in the media to do its bidding.

Now, if a liberal talk show host was found to have accepted a bribe from the Clinton Administration, the right-wing would scream bloody murder. But since it was a right-wing talk show host who was caught in an ethical transgression, you can be sure they will circle the wagons and attempt to weasel out of it. Because the watchword of this Administration is: Never accept responsibility."