newsbusters.org - 5/16/2009
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The top of the front page of Friday’s Washington Post was all about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s press conference in which she accused the CIA of deliberately misleading her in 2002 about waterboarding. There were two stories up top and a box promising two more stories inside. So what about the ...
thehill.com - 5/16/2009
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thehill.com —
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has backed down slightly
in her fight with the CIA, saying that she...
really meant only to criticize the Bush administration rather than career officials. "My criticism of the manner in which the Bush Administration did not ...
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Pelosi tries to backpedal on CIA criticism
brutallyhonest.org - 5/16/2009
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brutallyhonest.org —
You simply can't have the third highest politician
in the land making the kinds of accusations that...
she's making about this country's intelligence branch stay in power. You can't. Obama should ask for her to step down from the Speaker's...
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It's time for Nancy Pelosi to go
townhall.com - 5/16/2009
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townhall.com —
Poor Nancy Pelosi. For more than two years,
our beloved House Speaker has been fighting for the...
public interest, toiling to restore “integrity and civility” to the Capitol’s lower chamber, and striving to shape the most ethical Congress in world ...
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Guy Benson : In Defense of Nancy Pelosi
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Greg Hengler: NY Times Bury Pelosi Story on Page A-18!
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog —
Tim Graham at Newsbusters tells us what was on the front page instead: "Chrysler telling dealers to close, Mexican immigration plummeting, Afghans fault U.S. for airs [image] trikes, the end of a pension case at the Carlyle Group, an advertising story headlined "Does Ranting Sell? Worth a Try," and the light story of the day: "For Frozen Entrees, ‘Heat and Eat’ Isn’t Enough." It came complete with a photo of a Banquet chicken pot pie box." [Emphasis in original]
"Speaker Pelosi Lied? N.Y. Times Puts It On Page A-18."
Althouse —
I'm reading this piece by Tim Graham just about exactly 5 minutes after looking at the NYT front webpage and saying: "The NYT is boring now. I think it's because they're hiding the news." ...
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