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Bush Admin. spent over $1.6 Billion on advertising and P.R. since 2003, GAO finds: “[S]enior Democrats released a new Government Accountability Office report finding that the Bush Administration spent more than $1.6 billion in public relations and media contracts in a two and a half year span.”

(Via the raw story.)

This wouldn’t be quite so bad if this administration hadn’t been caught several times in the past effectively funding propaganda rather than public information campaigns.

I’m sure plenty of this money being spent is for perfectly innocent things: the Army’s recruitment commercials, the IRS commercials touting online e-file programs, etc. But that’s the problem with this administration. How can I trust that they’re acting on the up-and-up in this case when they’ve been caught so many times before doing things I find despicable? Why should I give them the benefit of the doubt when they’ve only demonstrated that they don’t deserve it?

So yeah, that’s why I won’t be exactly willing to trust any denials or fast explanation that are sure to emanate from the White House to explain this spending. Even if what they say is true, I don’t have any way of trusting them.

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