In 2002, syndicated columnist Maggie Gallagher repeatedly defended President Bush's push for a $300 million initiative encouraging marriage as a way of strengthening families.

"The Bush marriage initiative would emphasize the importance of marriage to poor couples" and "educate teens on the value of delaying childbearing until marriage," she wrote in National Review Online, for example, adding that this could "carry big payoffs down the road for taxpayers and children."

But Gallagher failed to mention that she had a $21,500 contract with the Department of Health and Human Services to help promote the president's proposal.

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Who else is getting paid off? I'm bettin' Kristol from the Weekly Standard will be the next found to a paid off talking head.

I saw that on Drudge last night. There was some quote of hers to the effect of "I didn't tell anybody because nobody asked me. I would have told anyone who asked."

Class act.