Cursor's Media Patrol - 09/20/06

'Before You Enlist' A new video urges high school students and their families to learn 'The Real Deal on Joining the Military."

As the White House releases a 'Fact Sheet' on 'Iraq's Links to Al Qaeda,' Ted Turner echoes a prominent historian in calling the decision to invade Iraq, "one of the dumbest moves ... ever made by anybody."

Although the Iraq Study Group that he co-chairs has 'Nothing to Report,' a "legendary fixer for the Bush family" says he has been "cleared" to meet with a "high representative" of the government of Iran.

Dick Morris attributes "a spike in Bush's approval ratings and ... in Republican chances" -- in no small part -- to "the ABC-TV docudrama exposing the failure of Clinton's efforts to get bin Laden," as the film's writer invokes the Salem witch hunt and "the Rashomon effect."

Editor & Publisher's Greg Mitchell points out what was missing in a Washington Post editorial arguing that "the case of Maher Arar shows why the Bush administration's secret detention program is wrong."

The U.K.'s leading scientists are demanding that Exxon 'stop funding' "a ten-year campaign of disinformation" by 'climate change deniers,' and an e-mail trail exposes a 'Climate-Controlled White House,' as it's reported that "Siberia is melting."

A foot race in Virginia takes "another unexpected turn," as Sen. George Allen goes public over an "aspersion," after a Jewish weekly probed his "African heritage."

Thanks to the gerrymander effect, it's reported that "not a single one" of California's 53 congressional contests is really competitive ... "in one of the most volatile, anti-incumbent seasons in years."