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The view from Armstrong Williams' glass house

February 09, 2009 9:24 am ET by Jamison Foser

Armstrong Williams' column in today's Washington Times features this passage:

For two consecutive election cycles, Republicans suffered humiliating losses because they couldn't grasp the weight of their corruptive ways and the bitterness it left with voters. Obama's team helped to blur that line last week, and today, the administration has lost the moral high ground.

"Moral high ground"?  Armstrong Williams, you might recall, is most famous for taking secret payments from the government in exchange for using his platform as a "journalist" to promote government policies.  The only thing Armstrong Williams knows about the "moral high ground" is that it's an awfully long way up.

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