Armstrong Williams [3], the conservative black pundit who entered into a $240,000 contract with the Bush administration to promote the No Child Left Behind Act [4], says he has (1) recognized the errors of his ways, and (2) resents the way he was criticized. He's managed to resurrect his career, hosting a radio show in New York and writing a new book to come out this fall, titled The New Racists: How Liberal Democrats Have Betrayed Minority Americans. He also says he's bitter about how he was was treated by fellow conservatives during his payola-pundit scandal. "I had put everything on the line, defending the right, supporting the right. … None of the conservative [groups] came to my rescue. I was alone." Ironically, he notes that he received his most sympathetic treatment from the New York Times, a newspaper reviled by the conservative movement for its alleged liberal bias. "If it weren’t for The New York Times," Williams said, "it probably would have been over for me."