"Now We're Just Negotiating The Price"

Now that we all know what type of man Armstrong Williams is, Maggie Gallagher, admitting to having surreptitiously taken $21,500 to hawk the Bush Administration's marriage policies, asks us what type of woman we take her for. Or, more specifically,

"Did I violate journalistic ethics by not disclosing it?" Gallagher said yesterday. "I don't know. You tell me."

Yes, Maggie. Yes, you did.

Her defense, it seems, is that she, um, forgot.

I should have disclosed a government contract, when I later wrote about the Bush marriage initiative. I would have, if I had remembered it. My apologies to my readers.

A $21,500 government contract she forgot? Did she lose track of it, amidst all the other payoffs, or does she consider the amount to be forgettable chump change?