Liquor stores and churches, there's one on every corner. Thanks for all my daily bread - a can of food, bottle of wine, and a 99 cent pack of cigarettes.
So, I think this is somehow some of the craziest shit I've seen in the last few days. Via Atrios, we have a letter to President Bush from Frank Lautenberg, Edward Kennedy, and Harry Reid. The letter's contents boggle the imagination.
Well, actually, they don't... this is completely unsurprising giving the current administration:
In addition to the illegality of these actions taken by your Administration, we believe that the act of bribing journalists to bias their news in favor of government policies undermines the integrity of our democracy. Actions like this were common in the Soviet Union, but until now, thought to be long extinguished in our country.
These revelations regarding Mr. Williams are the latest – and most disturbing – in a series of actions by your Administration to manipulate public opinion through covert propaganda. On May 19, 2004, the GAO found that your Administration illegally spent taxpayer funds on covert propaganda by paying Ketchum Incorporated to produce fake news stories promoting the image of the new Medicare law.
This reporter has taken hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Bush administration to write favorable news articles and commentary about various administration tactics. Seems he also took money to write favorably about No Child Left Behind.
