Rush in meltdown over Armstrong Williams

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LOL!!!!!

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_011005/content/rush_is_right.guest.html

I want to address this Armstrong Williams situation. As you know, Armstrong Williams accepted $240,000 from the Department of Education to promote on his radio and TV programs the No Child Left Behind Act. He also agreed to schedule as a guest the education secretary, Rod Paige. Now, what I can't figure out here is the media angle. The media is all upset about this; media is exorcised about this, but I can't figure out if they're upset about the ethics of it or if they're upset about the money. As I listen to the journalists, I honestly don't know what they care about more here, what they're all exorcised about the ethics or the money. Did Armstrong Williams hold his nose and support No Child Left Behind, or did he believe it? He said he believed it and that's why he took the money. He was going to talk about it. But he said he believed it -- passionately, in fact.

Now, here's a little bit of irony here. How can journalists question his ethics for taking marching orders from the Department of Education when those very same journalistas take their marching orders from the Democrat fax machines? Now, I'm not excusing Armstrong Williams, just hang with me here, but I tell you something, the New York Times on Saturday splashed this all over the front page, and they had his picture and they called him a protégé of Strom Thurmond and Clarence Thomas. He was not a protégé of either. Protégé means somebody who's been taken under their wing and has been guided and molded and melded into something. He worked for him. Strom Thurmond is not even alive. Strom Thurmond's been dead two years. New York Times story makes it look like this guy is still civil rights segregationist alive and cooking in the US Senate. Of course Clarence Thomas is already hated figure so associating Armstrong Williams with him is supposed to be bad news for both of them.

The idea here that Armstrong Williams is the only person that has taken money to work on something he agrees with. What do you think sustains the environmentalist wacko movement but government grants? How many professors get government grants to do research projects on things they passionately believe in and they go out there and they write position papers and they're inculcating young skulls full of mush with the pap that they end up believing. There really isn't any difference. He broadcasts on radio and television. All these other people write papers that the mainstream media then public sizes to who knows where, it gets broadcast all over college campi and classrooms. There really isn't much difference here whatsoever. Besides what's so bad about the Department of Education? I thought the liberals loved the Department of Education. I thought they'd love anybody who's in bed with the Department of Education. I know. I know. Folks, stick with me here. Principal journalists don't get $250,000 from government agencies to go out and promote what they're talking about, but then again Armstrong Williams doesn't get countless invitations to all the A-list cocktail parties where he can eat for nothing and drink for nothing and hobnob and hang around with all these people. What's the dollar value of becoming close friends with all your sources? What's the dollar value if you're a liberal journalist to being invited to all the right places and get to meet all the rightly people learn all the right spin, given all the right stuff to go out and spread the news in your own way? What's the difference? The difference is, that ostensibly isn't coming from government, the 240 grand for Armstrong Williams came from government. WTF????

Now, he's apologized, and that was a proper thing to do. But as I say, go back to the top of the question: What are they really upset about? Are they upset about the ethics of Armstrong Williams or are they upset about the money? Because I will bet you a dollar to a doughnut that Armstrong Williams would not shill for Hillary Clinton for all the money in the world. But how many of his critics would. How many of his critics do? How many of his critics out there shilling for the Clintons, shilling for Hillary no matter what they know; no matter who they know it from, no matter what they know to be the truth. How many of these people out there shilling for Bill Burkett? How many people shilling for all these Bush enemies from his Texas days, trying to get him on this National Guard story? How many people in the media shilling for things? One thing I know about Armstrong Williams: He's not going to shill for something he doesn't believe in. But I can't say that about the other guys.

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Wow, paranoid AND delusional, now I see what Daryn Kagan sees in him :crazy: