Wade Horn: The marrying man

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http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=18577

Wade Horn: The marrying man

Bill Berkowitz - WorkingForChange

02.17.05 - If you like the way Wade Horn is doing business with right wing pundits, in the words of Al Jolson, the popular singer of the 1920s, "You ain't seen nothing yet!" In late-December, the Washington Times reported that in addition to his hefty responsibilities as the Assistant Secretary for Children and Families in the Administration for Children and Families, at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Horn will now be in charge of drumming up support for, and doling out grants to, abstinence-only sexual education programs.

Recent headlines about Horn's work have focused on revelations that syndicated newspaper columnists Mike McManus and Maggie Gallagher had joined conservative commentator Armstrong Williams as part of a loose coalition of the shilling; right wing pundits receiving government money to support Bush Administration policies. In early January, USA Today revealed that Williams, a prominent African American radio and television personality, had received $240,000 from the Department of Education -- through a contract with the Ketchum public relations firm -- for his support for the president's No Child Left Behind project.

Mike McManus and Maggie Gallagher received their checks from the Department of Health and Human Services to help promote the President's healthy marriages initiative.

...........In the midst of the crisis, President Bush ordered his Cabinet secretaries not to hire columnists to promote their agendas. But, now that Armstrong Williams, Maggie Gallagher and Mike McManus have been flushed out as shills for the administration, isn't it reasonable to think that there may be other conservatives out there mucking around in the media-scape? Congressional Democrats are calling on the congressional General Government Accountability Office to investigate this possibility.

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