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NY Times Sees Nothing But Storm Clouds Ahead For Republicans
Today’s New York Times featured a Carl Hulse article that depicted the future of the Republican Party as being almost as bright as Alaska for the next several weeks. In Hulse’s view, just about everything that has gone wrong in America in 2005 can be linked to Republicans, while, conversely, in a 27 paragraph piece, there was only one paragraph that suggested any problems for the party on the…
New York Times’ “Ethicist” Charges Bush “Lied the Country Into
Sunday’s New York Times Magazine features another weekly submission from Randy Cohen, writer of "The Ethicist" column, about a non-political topic -- who should pay for damage done to an office building by a doctor’s patient -- but on Friday’s Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson on CBS Cohen made clear his disgust with President Bush. When Ferguson raised Bill Clinton’s name, Cohen reacted with…
Business Week Highlights 50 Most Generous Philanthropists
But broadcast media often underreport the $30 billion from the top corporate givers.
Newsweek’s Fineman Joins Media Herd Overstating Murtha’s Iraq War
Newsweek’s Howard Fineman, in a new article entitled “Bush at the Tipping Point,” joined an expanding list of media representatives that have not only completely ignored statements made by Rep. John Murtha (D-Pennsylvania) concerning his disappointments with the Iraq war that came before his Thursday call for troop withdrawals, but also thoroughly misrepresented the level of support that Murtha…
Johnny Depp About-Face?: France Situation Is Now "Insane
In a September 2003 interview with a German magazine (related story), Johnny Depp compared the United States to a "dumb puppy" and a "broken toy." Depp, fed up with America, had already been living in France for some time.It's been a little over two years since that interview. Question: Is it now possible that America doesn't seem so bad to Johnny after all? According to this ContactMusic…
Murtha CNN’s “Play of the Week,” Blitzer Suggests Murtha the Cro
On Friday’s Situation Room, CNN’s Bill Schneider awarded Congressman John Murtha his “Play of the Week,” and after Schneider’s piece host Wolf Blitzer suggested the call by Murtha, “a very moderate conservative” (whatever that is), to withdraw troops is reminiscent of CBS anchor Walter Cronkite’s 1968 assertion the U.S. was losing in Vietnam, and so Republicans “probably realize they’ve got some…