Well, Charlie K looks like a marionette because he's a parapalygic and is in a chair, but he is also an MD, a psychiatrist by profession and a Pulitzer prize winner. <s> BTW, his editorial on John Edward's attempt to exploit Christopher Reeve's death to slam Bush is a classic and worth a trip to the Washington Post website to read.

>>I've got to agree about Fox. People like Fred Barnes are unapologetically polemecists, but Britt Hume is one very bright guy ( and an old school-mate of Kerry's ). Krauthammer is a serious heavy hitter. I think Fox is pretty clear in labelling opinion as opinion. My objection to the "liberal" media is that they confuse "opinion" with "truth" There is a pretty substantial history in this area going back well into the Cold War and before. I would suggest anyone who finds history interesting to google the name Walter Duranty - whose picture still hangs on the wall in the NYT lobby.
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>Yeah, I can't tell you how refreshing it is to have some balance these days. Before Fox and Drudge the liberals were running amok. Now, the stories get out via drudge, the bloggers pick it up and Fox will report something two or three days before the "mainstream" media gets to it. Krauthammer looks like a marionette, but talk about a man who is on top of the game. He is difinitely a heavy hitter. I even enjoy seeing the debate shows sometimes, but they can wear on you when you see the people clicking off the talking points. Give me some meat!