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The media confess! See? What Did They Tell You? By Rick Horowitz When right-wingers dream... "Thank you, Burt. Thank you, Christine. And a warm welcome to all of you -- our shareholders and advertisers, without whom we wouldn't be gathered here this morning, our reporters and editors, and, of course, all you valued readers. It's a great crowd, and we're so glad you're here! "These little get-togethers of ours grow more elaborate every year, don't they? But we understand, when you come right down to it, that it's about lots more than fruit cups and cinnamon rolls. Here at the...

An unbelievable furor erupted last week about an addendum to the Pledge of Allegiance after a federal judge ruled that making schoolchildren recite the words "under God" was an unconstitutional breach of the wall that separates church and state. The plaintiff, an emergency room physician in California, had sued on the grounds that his young daughter was, for all intents and purposes, forced to utter the phrase even though her family does not acknowledge the existence of the deity. The plaintiff’s daughter is now in hiding because of death threats from the God-loving. The U.S. Senate immediately denounced the decision...