You sank my battleship

Yet another blow to conservative commentary:



(CBS) Conservative columnist Maggie Gallagher received $21,500 from the Bush administration to push the president's marriage initiative, the Washington Post reports. Gallagher is the second pundit reported to have received money from the administration to push Bush proposals.



Gallagher submits what could quite possibly be one of the worst explanations in the history of journalism:



Gallagher later wrote a column in which she said: "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."



That "apology" may be sufficient for a junior high school student, but not for a trained journalist. You would almost have to wonder if they were paid by someone else to make the Bush administration look bad.