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- Wash. Post, Fox's Baier uncritically reported Bush's attack on Dems that it's been "57 days" without receiving a war-funding bill
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  In an April 4 Washington Post "analysis" of President Bush's April 3 press conference, staff writer Peter Baker uncritically quoted Bush's claim that "it has now been 57 days" since he asked Congress for more money to fight the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and that Bush "still has not gotte...
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- Media outlets compared Iraq funding battle with 1995-96 shutdown without noting crucial differences
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  In reporting on the Senate passing an emergency funding bill that sets a date for U.S. troop withdrawal from Iraq to begin, with the goal of having most troops out by March 31, 2008 -- a bill that will likely be vetoed -- various media outlets have cited the budget standoff that led to the governme...
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- Media characterize expected standoff on Iraq funding as Congress "defiant" of Bush, not vice versa
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  In their coverage of the Senate's March 29 passage of a spending bill that calls for troop withdrawal from Iraq to begin with the goal of having the troops home by March 31, 2008, several media outlets -- CNN, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the Associated Press -- have characteriz...
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- Media failed to explore possible reason for Congress' transcription demand -- administration's record of falsehoods
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  Reporting on demands that current and former White House aides testify before Congress about their involvement in the firing of eight U.S. attorneys, many in the media have left out a possible compelling reason for Congress' insistence that a record be made of the aides' appearances: the nu...
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- Numerous media outlets ignored Grassley "aye" vote for subpoena of White House staff
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  Following the Senate Judiciary Committee's March 22 vote authorizing the use of subpoenas to force on-the-record testimony of White House senior adviser Karl Rove, former White House council Harriet Miers, and other current and former White House officials in the evolving U.S. attorney scandal,...
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- Ignoring withheld emails, Wash. Post, Kondracke claimed that U.S. attorney emails include nothing incriminating
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  A March 22 Washington Post editorial on the Bush administration's controversial firings of eight U.S. attorneys called the scandal and the possibility of congressional subpoenas of White House officials "an unnecessary constitutional crisis" and claimed that the "many emails that the administra...
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- Wash. Post, LA Times yet to highlight McCain's "wasted ... lives" comment; ABC's World News and GMA also ignored
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  As of March 2, The Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times have yet to publish articles noting that Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), during an appearance on the February 28 edition of CBS' The Late Show with David Letterman in which he announced his presidential candidacy, claimed that "[w]e've w...
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The washington post

Wash. Post, Fox's Baier uncritically reported Bush's attack on Dems that it's been "57 days" without receiving a war-funding bill

Media outlets compared Iraq funding battle with 1995-96 shutdown without noting crucial differences

Media characterize expected standoff on Iraq funding as Congress "defiant" of Bush, not vice versa

Media failed to explore possible reason for Congress' transcription demand -- administration's record of falsehoods

Numerous media outlets ignored Grassley "aye" vote for subpoena of White House staff

Ignoring withheld emails, Wash. Post, Kondracke claimed that U.S. attorney emails include nothing incriminating

Wash. Post, LA Times yet to highlight McCain's "wasted ... lives" comment; ABC's World News and GMA also ignored

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