All the Anti-Terror Disclosures That Fit: Specter Defends NY Times

As Brit Hume put it, "Senator Specter, who gets worked up over anything, doesn't seem bothered by the NY Times disclosure of [the anti-terror banking program]. He's going to 'look into it'."Indeed. Specter, who began his political career as a prosecutor, played defense lawyer for the Gray Lady on this morning's Fox News Sunday.  Host Chris Wallace asked the senior senator from PA "do you think…
Mark Finkelstein
 

NYT’s Brooks Slams Daily Kos, Its Proprietor, and Its Loyal Follower

Moderately conservative New York Times columnist David Brooks wrote an op-ed Sunday (available at TimesSelect for those interested) without much good things to say about the uber-liberal blog Daily Kos. Brooks didn’t have much positive things to say about its proprietor, or its automaton devotees either. Brooks began:“They say that the great leaders are gone and politics has become the realm of…
Noel Sheppard
 

Bill Blakemore, ABC's Resident Global-Warming Salesman, Set Up Al Gore

Tim Graham
 

Stephanopoulos Retired From Politics? 'I'm In It Every Week

Tim Graham
 

PBS Chat Between Jim Lehrer and Ben Bradlee Touched on Janet Cooke, JF

Tim Graham
 

Newsweek's Thomas Dubious About Talk Radio's 'Anger' Now Centered on I

Brent Baker
 

Chicago Sun-Times: Judges' Party Affiliation Relevant, But Only Someti

Mike Bates
 

Press Elected Bush by Bashing Gore, Opponents of Gay, Women Bishops 'H

Mark Finkelstein
 

NPR Game Show Host Jokes Rove Wants Murtha Dead, Cheney Lives In Rove

Tim Graham
 

Weekend Captionfest

Original AP caption: "NBC 'Today' show co-host Matt Lauer, and Campbell Brown, the show's weekend co-host, leave the set after a segment, in New York's Rockefeller Center, Thursday June 22, 2006."
Matthew Sheffield
 

On 'Hardball,' NBC's Norah O'Donnell Laughs At Santorum, New WMD Revel

Tim Graham
 

Geraldo: Close Gitmo, A 'National Embarrassment

Tim Graham
 

Gannett Editor Cheers 'Cheney is Satan' Speech

Mark Finkelstein
 

Sean Hannity Interviews Whoopi Goldberg in Rare Meeting of the Minds

Americans on both sides of the aisle regularly complain about the caustic tone in politics today. Many long for a more civil debate where issues are actually discussed without the seemingly requisite vitriol and animus that have become all too common on the floor of the Capitol as well as around conference tables on television news sets.With that in mind, something rather rare happened Friday…
Noel Sheppard