Who: CEO of Ketchum, Inc (Ketchum is a subsidiary of Omnicom)

What: Ketchum is the Public Relations firm that paid Armstrong Williams to push Bush policy in his columns.

Detail: Kotcher is unable to admit there is any problem with taking the money the Federal Government spends on PR then using it to buy the opinion of right wing pundits. Corpwatch.com reported Omnicom (Ketchum’s parent company) received 89% of ALL government PR contracts between 2001 and 2004.

In an article by Kotcher posted by PRWeek.com, Kotcher is unable to distinguish the difference between providing the public with information on epidemics or seat-belt usage and pushing a political agenda. In the article Kotcher blasted Armstrong Williams like they all have (See Maggie Gallagher). Kotcher claims that government PR programs have received an "unfair collective black eye" and blamed it on political divisiveness. Of course none of it could be the fault of the subterfuge emanating from the Bush Neocons.

Ketchum received $97 million from the feds for their services while their parent company received $222 million total from the federal government. Various blog posts report Kotchler gave to the Dems until 2004 when he gave $15,000 to the RNC. Here we don’t have an exclusive Republican Whore, we just have a Whore.