Monday's Washington Post and Washington Times each write about the latest Center for Media and Public Affairs content analysis of presidential news. The headline is that ABC, CBS and NBC awarded the current President Bush with mostly bad press during the first 100 days of both his first and second terms, what used to be a normal honeymoon period for freshly-elected presidents.

I was at CMPA and helped set up its project tracking presidential news back in 1989. As both papers noted today, those same networks gave the first President Bush mostly good press during his first 100 days -- 61 percent good press for the father, compared to 67 percent bad press for the son in his second term (and 71 percent bad press in his first term).

Although CNN's Aaron Brown on Friday said the following in the context of a relatively balanced interview with Orange County, California mosque leader Imam Mostafa al-Qazwini, the following betrays why the liberal media just don't get conservative criticism of moderate Muslims for failure to do more to call for an end to the radical Islamic terrorism which gave the world 9/11, Spain's 3/11 attacks, and now the 7/7 London bombings:

Aaron Brown: "All right, we think we've fixed all the audio problems with the Imam Mostafa Al-Qazwini out in Orange County, California. You had made the point that, yes, important clerics had condemned, perhaps not as loudly as they might, but had condemned, and that quite correctly, that Muslims suffer in many ways twice from these sorts of attacks. I wondered, you know, there's a term in American race relations, Uncle Tom, when black Americans are seen as too comfortable with the white establishment. Is there something parallel in Islamic life, if you are seen as siding too much with the American government, or you are speaking too loudly against the radicals?"

The Sunday Style section, July 10, of the Washington Post ran a nearly balanced feature on a former convict in D.C. who is straightening his life out through hard work, self-discipline, and ... Christian faith (including regular church attendance). See story: http://www.washingto...

While the feature does throw in many of the liberal nostrums about crime in D.C., etc., it does not shy away from the religious angle and the self-reliance angle. This provided some balance to a topic that the Post usually throws into the liberal fix-it box.