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MSM Caught Demon-eyes-ing Administration Again

H/T to Michelle Malkin on this one -

Another case of the MSM (USA Today this time) doctoring content to try to make someone (Condi Rice in this case) look somewhat evil.

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Condi Rice a la Anne Rice?

What happened this time was that they tweaked a photo to make her look like she has the evil eye, but got caught in the act. Apparently when they got noticed in the blogosphere, some vestige of journalistic ethics was belatedly called into action, and the picture was revised in their archive, with an editorial comment.

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The real deal!

Editor's note: The photo of Condoleezza Rice that originally accompanied this story was altered in a manner that did not meet USA TODAY's editorial standards. The photo has been replaced by a properly adjusted copy. Photos published online are routinely cropped for size and adjusted for brightness and sharpness to optimize their appearance. In this case, after sharpening the photo for clarity, the editor brightened a portion of Rice's face, giving her eyes an unnatural appearance. This resulted in a distortion of the original not in keeping with our editorial standards.

In other words, now that we got busted, we had better try to do some damage control! The Chief suggests you can believe as much of THAT explanation as you want to.

And the MSM still expresses worry about "editorial control" in the blogosphere! The question is, who in the MSM watches the watchers? At least the blogosphere has the feedback mechanism so succinctly stated on the Captain's Quarters site: "Thus every blogger in his kind, is bit by him who comes behind." It seems to work better than MSM "editorial control" does.

SCOTUS Nomination Re-opens

Miers Withdraws Under Mounting Criticism

By the time this has happened, there was a certain inevitability to it. As the Chief was driving into work this AM, thoughts that Miers didn't have very long to go before she withdrew her name were answered by a news update that this in fact had happened.

Now maybe we can get down to basics - if the President goes back to the base and appoints an unashamed originalist conservative, he will be pleasantly surprised at the strength and depth of his base support.

As fas as the inevitable rabid, foaming-at-the-mouth, Donk opposition is concerned, bring 'em on - the GOP DOES have a Senate majority - and needs to use it - including the Constitutional (or so-called nuclear) option.

Air America has no audience

From WorldNetDaily: If Al Franken speaks on the radio, and no one is tuned in to hear him, does he make a sound? That could be the question being asked these days in the nation's capital, where Franken's liberal network,...
Arrest Warrant For Tom DeLay

Has anyone seen The Hammer? A Texas court issued a warrant Wednesday for former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay to appear for booking, where he is likely to face the fingerprinting and photo mug shot he had hoped to avoid....
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Bottom of the sixth: Boy, Oswalt is certainly the great equalizer tonight, isn't he? He's deflated a lot of the momentum that the Cardinals had after Monday night's game. Astros lead 4-1. Middle of the seventh: Biggio scores after Edmonds...
The New Space Race & US Intel Caught Napping (Again!)

China and Russia Challenging Space Leadership of the United States

In yet another case of the United States Intelligence community?s failure to recognize the world around them has been revealed due to recent developments in space.
One day we may wake up and realize that with little warning China has launched a precursor un-crewed earth orbital rendezvous EOR lunar circumnavigation mission. To be promptly followed by a manned lunar circumnavigation. After that a lunar orbital mission is quite possible, because once the LM-5 booster becomes operational after 2010, the Shenzhou spacecraft has an already built in design for earth orbit and can also orbit the moon. It could with proper equipment also support a manned lunar landing mission either through EOR or through the introduction of a new booster beyond the capability of the LM-5 which they have only in the last few days hinted at as required after the next Five Year Plan.

THIS is why the Chief thinks the current NASA plan for a return to the moon by 2018, while moving in the right direction, could well prove to be too little, too late to maintain our leadership, and ceding the "high ground" could ultimately prove to be fatal.

Michael McConnell Love Fest

Judge Michael McConnell is getting lots of good press in the wake of the Miers withdrawal. See Hugh Hewitt, Ramesh Ponnuru, Eugene Volokh and Orin Kerr. Update: Speaking of love fests, the Knippenberg/Schaff love fest continues. Joe gives us a...
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Dave Kranz is noting Daschle's presidential rumblings:Calling on supporters Sometimes, the wording of the message speaks volumes. A recent e-mail sent to supporters of former Sen. Tom Daschle by Steve Hildebrand, head of Daschle's new leadership PAC, encouraged them to...

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