What's bad for the goose is ...

After Armstrong Williams is revealed to be a shill for the government a lot of pious voices began to sing: "Remember, this is taxpayer support for a propaganda mouthpiece," Daily Kos's Markos Zuniga fumed.{of course the money he got as a Dean shill was not government money was it? Or was it money from the Federal Election Commission?} but, as this The American Spectator article says:

Now is the time, as the chattering classes all draw their (not so) bold lines in the sand, to follow up and ask them whether they will join in the fight against all government-subsidized advocacy.