"A presidential elbow to the ribs of husbands" read the text box. Would an expensive Manhattan jaunt by George and Laura Bush during a recession have been given such gauzy treatment?
Times reporters never use the term "ultraliberal" to describe politicians, but Steve Lonegan, a former mayor running in the New Jersey Republican gubernatorial primary, was called ...
Sheryl Gay Stolberg gushed that Obama Supreme Court nominee Sotomayor "danced a mean salsa" at Princeton, hints she might be some kind of liberal in paragraph 73.
As close as reporters Peter Baker and Jeff Zeleny got to admitting the obvious: "If confirmed to succeed Justice David H. Souter, a mainstay of the liberal wing who is retiring, Judge Sotomayor ...
Chief political reporter Adam Nagourney plays the ethnicity card, suggesting Republicans would be wise to let Judge Sonia Sotomayor be confirmed without putting up a fight or risk "doom[ing] ...
Reporter Kirk Johnson, hypersensitive to signs of conservative weakness out West, foresees the eclipse of traditional conservatism in Utah, unless the state "swerves right" by electing "staunch ...
Two more possible Obama Supreme Court nominees, the "moderate" Carlos Moreno and "baseball savior" Sonia Sotomayor, get the Times' patented mainstreaming treatment from sympathetic Times reporters.
The Times is trying to sell Elena Kagan and Janet Napolitano as moderate choices for the soon-to-be-vacant Supreme Court seat. But just how "bipartisan" are they?
