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To: combjelly who wrote (329148)	3/16/2007 11:25:29 AM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578494

Politicizing politics " 'Loyalty to Bush and Gonzales,' blared Wednesday's ominous headline in the New York Times, "Was Factor in Prosecutors' Firings[.]" "One would hope so," Andrew C. McCarthy writes at National Review Online (www.nationalreview.com). "Of all the Bush-administration controversies, the tempest over the termination of eight United States attorneys, the top federal prosecutors in their jurisdictions, may ultimately rank as the most damaging. And not because it was the most serious, but because it was the most revealing: about the administration's ineptitude and Washington's hypocrisy," Mr. McCarthy said. "As it does peerlessly, the Times has crafted the template for mainstream-media coverage of this saga. Loyalty to Bush and Gonzales — could anything be more sinister? That's why, we're told in yet another breathless dispatch, 'Congressional Democrats ... are investigating whether the White House was meddling in Justice Department affairs for political reasons.' "The storyline makes great theater. It is also absurd. You might as well ask whether Congress is proposing legislation for political reasons, or whether loyalty to the party leaders might have had a teensy-weensy bit to do with what bills got voted."

To: combjelly who wrote (329148)	3/16/2007 11:25:48 AM
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TV spin "When the Clinton administration in 1993, in a then-unprecedented decision, gave all 93 U.S. attorneys 10 days to leave their offices, including Jay Stephens who was in the midst of investigating House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dan Rostenkowski, ABC's 'World News Tonight' and the 'CBS Evening News' didn't utter a syllable about it," the Media Research Center's Brent Baker notes at www.mrc.org. "But on Wednesday night, the evening newscasts on both networks led with Republican Sen. John Sununu's call for the resignation of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales as both highlighted different U.S. attorneys who were amongst the eight replaced late last year by the Bush administration, painting both as victims of nefarious political maneuvering. " 'The pressure on the attorney general of the United States to resign is growing,' ABC anchor Charles Gibson trumpeted. 'For the first time, a Republican senator has said Alberto Gonzales must go' Focusing on the fired U.S. attorney for San Diego, Carol Lam, reporter Pierre Thomas suggested she was removed for pursuing a case against a GOP congressman and relayed how 'Democrats pointed out that most of the eight fired U.S. attorneys had excellent performance reviews.' "On CBS, Sandra Hughes delivered a 'CBS News Exclusive' about how 'John McKay was fired in December for reasons he now believes had nothing to do with the way he did his job, but very much to do with Washington politics.' Hughes passed along how 'it was what he didn't do that McKay believes got him fired. In the 2004 gubernatorial race in Washington state, the Democratic candidate won by just a couple of hundred votes. McKay didn't call a grand jury to investigate questions of voter fraud.' But as a Wall Street Journal editorial on Wednesday noted, McKay ignored very real evidence of voter fraud."