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Pundit Boxscore for Wednesday 22 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
Ann Coulter
Universal Press Syndicate
Guantanamo loses 5-star rating
22 June 2005
858 100 11D-
If you: Jimmy Carter, Jimmy Carter, Carter
Sen. Dick: Dick Durbin, Democrat
Amnesty International: Teddy Kennedy, Patrick Leahy
On the: liberals
The Washington: Clinton White House
Others claimed: Democrats
The only: Democrats
Clarence Page
Chicago Tribune
Can we finally talk?
22 June 2005
1040 48 7D+,1D-,8D=,2R+,10R-,1R=
Durbin has: Durbin
I don't: Dick Durbin, D-, Republicans
By providing: Democrat
Before Durbin: Durbin
After quoting: Durbin
Indeed, if: Durbin
Yet, White: White House press secretary Scott McClellan, Durbin
Former House: Newt Gingrich, Republican, Durbin
Durbin said: Durbin, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, Republican, Durbin, Durbin, Frist, Frist
If there: Durbin
With that: Durbin, Bush administration
The backlash: Durbin, White House
Team Bush: Bush
"Even Adolf: John McCain, R-
That's what: Durbin
Harold Meyerson
Washington Post
No One to Demonize
22 June 2005
973 46 4D+,5D=,3R+,11R-,3R=
There was: Bush administration
Confronted with: Democrats, Democrats, Democrats, John Kerry
Absent a: President Bush
These figures: Nixon administration
That disapproval: Nixon, Nixon, Republican, Democrats, Republicans, Republicans, GOP, Democrats
Which is: Bush administration, Republicans, Dick Durbin, administration
Unable to: Bush, congressional Democrats, Bush, Republicans, Walter Jones
The lesson: Democrats, Bush
Kathleen Parker
Tribune Media Services
De-feminizing torture
22 June 2005
863 38 2D+,5D-,1D=
By now: Dick Durbin, D-
As for: Durbin
When he: Durbin
Durbin's almost: Durbin
The problem: Durbin
FBI reports: former President Bill Clinton, Clinton
Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Debunking another Gitmo myth
22 June 2005
877 33 3D-,2D=,3R+,1R-,6R=
Newsweek. Amnesty: Jimmy Carter, Dick Durbin
 In a: Durbin, Durbin
 The "maverick": John McCain
 "The weight: McCain
 GOP Sen.: GOP, Lindsay Graham
 Gitmo-bashers attack: Bush administration, Rumsfeld
 Treating foreign: Bush administration
 The few: Carter, Bush
 That ruling,: William Barr
 Do John: John McCain
Tony Blankley
Creators Syndicate
Inside Hillary's mind
22 June 2005
1153 16 5D+,5D-,22D=,7R+,5R=
Inside Hillary's: Hillary
About once: Hillary, Bill Clinton
 It was: Democratic
 Although this: Clinton, Hillary, Hillary, Hillary
 But for: Clinton, Richard Nixon
 One of: President and Mrs. Clinton, President Nixon, Nixon
 "The elevator: Nixon, Hillary Clinton, Hillary, Nixon, First Lady, Hillary, Nixon
 The anecdote: Nixon, Bill Clinton
 "He doesn't: Nixon, Hillary, Nixon, Chelsea Clinton, Clinton, Hillary, Hillary, Nixon
 For any: President Richard Nixon
 If readers: Nixon, Clinton, Clinton, Clinton, Clinton, Ted Kennedy, Hillary, Ted Kennedy
  But: Hillary Clinton, Hillary, Hillary, Joseph Kennedy Sr., president
Robert Scheer
Creators Syndicate
Even Bush's GOP allies are breaking ranks
22 June 2005
867 12 4R+,6R-,6R=
Even Bush's: Bush, GOP
Although this: Republicans, Vice President Dick Cheney, administration
"Too often: John McCain, R-, Cheney
Sen. Chuck: Chuck Hagel, R-, White House
Even Rep.: Walter B. Jones, R-, administration
All of: President Bush
The general: President Nixon
Anne Applebaum
Inactive
Give This 'Attic' A Story To Tell
22 June 2005
846
David Ignatius
Inactive
Rice's Useful Rhetoric
22 June 2005
941
Pete du Pont
Inactive
Measure for Measure
22 June 2005
1290
Robert J. Samuelson
Washington Post
Time to Toss the Textbooks
22 June 2005
880 0
Thomas L. Friedman
Inactive
Run, Dick, Run
22 June 2005
1058
Walter E. Williams
Inactive
Do we want this?
22 June 2005
708