A quarter mill for George?

Editor & Publisher wonders why a conservative foundation awarded a quarter million dollars to conservative columnist George Will recently. An ethical George Will, living in a mythical land where Americans stood for something other than filthy lucre, would see such an "award" as problematic, as symptomatic of what increasingly appears, for numbskulls like myself living in the real world of disillusionment, to be veiled payola, still more propaganda quid for pro. I mean, c'mon, a quarter million dollars? You've got your street whores and then you've got your high priced call girls. It's all so discreet, isn't it.