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...should be naive enough to believe that this is the first time politicking has determined a President's pick for the Supreme Court. Thurgood Marshall, after all, took a seat vacated when President Lyndon B. Johnson named Ramsey Clark, a personal enemy, to be U.S. Attorney General so that his father, Thomas Clark, would retire from the Court...
...such as The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour and Ted Koppel's Nightline for evidence of cultural or political bias. One study determined that 90% of the U.S. guests on MacNeil/Lehrer were white and 87% were male, while the corresponding numbers for Koppel's show were 89% white and 82% male. Chris Ramsey, director of program marketing for MacNeil/Lehrer, defends the program by noting that it cross-examines the people in power, and that it's neither Robert MacNeil's nor Jim Lehrer's fault that by and large the people in power happen to be white males. Replies Jim Naureckas, editor...
...that appear in "the most cited news medium in the U.S." -- the New York Times. As a bonus, the monthly also reports on "hypocrisies, misleading emphases and hidden premises," all for $2.50 an issue. Board members of the institute include such unapologetic leftists as Noam Chomsky, Alexander Cockburn and Ramsey Clark...
...sentimental reveries and tie-dyed rhetoric employed by such veteran protesters as Ramsey Clark and Daniel Ellsberg, the peace movement of 1990 only faintly resembles that of the Vietnam era. More than anything, its members seem to want to support the President's policy of standing up to Saddam Hussein and defending Saudi Arabia. But Bush's sudden switch two weeks ago from a defensive to an offensive strategy has raised all sorts of questions. Have sanctions been given enough time to work? Is the U.S. shouldering too much of the burden? Should the President proceed without approval from Congress...
...Ramsey Clark...