No really, the money means nothing to me

Amidst the furor over payments by the government to journalists as propaganda, Armstrong Williams has claimed that his support for the Administration's No Child Left Behind education policy predated his mega-payment to plug it. But, the record shows otherwise:

In an attempt to defend his decision to accept $240,000 from the Bush administration in return for promoting the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) education law, Armstrong Williams has claimed that he always supported the policy. But in 2001, he strongly criticized the administration's decision to drop private school vouchers from NCLB, even touting this criticism on television and going so far as to write in his nationally syndicated column that by dropping the voucher provision, Bush had "scooped out" the legislation's "soul."

To paraphrase Jon Stewart, "Curse you, liberal file footage words from my own column!"

(via WTF)