Am I just totally blind or have we reached new heights of propagandism in this country? I'm so outraged over the Armstrong Williams fiasco, the latest in administration attempts to control the news with either complete bought and paid for partisan hackery or fake produced administration news stories presented as reality. It's one thing for some blowhard pundit to be doing this on his own, it's entirely different when it's the administration using taxpayer dollars. They are using our fucking money to promote programs that are complete and total crap. It's not just about No Child Left Behind that Williams was paid to schill. You can bet the administration has others on the payroll hocking garbage about everything from Democracy in Iraq to the Social Secutiry crisis that Bush is working so hard to invent. Do you think there's a snowball's chance in hell that any congressional hearings will be held to get to the bottom of this business?

Frank Rich sums it up nicely over at the NYT. Margaret Carlson has a pretty good take on accountability in government here.