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Pundit Boxscore for Wednesday 31 March 2004

CONFESSORE ON BROOKS: Nicholas Confessore at Tapped also applauds the tightening of the "very loose corrections policy" of The New York Times:

In any case, the person who I think will be most affected by this new policy is Times columnist David Brooks. It is both with great pleasure and great sour grapes that I point you towards this piece by Sasha Issenberg in Philadelphia magazine. Sour grapes because yours truly has for months been planning exactly such an investigation of the Brooks oeuvre, and in fact had planned to publish it pretty soon. Great pleasure because when another journalist scoops you, you at least want them to do the topic justice, and Issenberg did a helluva job -- he fact-checked many of the Brooksian generalizations that had also caught my eye during the past couple of years and, as a bonus, backed Brooks himself into a hilariously self-serving and unconvincing defense of his bad journalism.

OH SUSANNA: The great Susanna Cornett is 'Bama blogging as promised, and she appears by name in Chris Muir's Day By Day cartoon from yesterday!



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
Clarence Page
Chicago Tribune
Finding hope in America's bleak racial statistics
31 March 2004
874 100 1R+
What? Little: Colin Powell
OJ On the Editorial Page
WSJ OpinionJournal
Stark Rove-ing Mad
31 March 2004
594 82 1D=,14R+,2R=
Stark Rove-ing: Rove
For a: White House, Karl Rove
In the: Rove
The trespassers: Bush Administration, President Bush
No doubt: Rove, Rove
It's hard: Rove, President, Administration
Had they: Rove, Rove, Democrat, President Bush
Then again,: President Bush, Bush
Joe Conason
New York Observer
Tough questions for Condi Rice
31 March 2004
1038 76 5D+,2R+,26R-,5R=
Tough questions: Condi Rice
03.31.04 -: Condoleezza Rice, The President, White House
Until now,: Rice, the President, the President
How could: White House, Rice, the President, President Bush, Karl Rove
Those would: Rice
They can: Bush administration, Rice, Bush, Rice, Dubya
The commissioners: Rice, Hart, Rudman, Hart, Rudman, President Bill Clinton, Sandy Berger, administration, Bush White House
They can: Rice, the President, Vice President Dick Cheney, Cheney, the President
No doubt: Rice
The commissioners: Rice, Bush, Clinton White House
If she: the President, Bush
Harold Meyerson
Washington Post
An Unsung Heroine
31 March 2004
951 73 8D+,3D=
Mildred McWilliams: Democratic
From her: Democratic Party, Democratic, Gerry Ferraro, Ferraro, Walter Mondale, Ferraro
When Millie: Jennifer Granholm, Debbie Stabenow
And so: Jack Kennedy
Her energy: Madeleine Kunin
NYT Lead Editorial
New York Times
Of Privilege and Politics
31 March 2004
635 71 1R+,23R-,7R=
President Bush: President Bush, Condoleezza Rice, Bush, White House, the president
There is: Bush, administration, Rice, the president
The regularity: Rice, Rice, administration, Bush
While Bush: Bush administration, White House, Rice, Rice, the president
Yesterday, Mr.: Bush, Rice, Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, administration, Rice, White House
The White: White House, Rice, president, Cheney, administration
President Bush: President Bush
WP Lead Editorial
Washington Post
Dodge as You Go
31 March 2004
461 50 1R+,4R-,1R=
FOR A: House Republican
You wouldn't: Republicans, Republican, Bush administration
Thus yesterday's: Republicans, Dennis Hastert
Tony Blankley
Creators Syndicate
Kerry personally vulnerable
31 March 2004
1124 47 1D+,21D-,4D=,2R+,5R-,3R=
Kerry personally: Kerry
John Kerry's: John Kerry, Thomas Dewey, Adlai Stevenson, George McGovern, Walter Mondale, Michael Dukakis
I am: Bush, Republicans, Democrats, Democratic Party, Bush
And yet,: John Kerry, Thomas Dewey, Dewey
In his: Dewey, Dewey, Dewey, Harry Truman
But what: Kerry, Kerry, Ronald Reagan, Kerry
The second: Kerry, Kerry
Now comes: Kerry
In the: Kerry, Kerry
The American: Kerry, Kerry
He is: Kerry
As the: Kerry, Kerry, John F. Kennedy
Putting aside: Kerry, Kerry
Robert J. Samuelson
Washington Post
China: The New America?
31 March 2004
987 33 1R+,2R=
"The test: Bush administration
A cynical: White House, administration
George F. Will
Washington Post
His Own Worst Critic
31 March 2004
895 31 1D-,2D=,5R+,2R-,3R=
Combating terrorism: Bush administration, Bush administration, Clinton administration, Clinton administration
By the: Clinton, Bush
Republicans should: Republicans, Majority Leader Bill Frist
And Republicans: Republicans
That principle: Donald Rumsfeld
Former senator: Bush administration, President Bush, the president
Cal Thomas
Tribune Media Services
Our misspent tax dollars
31 March 2004
870 20 6D-,4R-
CAGW reports: Republican, Ted Stevens, Democrat, Daniel Inouye
Such as:: Democratic, Tom Harkin, Republican House, Tom Latham
Sen. Robert: Robert Byrd, Democrat
Linda Chavez
Creators Syndicate
The Commission
31 March 2004
911 4 1D+,2D-,2D=,3R+,3R-,12R=
The president's: The president, Condoleezza Rice, President Bush
Clarke's motives: Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist
Clarke made: President Bush, the president, president of the United States, president of the United States
Richard Ben-Veniste,: Democratic, President Bill Clinton, President Richard M. Nixon, Clinton administration, Clinton Administration
Nor are: Republican, Fred Fielding, Bush, administration, Reagan administration, Jim Thompson, Fielding, Thompson, Republicans
You can: Bob Kerry
Anne Applebaum
Inactive
A Man of Letters
31 March 2004
889
William Safire
New York Times
The Bond Across the Pond
31 March 2004
762 0
Nicholas D. Kristof
Inactive
Starved for Safety
31 March 2004
833
Walter E. Williams
Inactive
Printer-friendly version Minimum gasoline prices
31 March 2004
682