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Pundit Boxscore for Friday 16 April 2004

MUSICAL CHAIRS: There is a cluster of columnists (most from The Washington Post) near the bottom of the Lying in Ponds Top Ten, whose positions in the partisanship rankings seem to shuffle with each new column -- Harold Meyerson, Richard Cohen, Tony Blankley, Charles Krauthammer and E.J. Dionne. After a couple of less partisan columns, Mr. Dionne and Mr. Krauthammer have slipped out of the Top Ten for now.



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
Daniel Henninger
WSJ OpinionJournal
Spirit of America
16 April 2004
1179 100 1R+
Thus spake: George W. Bush
Paul Krugman
New York Times
The Vietnam Analogy
16 April 2004
843 89 1D+,1D=,7R-
Some hawks: President Bush
A fiscal: George Bush, Lyndon Johnson, Johnson
By contrast,: Bush
And there's: Nixonian
What we: Nixon, George Bush, Nixon
NYT Lead Editorial
New York Times
Pork, Sweet and Sour
16 April 2004
725 83 5R-,1R=
So it: Don Young, Young
Some pork: Young
Some bad: Charles Grassley, Grassley
Somewhere between: Norm Coleman
William Safire
New York Times
The Sharon Plan of Disengagement
16 April 2004
697 75 2D=,6R+
This week,: President Bush
The Bush: Bush, President Bill Clinton, Bush
Bush prevailed: Bush
He speaks: Colin Powell, Bush
What does: John Kerry
Mona Charen
Creators Syndicate
Who wants to step up and apologize
16 April 2004
922 67 7D-,2D=,3R+,3R=
The president: The president
 President Clinton: President Clinton
 One questioner: Bush administration
 Regarding blame,: Democrats, White House, Bush, Democratic
 That's why: Attorney General John Ashcroft, Jamie Gorelick, Clinton, Gorelick
 While we're: Clinton administration
 In 2002,: Bush Justice Department, Democratic, Dick Durbin
E. J. Dionne Jr.
Washington Post
Radical Theories And Reality
16 April 2004
940 48 4R+,15R-,4R=
Let's agree: President Bush
"A free: Bush
True, Bush's: Bush, Bush
Still, give: Bush, the president
Unfortunately, Defense: Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Colin Powell
Okay, we: Rumsfeld, Rumsfeld, Rumsfeld
Atkinson writes:: Rumsfeld
So Bush: Bush, President Bush, Bush
Now Bush: Bush
No, Mr.: Mr. President, president, the president
I actually: the president, Bush, administration, Bush
WP Lead Editorial
Washington Post
Mr. Sharon's Coup
16 April 2004
761 14 2R-,12R=
ARIEL SHARON: president, President Bush
What did: Bush, administration, Bush administration
The Gaza: administration, Bush
The administration: administration, Bush, Bush, administration
Mr. Bush: Bush, Bush, the president
Bob Herbert
Inactive
A Soldier's Sacrifice
16 April 2004
958
David Ignatius
Inactive
A Handshake That Doesn't Help Israel
16 April 2004
925
Charles Krauthammer
Washington Post
This Is Hardly Vietnam
16 April 2004
854 0 1R=
The first: George Bush
OJ On the Editorial Page
WSJ OpinionJournal
The Iranian Hand
16 April 2004
1181 0 2R+,2R-,1R=
Much is: President Bush
The Italians: Donald Rumsfeld
Above all,: Ronald Reagan, Richard Armitage
Mr. Armitage: Armitage