Steve Benen of The Carpetbagger Report was posting over the weekend at the CrooksandLiars blog and figured he’d try and start up another anti-Bush controversy.
Uh oh, who was the State Department paying this time?
The Bush administration’s Office of Cuba Broadcasting paid 10 journalists here to provide commentary on Radio and TV MartÃ, which transmit to Cuba government broadcasts critical of Fidel Castro, a spokesman for the office said Friday.
The group included three journalists at El Nuevo Herald, the Spanish-language sister newspaper of The Miami Herald, which fired them Thursday after learning of the relationship. Pablo Alfonso, who reports on Cuba for El Nuevo Herald, received the largest payment, almost $175,000 since 2001.
WTF? We’ve been paying people to to that since at least the seventies? Why didn’t the NYT (who Benen links to but I won’t) write this turd when Clinton was President?
Oh, that Liberal Media.
Like I said, where do I send my after-tax-dollars to make sure this program stays running?