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Obama the Pragmatic 'Centrist' and 'Level-Headed Referee' of the Budget Crisis

Reporter Jeff Zeleny claims Obama has shifted to the center after the 2010 Democratic wipeout. But previously Zeleny insisted Obama had always been a pragmatic centrist. If he suspected it was ...

Deborah Solomon Gives Up 'Q&A' Slot; Showed Blatant Hostility Toward Conservatives

Peter Baker's respectful interview with Donald Rumsfeld in the Times Sunday Magazine makes quite a contrast with Deborah Solomon's aggressive and hostile approach toward conservatives like William ...

Really Now: 'A Compelling Case That Obamanomics Has Produced Results'

White House reporter Peter Baker: "There is a compelling case that Obamanomics has produced results....The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, known as the stimulus, produced or saved at least ...

Obama's Chamber of Commerce Attack Falls Flat at the New York Times

Two reporters file separate stories dismissing the import of a left-wing attack on the U.S. Chamber of Commerce for allegedly allowing foreign money to be used in U.S. elections, with one ...

The Times Admires Obama's War Footing Against the Oil Spill

Peter Baker: "Evoking the spirit and language of predecessors who used the same setting to send troops into harm's way, Mr. Obama cast the effort to cap a well as part of the American ...

Obama's Latest Rhetorical Triumph: 'I Was Wrong' (Not to Clean House Quicker After Corrupt Bush Administration)

Obama triumphs by blaming Bush? Peter Baker: "President Obama uttered three words on Thursday that many of his 43 predecessors twisted themselves into knots trying with varying degrees of success ...

Times Raises Sestak Bribe Allegation, Presses Obama on Hypocrisy

Peter Baker is the first Times reporter to directly address Sestak's allegations of the White House bribing him to drop out of the Democratic primary, and even raises the hypocrisy angle: "Even if ...

To NY Times, Obama Pick Elena Kagan a 'Liberal,' But Only 'in Moderation'

The New York Times' Peter Baker wonders if Elena Kagan is liberal enough to battle with the staunch conservatives on the Supreme Court, while the Times fawns over Kagan the "opera-loving, ...

Obama Pick Elena Kagan a 'Liberal,' But Only 'in Moderation'

Peter Baker wonders if Elena Kagan is liberal enough to battle with the staunch conservatives on the Supreme Court, while the Times fawns over Kagan the "opera-loving, poker-playing, ...

Is Obama's Health-Care Resurrection Nigh?

Some see religious iconography in a puzzling photo of Obama on the front of the Times Week in Review.
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