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Pundit Boxscore for Wednesday 4 June 2003

QUOTE, UNQUOTE: Robert Scheer and Molly Ivins each had columns yesterday with partisanship scores much lower than usual. Ivins' The Orwell award and Scheer's How their big lie came to be were the usual predictably anti-Republican fare, but in each case administration figures were quoted several times, which at least allows readers an opportunity to consider the opposing position.



Author/
Affiliation
Title/
Date
words PI Partisan References
Thomas Sowell
Creators Syndicate
International affirmative action
4 June 2003
722 100 2D-: Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton
Clarence Page
Chicago Tribune
Putting a face on the nation's low-wage earners
4 June 2003
926 62 4D+: Democrats, Blanche Lincoln, Lincoln, Democrats
1D-: Richard J. Daley
1R+: Republicans
11R-: President Bush, Republicans, White House, Bush, Bush, Bush, White House, Bush, White House, Ari Fleischer, Bush
4R=
Maureen Dowd
New York Times
Bomb and Switch
4 June 2003
887 20 4R+: Powell, John McCain, the president, Pete Domenici
7R-: administration, administration, Bush, administration, Wolfowitz, Bush, Republicans
4R=
Robert J. Samuelson
Washington Post
A Costly Freebie
4 June 2003
1039 12 1D-: Democrats
2R-: Republicans, the president
1D=, 4R=
Linda Chavez
Creators Syndicate
Teachers need accountability too
4 June 2003
803 0 1R=
Thomas L. Friedman
Inactive
Because We Could
4 June 2003
948 0 8R=
David S. Broder
Washington Post
No Recess for Hunger
4 June 2003
851 0
Walter Williams
Creators Syndicate
White guilt, black exploitation
4 June 2003
744 0 5D-: Strom Thurmond, Democrats, President Clinton, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson
5R-: Trent Lott, Republicans, Republican Party, Republicans, White House
1D=, 1R=