Victoria Toensing and Bruce W. Stanford have a piece in today's Washington Post outlining the law and what is required for having named liar Joseph Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, as a CIA agent. At the threshold, the agent must truly be covert. Her status as undercover must be classified, and she must have been assigned […]
By way of the Media Research Center, the founding producer of "60 Minutes," Don Hewitt said the following at a Monday morning meeting at CBS: Does anybody really think there wouldn't have been more scrutiny if this had been about John Kerry? Exactly. That's the bias issue in a nutshell.
One of the items that has been the subject of guffaws and charges of "whitewash" on the right side of the blogosphere regarding the independent report on the CBS forged documents fiasco is the "finding" that there was no political bias behind the "60 Minutes Wednesday" report. Both Dan Rather and Mary Mapes were asked […]
I spent most of yesterday with Madeline, the world's greatest niece, so I haven't really had nearly enough time to read through the fake Bush Guard documents report and its various appendicies. However, for the Columbia Journalism Review and other individuals who read only the primary report and note that the report doesn't say the […]
CBS News has finally released its report on the fake Bush National Guard documents story. The complete report, 200+ pages worth and affiliated documents, can be found here. CBS has fired four people, including producer Mary Mapes, but not anchor Dan "you can take it to the bank" Rather. I'll read the report today and […]
Worth your time and perusal: The Wall Street Journal's John Fund has an excellent article on the goings on in Washington State. Highlight: Not all of the voters at the county building are homeless or hard to find. A noted local judge and her husband have been registered at the county building for years. When […]
On Friday, USA Today broke the story that the Education Department had paid syndicated columnist and radio/TV pundit Armstrong Williams $240,000 to promote the No Child Left Behind Act. Tribune Media Services, Williams' syndicate, subsequently fired him. (An apology from Williams can be found here.) Let me first reveal that I have never been paid […]
The next time your local liberal professor defends the lack of intellectual or political diversity in the academy with claims that conservatives are too stupid to be college professors, you might want to point them to this article in the Miami Herald. When the Nigerian government e-mailed University of Miami law professor Enrique Fernandez-Barros for […]
Today's New York Times "Week in Review" section has a useful Q&A on the Social Security issue -- maybe Paul Krugman should read it. Q. People are throwing around doomsday years for Social Security. Is it really running out of money? A. Not any time soon. The system currently takes in far more in payroll […]
On my way home this evening, I was listening to the radio when the 9 p.m. news report came on courtesy of CBS Radio News. The subject of the news report was GOP gubernatorial candidate Dino Rossi's formal challenge of the election in Washington State. The report contained two quotes from the state Democratic Party […]