Cursor's Media Patrol - 07/19/06

Marveling at Bush's ability to "make even a global summit meeting seem like a kegger," Maureen Dowd finds that "the really weird thing is his sense of victimization. He's strangely resentful about the actual core of his job."

Bush reportedly sees an appearance at the NAACP's annual meeting as an opportunity to "tout his civil rights record," but the Eugene Register-Guard urges Bush to "note that the U.S. Department of Justice has had to invoke the Voting Rights Act hundreds of times since it was last reauthorized in 1982."

The Progressive's Matthew Rothschild reports on the ACLU's documentation of the role of Homeland Security in helping the Pentagon spy on student antiwar groups in California.

"The vote shepherd of Southern evangelicals" lost his Georgia primary race to "a no-name state senator," proving to one Georgia voter's satisfaction that "despite what some people may think, we are not all crazy down here." Plus: 'Reed vs. Lieberman.'

Rep. Cynthia McKinney was forced into a run-off election by an opponent who boasted of his national media coverage, although some of McKinney's supporters reportedly saw their "votes flipped before their very eyes on Diebold machines."

A USA Today report explores who the Christian Right might back in 2008, as a new Gallup poll turns up trouble for Sen. John McCain.