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Pundit Boxscore for Thursday 30 December 2004

WASHINGTONIAN ON MALLABY AND COHEN: Harry Jaffe, writing for the Washington Buzz column at Washingtonian Magazine, picks favorite and least favorite Washington Post columnists (link via Romenesko). Mr. Jaffe says that Sebastian Mallaby is the "Sharpest Eye Abroad", but he rips Richard Cohen as the "Most Trapped in his Head".



Lines in yellow indicate a substantive crossover column, meaning that the column is of opposite sign to the pundit's Normalized Total PI for the season, and contains at least five non-neutral partisan references.
Lines in gray indicate that the pundit has been classified as inactive, meaning that their columns are not currently being evaluated for partisanship.
Democratic references in blue, Republican in red, positive references in bold, negative in italics.
Author/
Affiliation
Title/
Date
words PI Partisan References
Bill O'Reilly
BillOReilly.com
War Party
30 December 2004
756 100 1D-
The unbelievable: George Soros
Peggy Noonan
WSJ OpinionJournal
Disturbances in the Earth
30 December 2004
1038 100 4R+
Not everyone: administration, the president
The other: Ronald Reagan, Reaganesque
Ann Coulter
Universal Press Syndicate
2004: Highlights and lowlifes
30 December 2004
1222 95 15D-,1D=,6R+
The single: John Kerry
CBS eminence: president
John Kerry's: John Kerry, Teresa Heinz, John Kerry
Surprisingly, Teresa: John Kerry
Meanwhile, San: Gavin Newsom, Bush, Newsom
In retrospect,: Democrats, Democrats
The New: Rumsfeld
By contrast,: Clintonite, Sandy Berger, Clinton administration, Berger
On the: president, Bernie Kerik
American hero: Kerry
He wanted: Democrats
On the: president, Ronald Reagan
Molly Ivins
Creators Syndicate
How 'bout a do-over?
30 December 2004
896 45 2D+,2D=,7R-,9R=
Abu Ghraib,: Howard Dean, the president, Karl Rove, Bush
But, look: Eliot Spitzer
The Coalition: President Bush
Texan Jessica: Interior Secretary Gale Norton
Media Low: Rush Limbaugh
Emblematic Political: Bush, Bill Clinton, the president, The president, Bush, Clinton, Bush
So for: Bushies, Bush
Another high: John Ashcroft, Gonzales
Gonzales put: Gonzales
Jeff Jacoby
Boston Globe
More liberal hate speech
30 December 2004
1020 44 2D+,2D-,3D=,14R+,2R-,4R=
AS IT: George W. Bush, George Bush
As in: Republicans, Vice President Al Gore, GOP, Republican, Republican, Condoleezza Rice
Such Nazi: Republicans, Secretary of State Colin Powell, Douglas Feith, Democrat, Howard Dean
That is: John Kerry, Karl Rove, Bush, the president
Bill Moyers: Kerry, Bush
So many: Bush, Bush
The St.: Democratic, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Rumsfeld, Bush
But the: Democrats, Republicans
WP Lead Editorial
Washington Post
Ousting the Umpire
30 December 2004
515 18 6R+,10R-,6R=
WHEN IT: House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-, GOP, House Republicans, Joel Hefley, R-, DeLay, Hefley, Dennis Hastert, R-, Hefley, Hastert, Hefley
Mr. Hastert's: Hastert, Hefley, Hefley
The speaker's: Hefley, DeLay, Republican, Robert W. Ney, Jack Abramoff, DeLay
David S. Broder
Washington Post
Hits and Misses In '04
30 December 2004
907 15 2D+,6D-,3D=,5R+,5R-,6R=
I have: congressional Republicans
The presidential: Howard Dean
Post-Dean, I: Dean, John Kerry, President Bush, Republican
By April,: Bush, the president
Still, I: John Edwards, Edwards
The biggest: Kerry, Michael Dukakis, Kerry
I was: Kerry, Bush, Kerry, Bush
From the: Republicans, Mark Sanford, Bush, Bush, Donald Rumsfeld
I understood: Republicans, president
That column: Democratic, GOP, Republicans
NYT Lead Editorial
New York Times
The One Face of Grief
30 December 2004
438 0
George F. Will
Washington Post
Unchanged by Welfare Reform
30 December 2004
847 0 1D=
MILWAUKEE --: Bill Clinton
Thomas Sowell
Creators Syndicate
Free lunch 'safety': Part II
30 December 2004
721 0
Jim Hoagland
Inactive
Questions for 2005
30 December 2004
877
OJ On the Editorial Page
WSJ OpinionJournal
That 'Sluggish' Economy
30 December 2004
871 0 2D=,3R=
But, some: Clinton, Clinton, Reagan
OK, say: Bush
We point: Bush Administration