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Pundit Boxscore for Wednesday 29 January 2003

LEVEY BREAKS: Lying in Ponds has criticized WSJ OpinionJournal columnist Collin Levey because she didn't make a single positive Democratic reference in 2002. In today's column, she breaks through:

In the Ninth Circuit, Carter appointee Stephen Reinhardt returned to an earlier antigun opinion and deleted references to the work of Michael Bellesiles, the historian whose Bancroft Prize was revoked because of serious questions about the honesty of his scholarship.
Granted, it's pretty weak (many are; that's why it's so difficult to avoid positive references to the other party!), but Ms. Levey commends the action of a judge who she identifies as a "Carter appointee". Humorously, this one column vaults Ms. Levey into second place with a Democratic partisanship score. This just shows that the rankings don't mean much until a few months of columns have accumulated.



Author/
Affiliation
Title/
Date
words PI Partisan References
Collin Levey
WSJ OpinionJournal
Bang Bang, Your Suit's Dead
29 January 2003
960 100 1D+: Carter
Linda Chavez
Creators Syndicate
Interpreting Title IX
29 January 2003
787 100 1D-: Clinton
Robert Scheer
Los Angeles Times
UNITED STATES KNOWS ITS CONDITION: LOUSY
29 January 2003
945 91 1D-: Democrats
21R-: the president, administration, the president, White House, Colin Powell, White House, White House, administration, Bush, Bush, Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Bush, administration, Bush, Bush, administration, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Bush, the president, the president
Michael Kelly
Washington Post
From a 'Senior Administration Official'
29 January 2003
910 73 8R+: Administration, administration, administration, White House, administration, White House, President Bush, administration
3R=
Robert J. Samuelson
Washington Post
Ditch the Dividends, Stick With Stimulus
29 January 2003
1111 27 1D-: Democrats
4R+: the president, Bush, Bush, Bush
2R-: Bush administration, Bush
1D=, 3R=
Maureen Dowd
New York Times
The Empire Strikes First
29 January 2003
916 21 2D-: Clinton, Clinton
4R+: Bush, John Warner, President Bush, Bush
12R-: President Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, White House, Dick Cheney, Scooter Libby, Paul Wolfowitz, Wolfowitz, Libby, Bush, administration
11R=
David S. Broder
Washington Post
Primary Chill Factors
29 January 2003
1009 14 2D+: Democrats, Bill Clinton
1D-: Al Gore
2R+: John McCain, Pat Buchanan
5R-: Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush
6D=, 12R=
Anne Applebaum
Inactive
Here Comes the New Europe
29 January 2003
838 0 6R=
Clarence Page
Chicago Tribune
Lack of college diversity will hamper corporate hiring
29 January 2003
843 0 5R=
Thomas L. Friedman
Inactive
Thinking About Iraq (3)
29 January 2003
940 0 2R=
Walter Williams
Creators Syndicate
Affirmative action or racism
29 January 2003
736 0 1R=