LIVE NUDE Propaganda: Three Strikes and You're Out(ed)

It appears that there is yet another media hack conservative columnist who has been slipped a few bones by the Bush maladministration to push their crooked agenda. Columnist Mike McManus received $10,000 (chump change in the Cheney/Halliburton world) to train marriage counselors as part of Health and Human Service's initiative promoting marriage to build strong families, said Wade Horn, assistant secretary for children and families.

I guess at this point we should just assume that, unless proven otherwise, all the wingnut pundits out there are on the take, slurping up taxpayer dollars like hungry hogs at the federal trough.

"Sens. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., and Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., ...requested the (Government Accountability Office) to expand a continuing inquiry into the matter.

"'The issue here isn't just whether a journalist violated ethics, but whether the Bush Administration broke the law,' Lautenberg said Friday. 'If the GAO finds that the payment to Armstrong Williams was an illegal use of taxpayer dollars, then the money should be returned and Education Department officials should be held accountable.'"

Criminey, if I had a nickel for every time the Bush administration broke the law in the last five years, I could retire today.