Anyone who doubts the Times has a predominantly liberal audience should check out the paper's new political blog, The Caucus [1]. The poststhemselves(by Times staffers)aren't terribly slanted, although liberal assumptions and conventional wisdoms aren't hard to sniff out, but the commenters are a just-as-paranoid-if-less-vulgar version of the mobs at the Daily Kos. 
Check out this comments thread [2]on a post about Sen. George Allen of Virginia's response to a weird, hostile question about his Jewish ancestry during atelevised debate with Democratopponent James Webb.In a charming turn, the left net-roots and the Webb campaign have taken to spelling out the senator's full name "George Felix Allen," and "Felix" crops up in the Times' comments section as well.