Paying for PR on "The Big Agenda"

The Republican Party is raising money for a new campaign -- to get President Bush's message out for the "Big Agenda" of his second term. National GOP Chair Ken Mehlman sent out a fundraising email asking donors for $25 each to get past that biggest of all boogeymen to conservatives -- the dreaded "liberal media." Of course, the request came as revelations broke about how the Bush administration -- at the Education Department and Health & Human Services Department -- quietly hired journalists with tax money to promote past Bush administration agendas. (AP via Yahoo!)