Federal auditors said on Friday that the Bush administration violated the law by buying favorable news coverage of President Bush's education policies, by making payments to the conservative commentator Armstrong Williams and by hiring a public relations company to analyze media perceptions of the Republican Party.
In a blistering report, the investigators, from the Government Accountability Office, said the administration had disseminated "covert propaganda" in the United States, in violation of a statutory ban.
It makes me wonder how much Kyra Philips costs. Or Chris Matthews. Or Tim Russert. How much does integrity go for these days? I really want to know.
I remember a conversation that I had with my teenage sons when one of them said, in an offhand mannere, that everybody had their price. I told him, not everybody. We discussed it for several minutes and I was struck by the fact that both of the boys just assumed that money could make somebody do virtually anything.
In my world that is just not true. I would never sell my integrity to anybody, for any price. It would just never happen. But now I look around and it seems my boys were right. It really does seem that everybody has their price, and that everything is up for sale.
What has happened to us?
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