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Sayhey
Sep 30, 2005, 08:08 PM
Well I thought we might as well start with the fact all the civil servants in the GAO must be liberals/leftists to issue such a report as this:

Audit Assails the White House for Public Relations Spending

By ROBERT PEAR
Published: September 30, 2005
WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 - Federal auditors said today that the Bush administration had violated the law by purchasing favorable news coverage of President Bush's education policies, by making payments to the conservative commentator Armstrong Williams and by hiring a public relations company to analyze media perceptions of the Republican Party.

In a blistering report, the investigators, from the Government Accountability Office, said the administration had disseminated "covert propaganda" inside the United States, in violation of a longstanding, explicit statutory ban.... emphasis added New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/30/politics/30cnd-educ.html?ex=1285732800&en=bd87c1608d1556a7&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss)



zimv20
Sep 30, 2005, 08:50 PM
i wonder if anything will come of this. in the meantime, i shall continue to breathe.

IJ Reilly
Sep 30, 2005, 08:56 PM
Looks like somebody is begging to get themselves demoted.

Sayhey
Sep 30, 2005, 08:56 PM
i wonder if anything will come of this. in the meantime, i shall continue to breathe.

Only thing I would bet on is a promotion for the guys who dreamt this up. The story itself is over a year old, but I thought the official report of the GAO was worth a mention. Corruption and violations of "longstanding, explicit statutory ban[s]" seem to be old hat in Washington these days.

Sayhey
Sep 30, 2005, 08:57 PM
Looks like somebody is begging to get themselves demoted.

That would be the auditors, I'm guessing.

zimv20
Oct 1, 2005, 03:09 AM
fwiw, the "left / left-leaning / moderate" cnn.com is not carrying a link to this story on its front page.

tristan
Oct 1, 2005, 04:09 AM
It's a nice end run around freedom of the press. "Here's your monthly check. Brownie's doing a hell of a job. And we're winning Iraq. Pass it on."

Dont Hurt Me
Oct 1, 2005, 07:39 AM
Armstrong Williams did a 180 degree spin after getting money from Bush. I was watching one of those news shows and they were asking him why the change of heart on Bush and he had lots of reasons at the time but never mentioned"ahem" iam on the payroll Now :rolleyes: