George and Dick's Excellent Infomercial

Today it was revealed that right-wing radio mouthpiece Armstrong Williams was given $250,000 of your money to promote the Bush Administration’s “No Child Left Behind” plan.

Read this twice if you don’t get mad…

This is a quarter million dollars of yours and mine (1% of our initial allocation to tsunami victims) used to pay off a radio talk show host to promote a crappy plan. Does this anger any of your fiscal conservatives out there?

It is illegal for a record label to pay a DJ to play their record on the air. That’s called payola. Yet the Bush Administration can give our money to some jagloaf using public airwaves to promote a political agenda! Huh? Does this transform commentary into commercial?

At least now it can be known that the “opinions” heard on right-wing talk radio are really just Bush-friendly talking points; paid infomercials designed to whip red-necks, bible freaks and NAS-tards into frenzy of bigoted hatred. I didn't think they all could really believe that stuff.

For every one that gets caught you know there are many that have gotten away with it. How many dollars have been funneled to the Limbaughs, Hannitys and Savages? My guess, the bogus WMD infomercial was probably pretty expensive.


NOT MAD YET... Another complimentary treatment of this topic can be read here.