- AS WE ALL TURN our attention
to the "long-simmering," currently-frying Mideast, MSNBC columnist
Eric Alterman has created a handy cheat sheet for figuring the bias of
the pundit nearest you. Clip 'n' save:
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- Columnists and commentators who can be counted upon
to support Israel reflexively and without qualification
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- George Will, The Washington Post, Newsweek and ABC News;
William Safire, The New York Times; A.M. Rosenthal, The New York Daily
News; Charles Krauthammer, The Washington Post, PBS, Time, and The Weekly
Standard; Michael Kelly, The Washington Post, The Atlantic Monthly, National
Journal, and MSNBC.com; Lally Weymouth, The Washington Post and Newsweek;
Martin Peretz, The New Republic; Daniel Pipes, The New York Post; Andrea
Peyser, The New York Post; Dick Morris, The New York Post; Lawrence Kaplan,
The New Republic; William Bennett, CNN; William Kristol, The Washington
Post, the Weekly Standard, Fox News; Mortimer Zuckerman, US News and World
Report; David Gelertner, The Weekly Standard; John Podhoretz, The New York
Post and The Weekly Standard; Mona Charen, The Washington Times; Morton
Kondracke, Roll Call, Fox News; Fred Barnes, The Weekly Standard, Fox News;
Sid Zion, The New York Post, The New York Daily News; Yossi Klein Halevi,
The New Republic; Sidney Zion, The New York Post; Norman Podhoretz, Commentary;
Jonah Goldberg, National Review and CNN; Laura Ingraham, CNN; Jeff Jacoby,
The Boston Globe; Rich Lowry, National Review; Andrew Sullivan, The New
Republic; Seth Lipsky, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Sun; Irving
Kristol, The Public Interest, The National Interest and The Wall Street
Journal Editorial Page; Chris Matthews, MSNBC; Allan Keyes, MSNBC, WorldNetDaily.com;
Brit Hume, Fox News; John Leo, US News and World Report; Robert Bartley,
The Wall Street Journal Editorial Page; John Fund, The Wall Street Journal
OpinionJournal; Peggy Noonan, The Wall Street Journal Editorial Page; Ben
Wattenberg, The Washington Times, PBS; Tony Snow, Washington Times and
Fox News; Lawrence Kudlow, National Review and CNBC; Alan Dershowitz, Boston
Herald, Washington Times; David Horowitz, Frontpage.com; Jacob Heilbrun,
The Los Angeles Times; Thomas Sowell, Washington Times; Frank Gaffney Jr,
Washington Times; Emmett Tyrell, American Spectator and New York Sun; Cal
Thomas, Washington Times; Oliver North, Washington Times and Fox News;
Michael Ledeen, Jewish World Review; William F. Buckley, National Review;
Bill O'Reilly, Fox News; Paul Greenberg, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette; L.
Brent Bozell, Washington Times; Todd Lindberg, Washington Times; Michael
Barone, US News and World Report and The McLaughlin Group; Ann Coulter,
Human Events; Linda Chavez, Creators Syndicate; Cathy Young, Reason Magazine;
Uri Dan, New York Post; Dr. Laura Schlessinger, morality maven; Rush Limbaugh,
radio host; The Wall Street Journal Editorial Page (Peter Kann, Editor)
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- Columnists likely to criticize both Israel and the
Palestinians, but view themselves to be critically supporters of Israel,
and ultimately, would support Israeli security over Palestinian rights
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- Thomas Friedman, The New York Times; Richard Cohen, The
Washington Post and New York Daily News; Avishai Margolit, The New York
Review of Books; David Remnick, The New Yorker; Eric Alterman, The Nation
and MSNBC.com; The New York Times Editorial Board; The Washington Post
Editorial Board;
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- Columnists likely to be reflexively anti-Israel and/or
pro-Palestinian regardless of circumstance
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- Robert Novak, The Washington Post; Pat Buchanan, WorldNetDaily.com;
Alexander Cockburn, The Nation and New York Press; Christopher Hitchens,
The Nation and Vanity Fair; Edward Said, The Nation.
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- (That last fivesome would make a funny basketball squad,
don't you think? Buchanan and Novak elbowing into the paint, Cockburn backing
down the pivot and Hitchens and Said set up to
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