Armstrong Williams, his career as a conservative commentator tainted by the disclosure that he was paid to promote government policy, is trying to move past the controversy that has come to define him in recent weeks.
Appearing on Wednesday at a Howard University forum on the future of African-Americans in the Democratic Party, he had to take a few licks at the start. The Rev. Al Sharpton cracked the first Armstrong Williams joke, reminding Mr. Williams to disclose that "you get paid for being here."
"I get paid for being here," Mr. Williams replied ruefully. "Thank you very much." [...]
| Continue Anne E. Kornblut's registration-required New York Times article "Commentator Caught Up in Controversy Tries to Move On" (via Taegan Goddard's Political Wire)
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