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Mitt Romney Gets The Love, Ron Paul (And Newt Gingrich) Should, Too
February 9, 2012, 4:08 pm CST
I appeared as a guest on RT America yesterday (full clip below) to discuss ongoing media bias of the 2012 GOP election coverage -- and by media bias, I don't merely mean a reporter occasionally slipping up and revealing his or her favored ...
Mitt Romney Gets The Love, Ron Paul (And Newt Gingrich) Should, Too
February 9, 2012, 3:07 pm CST
I appeared as a guest on RT America yesterday (full clip below) to discuss ongoing media bias of the 2012 GOP election coverage -- and by media bias, I don't merely mean a reporter occasionally slipping up and revealing his or her favored ...
Mitt Romney Gets The Love, Ron Paul (And Newt Gingrich) Should, Too
February 9, 2012, 5:53 am CST
I appeared as a guest on RT America yesterday (full clip below) to discuss ongoing media bias of the 2012 GOP election coverage -- and by media bias, I don't merely mean a reporter occasionally slipping up and revealing his or her favored ...
Mitt Romney Gets The Love, Ron Paul (And Newt Gingrich) Should, Too
February 9, 2012, 2:53 am CST
I appeared as a guest on RT America yesterday (full clip below) to discuss ongoing media bias of the 2012 GOP election coverage -- and by media bias, I don't merely mean a reporter occasionally slipping up and revealing his or her favored ...
Mitt Romney Gets The Love, Ron Paul (And Newt Gingrich) Should, Too
February 9, 2012, 1:38 am CST
I appeared as a guest on RT America yesterday (full clip below) to discuss ongoing media bias of the 2012 GOP election coverage -- and by media bias, I don't merely mean a reporter occasionally slipping up and revealing his or her favored ...
Komen flap reveals liberal media bias, encroaches on rights, columnists say
February 6, 2012, 8:03 am CST
The mainstream media is drawing criticism from its own for what's seen as a pro-choice bias in the reporting of the ongoing...
Insiders: Pentagon's Budget Cuts Are Pragmatic for Changing Times
February 6, 2012, 7:30 am CST
Three-quarters of National Journal’s National Security Insiders said the Obama administration’s plan to cut the Pentagon budget was a smart decision driven by the end of the Iraq war and the nation’s current fiscal crisis, ...
Grasping a new reality
February 4, 2012, 11:33 pm CST
WASHINGTON — First, they had to get the handshake right. Two decades earlier in Geneva, Chinese Premier Zhou En-lai had been mortally offended when U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles spurned his offered hand. As TV cameras flashed ...


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The air strikes marked the climax of an intense 48-hour period in which Berger notified congressional leaders, the principals called their foreign counterparts, and President Clinton flew back from his vacation on Martha's Vineyard to address the nation from the Oval Office. The President spoke to the congressional leadership from Air Force One, and he called British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak from the White House.47 House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott initially supported the President. The next month, Gingrich's office dismissed the cruise missile attacks as "pinpricks."48

At the time, President Clinton was embroiled in the Lewinsky scandal, which continued to consume public attention for the rest of that year and the first months of 1999. As it happened, a popular 1997 movie, Wag the Dog, features a president who fakes a war to distract public attention from a domestic scandal. Some Republicans in Congress raised questions about the timing of the strikes. Berger was particularly rankled by an editorial in the Economist that said that only the future would tell whether the U.S. missile strikes had "created 10,000 new fanatics where there would have been none."49

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