Cursor's Media Patrol - 03/21/06

With 'Regional vultures circling Iraq' amid a reported casualty shift, 'Iraqis sound angry on invasion anniversary,' with one quoted as saying: "I got nothing from this so-called liberation, just this cell phone and my satellite receiver. But I lost my three daughters."

Quoting an Iraq scholar who says that "If they aren't planning for bases, they ought to say so. I would expect to hear 'No bases,'" the AP reports that "Right now what is heard is the pouring of concrete."

As a second poll finds more than 40 percent support for censuring President Bush, Sen. Russ Feingold described the reluctance of fellow Democrats to back his resolution as "Shades of October 2002," during an interview with Charlie Rose. Plus: 'How Would a Patriot Act?'

Kevin Phillips writes about writing his book "American Theocracy," which, according a New York Times review, "may be the most alarming analysis of where we are and where we may be going to have appeared in many years ... and for the most part frighteningly persuasive."

Referring to Phillips' book, a questioner asked President Bush on Monday, "Do you believe .... That the war in Iraq and the rise in terrorism are signs of the apocalypse. And, if not, why not?" And Bush himself had a question for Cleveland.