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Questions Pit ‘W’ Bashing Against Love of Obama

December 30th, 2009 · No Comments

Several times each day, I find in my inbox one of those “must-forward” e-mails from some well-intentioned person upset with someone or something.  Usually, I delete them quickly.  Today, however, I felt compelled to share excerpts (below) from one such message that uses rhetorical questions to slam the media bias apparent when one compares coverage [...]

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Double Standard Revealed in Mainstream Media Coverage of ‘Fail’ Comments by Carville, Limbaugh

March 11th, 2009 · 3 Comments

On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, just minutes before learning of the terrorist attacks on America, Democratic strategist James Carville was hoping for President Bush to fail, telling a group of Washington reporters: “I certainly hope he doesn’t succeed.” The words above appeared as the lead paragraph of a must-read article by Fox News’ [...]

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Writer: Bush Not to Blame for Economic Crisis

February 8th, 2009 · No Comments

As evidenced in the comments below (and others), President Barack Obama and his underlings seem fixated upon blaming the current economic crisis on President George W. Bush’s efforts to deregulate industry: “But come on, we’re not — we are not going to get relief by turning back to the very same policies that for the [...]

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Senator Disappointed With Bush Bailout Decision

January 13th, 2009 · No Comments

Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) used a YouTube video yesterday to express his extreme disappointment with President George W. Bush’s decision to give the Obama Administration and the Democrat-controlled Congress a “welcome present” in the form of the second $350 billion installment of the “vastly mismanaged and irresponsible $700 billion bank bailout to spend without oversight.” [...]

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Top Ten Shoe-Throwing-Journalist Headlines

December 16th, 2008 · No Comments

Yesterday, 29-year-old Muntathar al Zaidi started the clock ticking on his 15 minutes of fame by throwing one of his shoes — and then the other — at President George W. Bush during a news conference in Baghdad.  Below are the Top 10 headlines that have surfaced during the past 24 hours about the Egyptian [...]

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Shoe-Throwing Incident Prompts ‘Sole’ Searching

December 16th, 2008 · No Comments

“I looked the man in the eye. I found him to be very straight forward and trustworthy and we had a very good dialogue,” said President George W. Bush following a June 2001 meeting during which he met for the first time with then-Russian President Vladimir Putin in Slovenia.  “I was able to get a [...]

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Observations Offered on Six Morning Headlines

December 12th, 2008 · No Comments

Six news articles published today highlight the upside-down nature of politics and the world in which we live today.  Below, I offer some observations: Wage issue kills Big 3 deal in Senate (Washington Times) — Senate leaders gave up Thursday night on a $14 billion automaker bailout, sunk by the refusal of the autoworkers union [...]

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