Fitzmas Carols!

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Wednesday October 19, 2005 · 8:58 AM PDT

2005/10/19 · 08:58

(From the diaries. Who needs festivus when we've got Fitzmas? -- kos)

Here it is, practically Fitzmas, and we haven't even started singing carols! So warm up the wassail and strike up the band... Read More

Harriet Miers and "Living Documents"

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Tuesday October 11, 2005 · 9:58 AM PDT

2005/10/11 · 09:58

One of the things Miers' fans have hastened to assure the conservative base is that she is a "originalist" when it comes to the Constitution. But is she??? Read More

Breastfeeding - The Best Defense in a Disaster

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Tuesday August 30, 2005 · 11:37 AM PDT

2005/08/30 · 11:37

Most people know that "breast is best" in the abstract. The idea that breastmilk is a superior food to commercial breastmilk substitutes is given lip service by OB-GYNs, pediatricians, the US Government and even the infant-formula manufacturers themselves, but the reality is that the United States has one of the lowest rates of breastfeeding duration in the developed world.

In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, our failure as a nation to support long-term breastfeeding and regulate the marketing and sale of breastmilk substitutes may contribute to a public health nightmare. Read More

Rove-Colored Glasses: Seeing Things the White House Way

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Thursday July 21, 2005 · 8:44 AM PDT

2005/07/21 · 08:44

The more I read about the Wilson/Plame/Rove/Libby/Fleischer/Powell/Rice story, (and as an ePluribus Media member, I'm up to my eyeballs in it) the less I understand.

The problem is, I just don't think like they do.

So I'm going to drink the Kool-Aid, take the red pill and jump down the rabbit hole, just to see what it's like.

Won't you come too? Read More

AP picks up Reid smear

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Friday May 13, 2005 · 6:32 AM PDT

2005/05/13 · 06:32

This morning, Jesse Holland of the Associated Press reported on yesterday's filibuster shenanigans in the Senate.

In an article titled "Byrd, Frist, Spar Over Filibuster Changes," Holland reprts on the exchange between Frist and Byrd, but also brings in Harry Reid's comments on Judge Henry Saad's FBI file.

Writing that Reid "was criticized by conservatives for mentioning it," Holland goes on to quote one such critc:

"With his unsubstantiated charges, Senator Reid unfairly and irresponsibly defames Judge Saad," said Jeffrey Mazzella, president of the Center For Individual Freedom.

Who's that, now?
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Propagannon: The Smearing of Mary Mapes

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Friday February 11, 2005 · 4:58 AM PST

2005/02/11 · 04:58

After the CBS TANG story and the subsequent kerning saga, the right wanted someone to pay. The focus of the story soon turned to Mary Mapes, senior producer for 60 Minutes. Mapes, a highly respected, award-winning producer, had previously brought the Abu Ghraib photos to the world's attention. By the end of "Rathergate," however, she'd lost her credibility and her job...and J.D. Guckert was right in the middle.

This diary is not meant to rehash the TANG story, the legitimacy of the documents or the supposed bias of CBS. Its purpose is simply to track the smearing of Mapes, following the story Gannon/Guckert first "broke" as it went its way through the media. Is there a pattern to the way his Talon News reports made their way from Freeperville into the MSM? That's what we're going to find out.

I'll use this diary as a collection point for my research and an eventual timeline. Any research you may have already done is more than welcome! Read More

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