Another columnist caught selling his opinion for the highest bidder:
A senior fellow at the Cato Institute resigned from the libertarian think tank on Dec. 15 after admitting that he had accepted payments from indicted Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff for writing op-ed articles favorable to the positions of some of Abramoff's clients. Doug Bandow, who writes a syndicated column for Copley News Service, told BusinessWeek Online that he had accepted money from Abramoff for writing between 12 and 24 articles over a period of years, beginning in the mid '90s.
What makes it worse is that he is a Christian.
Back when a similar scandal broke for Armstrong Williams, I stopped reading Townhall.com because they didn't drop his column. Bandow writes for Townhall as well, so I guess that I'll, well, continue not to read Townhall.
Hat tip.
Friday, December 16, 2005
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Sad. Very sad. As a libertarian whose politics derive from Christian convictions, I'm very sad to hear this.
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