Cursor's Media Patrol - 08/24/05

Salon shows and tells in analyzing the American media's role in helping to make sure that Iraq remains 'The Unseen War.'

"What will history say about an opposition party that stands silent while all this goes on?" asks Gary Hart, who writes that "to harbor the thought that the administration's misfortune is the Democrats' fortune, is cowardly."

The Bush administration's 'Gas-Guzzler Relief Act' is said to offer "a minuscule change in fuel economy standards," and to create new loopholes which "encourage manufacturers to bulk up their trucks so they ... don't have to get as good mileage."

Leaders at the Traditional Values Coalition, the Family Research Council and the Christian Coalition, were reportedly "too busy to comment" on the remarks made by Robertson, about whom it is being asked: 'Out of His Mind or in the Loop?'

Questioning the benefit of a one-time tax holiday on foreign profits, a former Bush administration economic adviser said that "you might as well have taken a helicopter over 90210 [Beverly Hills] and pushed the money out the door. That would have stimulated the economy as well."