An Ad Buy That Turns Politics to Propoganda - Editorial

[Girlfriday]

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The Bush administration has tripped over its political feet with a taxpayer-supported advertising campaign by the Environmental Protection Agency touting President Bush's "Clear Skies" initiative.

The ads, aired on Hispanic radio stations nationwide and published in Spanish-language newspapers in late September and early October, sang the praises of a legislative plan pending before Congress that is widely viewed in the environmental community as a weakening of clean-air laws.

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It does, however, fit the pattern of an administration that has boldly sought to weaken all sorts of environmental regulations, most notably provisions of the federal Clean Air Act that require coal-burning power plants to install state-of-the-art anti-pollution devices when major changes are made to the facilities.

The ads leave little doubt that the administration has crossed the line from politics to propaganda and may find it difficult to get out of a legal jam as well.

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http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/03295/233311.stm

[UpInArms]

1. every word that is said and every trip that is made

with the *co junta is propaganda -

and the "legal jam" would be nice if the pukes saw fit to enforce any of the laws in this land against the criminals at 1600 Penn Ave