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Friday, January 07, 2005
IT'S SPREADING.
Gawker.com
has picked up on Mallard
Fillmore. I still
haven't seen a letter about this to the Globe, though, even
though the worthless strip has frequently been the object of reader
anger in the past. I think this Monday is Globe ombudsman
Christine Chinlund's week to write. Don't let us down,
Chris!
More seriously: I've gotten a few
e-mails telling me that Mallard Fillmore is objectionable to
liberals in precisely the same way that Doonesbury is to
conservatives. (One similarity: neither is funny.) But the whole point is that you can't make the case
anymore - not after this.
BOUGHT AND PAID FOR. I was
running around earlier today and didn't have a chance to weigh in on
the revelation
that the meter was running every time conservative commentator
Armstrong Williams said something nice about the No Child Left Behind
law.
A little while ago I saw him on CNN
Headline News saying that he can understand why people would think he
was on the take if they don't know all the facts. Of course! It's
like assuming Alberto Gonzales supported torture just because he
wrote memos supporting torture. We shouldn't be too
quick to jump to conclusions.
And as one of Josh Marshall's
readers suggests
about Williams, there are more facts to be known. Like: who
else?
posted at 9:23 PM |
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While I don't like plenty of media people very few really creep me out, in the fashion of Armstrong Williams. I'm sure somebody will look into Armstrong's backstory now that he's the recipient of 240k in tax dollars, but it's a job I wouldn't want to do. It's not lost on me that both the down-low Williams and his mentor the "Strange Justice" C.Thomas, have had stories of $$ acceptance, in the same fortnight.
What's really odd though is that Williams would have done what the White House wanted for nothing. Why the $240,000:What else were they buying?
That hard currency matters more than flag, family, vitually everything is the backbone of the GOP and those of its ilk.
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Dan Kennedy is senior writer and media critic for the Boston Phoenix.
