A round-up of the Times' liberal labeling habits: On Saturday, Carl Hulse and Robert Pear's tick-tock [1]on how the immigration deal came to be called Republican Sen. Jon Kyl of Arizona a conservative, but Sen. Ted Kennedy was just a plain old "Democrat of Massachusetts," not a liberal. (Ignoring Kennedy's liberalism while labelingRepublicans senators as conservative is an old [2] Times' habit [3].)
Michael Luo and Laurie Goodstein got redundant in their front-page story Monday, "Emphasis Shifts For New Breed Of Evangelicals [4]," talking of the stubborn "persistence" of the "conservative legacy of the religious right" (would that be as opposed to the liberal legacy of the religious right?).
And a front-page story Tuesday by Robin Toner, "Abortion [5]Foes See Validation For New Tactic [5]," twice termed the pro-life group Justice Foundation "conservative," while pro-abortion Planned Parenthood didn't receive a single liberal label.