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Is George Will's $250,000 Prize Yet More Payola?
By Dave Astor
Published: February 25, 2005 1:15 PM ET
Editor and PublisherNEW YORK When the conservative Bradley Foundation awarded a $250,000 prize to George Will last week, it raised some eyebrows at a time when Armstrong Williams, Maggie Gallagher, and Michael McManus have been criticized for accepting government money.
The foundation is a private en y, but it is reported to have ties to the Bush administration, and its president/CEO is a former Republican National Committee member.
The prize "sure has a strong stench of a payoff to yet another White House sycophant," said "Non Sequitur" cartoonist Wiley Miller, whose Universal Press Syndicate comic appears in 700-plus newspapers and includes political commentary. "Is this how they're going to get around direct payoffs, by pretending it's some sort of journalism award?"
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Anyone familiar with the Bradley Foundation, knows that they reward mediocre reporting by mediocre talking heads, and not just those pimping the GOP, but the infamously-growing DLC (The Neo-Libs) also, who many Progressives accuse of having a close working relationships with the Neocons.
Where there's a Will, there's a pay.
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