{"id":14675,"date":"2008-02-23T12:40:20","date_gmt":"2008-02-23T17:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/14675.html"},"modified":"2008-02-23T12:40:20","modified_gmt":"2008-02-23T17:40:20","slug":"armstrong-williams-sticks-up-for-media-credibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/armstrong-williams-sticks-up-for-media-credibility\/","title":{"rendered":"Armstrong Williams sticks up for media ‘credibility’"},"content":{"rendered":"

I usually don’t care for conservative humor, but I have to admit, Armstrong Williams had me with this one<\/a>:<\/p>\n

On the February 22 edition of MSNBC Live, conservative radio host and columnist Armstrong Williams said of a February 21 New York Times article about Sen. John McCain’s relationship with a telecommunications lobbyist, “I think what it does more than anything else, it causes those of us in the media to lose credibility. People begin to question what we print, whether there’s any truth to it, whether we do our research.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Armstrong Williams. Media credibility.<\/p>\n

This would be the same Williams who signed a contract<\/a> with Bush’s Education Department to tout the president’s policies in the media without disclosure…<\/p>\n

Seeking to build support among black families for its education reform law, the Bush administration paid a prominent black pundit $240,000 to promote the law on his nationally syndicated television show and to urge other black journalists to do the same.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

…all of which the Government Accountability Office concluded constituted illegal “covert propaganda<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

But when the NYT runs an article, none of which has proven to be wrong, that’s<\/i> a problem for media “credibility.”<\/p>\n

Hilarious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I usually don’t care for conservative humor, but I have to admit, Armstrong Williams had me with this one: On the February 22 edition of MSNBC Live, conservative radio host and columnist Armstrong Williams said of a February 21 New York Times article about Sen. John McCain’s relationship with a telecommunications lobbyist, “I think what […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}