Boehlert: Covering new presidents: the media's double standard
mediamatters.org 11/21/2008 — In anticipation of the new administration, Beltway media insiders are busy laying the groundwork for how reporters and pundits will treat the new team on Pennsylvania Avenue. "Once a president takes office ... an adversarial relationship ...

Homecoming Queen a Real Drag, War on Drugs
notesfromagrumpyoldman.blogspot.com 2/21/2009 — Shumaker-Matos Joe Scarborough A prominent Muslim scholar in Saudi Arabia has warned that those using alcohol-based biofuels in their cars could be committing a sin. - Christian Science Monitor " Your two languages seem to be bad English and redneck" -Stephen Fowler Just to show you that ...

Bush is a Criminal
boomantribune.com 12/20/2008 — Dan Eggen reports: It was bad enough for President Bush to have shoes tossed at his head during his farewell journey to Baghdad. Now comes a new poll in which Americans call Bush all sorts of names -- some of them a lot worse than "dog." In a poll ...

Obama should be like Bush
the-reaction.blogspot.com 11/10/2008 — By Michael J.W. Stickings At least according to TNR's Jonathan Cohn. Cohn argues that has actually accomplished a great deal as president, from overhauling the tax code to reforming education to gutting the regulatory state to rewriting ...

No we can't
lefarkins.blogspot.com 11/18/2008 — This story , indicating that the Obama administration is bailing on the idea even investigating whether criminal charges ought to be brought against Bush administration officials who committed war crimes such as torture, is very discouraging. From the ...

Rehabilitating Bush
chicagoboyz.net 11/11/2008 — Let the rehabilitation of Bush begin! For the past 8 years, the most strident and hysterical leftist criticism of Bush has centered on his intelligence policies which leftist assured us arose purely out of a callous disregard for civil liberties and ...

Halperin Hearts Bush
dailykos.com 1/2/2009 — What next? Is he going to want to see Bush's face on Mt. Rushmore ? Let's take just three things that are totally wrong about Halperin's analysis: 1) Halperin asserts Bush didn't want the presidency as much as most people who seek it. Well ...

Instapundit.com -
pajamasmedia.com 11/11/2008 — November 11, 2008 NO SURPRISE: "President-elect Barack Obama is unlikely to radically overhaul controversial Bush administration intelligence policies, advisers say, an approach that is almost certain to create tension within the Democratic Party. ...

Just Facts: Exposing the Media’s Election-Year Economic Games
newsbusters.org 10/19/2008 — Writing at JustFacts.org , James Agresti has a fascinating article documenting how the media spin the economy during Democratic and Republican administrations and during election years. “With another presidential election upon us and a Republican in ...

What's Wrong with Beltway Journalism
boomantribune.com 11/11/2008 — Dan Eggen of the Washington Post got the assignment to do a set-piece pre-post-mortem on the Bush administration. You know the drill. You interview a few Bush staffers (current and retired), you get some quotes on how sad everyone is about how things ...