{"id":96,"date":"2005-12-17T14:36:27","date_gmt":"2005-12-17T21:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=96"},"modified":"2006-10-14T20:58:43","modified_gmt":"2006-10-15T03:58:43","slug":"propaganda-courtesy-of-abramoff-co","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=96","title":{"rendered":"Propaganda Courtesy of Abramoff & Co."},"content":{"rendered":"

Scandal plagued consultant, Jack Abramoff<\/a> has joined the ranks of propagandists with allegations of his paying a Copley News columnist to write stories favorable to his clients.<\/p>\n

Doug Bandow has been suspended from his position at Copley and has resigned his fellowship at the Cato Institute. Bandow admitted taking payments<\/a> from Abramoff saying, “It was a lapse of judgment on my part, and I take full responsibility for it.”<\/p>\n

For a journalist to describe trading money for ink as a lapse of judgement<\/em> may indicate a lapse of sanity. And his acceptance of responsibility provides absolutely nothing in compensation for the lies published in his name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Scandal plagued consultant, Jack Abramoff has joined the ranks of propagandists with allegations of his paying a Copley News columnist to write stories favorable to his clients. Doug Bandow has been suspended from his position at Copley and has resigned his fellowship at the Cato Institute. Bandow admitted taking payments from Abramoff saying, “It was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-propaganda"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-1y","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":524,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=524","url_meta":{"origin":96,"position":0},"title":"Happy Birthday, News Corpse","author":"Mark NC","date":"7\/18\/2007","format":false,"excerpt":"To celebrate this happy day We wish you well in every way Your bestest days are yet to be They can't be worse than the past three A war is raging without end Amidst a global warming trend Millions don't receive healthcare But corporations get welfare Our President lies to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "General"","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1096,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1096","url_meta":{"origin":96,"position":1},"title":"John McCain And Citizens Against Government Waste","author":"Mark NC","date":"10\/16\/2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Now that all three presidential debates have been concluded, there is a notable thread of consistency that John McCain maintained throughout the process. 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