Month: May 2006
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All the President’s Spin for $5
A friend reports that All the President’s Spin was recently the “deal of the day” at the Barnes & Noble sales annex. They’re selling it as a bargain book for $5 new, which is a good deal for a copy from a major seller (Amazon is currently selling the book for $10.78 new, and the
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Bush aide dissembles, smears war critics
Writing in the Wall Street Journal, White House aide Peter Wehner attacks a series of “antiwar myths” about the war in Iraq, many of which are straw men that he pummels ritualistically. For instance, in a supposed refutation of the claim that the Bush administration promoted false intelligence about Iraq, he writes: [N]o serious person
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White House twists Medicare RX numbers
Robert Pear’s dissection of the Bush administration’s abuse of statistics about the Medicare prescription drug bill takes me back to the old days: In trying to shape public perceptions, the Bush administration has manipulated enrollment figures. On April 20, the administration issued a news release saying, “30 Million Medicare Beneficiaries Now Receiving Prescription Drug Coverage.”
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Democratic politics is all about Hillary
The big Al Gore profile in New York magazine, which touts him as a 2008 candidate, features this blind quote which perfectly summarizes the state of play in the party right now: [T]he Gore boomlet is also being driven by another force: the creeping sense of foreboding about the prospect of Hillary Clinton’s march to
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The Leopold/Truthout fiasco
I’m back from vacation and surprised anyone believed the alleged scoop about Karl Rove’s indictment, which was posted on the left-wing website Truthout.org by disgraced journalist Jason Leopold. Predictably, it’s been retracted, though Truthout’s “partial apology” is a mishmash of cant: On Saturday afternoon, May 13, 2006, TruthOut ran a story titled, “Karl Rove Indicted
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Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth
Franklin Foer, the editor of The New Republic, was genuinely moved by Al Gore’s documentary An Inconvenient Truth: I hope this doesn’t sound too Arianna-like. But last night, I went to a screening of the Al Gore movie. And I found myself walking out in a strange mood. I had just seen a movie featuring
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Third Duke lacrosse indictment
From the News & Observer: A grand jury indicted Duke lacrosse player Dave Forker Evans, a senior and team captain from Bethesda, Md., for first degree rape, first degree sexual offense and kidnapping today. His lawyer, Joseph B. Cheshire V, said he expected Evans to turn himself in at the jail at 2 p.m. Evans,
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Duke lacrosse: Defense claims “no conclusive match”
ABC News reports that the defense is claiming that latest DNA tests in the Duke lacrosse case are not conclusive: A lawyer for one of the players on the Duke University lacrosse team said the results of the second round of DNA testing in the investigation of rape allegations showed “no conclusive match” with any
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Possible third Duke lacrosse indictment
ABC News is reporting that a third lacrosse player may be indicted based on a partial identification and a partial DNA match — not exactly convincing evidence: Prosecutors believe they have DNA evidence to tie a third Duke lacrosse player to the alleged attack of a 27-year-old exotic dancer, sources close to the investigation tell
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Did Duke accuser change her allegation?
Yesterday, I posted about the stunning claim in a Duke report that the accuser in the lacrosse rape case initially said twenty men raped her. Since then, this claim has come into serious question. In the initial Durham Herald Sun report from yesterday morning, City Manager Patrick Baker and District Attorney Mike Nifong deny the