Month: November 2006
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What would we do without CNN.com?
Behold the grandeur of the national media — this post from TNR’s Jason Zengerle is worth reprinting in full: Not to pick on CNN.com, but when it’s not hyperventilating about Kerry, it’s tackling tough stories like this one: Would Alex P. Keaton back Fox on stem cells? What about Teen Wolf? Who says this election
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Mr. Straight Talk smears Kerry
At this point, everyone is used to President Bush mischaracterizing the remarks of his opponents, as he is doing with John Kerry’s botched joke. But will John “Straight Talk” McCain pay any reputational price for this: Senator Kerry owes an apology to the many thousands of Americans serving in Iraq, who answered their country’s call
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NYT changes Pelosi article
On Monday, I slammed Jennifer Steinhauer’s New York Times article on Nancy Pelosi for claiming the Democratic leader “favors alternative sentencing over prison construction, schools without prayer and death with taxes.” As I wrote, Pelosi’s objection is to organized prayer in school; students have every right to pray on their own. Similarly, she does not
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Context needed on Kerry’s botched joke
How hard is it to explain what John Kerry meant to say on Monday? Pretty easy. Even Chris Matthews can do it: Let me read you two points again, if I have had to do this five times during this hour I will do it. Just so when we walk away from the show you
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NYT backs off on Duke lacrosse evidence
Today’s story in the New York Times on the Durham district attorney case buries the lede, admitting late in the article that the case is a mess: Mr. Nifong has been under attack for months by the defense and supporters of the lacrosse players for aggressively pursuing a case based almost entirely on the account
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The midterm in historical perspective
The Washington Post has a nice summary of how this election compares to other midterms in terms of presidential approval: With his approval rating just below 40 percent, Bush approaches Election Day less popular than all but two presidents in the post-World War II era. Only Harry S. Truman in 1946 and Richard M. Nixon,
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Who will Pelosi appoint as Intelligence chair?
Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus returns to a very important subject that I blogged about last week — whether Nancy Pelosi will appoint Alcee Hastings as chair of the Intelligence Committee if the Democrats take the House: If Democrats win control of the House next week, Nancy Pelosi’s first test as speaker will arrive long