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To: Tech Master who wrote (689407)	7/14/2005 5:56:37 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Respond to of 769670

BY JAMES TARANTO Thursday, July 14, 2005 3:16 p.m. EDT Clinton: Media Have Liberal Bias "Former President Clinton, defending his senator-wife's statements on abortion, said Wednesday that Democrats are held to a double standard," the Associated Press reports from Washington: He contended that Republicans have defined the abortion debate in a way that boxes in Democrats. "So for example, if you're a Democrat and you have sort of normal impulses, you're a sellout, like when Hillary said abortion is a tragedy for virtually everybody who undergoes it, we ought to do all we can to reduce abortion," Clinton said. "All of a sudden," he continued, the media began asking, " 'Is she selling out? Is she abandoning her principles?' But if John McCain, who's pro-life, works with Hillary on global warming, he's a man of principle moving to the middle." "It's nuts," the former president said. Clinton is absolutely right: The media cheer when a Republican moves to the left and boo when a Democrat moves to the right. For an even more extreme example, compare their treatment of Jim Jeffords and Zell Miller. Conservatives have been complaining about liberal media bias for decades. Now they've found an unlikely ally in Bill Clinton.

To: Tech Master who wrote (689407)	7/14/2005 5:59:05 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Respond to of 769670

The World's Greatest Deliberative Body Massachusetts Democrats are in a dither over an article Sen. Rick Santorum wrote three years ago for a Web site called Catholic Online. Here's the offending passage from the piece on the church's sex-abuse scandals: It is startling that those in the media and academia appear most disturbed by this aberrant behavior, since they have zealously promoted moral relativism by sanctioning "private" moral matters such as alternative lifestyles. Priests, like all of us, are affected by culture. When the culture is sick, every element in it becomes infected. While it is no excuse for this scandal, it is no surprise that Boston, a seat of academic, political and cultural liberalism in America, lies at the center of the storm. Here's the Washington Post account of the Democrats' response: Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) led a phalanx of Massachusetts politicians yesterday in demanding that the third-ranking Republican in the Senate, Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, apologize for blaming the Catholic Church's sex abuse scandal on "liberalism" in Boston. In an indignant, unusually personal speech on the Senate floor, Kennedy said that "Boston-bashing might be in vogue with some Republicans, but Rick Santorum's statements are beyond the pale." Other Massachusetts Democrats quickly piled on. Rep. Edward J. Markey said Santorum should apologize for maligning "the courageous Boston parishioners who finally stood up to decades of an international Catholic Church coverup." Sen. John F. Kerry said the families of Massachusetts soldiers who have died in Iraq "know more about the mainstream American values of Massachusetts than Rick Santorum ever will." Rep. Barney Frank called Santorum a "jerk." Santorum's Boston comment was a bit of a cheap shot, and we can't blame the Bay State pols for defending their state. On the other hand, Ted Kennedy may not be the best spokesman for Massachusetts' moral rectitude, and John Kerry's comment seems especially maladroit, considering that he made a name for himself slandering American soldiers and that he voted against funding the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.

To: Tech Master who wrote (689407)	7/14/2005 6:02:11 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Respond to of 769670

Fun and Names We'd like to tie up a few loose ends from items earlier this week, specifically: On Monday, we noted that according to one reader, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's maiden name was Day, which would mean her full unmarried name was Sandra Day Day. ========= What's in a Name? On Friday, we cited a Huffington Post item by someone with the unlikely name of Jann Wenner. Several readers wrote to us to say they'd heard of him, among them John Kinsel: "It is indeed an unlikely name, but isn't Mr. Wenner the editor of Rolling Stone magazine?" Hmm, we thought that was Mick Jagger, but maybe "Jann Wenner" is a stage name. Another item, on alleged Sandra O'Connors, noted that one of them apparently got the name by marriage. This led reader Abraham Shapiro to observe: "Of course it's her married name. Retiring Justice O'Connor's maiden name is Day." Oddly enough, that's also her middle name, so if Shapiro is right, O'Connor grew up as Sandra Day Day. She must've been teased a lot as a little girl. ============ On Tuesday, we noted that the Washington Post had left Sandra O'Connor off its list of prospective names for the National Zoo's new panda cub. Yesterday we asked, "How come all these pandas have doubled names--Meimei, Hsing Hsing, Ling Ling, etc. etc.?" You see where we're gong with this: There is a way the zookeepers can maintain the double-name tradition and still name the panda cub (assuming it's still alive) after Justice O'Connor (née Day Day). Here's yet another twist: It turns out there was a character named "Day-Day Jones" in a pair of movies, "Next Friday" (2000) and "Friday After Next" (2002), both times played by Mike Epps. The screenwriters must've been judicial junkies, for they named the Epps character not only after Justice O'Connor but also after Judge Edith Jones of the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, who is often cited as a potential O'Connor replacement. Also on most lists of possible justices is another Fifth Circuit judge, Edith Clement. If both Jones and Clement eventually end up on the high court, it will be the first time in history that the U.S. Supreme Court has two Ediths--and of course it will open up new frontiers in panda-naming. Yet another possible O'Connor replacement is Justice Rebecca Kourlis (née Love) of the Colorado Supreme Court. Again there is a Hollywood connection, as she and Edith Jones were the subjects of a joint 1997 biopic.