From WashPo's "White House Briefing"
Eric Boehlert writes in Salon: "One day after President Bush ordered his Cabinet secretaries to stop hiring commentators to help promote administration initiatives, and one day after the second high-profile conservative pundit was found to be on the federal payroll, a third embarrassing hire has emerged. Salon has confirmed that Michael McManus, a marriage advocate whose syndicated column, 'Ethics & Religion,' appears in 50 newspapers, was hired as a subcontractor by the Department of Health and Human Services to foster a Bush-approved marriage initiative. McManus championed the plan in his columns without disclosing to readers he was being paid to help it succeed.
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I dunno. Chicken and eggs. First there was a chicken. Then the man said "wow, how about I buy some eggs from you"
Chickens lay eggs. And you judge any advocate by the quality of the advocacy. Besides, it's opinion, not news. The administration feeds the flocks of sheep opinion and says "eat this, it is news"
Beware of very wooly people. Bah! becomes baaa!
Better to take the wool and eat the sheep. Talk with them? I don't think so.
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