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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Sanchez' Message — It seems that half of the message retired General Richard Sanchez intended to deliver missed the cut at most newsrooms, and with most bloggers. Typical among the reports of his blistering oration is the front-page treatment given by the Washington Post's Josh White …
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Hindrocket / Power Line:
A TREE FALLS IN THE FOREST — If the Bush administration gets attacked, the press will report it. But what if someone attacks the press? If the attack goes unreported, did it ever really happen? — Today General Ricardo Sanchez gave a speech to the Military Reporters and Editors' annual conference …
Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:
SANCHEZ AND THE PRESS....Matt Yglesias takes note of former Lt. Gen. Rick Sanchez's Friday blast at everyone but himself over our failure in Iraq, but then says: … Actually, not quite. It's true that Sanchez didn't pretend that things are going well in Iraq, but he actually spent the entire …
Bruce Kesler / Democracy Project:
MSM Omits Sanchez' Criticism Of MSM (Roggio Replies) — Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez' speech and Q&A session at the Military Reporters & Editors convention has unleashed a whirl of major media coverage and commentary. (See Memeorandum, for examples.) All are focused on his criticism …
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DrewM / minx.cc:
The Deciders Have Decided, Lt. General Ricardo Sanchez (US Army …
The Deciders Have Decided, Lt. General Ricardo Sanchez (US Army …
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Stars & Stripes:
Sanchez, former U.S. commander in Iraq, calls war 'a nightmare with no end in sight'
Sanchez, former U.S. commander in Iraq, calls war 'a nightmare with no end in sight'
Tim Lambert / Deltoid:
The Washington Post's war on Gore — In my post on the decision by Justice Burton to allow the showing of An Inconvenient Truth because it was "broadly accurate" I listed some of the reporters who wrongly claimed that the judge decided that AIT had nine errors. Mary Jordan's story was particularly bad.
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Bob Herbert / New York Times:
The Trivial Pursuit — Yesterday began with the gratifying news that Al Gore, derided by George H.W. Bush as the "Ozone Man," had won the Nobel Peace Prize. — The first thing media types wanted to know was whether this would prompt Mr. Gore to elbow his way into the presidential campaign.
Bjorn Lomborg / Boston Globe:
An inconvenient Peace Prize — THIS YEAR'S Nobel Peace Prize justly rewards the thousands of scientists of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. These scientists are engaged in excellent, painstaking work that establishes exactly what the world should expect from climate change.
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New York Post:
THE NEW YORK CRIMES — MEDAL OF DIS-HONOR FOR THE GRAY LADY — The posthumous award of the nation's highest battlefield honor to a Long Island war hero has become an other black mark for the Gray Lady. — The New York Times carried not a whisper of news yesterday about the bestowal …
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New York Post:
UNFIT TO PRINT? — Every major daily paper in New York took note of President Bush's deci sion to bestow the first Medal of Honor of Operation Enduring Freedom on Navy SEAL Lt. Michael Murphy - a Long Islander who gave his life for his country and his fellow SEALs. — Every paper but one, that is.
Lisa Zagaroli / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
GOP outraged over NASCAR-immunizations advisory — Washington — Being around NASCAR fans requires no inoculation. — That was the word Thursday from Republican officials after they learned that a congressional committee's Democratic staffers had advised aides to get vaccinated for hepatitis …
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Robert Stacy McCain / Washington Times:
S-CHIP de-Frosted — A Volvo SUV, a Chevy Suburban and a Ford F-250 may finally bring to an end a long and bitter flame-war between conservative and liberal bloggers over the S-CHIP veto. Michelle Malkin explains, the blogger chorus joins in, and Don Surber sums it up in a song: … The background:
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Washington Post:
Former CEO Says U.S. Punished Phone Firm — Qwest Feared NSA Plan Was Illegal, Filing Says — A former Qwest Communications International executive, appealing a conviction for insider trading, has alleged that the government withdrew opportunities for contracts worth hundreds of millions …
Ezra Klein:
Andrew Sullivan and "Honesty" — If Andrew Sullivan wants to compare honesty, then let's have at it. I have never, not once, written or published anything I believed to have been untrue. I have never, not once, allowed being "provocative" to stand in for being rigorous, or honest. Has Sullivan?
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Chuck Simmins / America's North Shore Journal:
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The Corner:
Thy Will Be Done — Good Catholics support government-run health care, or at least the expansion of SCHIP, say some activists in Detroit—and it sure sounds like the archdiocese office is egging them on:
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Fred Barnes / Weekly Standard:
The Speech He Needs to Give — Giuliani and social conservatives. — Rudy Giuliani has a problem. It's bigger than he imagines and could doom his presidential prospects. The problem is his pro-choice position on abortion. It's one he cannot finesse by simply saying he "would keep the balance exactly where it is now."
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Investor's Business Daily:
Sharia By The Inch — Islamofascism: In a monumental nod to political correctness, the Empire State Building is to be lit up green in honor of the Muslim holiday Eid. The separation of Islam from terror is officially complete. — Six years ago, Islamic terrorists screamed "Allah is Greatest! …
Katherine Mangu-Ward / Reason Magazine:
Nuclear Power: Celebrating 50 Years of Catastrophic Failure — Writing for CNN today, Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Browne, Graham Nash, and Harvey Wasserman share some thoughts about nuclear power (Note: Don't think about that last sentence too hard. You'll hurt your head or bring on the apocalypse or something).
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