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Suspicious Concern Over Romney's 'Heavy New Baggage' After Florida Win

The Times sees in Romney "a willingness to descend into the muck and run a relentlessly negative campaign....Mr. Romney has never been especially squeamish about negative campaigning. As jarring ...

Parker Dwells on Robotic Romney's 'Peculiar Habit,' Spells Out His Ha-Ha's

"When Mitt Romney introduces himself to voters, he has a peculiar habit of guessing their age or nationality, often incorrectly." More of Romney as robot: The Times feels the need to spell out ...

Gay Marriage Roundup: Banner Headlines, Few Opponents, 'Tears of Joy'

Former White House correspondent turned columnist Frank Bruni: "Same-sex marriage? I don't recall our talking - or dreaming - much about that. We considered ourselves realists. Sometimes ...

Times Overexcited About First Daughter Barbara Bush's Support of Gay Marriage

Reporter Michael Barbaro gets awfully worked up about one of Bush's daughter's making a video in support of gay marriage in New York State: "The Bush dynasty is no stranger to generational ...

Inflammatory Democrat Alan Grayson, 'Liberal Folk Hero' of Congress

Defeated Democratic and "virtual-bomb-tosser" Alan Grayson gets a a rather fond send off in the Times and certainly doesn't get the Newt Gingrich treatment (the Times omits the "virtual" when ...

Times Reporter Notes People Magazine Includes Andrew Cuomo In 'Sexiest Men' Issue

The governor-elect is promoted for the idea that (liberal) public service is "sexy." But Cuomo also thinks it could be his natural good looks - what he calls his "genetic sculpting."

Barbaro: NY State GOP Candidate Paladino's 'Outrage-Filled Campaign' Full of Tea Party Sleazebags

Michael Barbaro on the "tainted past" of Carl Paladino's Tea Party staffers: "And the issue highlights a growing problem across the country for the Tea Party, which has backed Mr. Paladino: the ...

Mayor Bloomberg Seeks to Bolster 'Center'...By Supporting Joe Sestak and Lincoln Chafee?

The Times leads Sunday with the soothing "moderation" of NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg against harmful Tea Party anger: "In an election year when anger and mistrust have upended races across the ...

Beware of GOP Gov Candidate Carl Paladino's 'Bluster and Belligerence,' New Yorkers

A Tea Party candidate wins in New York State, and reporters David Halbfinger and Michael Barbaro shudder. "The result was a potentially destabilizing blow for New York Republicans. It put at the ...

Hometown Heartbreak: Mosque Opposition Spreads to Formerly Sophisticated New York City, Laments NY Times

After spending a month assuring readers that most sophisticated New Yorkers are just fine with building a mosque near Ground Zero, the New York Times conducts its own poll and finds New Yorkers ...
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