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Last Wednesday, the non-partisan Congressional General Accounting Office (GAO) begged to differ, ruling that the videos were in serious violation of Federal anti-propaganda laws. In addition to failing to alert viewers that the videos had been produced with their own tax dollars by the Department of Health and Human Services, the GAO asserted that the videos’ included “notable omissions and weaknesses” in their coverage of the new Medicare...
...fall guy for the growing scandal. Democrats may have, for the moment, saved the White House, which had begun to imagine the specter of a bipartisan consensus among nodding wise men that Rumsfeld, whom Bush never intended to remove, was finished. Instead, that claim was taken up vocally by partisan Democrats, including House minority leader Nancy Pelosi and presidential challenger John Kerry. At the White House, officials exhaled, happy that the situation was playing out along party lines. "Fortunately they overplayed their hands," said a senior Administration official of the Democrats...
...before its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, word emerged that Walt Disney Co. CEO Michael Eisner had forbidden Miramax Films, a Disney division, to distribute the film. Eisner told reporters last week that he had rejected the movie because he did not want Disney to get dragged into partisan battles in an election year. But the Miramax camp scoffs at that claim, pointing out that Disney's radio arm has no compunction about distributing fire-breathing conservative Sean Hannity's show. The film has been described as an incendiary attack on the Bush family's ties to Saudi Arabian...
...takes issue with President Bush’s decisions before and after the 2001 World Trade Center attacks and examines Bush’s ties to powerful Saudis, including the Bin Laden family. Disney, as a result, has argued that Moore’s film is too political and partisan for its company to distribute—defying its contract with Miramax. Even more disturbing than Disney’s disavowal of any and all products deemed too political, Moore’s agent has told The New York Times that Disney’s chief executive Michael D. Eisner...
...Column, Klein stated that "The Republican strategy this year appears to be hardball." But for nearly four years the Democrats have barraged Bush with name calling and personal attacks. I can't understand how anyone can consider the President the aggressor in the current partisan unpleasantness or how Kerry's below-the-belt blows are counterpunching. It's like blaming the victim. ROBERT WATERS Des Moines, Iowa...