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Pundit Boxscore for Thursday 2 June 2005

Lines in yellow indicate a substantive crossover column, meaning that the column is of opposite sign to the pundit's Normalized Total PI for the season, and contains at least five non-neutral partisan references.
Lines in gray indicate that the pundit has been classified as inactive, meaning that their columns are not currently being evaluated for partisanship.
Democratic references in blue, Republican in red, positive references in bold, negative in italics.
Author/
Affiliation
Title/
Date
words PI Partisan References
Cal Thomas
Tribune Media Services
Islam's double standard
2 June 2005
797 100 1D+
The State: Clinton Administration
Robert Scheer
Creators Syndicate
A cover-up as shameful as Tillman's death
2 June 2005
888 90 9R-,1R=
06.02.05 -: Bush administration
As with: administration
"They blew: Commander in Chief Bush
Last spring,: administration, White House
Now, thanks: Bush administration
Did President: President Bush, Bush
In any: White House, Bush
Molly Ivins
Creators Syndicate
The view from the 'Owner's Box'
2 June 2005
927 60 1D+,2R-,2R=
Look at: Republican
The Senate: Republicans
You know,: Republicans
One good: Goodhair Perry
This may: Bob Bullock
Ann Coulter
Universal Press Syndicate
7 'extraordinary' idiots
2 June 2005
1106 35 23D-,1D=,9R+,14R-,4R=
Let's not: Republican, Democrats, Democrats
The North: Clinton, Republicans, Senate Democrats
The deal: Senate Republicans, Democrats, the president
The seven: Republicans, Democrats, Democrats, Bush, Democrats, Bush
Hmmm. Well,: Democrats, Trent Lott, Republican
The seven: Republican, Democrats, John Bolton, Bush
At least: Republicans
I think: Republicans, Republican, Bush, Democratic
But sometime: Democrats, Democrats, Senate Democrats, Democrats
Democrats tried: Democrats, Al Gore, Democrats
The Senate: Bill Frist
The seven: Republicans, Republicans
The deal: Democrats
No wonder: Democrats, Democrats
The only: Republican
Chuck Schumer: Chuck Schumer, Democrat, Lindsey Graham, Mike DeWine, John McCain, John Warner, Olympia Snowe, Susan Collins, Lincoln Chafee, Schumer
Jeff Jacoby
Boston Globe
The right's balance
2 June 2005
1071 35 1D+,14D-,9D=,1R+,1R-,11R=
JOHN KERRY: JOHN KERRY, Democrats, GOP
The right,: Republicans, Grover Norquist, Republican
''Several times: Democratic
Well, last: Democratic, Scaife
In 2002,: Al Gore, Republican Party, Rush Limbaugh
Earlier still,: Hillary Clinton, Clinton White House, Republicans, Bill Clinton
If nothing: Kerry, Gore, Clinton, Richard Nixon, Democratic Party
But there: Nixon, Kerry, Gore, Clinton, Democratic, Kerry, Bush, Kerry
What Kerry: Kerry, Scaife, Republican, Soros
But for: Kerry, Gore, Clinton, Democrats
Robert Novak
Creators Syndicate
Felt's motivation might not have been so noble
2 June 2005
606 33 1R+,6R-,8R=
 Felt deserves: President Nixon
 Everybody knew: Nixon White House
 Indeed, Felt: the President
 Consequently, major: Nixon White House, Alexander Haig, Leonard Garment
 Felt was: Nixon, Patrick Gray, Gray, Nixon, administration
 Gray's successor: Gray, William Ruckelshaus, Ruckelshaus
 Felt might: Nixon
Peggy Noonan
WSJ OpinionJournal
The Legend of Deep Throat
2 June 2005
1274 17 1D=,5R+,8R-,4R=
Some wounds: Pat Buchanan, Chuck Colson, Richard Ben-Veniste
Was Mr.: Nixon
His motives: President Nixon, Nixon, Richard Nixon
Even if: president, president, president, Nixon, president
Maybe the: Nixon
Were there: Chuck Colson, Colson, Nixon White House
Is the: White House, Richard Nixon
David S. Broder
Washington Post
Hope for Affordable Housing
2 June 2005
888 11 4D+,2D=,5R+,3R-,4R=
When the: Republicans, Michael G. Oxley, Robert W. Ney, Democratic, Democrat, Barney Frank
The step: Ed Royce, Republican
A spokesman: Ney, Oxley, Republicans, Royce
On the: Jack Reed, Democrat, Reed
So far: Bush administration, Alphonso Jackson
It is: Republican Congress
Bob Herbert
Inactive
Truth and Deceit
2 June 2005
907
David Brooks
New York Times
Fear and Rejection
2 June 2005
838 0
Jim Hoagland
Inactive
Opportunity in Defeat
2 June 2005
941
Robert J. Samuelson
Washington Post
The Curse of Cheap Credit?
2 June 2005
985 0
John Fund
Inactive
The Swamps of Jersey
2 June 2005
1313