Pundit for hire

"The Bush administration paid pundit Armstrong Williams $240,000 to promote its education policies to black audiences..."

You've got to be kidding me. How pathetic. Can you imagine the uproar if the Clinton administration had been caught channeling funds to Eleanor Clift or Margaret Carlson?

An amusing side note: Williams was a former aide to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.

1/11/05:

Good for Steve Sebelius; he's all over this one in today's column, Question authority