Word: partisanship
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Beyond its surface flaws, does Outfoxed harbor an important message? Yes. Fox’s news coverage is rife with fearmongering, mistruths and rampant partisanship. The most powerful sequence of the film is Bill O’Reilly’s on-air interview with Jeremy Glick, the son of a Sept. 11 victim. Glick attempted to explain his opposition to Bush’s post-attack foreign policy; an enraged O’Reilly interrupted and browbeat his guest, even asserting that his father “would not approve of this.” Later...
...Thomason's new documentary, The Hunting of the President--an unabashedly partisan account of the Whitewater prosecution (or "persecution," as Clinton called it, perhaps not inadvertently). "Starr was the instrument of a grand design," the President said, launching a 30-minute disquisition into the historical roots of the rabid partisanship that marked his time in office. "He did what he was hired to do ... Hillary was hooted and derided for calling it a vast right-wing conspiracy. I joked with her afterwards, 'I don't know about the conspiracy word. A conspiracy is normally secret. This is wide open...
PUBLISHER MORT ZUCKERMAN IS GIVING $10 MILLION TO HARVARD FOR FELLOWSHIPS FOR STUDENTS INTERESTED IN PUBLIC SERVICE. DOES WASHINGTON REALLY NEED MORE HARVARD GRADS? Look, Washington needs more thoughtful, caring people who can look past partisanship to solve real problems, which is what our students do. I think of my own career, which began in academia and then was involved in government, and how much better off I would have been if I would have had some training in government and public managing...
Brokaw also described the nation’s deepening partisanship and said he hoped Americans could soon find a common ground...
Several months ago, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) considered a proposal to make emergency contraception over the counter and place this birth control right on pharmacy shelves. Yet despite its potential to reduce teen pregnancy, politics trumped rationality and an organization that was created to keep partisanship out of important medical decisions caved in under political pressure. In a letter to the FDA, 44 members of Congress wrote, "We urge you to reject the petition currently before you to make the morning-after pill as accessible to our nation's teenage daughters as aspirin or hair spray." Apparently, these...