Who: Bush’s second term Secretary of the US Department of Education

What: Allowed the DOE to pay journalists (Williams, Gallagher, McMannus via Ketchum, Inc) to push Bush’s propaganda without disclosure, then censured PBS about a controversial cartoon episode and demanded PBS repay the money it received from the DOE for production of the episode.

Detail: Spellings is another loyal appointee that Bush Jr. dragged over from Texas. She wrote to PBS bashing them for producing an episode of "Postcards from Buster" that contained a faint allusion to lesbian characters. In it she states "By Law any (DOE) funded shows must give top attention to research-based educational objectives, content, and materials". What law is that? Perhaps we should ask Alberto Gonzolas.

Turns out PBS never aired the episode. The DOE did not fully fund the episode, but She asked PBS to return the money it received from the DOE. I don’t see her asking Armstrong Williams, Maggie Gallagher, or Michael McMannus returning any money for pushing her propaganda. Disgraceful whoring indeed. In an interview with the Dallas Morning News in 2001, Spellings describes herself as "an earth-mother type of Republican". If Spellings is the best the Repugs can do for an earth-mother, we are all in trouble.