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Pundit Boxscore for Tuesday 30 March 2004

SPINNING OFF A BOOK: The three Spinsanity guys have announced that their first book will soon be released:

All the President's Spin will provide the definitive non-partisan account of the Bush administration's unrelenting dishonesty about public policy. The book will demonstrate how the White House has broken new ground in using misleading sales tactics to promote its policies and manipulate the media.

Bryan, Ben and Brendan feel compelled to preemptively respond to criticism that the negative focus on the Bush administration will represent a departure from their non-partisan mission:

In short, this is not a partisan book, nor are we changing the nature of our analysis. Our commitment to non-partisanship is steadfast; we will continue to hold Democrats and liberals accountable on the website, in our Philadelphia Inquirer column and elsewhere. But being non-partisan does not require that everything we write be mechanically balanced between criticism of both sides. In the future, we may well write books or articles focusing exclusively on liberals or Democrats, who have become increasingly aggressive in their rhetoric in recent months. But after almost three years of critiquing spin, we believe that Bush's presidency is the most important subject for an in-depth analysis.

Given Spinsanity's outstanding track record of fair and principled criticism of all sides, the book is likely to be a valuable contribution.



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
Molly Ivins
Creators Syndicate
Environmental assaults
30 March 2004
980 100 13R-
03.30.04 -: Karl Rove, Karl Rove, George W. Bush, Rove
There are: Bush
Well! If: Rove
Back to: Bush administration, Bushies
The Environmental: Bushies, Bushies
To counter: GOP, Republican
I see: Bush administration
NYT Lead Editorial
New York Times
Hearts, Minds and Padlocks
30 March 2004
399 100 2R-
With so: Bush administration
Newspapers like: Bush administration
Paul Krugman
New York Times
This Isn't America
30 March 2004
891 85 2D+,1R+,21R-,2R=
So even: George Bush, administration
The truth: Bush, Bush, Bush
That's why: administration
Some journalists: administration, administration
This administration's: administration, Nixon
To be: Bill Frist, White House, Paul O'Neill, administration
And there: administration, Republican, Dick Cheney, Michael Oxley, Democratic, Republican, Tom DeLay, Democrats, Bush
Where will: John Dean, Bush, Cheney
OJ On the Editorial Page
WSJ OpinionJournal
What's Up With Oil
30 March 2004
764 78 3D-,1D=,4R+,1R=
No doubt: Democrats, White House, Bush Administration
New York's: Charles Schumer, Barbara Boxer, White House
And that: Bush Administration
But hundreds: Bill Clinton, President Bush
Brendan Miniter
WSJ OpinionJournal
Toward the Center?
30 March 2004
688 74 12D-,5D=,5R+,1R=
Kerry proposes: Kerry
So John: John Kerry, Bush administration, Democratic Party, Bush
But can: Kerry, Democrats, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Democrats, President Bush
The problem: Kerry, Ronald Reagan, Kerry, Bill Clinton, Democrats, Kerry
Mr. Kerry: Kerry, Howard Dean, Kerry, President Bush, Democrats
Liberating Iraq: Bush administration
Mr. Kerry: Kerry
E. J. Dionne Jr.
Washington Post
Bush's Secret Storm
30 March 2004
989 71 5D+,5D=,25R-,7R=
Bush's Secret: Bush
President Bush: President Bush, White House
But the: White House, Bush, White House
It is: administration, the president
There has: administration, administration
Recall that: Bush
Democrats jumped: Democrats, Tom Daschle, Senate Democratic, White House, Dick Gephardt, House Democratic, White House
Daschle and: Daschle, Gephardt, Vice President Cheney
This time,: Bush administration, administration, Condoleezza Rice, administration, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, Frist, Frist, Frist
How weak: Frist, McCarthyism, Frist, administration, Rice, administration
All of: administration, Republicans, Rice
Last week: Bush, John Kerry
Daniel Patrick: Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Moynihan
Thomas Oliphant
Boston Globe
Understanding the real costs of Iraq war
30 March 2004
945 50 1D-,1D=,5R-,1R=
Just as: Bush, Clinton
Worse, the: President Bush
Iraq and: Clinton, Bush administration
However, the: Bush
The invasion,: Bush White House, president
Robert Scheer
Creators Syndicate
Bush puts a 'cancer on the presidency'
30 March 2004
898 44 1D+,1D=,9R+,27R-,5R=
Bush puts: Bush
03.30.04 -: John Dean, Richard Nixon, Bush, Cheney, Dean, Republican, Nixon, administration, Bush, Nixon administration, Dean
Dean knows: Dean, Nixon, Democratic Party, Dean, Nixon White House, Dean
The dark: White House, Bush administration, Reagan, Clinton, Bushes
The character: Nixon, Dean
First, Bush's: Bush, the president, Condoleezza Rice, Bush, Paul O'Neill, Bush, administration
That the: Bush, administration
They are: Bush
This is: administration, Bush administration
The president's: The president, Nixon
Bush smiles: Bush, Nixon, White House, the president
WP Lead Editorial
Washington Post
Countdown in Iraq
30 March 2004
620 40 2R-,3R=
President Bush,: President Bush, Bush
Better security: administration, administration, Bush
Richard Cohen
Washington Post
Stop Using Children
30 March 2004
839 0
David Ignatius
Inactive
Adding Jobs and Anxiety
30 March 2004
848
Thomas Sowell
Creators Syndicate
My platform
30 March 2004
798 0
David Brooks
New York Times
Stressed for Success?
30 March 2004
805 0