Misleading Poll Question Doesn't Stop Respondents from Favoring AZ Immigration Law

Documenting and Exposing the Liberal Political Agenda of the New York Times
Tuesday May 04, 2010 @ 03:49 PM EDT

Obama the Pragmatist, Tea Party on 'Far Right'

Jackie Calmes says Obama "supporters" calls him a "pragmatist" - but so does the New York Times. She also puts the Tea Party movement on the "far right."

The Times Salutes Bill Moyers, Hard-Left 'Lion of PBS,' Finds Few Critics
The paper's usual labeling imbalance was on display in how it treated left-wing vs right-wing critics of PBS.

Misleading Poll Question Doesn't Stop Respondents from Favoring AZ Immigration Law
The Times initially spun a 60%-36% pro-enforcement gap as a "slim margin." And the law doesn't give “gives police the power to question anyone they suspect is in the country illegally,” as the misleading NYT/CBS News poll question claims, but requires reasonable suspicion of such by a policeman, coupled with a “lawful stop, detention or arrest.”

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Obama the Pragmatist, Tea Party on 'Far Right'

Reporter Jackie Calmes claimed in Tuesday's Obama-pitying “For Obama, A Nonstop Juggling Act” that his “supporters” call him a pragmatist. So does that make Times reporters Obama supporters as well? And is the Tea Party really “far right”?

By his own reckoning, Mr. Obama has always been hard to peg ideologically. His Republican opponents charge that he is masking a left-wing agenda in centrist-sounding words.

His supporters, including those who work for him, say he is a pragmatist whose instincts are genuinely centrist, both as a matter of politics and style.

The Times also constantly sells its readers on the idea that the big-spending, socially liberal Obama is some kind of moderate “pragmatist.”

Calmes continued the questionable labeling:

And just as Mr. Obama has ratcheted up his own populist attacks against corporate self-interest and Wall Street’s return to business as usual, so did Roosevelt become more vocally populist as re-election neared and he faced demagogic opposition. That included the likes of Senator Huey Long of Louisiana, the radio broadcaster Father Charles Coughlin and a domestic Communist Party making inroads on the left, much like the Tea Party movement today on the far right.

Jonah Goldberg, author of “Liberal Fascism,” will appreciate a journalist accurately placing Coughlin on the left. But is the Tea Party really deserve the unflattering “far right” imprimatur? The Times rarely if ever uses the term “far left” to describe a slice of the American electorate.

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The Times Salutes Bill Moyers, Hard-Left 'Lion of PBS,' Finds Few Critics

Two Times stories related to the (perhaps temporary) retirement of PBS's left-wing sage Bill Moyers both soft-pedaled the host's weekly attacks on business and government issued from his money-lined, taxpayer-funded PBS perch.

Elizabeth Jensen's contribution to the Sunday Arts page asked a question perhaps only the Times' liberal readership is asking: “How, Exactly, Do You Follow Bill Moyers?”

Jensen focused on left-wing complaints about Newsweek editor Jon Meachem, the host of the program replacing Moyers' “Now on PBS,” without ever delving into conservative complaints about Moyers and his history of neo-Marxist rhetoric delivered in a jus'-folks Texas accent. Moyers was merely called “the lion of PBS.” Not even the “liberal lion.”

While Meachem's left-wing critics from Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting were merely termed an “advocacy group” by Jensen, she found that Meachem was also a “frequent target of conservatives, who decry what they say are Newsweek's 'liberal' leanings.”

Jensen forwarded complaints from unlabeled left-wingers:

“Need to Know,” which will tape at a new studio at Lincoln Center, arrives to plenty of apprehension from PBS viewers, thousands of whom, riled up by the advocacy group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, have already protested. Their fear: the new hourlong show will fail to live up to the programs it is replacing: “Bill Moyers Journal” and “Now on PBS,” which ran a combined 90 minutes. Mr. Moyers, the lion of PBS, wanted, at 75, to step back from the grind of a weekly show, and was set to sign off on Friday, promising to return with specials. “Now” was cancelled.

In a March 25 online column Michael Getler, the PBS ombudsman, called the new program “a pretty big gamble for PBS” given the “fear, as expressed by many viewers in recent months, that PBS may be pulling in its horns and shying away from controversy.” One letter writer said, “I have the distinct impression that PBS is moving towards kinder, gentler documentary programming so as to avoid offending the powerful and upsetting the political right.” Another complained of Mr. Meacham’s “right-of-center stance on world events,” as evidenced in Newsweek, of which he is the editor.

Mr. Meacham, the winner of a 2009 Pulitzer Prize for his biography “American Lion: Andrew Jackson and the White House,” dismissed talk of his supposed partisan leanings: “I’m a journalist and a biographer who calls them as I see them.” Mr. Meacham, who is a regular on MSNBC -- where he mostly stays out of the fray when the partisan shouting gets too intense -- is a frequent target of conservatives, who decry what they say are Newsweek’s “liberal” leanings.

Media reporter Brian Stelter briefly acknowledged the conservative beef with Moyers, but fell down on the labeling front in his Monday Arts page story.

Mr. Moyers has long been a controversial figure. In a column in the May 10 issue of The Nation, the media columnist Eric Alterman called Mr. Moyers the “last unapologetic liberal anywhere in broadcast television.” Conservative critics have long accused Mr. Moyers and his programs of being one-sided.

Again the Times skimped on the “liberal” label. While Stelter couldn't spare a “liberal” or “left-wing” label for the hard-left Nation magazine, he managed to uncover unidentified “conservative critics”of Moyers.

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Misleading Poll Question Doesn't Stop Respondents from Favoring AZ Immigration Law

The latest New York Times/CBS News poll focused on Arizona's tough new anti-illegal immigration law, summarized in a story by Randal Archibold and Megan Thee-Brenan that only made the top of the National section, not the usual front-page placement for a poll story.

At least the print headline was strong: “Poll Finds Serious Concern Among Americans About Immigration.” Here's the lead, slanted toward the protesters point of view:

The overwhelming majority of Americans think the country’s immigration policies need to be seriously overhauled. And despite protests against Arizona’s stringent new immigration enforcement law, a majority of Americans support it, even though they say it may lead to racial profiling.

When the poll was first posted at nytimes.com Monday evening, a teaser headline claimed that only a “slim majority” favored the immigration law, but that was misleading if technically accurate. There was nothing “slim” about the actual results.

51% say the law "is about right,” while only 36% said it “goes too far,” while another 9% said it “doesn’t go far enough.” In other words, 60% agree with the thrust of the law, with only 36% thinking it goes too far. (The “slim” modifier was dropped from Tuesday's print edition.)

Not even the liberal slant of the question posed by the Times and CBS stopped the public from showing strong support for Arizona's law. (There's a .PDF version of the poll here.)

Here's question 67:

67. As you may know, the state of Arizona recently passed a law that gives police the power to question anyone they suspect is in the country illegally, requires people to produce documents verifying their status if asked, and allows officers to detain anyone who cannot do so. Do you think this law goes too far, doesn’t go far enough, or is about right?

Actually, the law doesn't give “gives police the power to question anyone they suspect is in the country illegally.” It requires reasonable suspicion of such by a policeman, coupled with a “lawful stop, detention or arrest.” Even then, people favored tougher enforcement by a substantial margin. One can't help but suspect the poll would have gotten front-page play if the numbers had been reversed.

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TimesWatch: 'South Park,' Muhammad, and NYT Double Standards

 'South Park,' Muhammad, and NYT Double Standards

Documenting and Exposing the Liberal Political Agenda of the New York Times
Friday April 23, 2010 @ 03:53 PM EDT

Classy: NYT Executive Editor Uses Book Review to Call Murdoch 'Corrosive'
Bill Keller, the New York Times executive editor, uses a book review to make a crack at his right-leaning newspaper rival Rupert Murdoch: "The last of his breed of media tycoon is a 79-year-old Australian billionaire whose impact has been more corrosive than cohesive."

'South Park,' Muhammad, and Double Standards
The creators of the Comedy Central cartoon “South Park” creators had their lives threatened by a Muslim group for insulting the prophet Muhammad, but two Times headlines said they were merely being “warned." It's not the first time the paper has expressed a double standard regarding insults of Islam versus Christianity.

John Harwood to Obama: Is Wall Street As 'Harmful' to Us as Big Tobacco?
NYT writer and CNBC personality John Harwood pressed Barack Obama about the need to regulate Wall Street as he questioned the president if Americans needed to view financial companies in the same way they view Big Tobacco as "companies whose core activities are harmful to the country?"

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Classy: NYT Executive Editor Uses Book Review to Call Murdoch 'Corrosive'

New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller has a review of legendary magazine tycoon Henry Luce, founder of Time and Life, in this Sunday's book review section. The Times posted it online Friday under the heading “The Editor in Chief.”

Keller took advantage of the book review acreage to take an arbitary shot at present-day media mogul (and soon to be a direct-competitor as the Wall Street Journal expands its Manhattan coverage) Rupert Murdoch, at the end of his review of historian Alan Brinkley's biography of Luce.

Keller found Brinkley's book helpful in fleshing out the oft-caricatured Luce, “restoring missing dimensions to figures who have been flattened into caricature.” He also approved of revelations showing Luce was not as conservative as his reputation would imply:

Nor was Luce all that conservative. He supported the growth of government power, including the welfare state. He championed civil rights for minorities and was less chauvinistic than his peers on the subject of women’s freedom. He favored trade unions. Though zealously anti-Communist, he was scornful of Joseph McCarthy’s excesses.

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By the time of his death, in 1967, that consensus had been torn asunder, and today there is no vehicle, no voice with the coherent power of Luce’s magazines in their heyday. The last of his breed of media tycoon is a 79-year-old Australian billionaire whose impact has been more corrosive than cohesive.

That would be Rupert Murdoch, publisher of the New York Post and creator of Fox News and other conservative media outlets.

Keller has made a habit out of taking arbitrary cracks at Fox figures. In a “Talk to the Newsroom” Q&A in January 2009 hosted on nytimes.com, Keller cracked:

Lunch at the Four Seasons is always a high point. Today it's my weekly tête-à-tête with Bill O'Reilly. He's really not the Neanderthal blowhard he plays on TV. He's totally in on the joke.

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'South Park,' Muhammad, and Double Standards

A recent episode of Comedy Central's animated comedy show “South Park” caused an Islamic group to send a veiled death threat to show creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, accusing them of insulting the Muslim prophet Muhammad. Comedy Central reacted by censoring a later episode that also had scenes involving the cartoon version of the Islamic prophet.

Two Times stories on this free speech issue by Arts reporter Dave Itzkoff were buried on the inside pages of the paper's Arts section, under whitewashed headlines alleging that the “South Park” creators were being “warned” by Muslims, not having their lives threatened.

The issue first came up in Thursday's “Arts, Briefly” column under the lame headline “Muslim Group Warns 'South Park.'” (A more accurate headline would have been “Muslim Group Sends Veiled Death Threat to 'South Park.'”)

Itzkoff summarized the controversy:

An Islamic group based in New York said that a recent episode of “South Park,” the satirical animated series, insulted the Prophet Muhammad, and compared the show’s creators, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, to Theo van Gogh, the Dutch filmmaker who was killed in 2004 by an Islamic militant, CNN reported.

When Comedy Central then bowed to pressure and censored the show's next episode with audio bleeps, Itzkoff ran a longer story Friday, though it too was relegated to page three of the Arts section under an incomplete headline: “'South Park' Episode Altered After Muslim Group's Warning.”

The accompanying text box put the blame on the show's creators, not the group that issued the death threat: “At Comedy Central, reining in a show that pushes buttons.”

Itzkoff explained:

“South Park,” the Comedy Central series, is an animated show that tries its best to push buttons and the boundaries of free speech by mocking every high-profile target in sight, from Hollywood celebrities to religious figures. But its creators may have gotten more than they bargained for with two recent episodes that satirized the Prophet Muhammad -- one that elicited an ominous message from an Islamic group based in New York, and one that was censored by the cable network that shows it.

On April 14 Comedy Central broadcast the 200th episode of “South Park,” a cartoon that Trey Parker and Matt Stone have produced for that channel since 1997. In honor of the occasion, Mr. Parker and Mr. Stone populated the episode with nearly all the famous people their show has lampooned in its history, including celebrities like Tom Cruise and Barbra Streisand, as well as major religious figures, like Moses, Jesus and Buddha.

(Actually, South Park's latest episode featured Jesus Christ as a porn freak, according to Lachlan Markay at Newsbusters: “...in last night's episode Parker and Stone showed Buddha snorting cocaine, and vulgarly bickering with Jesus Christ, who, it is suggested, is a compulsive consumer of pornography. So while Comedy Central gave into demands the word Muhammed not even be mentioned, other prophets were portrayed in tremendously offensive ways.”)

Itzkoff continued:

Cognizant that Islam forbids the depiction of its holiest prophet, Mr. Stone and Mr. Parker showed their “South Park” characters agonizing over how to bring Muhammad to their fictional Colorado town. At first the character said to be Muhammad is confined to a U-Haul trailer, and is heard speaking but is not shown. Later in the episode the character is let out of the trailer, dressed in a bear costume.

The next day the “South Park” episode was criticized by the group Revolution Muslim in a post at its Web site, revolutionmuslim.com. The post, written by a member named Abu Talhah Al-Amrikee, said the episode “outright insulted” the prophet, adding: “We have to warn Matt and Trey that what they are doing is stupid, and they will probably wind up like Theo van Gogh for airing this show. This is not a threat, but a warning of the reality of what will likely happen to them.”

Mr. van Gogh, a Dutch filmmaker and a critic of religions including Islam, was killed by an Islamic militant in Amsterdam in 2004 after he made a film that discussed the abuse of Muslim women in some Islamic societies.

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...in 2006, when “South Park” wanted to weigh in on a controversy that erupted after Jyllands-Posten, a Danish newspaper, published cartoons satirizing Muhammad, it was not given the same latitude: a character said to be Muhammad was concealed behind a large black box labeled “CENSORED.” The measure was taken by the “South Park” producers partly at the insistence of Comedy Central, and partly as a commentary on the network’s policy of not allowing them to show the character, which the episode equated with giving in to the demands of extremists.

Yet while the Times respected the Muslim ban on images of Muhammad, it has no fear of dishonoring other religions.

In February 2006, after a Danish newspaper published cartoons mocking Muhammad, death threats were issued to the cartoonists and radical Muslims instigated rioting.

The Times not only failed to stick up for free speech by running the cartoons itself, it actually attacked news organizations that bravely did so, while pretending it was an issue of religious respect in an editorial:

That seems a reasonable choice for news organizations that usually refrain from gratuitous assaults on religious symbols, especially since the cartoons are so easy to describe in words.”

But that excuse was revealed as bogus the very next day, when the paper ran a photo of painter Chris Ofili's controversial painting of a dung-clotted Virgin Mary.

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John Harwood to Obama: Is Wall Street As 'Harmful' To Us as Big Tobacco?

New York Times writer and CNBC contributor John Harwood, in an interview aired on Thursday's Today show, pressed Barack Obama about the need to regulate Wall Street as he questioned the President if Americans needed to view them in the same way they view Big Tobacco as "companies whose core activities are harmful to the country?" Obama declined to make the comparison to the tobacco companies, but went on to insist Wall Street needed new rules to protect against "excess."

JOHN HARWOOD: Should average Americans think about big Wall Street institutions the way that some have come to think about tobacco companies, that is, companies whose core activities are harmful to the country?

BARACK OBAMA: No. We have to have a thriving financial sector. But, we also have to have basic rules of the road in place to make sure that investors, consumers, shareholders, the economy as a whole, are protected against excess. We have gotten into one of those places where we need to update those rules of the road, and if we do so, not only is that good for the economy, not only does it protect consumers and investors, it's also good for the financial sector.

Harwood did manage to ask Obama about contributions he received from Goldman Sachs and the fact that his former White House counsel is representing them as he pried: "In the 2008 campaign you got a lot of money, about $1 million, from employees of Goldman Sachs. Your former White House counsel Greg Craig is apparently going to represent Goldman Sachs. In light of this case, do either of those things embarrass you?"

However at the end of the segment Today co-anchor Meredith Vieira claimed Republicans were "warming up" to a financial reform bill and did the White House have "a sense" of "victory over this?" To which Harwood responded "Average Americans dislike Wall Street...so this is a case where public opinion's on the President's side. He was hitting Republicans over the head with that and they're finally coming to the table..." And just before signing off Harwood ominously warned higher middle class taxes could be on the way:

MEREDITH VIEIRA: You know Republicans are warming up to this reform bill where they were adamantly opposed to it before some revisions were introduced. Was there a sense at the White House of, of victory over this?

HARWOOD: I think so. Look this is an issue, unlike health care, where public opinion was divided. Average Americans dislike Wall Street, in many cases as much as they dislike Washington. So this is a case where public opinion's on the President's side. He was hitting Republicans over the head with that and they're finally coming to the table and looks like they're gonna make a deal pretty soon.

VIEIRA: And on a very different note, during your interview the President did not rule out the possibility of raising taxes on the middle class, something he has always opposed in the past. Was he sending up a trial balloon?

HARWOOD: Watch this story, Meredith. This is likely to be the biggest -- next big debate in American politics in 2011 because as the economy recovers, many on the President's team believe we need a serious assault on the deficit, and the amount of revenue that's needed can't all be gotten from the rich.

-- Geoffrey Dickens is the senior news analyst at the Media Research Center.

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Blow Says No to Conservative Talk After Tussling With Laura Ingraham Over 'Minstrel Show' Smear

Documenting and Exposing the Liberal Political Agenda of the New York Times
Tuesday April 20, 2010 @ 03:40 PM EDT

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Times Celebrates Gay Comic Book Fetish Party on Front of Sunday Styles
The front of Sunday Styles celebrates gay comic book heroes and their "Skin Tight" dress-up fans: "A recent addition to this super-powered pride parade is Shatterstar, who in an issue of X-Factor last year sealed his reunion with another hero, Rictor, with a kiss." It's not the first time writer George Gene Gustines has tackled this vital cultural subject.

Blow Says No to Conservative Talk After Tussling With Laura Ingraham Over 'Minstrel Show' Smear
Charles Blow conducts a testy interview with host Laura Ingraham in which he admits he saw no "overt racism" at the Tea Party he attended, and refused to explain why he still accused minority Tea Party activists as conducting a "minstrel show."

Hmm....Blame Descendants of 'Radical Free Market' Norsemen for Crash of 2008?
Blame those lousy descendants of Vikings for the crash of 2008, says reporter Kirk Semple reporting from the Iceland volcano.

Frank Rich Repelled By Criticism of His Sliming of Tea Partiers as Racist
Frank Rich: "Most Americans who don't like Obama or the health care bill are not racists. It may be a closer call among Tea Partiers, of whom only 1 percent are black, according to last week's much dissected Times/CBS News poll." Next came comparisons to OKC bomber Tim McVeigh.

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Blow Says No to Conservative Talk After Tussling With Laura Ingraham Over 'Minstrel Show' Smear

Times columnist Charles Blow accused black Tea Party activists of engaging in “a political minstrel show” for the mostly white movement in his Saturday column, “A Mighty Pale Tea.” In response, radio host Laura Ingraham invited him on her show to explain himself. Blow admitted he saw no "overt racism" at the Tea Party he attended, yet refused to explain why he still accused minority Tea Party activists as conducting a "minstrel show."

You can listen to the audio at Eyeblast. The partial transcript below starts roughly around the 3:30 mark.)

Noel Sheppard at NewsBusters provided the audio link and also a transcript of the first part of the testy ten-minute interview:

LAURA INGRAHAM, HOST: So, what was the worst display of overt racism that you witnessed?

CHARLES BLOW, NEW YORK TIMES: I didn't say I had witnessed any overt...

INGRAHAM: You called it a minstrel show, Charles. Those are kind of loaded terms, don't you think?

BLOW: Did I say that I had witnessed any overt racism at...

INGRAHAM: What's a minstrel, what's a minstrel show?

BLOW: What is racism to you, Laura?

INGRAHAM: No, the other way around where racism is someone...

BLOW: What is racism to you, Laura?

INGRAHAM: You know what I think is racism? I think racism is someone who judges another person based on the color of his or her skin without knowing anything about the individual, without talking to the individual, without interviewing the individual, without having a conversation with the individual.

Blow then moved on to Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele's interview with GQ magazine.

INGRAHAM: Why are we on GQ magazine? Why aren't we on the Tea Party. I'm interested in how you came to the conclusion that this was a minstrel show and you're avoiding the topic by going to a Michael Steele interview. Why?

BLOW: Because you're trying to pretend that racism does not exist, and...

INGRAHAM: Did I say that? When did I say that?

BLOW: Did I say that I saw any racism, overt racism at the conference? That's not what I, did I write that? Did you read that somewhere? Or are you making that up?

INGRAHAM: "Thursday night I saw a political minstrel show devised for the entertainment of those on the rim of obliviousness..." Now, I like the sentence because it's well-written, but what I don't understand is what is an acceptable minstrel show then, a non-racist minstrel show?

BLOW: That is, that is a ridiculous question. What does that even mean?

INGRAHAM: Actually it's a, actually it's a good question, and it points out the absurdity of your column, because you would have written this column regardless of what you saw.

BLOW: You're really a -- are you serious? Is that a real question?

INGRAHAM: So, in other words you can't answer the question.

BLOW: Is that a real question?

INGRAHAM: You said you're not describing this as overtly racist. I quoted your column back to you, and your response is to say, "Is that really a question?" I don't, we had you on because I actually was interested to hear why you came away from this column, this event, as calling it a minstrel show. And you can't answer that question which I find disturbing for a New York Times columnist.

Not surprisingly, Monday's appearance was apparently Blow's first and last on conservative talk radio. He wrote on his Twitter account:

Alright, I'm finished with the Laura Ingraham show. Now I need a shower. Gross.

Blow followed up later:

Now I'm getting more requests from conservative radio shows. Too bad. Did my tour in crazy town today. Ur too late.

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Vatican Responds to NYT Accusations Against Pope Benedict XVI

Vatican Responds to NYT Accusations Against Pope Benedict XVI

Vatican Responds to NYT Accusations Against Pope Benedict XVI
Cardinal William Levada, a top Vatican official, issues a rare plea in response to Times coverage of how the Church handled several cases of alleged sexual abuse by priests, and what Joseph Ratzinger (who became Pope Benedict XVI) knew about the Church's response:

In an unusual move, last night the Vatican responded to several stories in the Times alleging that Joseph Ratzinger mishandled several sex abuse cases before he became Pope Benedict XVI, coverage that has thrown the international Church into turmoil.

The essay was penned by Cardinal William Levada, who succeeded the pope as head of the Vatican's doctrinal department. Levada made a plea for fairness for Pope Benedict under the headline “The New York Times and Pope Benedict XVI: how it looks to an American in the Vatican,” accusing Times religion reporter Laurie Goodstein “of anachronistic conflation” and of “rushing to a guilty verdict” against the Pope. Levada concluded:

As a full-time member of the Roman Curia, the governing structure that carries out the Holy See’s tasks, I do not have time to deal with the Times’s subsequent almost daily articles by Rachel Donadio and others, much less with Maureen Dowd’s silly parroting of Goodstein’s “disturbing report.” But about a man with and for whom I have the privilege of working, as his “successor” Prefect, a pope whose encyclicals on love and hope and economic virtue have both surprised us and made us think, whose weekly catecheses and Holy Week homilies inspire us, and yes, whose pro-active work to help the Church deal effectively with the sexual abuse of minors continues to enable us today, I ask the Times to reconsider its attack mode about Pope Benedict XVI and give the world a more balanced view of a leader it can and should count on.

The Times reacted to Levada's post in a story by Rachel Donadio in Thursday's edition.

Cardinal Levada singled out several Times reporters and columnists for criticism, focusing particularly on an article describing failed efforts by Wisconsin church officials to persuade the Vatican to defrock a priest who had abused as many as 200 deaf boys from 1950 to 1974. The pope, then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, was head of the Vatican’s doctrinal office when the case was referred there, in 1996.

He said the article wrongly “attributed the failure to accomplish this dismissal to Pope Benedict, instead of diocesan decisions at the time.” On Wednesday, the archbishop of Milwaukee said the pope should not be held responsible for mistakes that were made in Wisconsin, according to The Associated Press.

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News coverage of the abuse has clearly touched a nerve in the Vatican. As the church grapples with abuse cases that have come to light in several European countries, Benedict has come under scrutiny for how he and his subordinates handled sexual abuse allegations against priests while he served as an archbishop in Germany as well as when he was the Vatican’s top doctrinal enforcer.

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Breitbart to Times Reporter Alleging Racial Tones at CPAC: 'You're a Despicable Human Being'

Documenting and Exposing the Liberal Political Agenda of the New York Times
Friday February 19, 2010 @ 04:18 PM EDT

Of Course: Times Foreshadows Republican Troubles at CPAC (But No Racism?)
Kate Zernike's accusations of racial stereotyping by Jason Mattera, a speaker at the Conservative Political Action Conference don't make it into the print edition of the Times.

Breitbart to NY Times Reporter for Alleging Racial Tones at CPAC: 'You're a Despicable Human Being'
Conservative publisher Andrew Breitbart goes ballistic over phony racial allegations by Times reporter Kate Zernike against conservative author and CPAC speaker Jason Mattera.

Wishful Thinking on Obama-Care and Alan Simpson, Undeniable Conservative
Hopeful on health care? Reporter David Kirkpatrick on the Times' latest "Political Points" podcast: "And if they capture Osama bin Laden we might actually get a health-care bill this year."

Timothy Egan Goes to Olympics, Praises Canadian Care, Smears 'Heartless' Health Insurers
Former liberal reporter turned NYT blogger Timothy Egan blogs praise on Canada's health care system and smears U.S. health insurers: "They have universal health care, and while the system prompts much grumbling, it works for most people - without the death panel quality of America's heartless private insurers."

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Gail Collins Blames 'National Angst,''Bad Mood,' Florida Guppy Shortage for Coakley's Struggles in Mass.

Gail Collins Blames 'National Angst,''Bad Mood,' Florida Guppy Shortage for Coakley's Struggles in Mass.

Documenting and Exposing the Liberal Political Agenda of the New York Times
Monday January 18, 2010 @ 05:27 PM EDT

Paul Krugman's Explains Obama's First-Year Failure: He's Not Blaming Bush Enough!
Krugman in his Monday column: "Whatever the reason, Mr. Obama has allowed the public to forget, with remarkable speed, that the economy's troubles didn't start on his watch." Barack Obama, quoted in the same edition: "We have had one year to make up for eight."

Times Cites Study to Admit 'Journalism...Dominated By Liberals'
You don't say: "Journalism, art, fashion, social work and therapy are dominated by liberals," writes Patricia Cohen about a study claiming that conservative accusations of discrimination in academia are misguided.

The Times 'Ethicist' Said He'd Lie to Insurance Co., Plugs Universal Health Care
The Times liberal "ethics" columnist said he would "lie without remorse" to an insurance company asking a question about marijuana smoking, and worked in a plug for Obama-style health reform: "The real solution here is to guarantee access to medical care to all people, not just those pot-smoking liars."

Calling Massachusetts a Liberal State: Just a 'Political Stereotype'?
While Utah, Oklahoma, and any Deep South state is bluntly called conservative by the Times, the Times entertains doubts as to whether Massachusetts really qualifies as a liberal enclave. An alternate headline shows the Times clearly approves of at least one political stereotype, the “angry” red-state conservative: “In Reliably Blue State of Massachusetts, Pockets Red With Anger.”

Gail Collins Blames 'National Angst,''Bad Mood,' Florida Guppy Shortage for Coakley's Struggles in Mass.
Columnist Gail Collins, in denial: "Did you know that the cold snap in Florida hit the people who breed tropical fish so hard that there is a national guppy shortage? Things are bad, bad, bad. If Coakley loses, the inevitable conclusion will be that the message was a repudiation of Obama. My own theory is that the national angst is causing people to ignore the issues and just react to candidates' personalities."

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Ted Kennedy Obit Avoids the Jesse Helms Treatment

Kennedy Obit Avoids Jesse Helms Treatment

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Ted Kennedy Obit Avoids the Jesse Helms Treatment
Liberal Sen. Ted Kennedy was "one of the most effective lawmakers in the history of the Senate," while conservative Sen. Jesse Helms's "mossy drawl barely masked a hard-edged conservatism that opposed civil rights, gay rights, foreign aid and modern art."

Adam Clymer in Full Swoon Over Ted Kennedy's Legacy
Adam Clymer, who wrote a supportive biography of Sen. Ted Kennedy, defended Kennedy from a hostile questioner: "If you voted at 18 or were served Meals on Wheels or took advantage of a Medicare drug benefit, he helped get you there. Cheap college loans, children's health insurance, aid to the disabled and a variety of civil rights measures are also to his credit."

Pro-Obama-Care "Grassroots Advocates" -- Controlled by the DNC
Advice for reporter Katharine Seelye: If pro-Obama "grassroots advocates" are operating "under the aegis of the Democratic National Committee," they aren't really "grassroots advocates."

Times Tries (and Fails) to Rebut Fact Obama-Care Will Pay for AbortionsReporter Katharine Seelye quotes not one but two Planned Parenthood staffers to rebut a Family Research Council claim that taxpayers would have to pay for abortions.

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Ted Kennedy Obit Avoids the Jesse Helms Treatment
Liberal Sen. Ted Kennedy was "one of the most effective lawmakers in the history of the Senate," while conservative Sen. Jesse Helms's "mossy drawl barely masked a hard-edged conservatism that opposed civil rights, gay rights, foreign aid and modern art."

Posted by: Clay Waters
8/26/2009 3:43:52 PM

News of Sen. Ted Kennedy's death late Tuesday night didn't make the Wednesday print edition, but a 6,000-word obituary by John Broder was posted on nytimes.com this morning: "Edward Kennedy, Senate Stalwart, Dies."

Broder's obituary left room for the lowlights of Kennedy's career, including Mary Jo Kopechne's death at Chappaquiddick and Kennedy's ruthless personal attack on conservative Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork. But the opening paragraph offered a sharp contrast with another ideologically polarizing senator, Jesse Helms of North Carolina, who died on Independence Day last year. Broder's opening paragraph:

Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts, a son of one of the most storied families in American politics, a man who knew triumph and tragedy in near-equal measure and who will be remembered as one of the most effective lawmakers in the history of the Senate, died late Tuesday night. He was 77.

Contrast that respectful tone with the snarling opening sentence from Steven Holmes' obituary for Sen. Jesse Helms on July 5, 2008, under the print edition headline "Jesse Helms, Unyielding Beacon of Conservatism, Is Dead at 86."

Jesse Helms, the former North Carolina senator whose courtly manner and mossy drawl barely masked a hard-edged conservatism that opposed civil rights, gay rights, foreign aid and modern art, died early Friday. He was 86.

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Amazing Omissions in Times Interview of Barney Frank
A Times writer manages to talk to Barney Frank about Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and an SNL skit without bringing up a single challenging question.

Free-Market Radical From Czech Republic "Embarrasses" EU Again
Once again, the Times chides a Czech Republic leader's infuriating embrace of free-market principles.

Striving to Paint a More Positive Picture of a Cop-Killer
Lovelle Mixon killed four Oakland police officers -- but was he also a victim of the California penal system?

Amazing Omissions in Times Interview of Barney Frank

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A Times writer manages to talk to Barney Frank about Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and an SNL skit without bringing up a single challenging question.

Posted by: Clay Waters 3/26/2009 3:40:56 PM

The Times' special Deal Book section on Thursday featured a Q&A with Rep. Barney Frank by Times contributing writer Cyrus Sanati, "Rep. Barney Frank's To-Do List for Changing Wall Street."

“Wall Street is bracing for a regulatory tsunami to make its way up from Washington. Lawmakers are considering sweeping changes to the Depression-era securities laws and regulatory agencies that failed to prevent the economic downturn.

“As these new proposals gain momentum, Representative Barney Frank, the Massachusetts Democrat who is chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, will have a central role in influencing the size and scope of these new regulations.”

That's the lead-in to an extremely friendly interview (described as "edited and condensed excerpts from the discussion") with the liberal Democrat Frank, who heads up the House Financial Services Committee and will have a hand in creating new regulations and laws on executive compensation.

Not one of Sanati's 10 questions were critical of Frank, and none delved into his controversial ties and strong defense in the past of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government-sponsored mortgage lending companies, in their quest to ease up requirements for mortgage loans in the name of "affordable housing," which many experts think contributed to the mortgage crisis.

Sanati even asked Frank a question about Fannie and Freddie, but ignored Frank's previous support of the entities, captured by the Times itself in September 2003. At a hearing, Frank lectured that "these two entities, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, are not facing any kind of financial crisis....The more people exaggerate these problems, the more pressure there is on these companies, the less we will see in terms of affordable housing."

Oops.

But Sanati ignored all that and painted Franks as some kind of Freddie and Fannie reformer:

“Sanati: Subprime mortgages played a large part in the downturn, as well as the need for the government to rescue the mortgage financing giants Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. In an op-ed in the Financial Times in 2007, you said, “The subprime crisis demonstrates the serious negative economic and social consequences that result from too little regulation.” What have you done since to tighten regulation of that market?”

In Frank's answer, Sanati let the congressman get away with passing the buck to the Bush administration:

“Frank: We passed shortly thereafter a bill that would prevent the type of subprime mortgages that went bad. Unfortunately, it never passed the Senate. I am returning to that now. Earlier in 2007 we passed legislation to improve the regulation of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, but the Senate didn’t get on to passing it until July 2008 and by that time it was too late. The problem was with George Bush in power. It was hard to get the approval we needed for the degree of regulation that we thought was necessary.”

Saturday Night Live mocked Frank in a skit that aired on the network on the night of October 4, 2008, putting some blame on Frank for the banking crisis, The official online version of the skit was later controversially http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2008/10/07/nbc-reactionaries-ban-inconvenient-snl-sketch/ redacted by NBC in a way that removed all mention of Frank. Bizarrely, Sanati talks about a Frank' impression on SNL -- but another one, one featuring a Frank impressionist chairing the Big 3 auto hearings, which aired on November 22, 2008 and didn't attract nearly as much attention as the banking skit.

“Sanati: Many Americans have been following your committee’s hearings -- so much so that even “Saturday Night Live” did a skit about them, featuring you grilling the Big Three automakers. How do you think they did in impersonating you?”

“Frank: I am impressed with Fred Armisen’s range given that he impersonates me and Barack Obama, so I guess that’s, um, sort of interesting. The only time I was upset was when they had someone doing me that was really fat.”

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The Liberal Obsession with Income Inequality
Economics columnist David Leonhardt sees Obama's budget plan and U.S. history itself through the distorted liberal prism of income inequality, missing issues of individual freedom and the many benefits transferred to the poor from wealthy taxpayers.

Save the Earth: Recycle Your Urine
Lunchtime reading: Did you know that "Human excrement is rich in nitrogen" and "A 19th-century 'sewage farm' in Pasadena, Calif., was renowned for its tasty walnuts"?

George W. Bush's "Free Market Orthodoxy"?
Was that before or after the massive expansion of Medicare?

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Yep: The Times Got Pranked By the "Dating a Banker Anonymous" Girls

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Yep: The Times Got Pranked By the "Dating a Banker Anonymous" Girls
Newsweek reports that "what the Times described as a 'support group' of about 30 women is actually a full-blown parody...They don't fact check the emails, or the gossip, and the posts are embellished and exaggerated for added laughs. At times, details are plucked from thin air to give the stories a satirical edge."

Gary Locke's "Scandal-Free Resume"?
Columnist Michelle Malkin accuses reporter William Yardley of whitewashing the Clinton-era campaign finance controversies of Gary Locke, Obama's pick for Commerce Secretary.

"The Upside of Paying More Taxes"
Staff writer and columnist David Leonhardt on the civilizing joys of higher tax rates: "Think of it this way: A tax increase isn't so much a barrier to a society becoming richer as it is a result of a society becoming richer."

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Bill Ayers vs. Bill Buckley: Deborah Solomon's Double Standards Times "Q&A" reporter Deborah Solomon questioned conservative icon William F. Buckley in a more hostile fashion than she did Weatherman bomber Bill Ayers.

The "Resilient" Left-Wing Strongman Hugo Chavez A Times text box lauds Venezuelan President Chavez's "resilience" in winning a referendum ending term limits -- but what of the strong-armed intimidation tactics leading up to the vote?

Keller, Promoting His Paper's Book on Obama, Denies Pro-Obama Slant NYT Executive Editor Bill Keller, out promoting a New York Times book "Obama: The Historic Journey," denies pro-Obama media bias: "...as a rule, reporters don't fall in love with candidates. They fall in love with stories though."

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GOP Nativists and Racists Against Illegal Immigration

GOP Nativists and Racists Against Illegal Immigration

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GOP "Nativists" & Racists Against Illegal Immigration

The Times reaches back to the "racist Willie Horton ads" to suggest many in the GOP are racist extremists on immigration. And did you know the NRA was "extremist" as well?


After Being Dead Wrong the First Time, DeParle Hits Welfare Reform Again

Veteran reporter Jason DeParle criticizes welfare reform on Monday's front page, but has opposed it from the start: In 1996 he accused Bill Clinton of "seeking re-election with a bill that begrudges poor infants their Pampers."


No Context as Obama Heaps "Shame" on Banker Bonuses

Plus, a liberal sports columnist begs Bruce Springsteen to make a political statement during his halftime Superbowl concert: "...maybe we'll get lucky and there will be at least one bold moment Sunday night when Springsteen goes rogue and rails against -- oh, I don't know -- offensive Wall Street bonuses, $18.4 billion worth. Go ahead, Bruce, make those corporate fat cats squirm on their sofas."

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Inauguration Hypocrisy: NYT Chided Bush Gala, but Obamans Free to Party

Inauguration Hypocrisy: NYT Chided Bush Gala, but Obamans Free to Party

What happened to the paper's 2005 anti-Bush criticism of a "lavish inaugural celebration in a time of war"?

Posted by: Clay Waters on www.timeswatch.org 1/16/2009 4:46:02 PM

At a time when the United States is fighting two wars and faces a severe recession and huge budget deficits, the inauguration of Barack Obama as the nation's 44th president is estimated to cost $45 million.

Bush's 2004 inauguration cost roughly $40 million. But though the figures are similar there's been a major shift in the tone of coverage at the Times.

While the Times spent much of January 2005 making clear its disapproval of Bush extravagantly celebrating his inauguration during wartime, that concerned tone is conspicuously absent from the Times in January 2009, although the country is not only still at war in Iraq and Afghanistan, but also in danger of a deep recession. The difference? Perhaps because this time, it's the Times' favored candidate who is readying to assume the highest office.

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Inauguration Hypocrisy: NYT Chided Bush Gala, but Obamans Free to PartyWhat happened to the paper's 2005 anti-Bush criticism of a "lavish inaugural celebration in a time of war"?

Neil MacFarquhar, Still Taking Sides in the Middle East
Reporter Neil MacFarquhar sneaks in his trademark Palestinian advocacy in a story about Susan Rice's Senate confirmation hearings.

Guantanamo Bay's "Seemingly Endless Supply of Embarrassments"
Jumping on remarks by a Pentagon official regarding Guantanamo Bay, reporter William Glaberson takes a broad view of "torture" and dismisses as "public relations" the idea that detainees released from the prison return to fight against the U.S.

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More Unfairness Against Israel Double standards in Gaza: Reporter Ethan Bronner put the Palestinian case in emotionally resonant terms, while his marshalling of pro-Israel arguments is scattered and grudging.

Reviewer: Reporter David Sanger's Book Sure to Infuriate Rove, Bill O'Reilly A reviewer on reporter David Sanger's anti-Bush book: "These unvarnished conclusions by Mr. Sanger will of course confirm the perfidy that Karl Rove and Bill O'Reilly presume lies in the black hearts of Times reporters. But Mr. Sanger's criticism, the product of extraordinarily diligent reporting, is too hawkish to be easily dismissed by conservatives."

Just Getting By on the Upper West Side Everyone is hurting: "Instead of a long weekend at Canyon Ranch, maybe a day at the Cornelia Day Resort will do the trick."

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A Tale of Two Medicare Reforms: Obama's Benign "Overhaul" vs. GOP's Scary "Big Cuts" Posted By: Clay Waters 1/8/2009 7:56:04 PM A lead story by Jeff Zeleny and John Harwood shows that the Times has lost its false fear of "big cuts" in Medicare when they're proposed by Barack Obama.


Dick Cheney's "Reign of Terror" Posted By: Clay Waters 1/8/2009 7:54:14 PM From Maureen Dowd, in the midst of defending Caroline Kennedy's quest for a Senate appointment: "Hillary Clinton is a great talker, but she never stood up in the Senate to lead a crusade against any Republican horror show, from Terri Schiavo to the Bush administration's dishonest push to war."


Leaving Out Israel's Side of the Story Posted By: Clay Waters 1/7/2009 2:08:26 PM As Israel's incursion into Gaza continued, a headline in Wednesday's print edition left no room for doubt who was to blame for a tragic loss of civilian life.


Rahm Emanuel's No Centrist Posted By: Clay Waters 1/7/2009 1:30:28 PMAnd is Barack Obama really "right-leaning" in comparison to anyone?


Columnist Randy Cohen on a "Nutty" Pro-Life Teacher Posted By: Clay Waters 1/6/2009 2:12:36 PM The Times' ethics columnist … finds the following sentiment extremely strange: "They will be standing on behalf of the one-third of their generation that have been innocent victims of abortion."


Robert Pear Revs Up the Wayback Machine Posted By: Clay Waters 1/6/2009 11:25:55 AM Pear calls Lilly Ledbetter the Democratic "answer" to Joe the Plumber -- but she preceded him in the campaign spotlight by several months.


It's Funny Because It's True Posted By: Clay Waters 1/5/2009 2:50:01 PM Dave Barry finds the leaders of Obama's fan club.


More One-Sided Reporting on the Gaza "Assault" Posted By: Clay Waters 1/5/2009 5:54:23 PM Ethan Bronner: "Yet in its campaign so far, which has killed scores of children and other bystanders, Israel has not spared the trappings of Hamas sovereignty or limited itself to military targets."


Is the Times Losing Its Balance in Israel-Hamas Coverage? Posted By: Clay Waters 1/2/2009 11:17:52 AM Does a front-page story, "In Dense Gaza, Civilians Suffer," signal the Times will once again start criticizing Israel for going too far?


More NYT Gullibility on Cuba's "Advances in Education and Health Care" Posted By: Clay Waters 1/2/2009 10:51:40 AM Simon Romero falls for the old liberal line on Cuba's "enduring revolution."


Vicki Iseman Sues Times for $27 Million for Defamation Posted By: Clay Waters 12/31/2008 12:30:25 PM The telecom lobbyist is charging that a February front-page story paper "falsely communicated" that she had a romantic relationship with Sen. John McCain.

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It's Funny Because It's True

It's Funny Because It's True

Dave Barry finds the leaders of Obama's fan club.

Posted on “Times Watch” by: Clay Waters 1/5/2009 2:50:01 PM

From a "Year in Review" column by humorist Dave Barry: ...Barack Obama, in a historic triumph, becomes the nation's first black president since the second season of 24, setting off an ecstatically joyful and boisterous all-night celebration that at times threatens to spill out of The New York Times newsroom.

20090105 It is Funny Because It is True

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Poor, Dumb, Racist Southerners for McCain Adam Nossiter: "Southern counties that voted more heavily Republican this year than in 2004 tended to be poorer, less educated and whiter, a statistical analysis by The New York Times shows....Many of those counties, rural and isolated, have been less exposed to the diversity, educational achievement and economic progress experienced by more prosperous areas."

Cutesy Shop Liberated Me from the Bush Years Mike Albo: "If you feel as if you have been emotionally, professionally and politically run over by a tank for the last, say, eight years, then the well-selected, fun merchandise and carbonated energy of Fred Flare will bring a smile on your cautious, crabby face."

"Iraq War Ends": NYT Parody Issue Hits Streets of New York A Times parody sounds a bit like the wish-list of the Times editorial page: "Articles described a nation turned hard left: nationalized oil companies, a 'maximum wage' law, the enactment of national health insurance, President Bush indicted for treason and evangelical churches providing sanctuary for Iraqi refugees."

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Did McCain Call for Tougher Regulation of Fannie and Freddie? Yes, But...

Grudging acknowledgement that John McCain called for more regulation of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac: "Senator John McCain is correct: He warned two years ago that Congress should rein in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac...and Senator Barack Obama did not. But Mr. McCain overstates the role he has played..."

Discovering the Sarah Palin Rape-Kit "Scandal'

A Times editor arrives two weeks later to a left-wing rumor: "When Sarah Palin was mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, the small town began billing sexual-assault victims for the cost of rape kits and forensic exams...."

Times Goes After Obama's "Misleading Attacks" on McCain

Rectifying the paper's pro-Obama tilt, the Times takes Obama to task in a front-page story on his campaign's misleading ads.

Times Watch Quotes of Note -- Obama Voters "Better Educated and More Diverse"

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Palin's "Foreign Policy Tutorials" -- But Obama Didn't Need Any?Kate Zernike: "Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska completed Day 2 of her foreign policy tutorials on Wednesday..."

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Pro-Obama Snobbery? Support Strong Where People Are "Better Educated And More Diverse" Ian Urbina: "Support for Mr. Obama is much stronger in the northeastern section of the state, especially in places like Fairfax County, near Washington, whose population is younger, wealthier, better educated and more diverse."

Biden Stances on Busing, Drug Offenses Repackaged as Racial Controversies Hitting Joe Biden from the left on two dubious "race" issues.

"Oratorical" Obama Ad Takes High Road, But McCain "Got Himself Into Trouble" In an analysis of two new campaign ads about the meltdown on Wall Street, the Times portrayed Obama as a skillful and honest orator, while McCain "got into trouble" with a statement Obama and the Times have wrenched out of context.


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The "Fraudulent...Fiction" of the McCain-Palin Ticket
Conservatives are happy, and columnist Frank Rich is spitting mad.

The NYT Tackles US Weekly's "Scandalous" Cover Story on Sarah Palin
A focus on liberal bias: "The celebrity magazine, which usually focuses more on Britney and baby bumps than elections, drew criticism from readers for the cover. A record number of commenters on the Us magazine Web site -- more than 6,600, at last count -- weighed in, most focusing on the magazine's perceived bias."

Times Media Columnist Saw Journalistic Contempt for Palin at RNC
Mark Leibovich dismisses Republican arguments about liberal media bias as a campaign tactic, while media columnist David Carr takes them to heart.

No More Mr. Nice McCain: Advisor a Rove Acolyte Spreading "False," "Fierce Attacks"
"[Steve Schmidt's] stamp was reflected in the sharp tone of the scathing prime-time speeches, all of which Mr. Schmidt reviewed and approved, and some of which were criticized as stretching the truth."

Sticking Up for Harry Reid Against Sarah Palin
Reporter Carl Hulse: "Now Harry Reid is hardly thin-skinned and almost anything else Ms. Palin could have said about him might not have drawn much of a reaction. But to the former boxer from tiny Searchlight, Nev., that insinuation from Governor Palin amounts to fighting words. He sees himself as more than capable of standing up to Mr. McCain..."

GOP Convention Reminded Reporter of "Belligerent" Buchanan Speech of '92"The Republican National Convention this week in Minneapolis-St. Paul hardly measures up to the belligerence of Patrick J. Buchanan's 1992 call for a 'cultural war,' but some of the same refrains are playing in the background."

Egan on Sarah Palin, "Alarming" Alaskan Outsider
Liberal reporter turned nytimes.com blogger Timothy Egan argues that the Alaskan Palin may be too strange for mainstream America -- a week after attacking Cokie Roberts for calling Hawaii a "foreign, exotic place" for Barack Obama to grow up in.

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