Advertisers Heart the Bush Administration

Check out the Valentine Day report from Adweek:

DALLAS – The Bush administration spent $1.4 billion in taxpayer dollars on 137 contracts with advertising agencies over the past two-and-a-half years, according to a Government Accountability Office report released by House Democrats Monday. With spending on public relations and other media included, federal agencies spent $1.6 billion on what some Democrats called “spin” … Trends in spending on PR and ad contracts were not documented, but a prior study by the minority staff of the Government Reform Committee found that spending on public relations contracts rose rapidly under the Bush administration … The Department of Defense spent the most on media contracts, with pacts worth $1.1 billion, according to the study.

Using taxpayer money to lie to citizens does not strike me as a conservative value.