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Now that the U.S. attorney has declined to prosecute a Secret Service agent look-alike who ejected three people from a March 21 presidential forum, why does the White House refuse to say who he is? Karen Bauer, Alex Young and Leslie Weise (who have been styled the "Denver Three") arrived at the event at the Wings Over the Rockies Museum in a car bearing a "No More Blood for Oil" bumper sticker. They were removed from the event by a conservatively attired man with a lapel pin and earphone whom they believed to be a Secret Service agent. The trio...

The limp wrists at Kos dredge up an old story in hopes of blaming Bush for the London Attack--and give it a predictable spin: ...as Tony Blair oversees the carnage and anger in his country, he may want to ask his good buddy George W. Bush why his administration crippled Blair's domestic anti-terror efforts to track down and stop Al Qaeda cells inside Great Britain by exposing a known Al Qaeda asset at a time when the Brits were very close to nailing a ring of Al Qaeda cells inside the country? With today's tragedy in front of them, don't...

Michael Duffy of Time Magazine doesn’t believe that the press should take sides in the war. He doesn’t care if the reporting that he and other people in the MSM are doing might endanger American lives either civilian or military. We as a nation must understand what is going on now with the Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay Prison stories and the exploitation of them for political and financial gain by the Democrat party and the MSM. The press and the Democrat party are now actively betraying our nation. They are now routinely “giving aid and comfort to the enemy...

There's A Fourth Estate And A Fifth Estate BY JOSEPH CURL James Dale Guckert, aka Jeff Gannon, the former White House correspondent for Talon News, set off a firestorm of controversy and introspection last week inside the cramped press work quarters behind the West Wing briefing room. The unabashedly conservative reporter had already disappeared in a flash of green smoke, drummed out by left-wing bloggers who had set out to expose the personal background of the short, shaved-head man after he asked a particularly right-wing question in a presidential press conference. The blogospheric probe had gotten ugly—democrats.com charged that Guckert...

THE FOURTH ESTATE IS THE FIFTH COLUMN - Part II It was in 1976 that a Gallup poll indicated 7 out of 10 Americans trusted the press. As reported in a recent U. S. News magazine article the trust changed. A recent Pew Research study found that 53% of Americans do not trust what news organizations report. In addition a 2002 American Bar Association survey found that the only profession inspiring less public confidence than its own was the press. It reported that “The public sees the media as self-centered and self-promoting.” When you have an industry whose idol is...

There is a rumble when the bedrock of free civilization is shaken, and few heed the warning - just prior to the earthquake, when relentless forces threaten to destroy the foundations of freedom. That rumble echoed, ignored, the morning of June 29, 2004, when John Kerry stepped to the podium for rehearsal of his acceptance speech for the Democratic Party's nomination. He turned to his audience of reporters and spoke, specifically to them: "Members of the Fourth Estate, I have called you here to tell you that your reign is over." According to eyewitness accounts, there were titters of laughter,...

Mangling the 9/11 Commission's Report By Thomas Patrick Carroll FrontPageMagazine.com | June 21, 2004 The contrast is stark. On the one hand we have the 9/11 Commission’s latest report, Overview of the Enemy, a detailed history of al Qaeda. Like the Commission’s other public statements, it’s informative and worth reading. On the other, there is the response to the report from the mass media. Here we find a truly astounding conceptual mess, even when measured against the Fourth Estate’s own generously self-forgiving standards. Dan Froomkin of The Washington Post nicely sums up this intellectual bus plunge. “Yesterday,” Froomkin wrote on...