Clarence Thomas Hearings: Eleanor Smeal & Armstrong Williams

Eleanor Smeal & Armstrong Williams talk to the press during the recess. Jay Rosen: "Readers will certainly remember Armstrong Williams, the conservative pundit, and TV talk show host who took $240,000 from the Department of Education to promote the No Child Left Behind Act on his cable program and in other venues, including his syndicated column. He didn't disclose the deal because he couldn't disclose it without exposing the contract as fraudulent. (And possibly illegal; the Government Accounting Office said it violated the ban on "covert propaganda.") When USA Today brought the arrangement to light, everyone fled from it--the contract was disowned by all parties--because it was the political equivalent of payola in the record industry. His syndicated column was dropped, and his cable TV show was later taken off the air..."

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