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Pundit Boxscore for Wednesday 12 January 2005

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
Joe Conason
New York Observer
Death squads invite murder in our name
12 January 2005
898 100 3R-
Two days: Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Bush administration, Rumsfeld
Harold Meyerson
Washington Post
President of Fabricated Crises
12 January 2005
949 83 2D+,1D=,1R+,19R-,1R=
President of: President
Some presidents: Roosevelt, Kennedy, George W. Bush
But when: Bush, Bush, Bush
So Iraq: the president
In fact,: Bush, Bush
Politically, however,: president, Bush, Karl Rove
So it's: Bushland, president, Senate Democrats, Bush
With crisis: administration, Bush
With the: Bush
Is it: administration, Bush
We've had: Richard Nixon, Bush
Clarence Page
Chicago Tribune
Leave the payola pundits behind
12 January 2005
971 62 5R-,3R=
That's how: Bush administration
The contract: Education Secretary Rod Paige, Paige
My enterprising: Rush Limbaugh
As a: Strom Thurmond, R-
Adding insult: White House
With the: Paige
Cal Thomas
Tribune Media Services
When you wish upon a star...
12 January 2005
789 44 1R+,5R-,3R=
"When you: Bush Administration
 "If your: President Bush, Bush
In a: Secretary of State Colin Powell
Powell told: Powell, President Bush
Abbas has: President Bush
Abbas has: Bush Administration
This "Palestinian: Bush Administration
Linda Chavez
Creators Syndicate
Yin and Yang
12 January 2005
788 33 1D=,3R+,1R-,1R=
It looked: administration, President Bush
 The two-member,: Richard Thornburgh
 Nonsense. Can: John Kerry, Bush
 Armstrong Williams': Bush
Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Not for sale
12 January 2005
880 22 3D-,6R+,5R-,4R=
 In the: Bush, Republican, GOP
  "Have: Bush administration, administration
 Hostile readers: Bush administration, Michael Chertoff
 Speaking of: Clinton administration
 There are: Bush, Teddy Kennedy, Jimmy Carter
  "Progressive": President Bush, Condoleezza Rice, Republicans
  --: republicans
  --: republican party
  --: GOP
 As a: Republican
Kathleen Parker
Tribune Media Services
A housecleaning in the mainstream media
12 January 2005
917 20 2R+,3R-
Between firings: Bush administration
Both instances: President George W. Bush
Politicians may: administration
To Williams': White House
The deal: Bush administration
Tony Blankley
Creators Syndicate
Damage control at Black Rock
12 January 2005
1025 9 1D=,2R+,1R-,7R=
Let's start: Dick Thornburgh
 Keep in: Thornburgh
 So the: Richard Thornburgh
 The foregoing: Thornburgh
 So, for: Thornburgh
 The Thornburgh/Boccardi: Thornburgh
 Neither did: Bush, Democratic Party
 The two: George Bush, Republican Party
 And it: Thornburgh
William Safire
New York Times
Character Is Destiny
12 January 2005
798 0 2D+,1D-,2D=,2R+,1R-,1R=
We also: Republican Party
Such a: George W. Bush
The G.O.P.: G.O.P.
If I: Democrat
Adlai Stevenson: Adlai Stevenson, Republicans, Democrats, Henry "Scoop" Jackson
Although opportunism: Democratic
Ellen Goodman
Washington Post Writers Group
Medical triple axel
12 January 2005
856 0
Nicholas D. Kristof
New York Times
Health Care? Ask Cuba
12 January 2005
839 0
Claudia Rosett
Inactive
Another Trail to Follow
12 January 2005
1441
Anne Applebaum
Inactive
The Torture Myth
12 January 2005
1068
Walter E. Williams
Inactive
Greedy or ignorant
12 January 2005
686