Month: February 2006
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MRC hackery on CBS poll
It’s time for more idiocy from the postmodern “bias” warriors at the Media Research Center. Drudge is currently running the following headlines aboiut the poll I posted about earlier today: CBSNEWS SHOCK POLL: Bush approval rating falls to 34%… But CBS Slants Bush Poll in Favor of Democrats? The second link goes to a blog
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Rove dissembles in Strategery
Drudge is running summaries from Bill Sammon’s Strategery this week. Today’s has two suspect quotes from Karl Rove that are worth noting. Here’s the first: Although Memogate was initially expected to harm the president, it ended up backfiring spectacularly on the press. “The guy that it hurt most was Dan Rather and the executives at
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How to achieve a gas tax
A New York Times poll reported today found that “Americans are overwhelmingly opposed to a higher federal gasoline tax, but a significant number would go along with an increase if it reduced global warming or made the United States less dependent on foreign oil.” Here are the most important results: The problem, however, is that
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The puzzling Vermont campaign finance case
This New York Times report on a challenge to a Vermont campaign finance law that the Supreme Court will hear today makes no sense: The Vermont campaign finance case, Randall v. Sorrell, No. 04-1528, tests the court’s current understanding of its watershed ruling 30 years ago in Buckley v. Valeo, which upheld limits on political
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Why the troops can handle dissent
Since 9/11, demagogues have frequently tried to silence dissent on the grounds that it demoralizes the troops. I’ve never understood this. Soldiers are also citizens who have their own political views. Some of them oppose the wars in which they are fighting, and all of them are part of our democracy. So it shouldn’t be
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Bush headed back to the 30s?
CBS/New York Times polls frequently show the lowest levels of support for President Bush among major firms, so it’s hard to know how much weight to put on their latest survey, which shows him at 34 percent approval — his lowest ever. Still, it seems clear that the President is taking serious damage on the
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When out-of-date PR copy attacks: Bill Sammon’s Strategery
Is it time to fire the Regnery copywriter? An email (PDF) sent today by the notorious conservative publisher promoting Bill Sammon’s new Regnery book Strategery seems, uh, about a year out of date: Try as they might, the liberal media and far-left Democrats simply cannot beat President George W. Bush. Washington Times White House correspondent
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Comments on casualties and the media
Here’s a summary I wrote up of my discussant comments last week at the Triangle Institute for Security Studies conference on Casualties and Warfare. My panel, which was titled “The media and casualties,” featured presentations by Cori Dauber (University of North Carolina — Chapel Hill), Robert Entman (George Washington University) and Sean Aday (George Washington).
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Human Events promoting anti-Islam books
Human Events, the conservative magazine that features Ann Coulter’s hateful columns about Muslims on its website, has sent an email to its readers promoting a whole series of anti-Islamic books. The message is hard to miss. The subject of the email? “The ugly truth about Mohammed.” Now, I’m no scholar of Islam, and I’m sure
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Wasting homeland security funds
I knew that the White House has been wasting homeland security money by distributing it as pork to areas that face little or no terrorist threat. But this is ridiculous. A New York Times profile of the emptiest county in the country — Loving County, Texas — mentions that the county “landed $30,000 in antiterrorism