MSNBC voters?
Your stimulus dollars hard at work:
The Labor Department paid out hundreds of thousands of dollars in federal stimulus funds to a public relations firm to run more than 100 commercials touting the Obama administration’s “green training” job efforts on two MSNBC cable shows, records show.
The commercials ran on MSNBC on shows hosted by Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann in 2009, but the contract didn’t report any jobs created, according to records reviewed recently by The Washington Times.
Spending reports under the federal Recovery Act show $495,000 paid to McNeely Pigott & Fox Public Relations LLC, which the Labor Department hired to raise awareness “among employers and influencers about the [Job Corps] program’s existing and new training initiatives in high growth and environmentally friendly career areas” as well as spreading the word to prospective Job Corps enrollees.
You'd think the money would've been better spent on a spot in which voters not already in the tank for Obama would be watching. But that's government efficiency for ya: spend money needlessly shoring up voters who'd already vote for ya! No word yet on why taxpayer money is funding Obama's relection campaign. But the damn signs all over the roadway are another story (again, free adverts).
pjHusband was incredulous over this last night. But I reminded him of Obama's Chicago pol heritage. As long-time visitors to the Windy City, you get used to this:
Daley's name was plastered over every trashcan and on every airport kiosk. Free advertising on the taxpayer dime. Obama learned well!
Cross-posted at pjMom.
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Two jobs saved.........okay, one. What happened to disclosure of this money and advertising while the shilling of White House propaganda was being aired on those opinion shows.
ReplyDeleteLooks more like quid-pro-quo.