Free Republic

Saturday, November 06, 2004 YOUR PHONE CALLS [John J. Miller] Today's New York Times: "Angry conservatives flooded Senate phone and fax lines on Friday demanding that Republicans prevent Senator Arlen Specter from presiding over the Judiciary Committee after he remarked that strongly anti-abortion judicial nominees might be rejected in the Senate..." I don't know how that adjective "strongly" got in there--I thought Specter was basically saying no pro-life nominees to the Supreme Court will get past him--but the Times story is fairly objective. It also features Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina trying to play peacemaker, i.e., trying to tell...

Corruption at CNN Peter Collins Mr. Eason Jordan's admission that CNN had to suppress the news from Baghdad in order to report it brought back memories for me. In January 1993, I was in Baghdad as a reporter for CNN on a probationary, three-month contract. Previously, I had been a war reporter for CBS News in Vietnam and East Asia and in Central America for ABC News. I had also made three trips to Baghdad for ABC News before the Gulf War. Now, Bill Clinton was about to be inaugurated and there was speculation that Saddam Hussein might "test" the...