Eric Florack on May 2nd, 2008

Hume, last night:

There are strong indications that much the world may soon experience a decrease in surface temperatures. A report by German scientists in Thursday’s issue of the journal ‘Nature’ says shifting Atlantic Ocean currents will cool parts of

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A Clive man drew gasps from fellow audience members at today’s presidential candidate forum by using a four-letter word in a question to Sen. John McCain.

A member of the audience, identified as Marty Parrish of Clive, asked McCain during

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James Joyner reads the New York Times, apparently, so that you don’t have to. This morning, he notes:

Elizabeth Edwards, who despite no public policy credentials other than having been married to a one-term senator and yet oddly seems

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Eric Florack on April 21st, 2008

Uh-oh. CNN has a small problem, this morning. The NZ Herald… not CNN, of course… is reporting:

One of CNN’s star journalists is allegedly embroiled in a bizarre tale of ‘drugs ‘n’ debauchery’.

Richard Quest, a CNN anchor and

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Eric Florack on April 19th, 2008

Limbaugh likes to say on his radio program, that he IS balance for the liberal press. And in many ways, he’s quite right. So an interesting angle on this shows up today in an article by John Harris and Jim

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Eric Florack on April 13th, 2008

Austin Bay, who I quote far too little:

Realclearpolitics.com featured last week’s Creators Syndicate newspaper column and the gents at Powerline commented. As the column attests, I saw the Basra and east Baghdad counter-militia operations very differently from the

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President George W. Bush is a foul-mouthed, reformed drunk obsessed with baseball, Saddam Hussein and a conflicted relationship with his dad. Or at least that’s how he’s portrayed in the script for Oliver Stone’s upcoming feature “W.”But how accurate is

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Eric Florack on March 30th, 2008

MSNBC is saying:

BAGHDAD – Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr on Sunday ordered his fighters off the streets nationwide and called on the government to stop raids against his followers and free them from prison.

Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki issued a

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Eric Florack on March 26th, 2008

The Washington Times, this morning:

Researchers at Harvard say that publicly voiced doubts about the U.S. occupation of Iraq have a measurable “emboldenment effect” on insurgents there.

Periods of intense news media coverage in the United States of criticism about

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The New York Times is finally catching on to what we mere mortals already know just on the look of the thing:

Former Gov. Eliot Spitzer was deeply involved in his administration’s efforts last year to discredit the State Senate

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Eric Florack on March 16th, 2008

Ed Morrissey:

John McCain took some time off of the campaign trail and hit the ground in Iraq this morning.  The media calls it a “surprise visit”, but he had given indications that he would visit Iraq after he clinched

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Eric Florack on March 11th, 2008

Bruce makes mention of a Reuters article:

A majority of Americans do not read political blogs, the online commentaries that have proliferated in the race for the U.S. presidency, according to a poll released on Monday.

Only 22 percent of

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Eric Florack on March 11th, 2008

Bluto asks:

I wonder if Time magazine now regrets slobbering all over Spitzer to help him get elected?

Ya know, Bluto, that might have been a valid question if Time hadn’t spent 10 years licking the hindquarters of one Bill

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Eric Florack on March 10th, 2008

Let’s see… since their tilt left, MSNBC has become a rolling joke. Who what do they cancel for ratings? Tucker Carlson.

Yeah, that makes sense. Cancel the only show on their air that had any hope of generating an actual

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Eric Florack on March 5th, 2008

Did you see Hume, last night?

A study of the three broadcast network evening news programs indicates John McCain’s media fortunes have taken a dramatic turn south since early January. The Center for Media and Public Affairs says the percentage

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