lying in ponds
The absurdity of partisanship
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Robert Scheer
Creators Syndicate

Columns 26
Words 22185
Normalized Median Partisanship Index 70.49
Normalized Total Partisanship Index 60.84
Normalized Combined Partisanship Index 65.66
Democratic Index 0.00
Republican Index -65.60
Positive Index 9.20
Negative Index 72.03
Neutral Index 18.77



Partisan References

Type Number All References
Positive Democratic 4 George McGovern, Jimmy Carter, John Spratt, Democrat
Negative Democratic 4 John Kerry, Democratic Party, Democrats, Lyndon Johnson
Neutral Democratic 3John Kerry, Franklin Roosevelt, McGeorge Bundy
Positive Republican 20 Gonzales(2), President Bush(2), Republican(2), Chuck Hagel(2), R-(2), the president's father, Nixon, Thomas Kean, Richard Nixon, Bush, President Ford, President Eisenhower, Ike, John McCain, Brent Scowcroft
Negative Republican 184 Bush(37), administration(22), White House(20), Bush administration(16), the president(13), Gonzales(11), President Bush(10), president(6), Condoleezza Rice(4), Rice(4), Vice President Dick Cheney(4), Republicans(4), George W. Bush(3), Republican(3), GOP(2), Powell(2), Cheney(2), Rumsfeld(2), White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, president of the United States, Charles E. Grassley, R-, Grassley, Senate Republicans, Tom DeLay, D- [sic], Bush II, Senate Republican Majority Leader Bill Frist, William J. Bennett, Finkelstein, Jesse Helms, Wolfowitz, Commander in Chief Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Reagan, Bush White House
Neutral Republican 46Bush(6), President Bush(4), GOP(4), White House(4), the president(3), Republicans(3), Republican(2), Finkelstein(2), Powell(2), Rumsfeld(2), administration(2), James A. Baker III, Colin Powell, Grassley, the president's father, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, Secretary of State Colin Powell, Arthur Finkelstein, Dick Cheney, Walter B. Jones, R-, President Nixon, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld



List of Columns

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.
Title/
Date
words Norm
PI
Partisan References
Iranian revolution is thriving in Iraq
28 June 2005
818 80 8R-: White House, President Bush, administration, Bush White House, Bush, Bush, Rumsfeld, Bush administration
2R=
Even Bush's GOP allies are breaking ranks
22 June 2005
867 12 4R+: John McCain, R-, Chuck Hagel, R-
6R-: Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, administration, Cheney, White House, President Bush
6R=
Pattern of deception persists in Tillman's death
15 June 2005
841 40 2R-: White House, Bush
3R=
Blaming the messenger fools no one
8 June 2005
875 62 8R-: Donald Rumsfeld, Rumsfeld, the president, Bush administration, Vice President Dick Cheney, administration, Bush administration, White House
5R=
A cover-up as shameful as Tillman's death
2 June 2005
888 90 9R-: Bush administration, administration, Commander in Chief Bush, administration, Bush administration, President Bush, Bush, White House, Bush
1R=
A hypocritical Church's sex lessons
25 May 2005
879 0
Our own worst enemy
17 May 2005
842 100 6R-: Bush administration, White House, President Bush, Bush, Bush, Condoleezza Rice
Nationalism's psychotic side
11 May 2005
845 100 1R+: President Bush
Our loss was our gain in Vietnam
4 May 2005
878 57 1D-: Lyndon Johnson
3R+: President Ford, President Eisenhower, Ike
2D=
Fiddling while crucial programs starve
27 April 2005
831 81 2D+: John Spratt, Democrat
5R-: president, President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Bush, Wolfowitz
2R=
GOP gays and the 'Finkelstein phenomenon'
19 April 2005
860 23 3R-: Finkelstein, Jesse Helms, Republican
1D=, 8R=
The Pope pleaded, we didn't listen
12 April 2005
867 88 7R-: Bush, Bush, Bush administration, William J. Bennett, Bush, Bush, Bush administration
1R=
Bush threw us a 'curveball'
5 April 2005
890 72 13R-: Bush, President Bush, administration, administration, White House, Powell, White House, administration, Bush, Powell, administration, White House, the president
5R=
A con job by Pakistan's pal
29 March 2005
842 91 10R-: Bush administration, Bush II, Bush administration, White House, White House, Bush administration, White House, Bush administration, Bush administration, Bush administration
1R=
Life, death and cynical grandstanding
22 March 2005
895 53 1D-: Democrats
7R-: the president, Senate Republicans, Republican, Tom DeLay, D- [sic], President Bush, George W. Bush
1R=
The bankruptcy bill: a tutorial in greed
15 March 2005
895 75 6R-: president, Republicans, Charles E. Grassley, R-, Grassley, president
2R=
Social Security ain't broke, so Bush is obsessed with fixing it
8 March 2005
889 64 2R+: Republican, Chuck Hagel
9R-: Bush, the president, George W. Bush, president, Republicans, administration, the president, Reagan, Republicans
The force Bush won't use on Iran
1 March 2005
766 56 1R+: Richard Nixon
6R-: Bush, President Bush, Bush, Bush, the president, Bush
2R=
Of, by and for Big Business
22 February 2005
795 100 9R-: the president, Republicans, GOP, White House, Republican, GOP, White House, Senate Republican Majority Leader Bill Frist, the president
What we don't know about 9/11 hurts us
15 February 2005
885 76 2R+: Republican, Thomas Kean
15R-: George W. Bush, administration, White House, administration, administration, the president, administration, Condoleezza Rice, Rice, Rice, administration, administration, administration, president of the United States, administration
The law of unintended consequences
8 February 2005
833 100 12R-: President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice, Bush, White House, administration, Rice, Cheney, president, Bush, White House, Bush
Now, U.S. must get out of Iraq's way
1 February 2005
832 0 1R+: President Bush
1R-: White House
1600 Pennsylvania meets Madison Ave.
25 January 2005
808 82 1D+: Jimmy Carter
1R+: Nixon
13R-: President Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, administration, Bush, Condoleezza Rice, Rice, Bush administration, Bush, Bush, the president, Bush
1R=
Pomp and improper circumstance
18 January 2005
939 23 1D+: George McGovern
2D-: John Kerry, Democratic Party
3R+: Bush, Brent Scowcroft, the president's father
10R-: the president, White House, the president, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, president, White House, Bush
4R=
Is Al Qaeda just a Bush boogeyman?
11 January 2005
801 86 6R-: Bush, administration, Bush, administration, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Bush administration
1R=
Backing Gonzales is backing torture
5 January 2005
824 69 2R+: Gonzales, Gonzales
13R-: Gonzales, White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales, Gonzales, the president, Gonzales, Gonzales, Gonzales, Gonzales, Gonzales, Gonzales, Gonzales, Gonzales, Gonzales
1R=