lying in ponds
The absurdity of partisanship
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Robert Scheer
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Columns 51
Words 44010
Normalized Median Partisanship Index 76.92
Normalized Total Partisanship Index 64.89
Normalized Combined Partisanship Index 70.91
Democratic Index 33.54
Republican Index -75.07
Positive Index 15.13
Negative Index 69.85
Neutral Index 15.02
Kerry Index 43.18
Bush Index -85.98



Partisan References

Type Number All References
Positive Democratic 88 Kerry(42), John Kerry(6), Democrats(4), Democratic(3), Clinton administration(3), Clinton(3), Al Gore(2), John Edwards(2), Democratic Party(2), Cleland(2), Bill Clinton(2), John F. Kerry(2), James Hahn, Dennis J. Kucinich, Jimmy Carter, Roosevelt, Edwards, Max Cleland, Democrat, Al From, Bruce Reed, Democratic Leadership Council, DLC, Franklin Roosevelt, Jane Harman, Harman, Carl Levin
Negative Democratic 34 Kerry(8), Democrats(5), John Kerry(3), Lyndon B. Johnson(3), Al Gore(2), McNamara(2), Johnson(2), Joe Lieberman, Democratic Party, Robert S. McNamara, Lyndon Johnson administration, JFK, Clinton administration, Kennedy, Clinton, John F. Kerry
Neutral Democratic 39Kerry(23), John Kerry(3), Clinton(2), Democrats(2), White House, LBJ, McGeorge Bundy, Johnson, John F. Kennedy, Bill Clinton, Democrat, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Democratic
Positive Republican 42 Dean(6), Paul O'Neill(3), Reagan(3), Secretary of State Colin Powell(3), Powell(3), John Dean(2), Chuck Hagel(2), Republicans(2), the president(2), Republican(2), John McCain(2), Bush administration, President Bush, George H.W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, Dick Cheney, Nixon, president, President Eisenhower, Bush, Colin L. Powell, Richard G. Lugar, Peter Hoekstra
Negative Republican 566 Bush(151), administration(53), the president(48), Bush administration(32), Cheney(31), White House(29), President Bush(25), president(24), George W. Bush(16), Republicans(11), GOP(11), The president(8), Republican(7), Schwarzenegger(6), Nixon(6), Condoleezza Rice(6), Vice President Dick Cheney(6), Reagan(6), Rumsfeld(6), vice president(5), Donald H. Rumsfeld(5), Dick Cheney(4), Republican Party(4), Arnold Schwarzenegger(3), Paul D. Wolfowitz(3), Cabinet(3), Bush White House(3), George W. (2), Richard Perle(2), Paul Wolfowitz(2), Powell(2), Secretary of State Colin Powell(2), Dubya(2), Douglas J. Feith(2), Wolfowitz(2), Goss(2), Feith(2), Republican-controlled Congress, Henry Kissinger, Kissinger, Douglas Feith, George Bush, Alberto Gonzales, Ashcroft, Mr. President, Rice, Nixon administration, Arnold "I Call Them Girlie Men" Schwarzenegger, John Ashcroft, President Nixon, Saxby Chambliss, First Lady Laura Bush, Bush's White House, Bushies, the President, Richard Nixon, Nixon White House, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Cheneys, Ashcrofts, Rumsfelds, Colin L. Powell, commander in chief, Republican House, Rick Perry, Rush Limbaugh, I. Lewis Libby, Elliott Abrams, Porter J. Goss, Donald Rumsfeld, president of the United States
Neutral Republican 90Bush(18), the president(6), administration(6), Republican(5), George W. Bush(4), Republicans(4), President Bush(3), Vice President Dick Cheney(3), Nixon(3), Reagan(3), Cheney(3), White House(3), Rice(3), GOP(3), former president(2), Powell(2), Richard Nixon(2), Donald H. Rumsfeld, Richard Perle, John Ashcroft, George Bush, Rick Santorum, Wolfowitz, Ronald Reagan, Bushes, Secretary of State Colin Powell, Dick Cheney, Colin Powell, Rudy Giuliani, Laura Bush, Republican Party, President Nixon, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bush White House



List of Columns

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.
Title/
Date
words Norm
PI
Partisan References
A Devil's Island for our times
28 December 2004
826 100 2R-: the president, The president
Sabotaging Social Security
21 December 2004
868 88 7R-: the president, White House, Republican Party, the president, Bush, The president, the president
1R=
Pakistan and the true WMD threat
7 December 2004
841 100 8R-: administration, President Bush, Bush, Bush, administration, Bush, Bush administration, Bush
The invisible hand holds the remote
30 November 2004
903 71 1D+: Democrats
1R-: Arnold Schwarzenegger
1R=
Cultivating opium, not democracy
23 November 2004
808 56 5R-: administration, White House, Secretary of State Colin Powell, White House, the president
4R=
The Peter Principle and the neocon coup
16 November 2004
839 89 1R+: Secretary of State Colin Powell
25R-: Bush administration, the president, White House, President Bush, White House, Paul D. Wolfowitz, vice president, I. Lewis Libby, Elliott Abrams, Douglas J. Feith, Donald H. Rumsfeld, Bush, Porter J. Goss, the president, Bush, Goss, Bush, Goss, Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, Feith, Feith, the president, administration, Rumsfeld
1R=
Live with it, for now
9 November 2004
881 72 3D+: Clinton administration, Kerry, Kerry
1D-: John Kerry
14R-: Bush White House, Republicans, GOP, Rush Limbaugh, the president, Bush, Bush, Bush, president, Bush, president, Republicans, GOP, Bush
2D=, 1R=
The U.N. deserves an apology
2 November 2004
772 9 1D-: John F. Kerry
1R+: the president
3R-: Rick Perry, Republican Party, George W. Bush
1R=
The man behind the Oval Office curtain
26 October 2004
945 87 2D+: Carl Levin, John F. Kerry
1R+: Secretary of State Colin Powell
25R-: Dick Cheney, George W. Bush, vice president, White House, Cheney, administration, Bush, administration, president, vice president, White House, Bush, Cheney, Cheney, Cheney, Cheney, Cheney, Cheney, the president, Cheney, Cheney, Cheney, administration, Cheney, Cheney
2R=
The 9/11 secret in the CIA's back pocket
19 October 2004
854 77 3D+: Jane Harman, Democratic, Harman
1R+: Peter Hoekstra
10R-: Bush administration, administration, Republican House, President Bush, Bush administration, Bush, The president, Bush, Bush administration, administration
2R=
Kerry a bleeding heart? Hardly
12 October 2004
928 44 10D+: Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Al From, Bruce Reed, Democratic Leadership Council, Kerry, DLC, Kerry, Franklin Roosevelt
2D-: Kerry, Clinton
10R-: Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, GOP, Bush, Bush, Bush, president, Bush administration
10D=, 7R=
Buck stops in the voting booth
6 October 2004
853 83 1D+: Kerry
15R-: George W. Bush, Bush White House, Vice President Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice, the president, Bush, administration, White House, administration, Cheney, administration, White House, Bush, the president, commander in chief
1D=, 2R=
The dangers of a 'what the heck' vote
28 September 2004
902 67 1D-: Democrats
2R+: John Dean, Paul O'Neill
23R-: George W. Bush, Cheneys, Ashcrofts, Rumsfelds, Bush, Bush administration, president, Bush, GOP, Bush administration, administration, Bush, Bush, Bush administration, Bush, Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, president, Bush White House, administration, Bush, Bush, Cheney
3R=
True conservatives would back Kerry
21 September 2004
923 71 9D+: Kerry, John Kerry, Al Gore, Bill Clinton, Clinton, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry
3R+: Chuck Hagel, John McCain, Richard G. Lugar
12R-: Republicans, George W. Bush, Dubya, Bush, GOP, Bush, Bush, administration, Republican, Bush, administration, Bush
3R=
If only Kerry were from the Bronx
14 September 2004
968 69 3D+: Kerry, Democrat, Kerry
23R-: GOP, Vice President Dick Cheney, Republican Party, Cheney, George W. Bush, administration, Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, president, Republican, Bush, Bush, Cheney, Bush, the president, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Bush administration, president, Bush administration, Cheney, administration
6D=, 4R=
GOP convention's looney tunes
7 September 2004
969 90 8D+: John F. Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, John Edwards, Kerry
18R-: GOP, Republicans, Republicans, Cheney, the president, White House, George W. Bush, Cheney, Bush, GOP, Cheney, Bush, Bush, Cheney, Bush, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bush, George W. Bush
1D=, 2R=
Israel's albatross: U.S. neocons
31 August 2004
786 100 1D+: Clinton
10R-: Bush administration, Bush administration, Bush administration, President Bush, Douglas J. Feith, Paul D. Wolfowitz, administration, Bush, Bush, Bush administration
Iraqi soccer players kick the stuffing out of Bush's fantasy
24 August 2004
954 51 5D+: John Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry
2D-: Lyndon B. Johnson, Johnson
3R+: Colin L. Powell, Powell, Powell
12R-: Bush, President Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, George W. Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush administration, Bush, Richard Nixon
1R=
Kerry made a Bush league error on Iraq
17 August 2004
977 47 7D+: Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Democratic
6D-: Kerry, John Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry
20R-: Bush, President Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush administration, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, the President, Bush, White House, the president, White House, White House, Bush, Bush, Bush, president, Bush
3D=, 3R=
One more Chalabi black eye
10 August 2004
788 100 9R-: President Bush, First Lady Laura Bush, White House, Bush's White House, Donald H. Rumsfeld, Bush administration, Bush administration, Bushies, president
Kerry's past is key to his future
3 August 2004
937 58 13D+: Kerry, John Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Max Cleland, Cleland, Cleland, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry
3D-: Lyndon B. Johnson, Johnson, Democrats
11R-: Republicans, President Nixon, Nixon, Nixon, Republican, Saxby Chambliss, President Bush, Bush, Bush, administration, Bush
6D=, 1R=
Bush busted
28 July 2004
890 69 2D+: Democratic Party, Clinton administration
1D-: Clinton administration
1R+: Republicans
15R-: Bush, President Bush, Bush administration, administration, Bush, president, Cabinet, Condoleezza Rice, John Ashcroft, George W. Bush, Bush, White House, the president, Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney
2R=
Homophobia and apple pie
20 July 2004
946 72 7D+: Al Gore, Democrats, Kerry, Edwards, Democratic, John Kerry, John Edwards
1R+: John McCain
14R-: Bush, Dubya, the president, GOP, the president, GOP, Republicans, Arnold "I Call Them Girlie Men" Schwarzenegger, Bush, Bush, the president, Republican, Republican, Dick Cheney
7R=
Fact of the matter is that facts didn't matter
13 July 2004
881 80 12R-: President Bush, Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Cheney, Bush, Bush, administration, the president, Bush administration, administration, White House, the president
3R=
Even a tyrant is entitled to due process
6 July 2004
765 100 6R-: President Bush, the president, Bush, Bush, Condoleezza Rice, Rice
Born under a cloud of irony
29 June 2004
815 100 5R-: President Bush, Bush, Reagan, Bush, Donald H. Rumsfeld
Truth about Iraq finally has its pants on
22 June 2004
895 79 11R-: Bush administration, administration, administration, President Bush, administration, Bush, Secretary of State Colin Powell, Bush, Cheney, administration, administration
3R=
Tout torture, get promoted
15 June 2004
870 85 1D+: Democrats
10R-: George W. Bush, White House, White House, President Bush, Alberto Gonzales, administration, president, Donald H. Rumsfeld, Ashcroft, administration
2R=
A nice guy's nasty policies
8 June 2004
843 7 1D+: Roosevelt
8R+: Ronald Reagan, Reagan, Nixon, president, Republican, President Eisenhower, Reagan, Reagan
8R-: Reagan, Reagan, Reagan, Reagan, Reagan, George W. Bush, Richard Perle, administration
2R=
Electorate is wising up to the Iraq blunder
1 June 2004
783 69 1D-: John Kerry
13R-: George W. , president, Bush, Bush, White House, Bush, Bush, Bush, administration, Bush administration, president, president, Bush
1D=, 1R=
Chalabi's long, costly charade
25 May 2004
873 53 2R+: Republican, Chuck Hagel
10R-: administration, administration, Bush, Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz, Douglas Feith, Bush, White House, Bush, President Bush
3R=
Scandal's shame, Massachusetts' pride
18 May 2004
769 100 5R-: Donald H. Rumsfeld, Rumsfeld, Rumsfeld, the president, Bush
Thread of abuse runs to the Oval Office
11 May 2004
904 86 6R-: White House, Donald Rumsfeld, President Bush, Rumsfeld, president of the United States, Bush
1R=
When we're the evildoers in Iraq
4 May 2004
879 86 6R-: President Bush, president, The president, the president, Cabinet, the president
1R=
Face the Iraq fiasco, Senator
27 April 2004
932 1 1D+: Kerry
5D-: Kerry, Lyndon Johnson administration, Democrats, Kerry, Al Gore
6R-: the president, president, Republican, President Bush, Bush, Bush
7D=, 1R=
With God on his side
20 April 2004
863 39 3R+: George H.W. Bush, Secretary of State Colin Powell, Powell
10R-: George W. Bush, Bush, the president, Bush, George W. , Powell, President Bush, president, the president, The president
5R=
Drug war led Bush astray before 9/11
13 April 2004
873 91 10R-: Bush, the president, President Bush, Bush administration, Bush administration, Bush administration, Colin L. Powell, Powell, Bush, Bush administration
1R=
The beginning of the end
6 April 2004
784 77 2D+: Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton
1R+: President Bush
5R-: Bush administration, George W. Bush, administration, Bush, administration
Bush puts a 'cancer on the presidency'
30 March 2004
898 44 1D+: Democratic Party
9R+: John Dean, Dean, Dean, Dean, Dean, Dean, Dean, Paul O'Neill, Bush administration
27R-: Bush, Bush, Cheney, administration, Bush, Nixon administration, Nixon, Nixon White House, White House, Bush administration, Nixon, Bush, the president, Condoleezza Rice, Bush, Bush, administration, Bush, administration, Bush, administration, The president, Nixon, Bush, Nixon, White House, the president
1D=, 5R=
Blowing a whistle on Bush's 9/11 failures
23 March 2004
863 77 2D+: John Kerry, Clinton
2R+: the president, Paul O'Neill
22R-: Bush, President Bush, administration, White House, the president, Bush, administration, administration, Bush, administration, Bush, Bush, Cabinet, administration, Bush, the president, Condoleezza Rice, The president, George Bush, Mr. President, the president, president
3R=
Dear W, your father knew best
16 March 2004
788 74 1D+: John Kerry
2R+: Bush, Republicans
12R-: President Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, administration, Bush, Bush, Bush administration, Bush, the president, administration
The worst form of exploitation
9 March 2004
844 90 1D+: Clinton administration
17R-: The president, George W. Bush, the president, Bush, the president, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Henry Kissinger, Kissinger, Bush, administration, president, Bush, administration
2R=
A Passion for hatred
2 March 2004
779 0
Nader crashes the party yet again
24 February 2004
766 78 1D+: Democrats
1D-: Al Gore
10R-: George W. Bush, Bush, Republicans, Republican Party, Republican, Bush, Republican-controlled Congress, president, Bush, Republicans
Old MacDonald had a judge ...
17 February 2004
822 85 1R+: Dick Cheney
12R-: vice president, Vice President Dick Cheney, White House, Cheney, Cheney, Cheney, the president, Cheney, GOP, president, vice president, Cheney
War as an excuse for everything
10 February 2004
896 88 15R-: President Bush, the president, Bush, Bush, the president, the president, Bush, Bush, the president, Bush, the president, president, the president, Bush, the president
2R=
The lies that bind
3 February 2004
904 6 1D+: Dennis J. Kucinich
10D-: Robert S. McNamara, Democrats, McNamara, JFK, Democrats, Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Democratic Party, Joe Lieberman, McNamara
11R-: President Bush, Bush, Republicans, Bush, Dick Cheney, Bush, White House, Paul D. Wolfowitz, Wolfowitz, Bush, Wolfowitz
1D=, 1R=
Baghdad is Bush's blue dress
27 January 2004
846 77 10R-: Bush, Bush administration, Republicans, White House, administration, White House, administration, administration, the president, Condoleezza Rice
3R=
Give Iraqis the election they want
20 January 2004
770 100 4R-: Bush administration, President Bush, the president, White House
Schwarzenegger just acts like he cares for the poor
15 January 2004
852 100 1D+: James Hahn
7R-: Schwarzenegger, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Schwarzenegger, Schwarzenegger, Schwarzenegger, Schwarzenegger, Schwarzenegger
Lord knows what Robertson wants
6 January 2004
895 57 4R-: the president, president, Bush, administration
3R=