Set aside, for now, the incompatibility between Christian gospel and the Wildmon doctrine of hating your neighbor. Instead, look at how this story is moving through the media.
This subtlety thing is pretty subtle, I grant you. A golf trip to Scotland is more nuanced than a yacht on the Potomac, which is more nuanced than a Capitol-convenient lobbyist's hospitality suite with extra bedrooms.
Auletta’s New Yorker piece -- out today -- contains some juicy nuggets about Arthur Sulzberger, Jr., Judy Miller, and the rest of the gang at Times Square. Among them: While Miller was still in jail, Sulzberger and Keller had already decided that "her career at the Times was over."
If the Post’s ombudsman has swallowed the right-wing canard that telling the truth is “liberal,” then journalism might as well check into the hospice.
Even as Fox broadcasts Republican talking points and calls its faux news "balanced," NPR reporters have to inject what they know to be ideologically motivated disinformation into their stories to inoculate themselves from the charge that they're not "balanced."
Doug Bandow, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute who's also a syndicated columnist for the Copley News Service, has been on the take for years. Who paid him? See if you can guess.
Is there anyone more useless than Condi Rice? She was Russert's first guest, and he gave her ten feet of rope to hang herself with. On the eavesdropping front, she actually said, "I am not a lawyer" -- not once, but three times.
Rockefeller told Cheney he could not endorse the program. He said he was keeping a sealed copy of the letter -- for a moment just like this.
No betrayal of public trust by Bush, Cheney, Frist, DeLay et al can be so outrageous that Republicans are at a loss for confecting some tortuous defense of it.
In honor of the Vice President's return from Kabul in time to kill Christmas, it would be a lovely tribute if students who can't get loans explain their predicament by citing the Cheney cuts.
It's end-of-year thumbsucker season at the Washington Post, and the White House has graciously thrown some freshly-spun talking points to the unlucky reporters who actually have to work this week.
