Family Values For Sale

Back in January, 2005 three highly regarded, well-respected, well-paid conservative Media Columnists were found to have received payments from the Bush Administration and the Department of Health Services for writing propaganda on Family Values. This is illegal and unethical and paid for by taxpayers like you and me. I guess this goes in the pile with more stories about what happened to Media and Journalists during the Pluto in Sagittarius transit while Saturn was in Cancer (Family Values).

The big story should be that Newspapers themselves are going out of business but that's depressing. Mostly I wanted to know what a Propagandist's chart would look like but it turns out I'm not that interested in reading shallow people's charts in depth. So I'll just list a couple of dumb aspects and be done with it.

There's some extensive Mars action in their charts along with Sun-Neptune influence either in the natal chart or through the transits. I think that Neptune is opposing Alberto Gonzales's Sun at this point also and he was forgetting to disclose all kinds of information at that point too. These people were discussing ethical lifestyles while breaking the law and they neglected to disclose this to their irreverent audience. In January, 2005, there was a transiting t-square between Saturn (conservative Government) in Cancer (Conservative Family), NN in Aries (Fundamentalism) and Jupiter (Media, Opinions) in Libra (Justice).

Here's the list.

Maggie Gallagher / paid $21,000+ by Dept. of Health Services
revealed by USA Today on Jan 7, 2005
b. Sept. 14, 1960, Lake Oswego, OR

Sun 22 Virgo; Moon Cancer; NN 16 Virgo

Natal t-square with apex Sun square Jupiter 25 Sagittarius opposite Mars 27 Gemini. Sun is conjunct NN.

When she was caught, Gallagher's prog. Sun was conjunct her natal Neptune in Scorpio. Trans. Pluto was conjunct n. Jupiter in Sagittarius squaring her Sun and NN.

Armstrong Williams / paid $241,000 for help propaganda written for NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND act. That's the one where we decide to educate the children with tests and other stuff, but mostly tests. Got paid through a third agency somehow.
revealed by USA Today in Jan., 2005
b. Feb. 5, 1959 Marion, South Carolina

Sun 17 Aquarius; Moon Capricorn; NN 15 Libra

Wide Grand Square: Mars 28 Taurus opp. Jupiter 30 Scorpio squaring Pluto 4 Virgo RX opposite Venus 7 Pisces.

When caught: T. Neptune conjunct n. Sun. T. Jupiter c. n. NN. T. Uranus c. n. Venus

Michael McManus / paid $4,000 plus travel expenses. His organization "Marriage Savers, Inc." was given $49,000.
revealed on Jan. 28, 2005

b. Jun. 11, 1942 (place?)

Sun 21 Gemini; Moon Taurus or Gemini; NN 8 Virgo

Natal Sun-Mercury square Neptune opposed by t. Pluto in Sagittarius when caught. Prog. Sun 20 Leo opposite t. Neptune (not that this kind of thing counts, they both trine/sextile his Sun-Mercury conjunction). Prog. Mars c. n.NN at 8 Virgo.