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Politics: A Lexi-Con Job By Oscar De Los Santos and Kelly L. Goodridge No doubt about it: the liberals are STILL afraid of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. Their latest attempt to smear her comes courtesy of (surprise, surprise) “The Huffington Post,” by way of one Geoffrey Dunn. A close look reveals nothing but a Lexi-Con job – on the part of Dunn, not Palin. In fact, the left is guilty of far more serious rhetorical conning of late, thanks to Maureen Dowd and President Barack Hussein Obama. Palin introduced Michael Reagan at a speech last week. Dunn believes she lifted...

Former CNN anchorman Frank Sesno said Sunday that sour-grapes post-election rants by New York Times columnists Maureen Dowd and Paul Krugman show that they are "out of touch" with regular Americans who voted for George Bush in droves. Asked about the bitter-sounding Dowd and Krugman tirades, Sesno told CNN's "Reliable Sources": "Some of the folks who are doing this writing are just as much out of touch with the red states, and America outside the elite Eastern seaboard and pockets in the West, as the Democrats." On Friday, Krugman had written that Bush is "a radical" who leads "a coalition...

"Given that the Kerry convention featured a skipper brave and sure, a first mate who makes others comfortable, a millionaire called "Lovey" by her spouse, two pretty young Kerry castaways and a movie star (the ubiquitously annoying Ben Affleck), I suppose we should be grateful that Camp Kerry didn't introduce the nominee with the "Gilligan's Island" theme song." So mocks NYT TIMES Op-Ed Queen, and soon to be bestselling author, Maurren Dowd. "Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful trip." Dowd is set to fire off her latest Sunday column to the unwashed...

5/30/03 Maureen Dowd not wanted hereBy MARC R. MASFERRER The New York Times' considerable credibility problem is now our problem, as well. But unlike the Times, which has been engaged in a torturous exercise of naval gazing and self-flagellation, with its accustomed arrogance, since it was revealed that one of its younger reporters had committed all sorts of journalistic sins, we are doing something about it, and fast. Until she explains to our satisfaction her own ethical transgression -- an apparently deliberate distortion of a comment by President Bush — you will not find the work of Times columnist Maureen...

In the town where I live, you can turn in a criminal by calling (800) 898-TIPS. The New York Times now offers a similar service to its readers. They can finger crooked stories by sending an E-mail to The Times at retrace@nytimes.com. Jayson Blair is the proximate cause of this humiliating hotline. But some of the TIPS coming into The Times aren't about Blair. Nobody knows exactly who's under investigation. Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Rick Bragg was suspended last week for letting an uncredited intern do his reporting. He's quitting. And at least one other internal review is taking place. It...