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Armstrong Williams – Who Else Did Bush Pay?

It is quite interesting that the Conservative Bloggers and the Conservative Talk Show Hosts keep propagating the myth that the liberal media is out to get the conservatives. But, where are these left wing media on this story. After all, the Bush administration took taxpayer money and gave it to a right wing talk show host to spread misinformation. How many times was this story played over the weekend? I didn’t hear it on my local news. I haven’t heard it on the radio since Friday afternoon. It is well known that Friday afternoon news reaches the fewest number of people in the country.

This is a big story. Imagine what the conservatives would have said about Bill Clinton’s administration if he paid Al Franken or Michael Moore to talk about Health Care reform? Now, imagine that Bill Clinton took the money out of the NIH budget, what conservative wouldn’t be jumping up and down writing his congressman asking for an investigation. Is this going to be the first investigation into the Bush administration? Are you kidding, Ashcroft is out, and Gonzoles probably stood next to Bush as he signed the check.

But, this is surely not the bottom of this case. This is only the first incident to be uncovered. Surely the Bush administration paid the Swift Boat Veterans that ran ads during the campaign. The money was surely laundered through the 529 that claims have paid for it. But, just think about the conservative talk show host that spread the Bush administration’s message of hate, like Michael Savage, Bill O’Reilly, Rush Limbaugh and the rest.

In quoting the Media Matters published today: “On Friday, former Representative Joe Scarborough's (R-FL) ‘Real Deal’ commentary segment on the January 7 edition of MSNBC's Scarborough Country called for ‘the inspector general of the federal Department of Education to conduct an immediate investigation’”

It is interesting that we actually have a Republican ex-Congressman calling for this investigation. Obviously he would like to see this nipped in the bud before more of this breaking scandal is uncovered. Representative Joe Scarborough goes on to say, “Paying reporters and columnists to flack for a centralized government scheme seems to confirm the worst fears of [economist Friedrich] Hayek, [economist Milton] Friedman and [former President Ronald] Reagan. Oh, yes, it also seems to confirm what Al Franken, Janeane Garofalo and David Brooks have been saying about the right-wing media being extensions of the White House.”

Why would a Republican come out so hard against this case if there wasn’t more to be uncovered?

http://mediamatters.org/items/200501100003