All the Approval Money Can Buy

Daring to mention the fact that conservative commentator Armstrong Williams was paid by the White House to tout Bush's No Child Left Behind, the USA Today has shattered all of our trust in conservative pundritry. The White House asks us to believe that this is an isolated incident, meanwhile Williams, in one statement most likely not bought by Bush, has claimed that he's not alone in his "bad judgment."

Of course, the payola punditry story takes a backseat to the much more important news that 4 CBS staffers got fired for the botched memo story, proving that sometimes we do demand that sources be based in fact ...