Cursor's Media Patrol - 11/14/05

A Jordan hotel bombing suspect was reportedly detained and released by U.S. forces last year in Fallujah -- "in the same mosque where a Marine shot to death an unarmed Iraqi man."

A New York Times article on the 'Heavy Hand of the Secret Police' in the Arab world reports that in Jordan, "intelligence agencies vet the appointment of every university professor," while monitoring such "security threats" as poetry recitals.

After Sen. John Edwards explained that he "never would have voted for this war" had he known "the whole story," a Washington Monthly poster asked, "Why didn't Sen. Edwards know? Why didn't he ask Bob Graham?"

Bob Burnett calls on Democrats to "cease their doubletalk about fighting a smarter war in Iraq ... and begin telling the truth: the occupation is a quagmire, a moral black hole. We should withdraw our troops."

George McGovern says in an interview that he has "trouble remembering from one day to the next what 'blue' and 'red' mean. They used to call us Democrats 'reds' because they thought we were too liberal, too pink. I'm glad the Republicans have assumed that label now."

A Black Commentator columnist observes 'Imus And Andy' holding forth "on how black people choose to refer to themselves."