DU this poll: Armstrong Williams has a poll at his website.

[itzamirakul]

Go to:

www.armstrongwilliams.com

Poll Question:

"Was the government wrong to hire Armstrong to promote the No Child Left Behind Act?"

Current results:
Yes 87%
No 13%

Also, there is a feedback button so you can email him and tell him what you think about his actions. I did and what I wrote was far from pleasant.

Notice how he shifted the blame from himself to the government?

He is a real POS

[itzamirakul]

1. Kick!

[tjdee]

2. How do you not to know it's wrong when I'm not even a journalist and I do?

Are you giving back the taxpayers' money?

Oh so many questions.

[AlCzervik]

3. no he's keeping the money for now

i think Armstrong feels he deserves it seeing as how he's ruined his "career."
My guess is that of this story has legs and the congress looks into it we will get a refund. I wonder how his fellow wingnut loons have responded to this story?

[itzamirakul]

5. He's getting ths hit kicked out of him on his own website

and his own poll.

[AlCzervik]

6. it might not be repubs responding to his poll

it could just be a bunch of disgusted people like us.

[BlueCollar]

9. what makes you think a Republican congress

will look into this? I'm too cynical to believe that Republicans are willing to investigate their own.

[proud2BlibKansan]

11. Kennedy and another Senator today

called for an investigation. He wants the money returned.

[BlueCollar]

26. Dems don't have the horsepower to pull it off

They haven't learned to adapt to the new dynamic....that talk radio controls how Americans view congress...

instead we get ... "we need to move closer to the center..."

bush will push for "Bi-partisanship" at the inauguration and the SOTU speech...no dem will respond with " bi-partisanship means doing what the republicans want."

[proud2BlibKansan]

27. You are right

but I am sure glad they spoke up.

[BlueCollar]

30. so they spoke up

big deal. They've done their duty...now they'll slink back into the corner having appeased us...and prostitute themselves to Wall Street donors...

[proud2BlibKansan]

34. It's more than most of them did

in the last 4 years.

[BlueCollar]

36. agreed...in part

they slunk away after 2000 and now they are afraid to stand up and be counted.

[AlCzervik]

14. it's being called for some senators, even 1 repub

maybe it won't happen but you never know.

[Career Prole]

4. I saw no poll...where is it?

As for shifting the blame to the government, I very much doubt Williams made the initial proposal.
This has shrub administration written all over it, and I wouldn't be at all surprised to find Williams wasn't the only "pundit" who was drawing a paycheck for pumping up the chimp's weak programs.

[itzamirakul]

7. Home page at the top left hand side...

unless they took it down because the numbers for yes were so high.

[proud2BlibKansan]

10. 90% yes!!

But I can't find a link to email him.

This teacher needs to have a word with Armstrong. :)

[itzamirakul]

16. Look at all the words across the top. You have to scroll over to the

right. Feedback is at the very end right hand side.

[proud2BlibKansan]

21. Thanks! n/t

[proud2BlibKansan]

8. Where is the feedback button?

I couldn't find it

[itzamirakul]

18. Here is Armstrong's contact info

email: [email protected]

Phone: [phone]

Fax: [phone]

[AlbizuX]

12. VIDEO OF ARMSTRONG ON CROSSFIRE - RESPONSES

http://movies.ziaspace.com/Crossfire.wmv

Watch this little sellout trying to explain himself

[AlbizuX]

15. the Free Republic is attacking him too

if you read the freeper posts, it's surprising to see that they are very disappointed with him.

[AlCzervik]

maybe disappointed it got found out.

[Liberty Belle]

35. 90% think it's wrong now.

What a dope. Though gutsy to put the poll on his own website, I'll admit.

[no_vote_no_count]

42. Freepers only think it's wrong because

he's a gay black man. If he was an Anglo-Saxon christian conservative white man with a left part in his blonde hair, I doubt if they'd have any problems w/ it.

[Not_Giving_Up]

13. It's now at

89.63% Yes
10.37% No

His damn page takes forever to load on a dial up!!!

[itzamirakul]

17. Yeah, I know...

I'm dial-up too plus old computer...For------everrrrrrr to load.
But I am in such an evil mood about this I made myself have angry patience and then I wrote a very nasty note to him.

[brook]

20. You may be...

happy to hear his syndicator dropped him tonight - according to KO on Countdown. Old Armstrong's gonna hafta make that 240,000 last awhile! Personally, I hope he has to spend it on a lawyer.

[LWolf]

19. My email is scorching.

Think he'll respond? ;-)

Current results: Yes: 89.37

No: 10.63

[rurallib]

28. (:35 pm central time

yes - 90.25%
no - 9.75% Go strongArm!

[Swamp Rat]

22. No poll anymore

POS

[proud2BlibKansan]

24. I'm glad I got to vote then

I'm getting ready to email the SOB.

[Az]

31. Its still up there

I just voted. Guy oughta have Bush's name tattooed on his forhead.

[Swamp Rat]

32. Where?

I just tried both Safari and IE browsers, yet I cannot see a poll anywhere on the homepage. I want to VOTE! :mad:

[EC]

23. did anyone know this?

Williams, 45, a former aide to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is one of the top black conservative voices in the nation. He hosts The Right Side on TV and radio, and writes op-ed pieces for newspapers, including USA TODAY, while running a public relations firm, Graham Williams Group.

[NVMojo]

39. well, he's a trough-feeding non-conservative now, he can't be

a top conservative ...slurping up the tax payer's dollars ...making more money off education than teachers do

[A Brand New World]

25. One down - how many more right-wing nuts to go? It'll be GREAT if it's

found out that Limbaugh has had the same contract(s). Hopefully, this is just the tip of the iceberg.

[alfredo]

29. You need to write letters to the editor asking how many more are

on the government payroll. If you can work Fox and Rush into the letter, all the better.

[leesa]

33. But of course he's a good christian, "god bless"

Steals government money for political hacking and refuses to give it back. I'm sure God approves.

Thanks for helping to destroy the educational system asshole!

[progressoid]

37. 90.07%!!! and Tribune Media Services axed his contract too!!!

[NVMojo]

38. read the links provided by the Reid press office ...the WAR ROOM...

Media Release just out from Reid's office:

For Immediate Release

DATE: Thursday, January 06, 2005

CONTACT: Phil Singer 202 224-2939

Lawmakers Demand President Bush STOP Paying
Journalists to Promote Administration Policies

Reid, Lautenberg, Kennedy Also Ask President If His
Administration Has Paid Other Journalists to Promote
other Policies, including Social Security Privatization

WASHINGTON, DC – In light of alarming news that the Bush administration paid a popular conservative radio commentator and columnist almost a quarter of a million dollars to skew his reporting to promote the No Child Left Behind Act, United States Senators Frank R. Lautenberg (D-NJ), Edward Kennedy (D-MA) and Harry Reid (D-NV) sent a letter to President Bush today demanding that he recover the money paid to Armstrong Williams, citing federal laws that prohibit such activity. In addition, the lawmakers also asked President Bush to disclose any payments to other journalists to push Administration policies, including President Bush’s decision to privatize Social Security.

In news reports today, it was revealed conservative pundit and commentator Armstrong Williams was paid $240,000 to promote President Bush’s No Child Left Behind Act on his syndicated radio program and in addition, to urge other pundits to routinely hype the law during their own appearances on other programs.

In their letter to President Bush, the Lawmakers cite federal laws that prohibit taxpayer funds from being spent by the Executive Branch for “Covert Propaganda”.

“In addition to the illegality of these actions taken by your Administration, we believe that the act of bribing journalists to bias their news in favor of government policies undermines the integrity of our democracy. Actions like this were common in the Soviet Union, but until now, thought to be long extinguished in our country,” wrote the lawmakers in their letter to President Bush sent today.

These revelations regarding Mr. Williams are the latest – and most disturbing – in a series of actions by your Administration to manipulate public opinion through covert propaganda. On May 19, 2004, the GAO found that your Administration illegally spent taxpayer funds on covert propaganda by paying Ketchum Incorporated to produce fake news stories promoting the image of the new Medicare law.

The links below are examples of syndicated columns published by the Tribune Media Company from Armstrong Williams in support of the No Child Left Behind Act.

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/Armstrongwilliams/pr...

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/Armstrongwilliams/pr...

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/Armstrongwilliams/pr...

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/Armstrongwilliams/pr...

[FreeStateDemocrat]

45. Pay the money back hell. PROSECUTE!

Rob a bank and paying the money back is your punishment. Jail time is a great preventive for white-collar crimes that cause so much harm to millions of innocent victims. The pharmaceutical industry is a good example of why more of these greedy and usually wealthy miscreants continue to screw over the defenseless public. The potential fine is only a factor in the risk/benefit of extorting millions as a slap on the wrist without significant social consequences in their lives. This requires an extensive investigation by an independent special consul to determine the extent of this totalitarian state practice. Reid needs to demand answers to the logical questions of how extensive and who is ultimately responsible and then punish the violators who are illegally manipulating democracy to advance their own narrow interests at the general public’s expense

[AwakeAtLast]

40. Done! 90.2% Yes - 9.78% No

:)

[missouri dem 2]

41. I wonder if Armstrong thinks its racist that the right wing is

throwing him to the wolves? Interesting that novak commits treason and has no consequences. Token blacks are to be used and disposed of.

[Jose Diablo]

43. Does this guy get paid for all the pop-up ads

when people visit the site to vote?

[radfringe]

44. Notice how he shifted the blame from himself to the government?

meanwhile -- bush* mis-adminstration is blaming the education department...

or as one reporter on the news last night put it "..passed the blame to the Education Department..."

just another example of NO-FAULT mis-Adminstration

[roseBudd]

46. ha ha 90%

[AnnInLa]

47. done

Having been a teacher for so many years and still earning a pittance (Louisiana), hearing about this worm taking a quarter of a million dollars of my tax money to propagandise NCLB just made me physically ill. NCLB is an outrage and is not doing what it claims to do.