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Pundit Boxscore for Monday 12 April 2004

CATCHING UP: My family and I had a great weekend in Atlanta visiting my wife's niece and her husband. I missed the weekend columns, so I'll try to catch up later today. I also notice this morning that Sebastian Mallaby has reappeared as a regular Washington Post columnist after being absent for all of 2003. I evaluated this morning's column, but will need to catch up on his three previous weekly columns. Mr. Mallaby was on the Lying in Ponds roster in 2002; he was one of the least partisan pundits.



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
NYT Lead Editorial
New York Times
The Silent President
12 April 2004
1024 81 21R-,5R=
The Silent: President
President Bush: President Bush, White House, the president
No reasonable: Bush, the president, Bush
It is: the president, administration, Bush White House
Perhaps no: administration, Bush, White House, Bush
The "fact: White House, Bush, president
Condoleezza Rice,: Condoleezza Rice, the president, President Bush, vice president
This is: Bush
Mr. Bush: Bush, administration, White House, The president
Cal Thomas
Tribune Media Services
Authority figure
12 April 2004
821 62 1D+,1D-,9R+,1R-,1R=
She spoke: Condoleezza Rice, Rice
Rice kept: Rice, Rice
Rice is: Rice
That said,: Rice, Rice
Commission Vice: Lee Hamilton
There is: Clinton, Bush
Rice made: Rice
"We are: Rice, Rice
OJ On the Editorial Page
WSJ OpinionJournal
Before 9/11--and After
12 April 2004
2816 55 1D+,1D=,7R+,2R=
On Jan.: President Bush, Vice President Cheney, the president, Condoleezza Rice, President Bush, Rice
I believe: President Bush, President Bush
Short of: White House
Protecting our: President Clinton
Everyone understands: president
William Safire
New York Times
Watch the Hedgehogs
12 April 2004
809 20 2D=,1R+,2R=
You ask:: George Soros, Bush administration
The S.E.C.: Republican
I feel: Nixon, Soros
Sebastian Mallaby
Washington Post
Legitimacy's Legacy
12 April 2004
1024 6 1D+,2D-,8D=,2R+,2R-,3R=
After the: John F. Kennedy, Kennedy
After al: George W. Bush, Kennedy, Bush, Robert McNamara, Kennedy, Donald Rumsfeld, Kennedy, Condoleezza Rice
We all: Kennedy
The fate: Kennedy, McNamara, McNamara
In the: McNamara
So the: Bush administration
Which brings: Bush, Bush
John Fund
Inactive
Davy Crockett, Libertarian
12 April 2004
1443
WP Lead Editorial
Washington Post
Our Man in Cairo
12 April 2004
779 0 2R+,2R-,7R=
THE LARGEST: President Bush, administration
It would: Bush, Bush, Bush
If he: the president, Bush
Some in: Bush
It's never: Bush, Bush, Bush
William Raspberry
Washington Post
Stop Embracing the Negative
12 April 2004
747 0 1D=,1R=
Worse, I: President Bush
This isn't: John Kerry
Jackson Diehl
Inactive
Betting On the Sharon Plan
12 April 2004
998
Bob Herbert
Inactive
A Justice's Sense of Privilege
12 April 2004
804