Monday, September 26, 2005

''Big News Blown Away Again By a Hurricane of Saturation Coverage''

"Sunday, Sept. 25, 2005 – NEW YORK – Quite the week, eh?

• About 150,000 Americans rallied yesterday in Washington against the Iraq qWagmire.

• A decorated Army officer has revealed sickening new details about the torture of military detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan.

• Bill Frist is up to his kitten-killing eyeballs in an insider trading scandal involving stock in a family-owned business that was supposed to be in a blind trust.

• David Hossein Safavian, the top Executive Branch procurement official until he resigned last week, has been arrested as part of a probe into the dirty dealings of king of sleazy lobbyists Jack Abramoff — a probe that threatens other leading Republican players as it expands.

• Former CBS News anchor Dan Rather said Monday that there is a climate of fear running through newsrooms stronger than he has ever seen in his more than four-decade career.

• An administration insider told ultra-right-wing rag American Spectator that Bush's regime is "sunk."

• And Bush has been hitting the bottle again, according to the National Enquirer.

So with all of this juicy, red-meat political news ripe for discussion, what do you think was the top "political" topic of this pundit Sunday?

I know, I know, why do we even bother asking?"-from American Politics Journal. They run down all the usual offenders.

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