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The paper's conservative editorial board says he's disingenuous and demagogic. The senator says the paper is shilling for Marco Rubio. When tea party upstart Ted Cruz began his ascent in 2012, The Wall Street Journal's editorial board saw enough promise to hint at a new era of GOP reform politics.But it didn't take long for the influential opinion page to sour on the Texas senator. Within months after Cruz was sworn in to office, the Journal was castigating him for his tone and tactics - along with his naked pursuit of the presidency just months after joining the Senate -...

In a clear attempt to woo largely establishment conservative commentators who have loudly opposed the GOP’s current government shutdown strategy, President Obama held an off-the-record meeting with the Washington Post’s Charles Krauthammer, the Wall Street Journal editorial page editor Paul Gigot, National Review’s Washington editor Robert Costa, syndicated columnist and former CNN co-host Kathleen Parker, and Byron York of the Washington Examiner.

Sarah Palin must wonder what happened to her political glamour.

WSJ Editor Paul Gigot discusses The Fed, QE2 and Gov Palin

by Mark Finkelstein July 9, 2006 That didn't take long! Just yesterday I suggested readers keep in mind the MSM's bashing of Pres. Bush on his birthday the next time a liberal accused conservatives of being 'mean-spirited.' Groucho fans will know what I mean when I say: bring down the duck! On last evening's Journal Editorial Report , liberal newsie Marvin Kalb said the magic 'm-s' word in condemning the Wall Street Journal for its criticism of the New York Times. The Journal had run an editorial, Fit and Unfit to Print [subscription required] that both explained why it had...

This weekend I've added the Saturday night/Sunday morning Fox/WSJ "Journal Editorial Report" to the mix.  It looks to be a very interesting addition (on "our side," maybe?).Last weekend I clearly missed the MSM spin on the "White House is being too secretive" meme (though I was on  the right track with the "they're being mean" idea).  When I post a meme it is simply my best guess and I'm desperately reaching out for others to correct or augment anything I post.  That's the purpose of my thread.  Not to declare "this is what is" but to ask "is this close"...

Fox News Sunday (Chris Wallace) Memes: As usual it looks like Fox is reversing the main meme of the other shows: the usual suspects (Dems/MSM) are trying to blame the grown ups for a natural disasterThe MSM are out of their tiny minds, particularly CNN for lashing out at Brit Hume and Fox for the Cheney interviewThey are giving Evan Bayh a platform for trying to run right of George Bush on IRANThey are giving Lindsey Graham a platform to auditioning as John McCain's VP candidate, therefore he will take the Democrat talking points on NSA and repeat them, ad...

After being caught in a storm over political influence at PBS, a weekly talk show featuring members of the Wall Street Journal editorial staff is shifting to Fox News Channel. It was the "Journal Editorial Report" that was cited last month by an internal investigator at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting when he accused the CPB's former chairman, Kenneth Tomlinson, of meddling in PBS programming to promote a conservative agenda. The last PBS edition of the conservative-leaning talk show anchored by Journal editorial page editor Paul Gigot will air on Friday. A new season will start on Fox News Channel...

Journal Editorial Report Moves to FOX News Channel NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 30, 2005--The Journal Editorial Report, a production of The Wall Street Journal, will move to Fox News Channel (FNC) beginning in January, announced Bill Shine, senior vice president of programming, Fox News. In making the announcement, Shine said, "We're pleased to partner with The Wall Street Journal on this highly regarded program and we look forward to delivering our viewers another quality program on the number one cable news network." The Journal Editorial Report was launched in September 2004 on the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). Hosted by Wall Street...

When the liberal media engage in a feeding frenzy against a conservative politician, journalists are always on the lookout for conservative publications that get drawn into the hysteria. Then they can make the claim that they are not engaging in just an ideological jihad against their political enemies. In the case of Rep. Tom Delay, critics have cited the Wall Street Journal editorial page, which weighed in with an editorial criticizing Delay for being a big government conservative. That's quite funny because we have drawn attention to the fact that the Journal editorial page has become an advocate of big...

The long rise of America's conservative movement has finally caught the attention of the New York Times. The worried Old Gray Lady is assigning a full-time correspondent to spend the next year on discovering what mischief the right is up to. The move is a turnabout for the Times, which has always looked down its nose at conservatives and preferred to pretend they don't exist. After all, they don't exist in the rarefied little world of the Times' movers and shakers. According to the New York Observer's "Off the Record" feature, David Kirkpatrick, who had been covering the book industry,...

The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board is back on CNBC for a special appearance at 9 p.m. EDT this Thursday. With Stuart Varney in the moderator's chair, they'll be commenting on the afternoon's debate among the 10 Democratic candidates for president, which is sponsored by the Journal and CNBC. (The debate itself airs on CNBC Thursday at 4 p.m. EDT.) Here's a full list of "WSJ Editorial Board" airtimes for the continental U.S.: EDT: 9 p.m. and midnight CDT and EST (Indiana): 8 and 11 p.m. MDT: 7 and 10 p.m. PDT and MST (Arizona): 6 and 9 p.m.

<p>AL TURABAH, Iraq--To reach the ninth level of Saddam's Inferno, you take a plane from Baghdad south to Basra, then hop an open-air 40-minute helicopter ride in 118-degree heat to what was once the world's closest approximation to the Garden of Eden.</p>

<p>NAJAF, Iraq--Toppling a statue is easier than killing a dictator. Not the man himself, but the idea of his despotism, the legacy of his torture and the fear of his return. This kind of reconstruction takes time.</p> <p>Just ask the 20-some members of the new city council in this holy city of Shiite Islam. Their chairs are arrayed in a circle to hear from Paul Wolfowitz, the deputy secretary of defense, who invites questions. The first man to speak wants to know two things: There's a U.S. election next year, and if President Bush loses will the Americans go home? And second, are you secretly holding Saddam Hussein in custody as a way to intimidate us with the fear that he might return? Mr. Wolfowitz replies no to both points, with more conviction on the second than the first. But the question reveals the complicated anxiety of the post-Saddam Iraqi mind.</p>

NAJAF, Iraq--Toppling a statue is easier than killing a dictator. Not the man himself, but the idea of his despotism, the legacy of his torture and the fear of his return. This kind of reconstruction takes time.Just ask the 20-some members of the new city council in this holy city of Shiite Islam. Their chairs are arrayed in a circle to hear from Paul Wolfowitz, the deputy secretary of defense, who invites questions. The first man to speak wants to know two things: There's a U.S. election next year, and if President Bush loses will the Americans go home? And...

<p>Iraqis' greatest fear is that America will cut and run.</p> <p>NAJAF, Iraq--Toppling a statue is easier than killing a dictator. Not the man himself, but the idea of his despotism, the legacy of his torture and the fear of his return. This kind of reconstruction takes time.</p>

It’s election season, a time when pundits analyze and moralize without pause. But do the commentators who make a big deal of politics actually vote? Some have a hard time finding their way to the ballot box. Maureen Dowd, who savages politicians in her New York Times columns, was AWOL from 9 of DC’s 12 elections from 1994 through 2000. A registered DC Democrat, she voted in two general elections and missed every primary and local contest. Another Dem, The Capital Gang’s Margaret Carlson, also missed the eight DC primary and local elections during those years—despite writing an ode to...