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Pundit Boxscore for Wednesday 14 January 2004

SPINSANITY ON O'REILLY: Brendan Nyhan of Spinsanity takes aim at Bill O'Reilly and "The misrepesentation zone":

This is actually the third time O'Reilly has falsely claimed that Glick said Bush knew about the Sept. 11 attacks in advance. On Sept. 18, 2003, O'Reilly claimed on his show that Glick "accused President Bush of knowing about 9/11 before it happened." The next night, O'Reilly read Glick's direct quote in an implicit clarification, then said that "Glick was saying without a shred of evidence that President Bush and Bush the elder were directly responsible for 9/11." Then, during an October 8, 2003 interview on National Public Radio's "Fresh Air," O'Reilly again falsely claimed Glick "proceeded to blame President Bush and his father, Bush the elder, for orchestrating the [Sept. 11] attack on their own country."

O'Reilly's claims that his show is a "no spin zone" grow more hollow by the day.

Bill O'Reilly is one of the new pundits added this year to Lying in Ponds.



Author/
Affiliation
Title/
Date
words PI Partisan References
William Safire
New York Times
The Kurdish Question
14 January 2004
796 100 1D+: Dale Bumpers
NYT Lead Editorial
New York Times
Keeping Detentions Secret
14 January 2004
472 100 2R-: Bush administration, administration
Thomas Sowell
Creators Syndicate
Random thoughts
14 January 2004
805 75 3D-: FDR, FDR, Al Sharpton
1D=
OJ On the Editorial Page
WSJ OpinionJournal
The Mystery Democrats
14 January 2004
1072 63 3D+: Dick Gephardt, John Kerry, Clinton
30D-: Democrats, Dean, Clark, Democratic, Howard Dean, Wesley Clark, Bill Clinton, Democrats, Dean, Clark, Dean, Dean, Dean, Mike Dukakis, Democrats, Clark, Clark, Democrats, Democrats, Dean, Clark, Democrats, Dean, Clark, Democrats, Democratic, Democratic, Democrats, Dean, Clark
5R+: President Bush, Republicans, Bush, the President, George Bush
1R-: Goldwater
9D=, 1R=
Harold Meyerson
Washington Post
Good for Investors, Bad for the Rest
14 January 2004
990 62 1D+: Democratic
1D-: Democratic
1R+: Reagan administration
14R-: George W. Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Republicans, Bush, Bush, the Bushes, George W. , Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, President Bush
4D=
Clarence Page
Chicago Tribune
Remembering King's `forgotten years'
14 January 2004
1043 50 1D+: President Bill Clinton
1D=
Joe Conason
New York Observer
O'Neill tells all, and it's not pretty
14 January 2004
984 38 10R+: O'Neill, Paul O'Neill, O'Neill, O'Neill, O'Neill, O'Neill, O'Neill, O'Neill, O'Neill, O'Neill
22R-: White House, White House, White House, White House, The President, The President, The President, The President, The President, Vice President, George W. Bush, White House, Bush administration, the President, administration, White House, White House, administration, administration, White House, White House, White House
Tony Blankley
Creators Syndicate
The strange case of immigration politics
14 January 2004
996 17 4D-: Democratic, Democrats, Democratic Party, Democratic Party
1R+: Republican Party
8R-: President Bush, Republican, Republicans, President Bush, the president, Republican Party, GOP, GOP
1D=, 4R=
Linda Chavez
Creators Syndicate
Sour grapes
14 January 2004
1036 16 9R+: the president, the president, the president, Vice President Dick Cheney, Bush, Card, Bush, O'Neill, the president
17R-: Paul O'Neill, O'Neill, O'Neill, White House, O'Neill, O'Neill, O'Neill, O'Neill, O'Neill, the president, O'Neill, O'Neill, O'Neill, O'Neill, Bush, Card, Card
25R=
David S. Broder
Washington Post
Required Reading On Dean
14 January 2004
884 12 3D+: Dean, Howard Dean, Howard Dean
3D-: Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, Dean
2R-: Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush
7D=, 2R=
WP Lead Editorial
Washington Post
Assessing Mr. Lieberman
14 January 2004
869 11 7D+: Joseph I. Lieberman, Lieberman, Lieberman, Lieberman, Lieberman, Lieberman, Lieberman
3D-: Lieberman, President Bill Clinton, Democratic Party
1R+: Bush
16D=, 1R=
Robert J. Samuelson
Washington Post
The Specter of Outsourcing
14 January 2004
1021 0
Claudia Rosett
Inactive
Plutonium Patsies
14 January 2004
1563 0 8D=, 25R=
Anne Applebaum
Inactive
Re: 'Mission To Nowhere'
14 January 2004
900 0 1R=
Nicholas D. Kristof
Inactive
Inviting All Democrats
14 January 2004
872 0 9D=, 1R=
Walter E. Williams
Inactive
How can it be?
14 January 2004
666 0 2D=