Word: partisanship
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...controversy over the judging of pairs skating extended to the pictures in our story. Some of you felt the Russians got shafted by ugly photographs. "I am disgusted by the blatant partisanship evidenced in your photos of the Russian figure skaters," declared a New Yorker. "You must have searched high and low for the least flattering pictures you could find." A Vancouver, B.C., reader shared the sentiment. "Surely, out of the hundreds of shots available, you could have published a more complimentary one of Anton Sikharulidze. Shame on you!" The cover portrait of the Canadians, however, got a round...
Given Blair’s backing for action against Iraq, it is truly disturbing that the nation’s top Democrat has resorted to such blatant partisanship. To listen to Daschle’s remarks, one would think that Bush was recklessly bombing random countries, placing a multitude of ground troops in harm’s way without proper intelligence and ignoring the continued threat of al Qaeda. In reality, the Bush team’s conduct of this war remains patient and incredibly well-focused...
...Citizen McCain" by Elizabeth Drew. Kirkus gives the book a thumbs up. "Washington insider and accomplished journalist Drew provides a fly-on-the-wall portrait of the congressional maverick and his struggle to reform campaign-finance laws...Drew clearly approves of McCain, though never so much as to allow partisanship to get in the way of her usual careful reporting. A useful expos? of how things get done - and buried - in Washington...
...government in various undisclosed locations, thus equating the al Qaeda nuclear threat with the specter of the Soviet Union, circa 1980. And in the real government - the one that's supposed to be united in protecting those of us who don't have shadow homes to hide out in - partisanship is once again bumping up against the water's edge, with Democrats this week voicing their first big break with the White House's handling...
...awoke with a jolt. Overnight, this land of "bowling alone," of Internet introversion, of fractious multiculturalism developed an extraordinary solidarity--a vast outpouring of charity and volunteering; a suppression of partisanship and ethnic division; a coalescing behind resolute national leadership anchored by a new, untested President who rose extraordinarily to the occasion...