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| | Salon.com News | Third columnist caught with hand in the Bush till (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) |
 | | Michael McManus, conservative author of the syndicated column "Ethics & Religion," received $10,000 to promote a marriage initiative. |
 | | One day after President Bush ordered his Cabinet secretaries to stop hiring commentators to help promote administration initiatives, and one day after the second high-profile conservative pundit was found to be on the federal payroll, a third embarrassing hire has emerged. |
 | | Salon has confirmed that Michael McManus, a marriage advocate whose syndicated column, "Ethics & Religion," appears in 50 newspapers, was hired as a subcontractor by the Department of Health and Human Services to foster a Bush-approved marriage initiative. |
| www.salon.com /news/feature/2005/01/27/mcmanus/index_np.html (233 words) |
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