The Liberal New York Times?

Submitted by Ryan McConnell on October 25, 2005 - 2:30pm.

With Judy Miller still dominating the news, it seems that you can't pick up the paper or watch an cable news channel these days without a reference to the "liberal New York Times." Web sites such as TimesWatch.org's whole reason for existence is to report about the Times' liberal agenda. In fact, the perception of liberal bias in the Times is so widespread that their former public editor had the audacity to affirm the accusation, writing emphatically, "Of course it is [liberal]." Yet, if we're to believe the Times is run by a cabal of undercover communists plotting world peace and "New Deal" social policies, they sure did a good job of hiding it in today's op-ed section:

  • "And Your Point Is?" by John Tierney. The libertarian columnist makes the argument that not only did Rove and Libby not break the law in the Plame leak, but the point of the entire investigation is useless and misguided. He concludes the piece by writing, "No one deserves to be indicted on conspiracy charges for belonging to a group that believed Iraq had weapons of mass destruction."
  • "The Lap of Luxury," by Elisabeth Eaves. The author, reacting to the news that a man recently was charged $241,000 for a visit to a strip club, defends the adult entertainment facility, asserting that "there's no such thing as overcharging" and blaming the man's lack of personal responsibility (while likely intoxicated) for "crying to the courts."
  • "Hurricane Fitzgerald Approaches the White House," by Nicholas Kristof. "Before dragging any Bush administration officials off to jail, we should pause and take a long, deep breath," begins the pinko lefty Kristof in his latest column. He proceeds to give the Bush administration the benefit of the doubt in the Plame affair ("...it may well have been negligence rather than vengeance.") and says that he's "repulsed" by glee Democrats are feeling in the Plame affair.

    ...all of which are hardly liberal views. True, the editorial page did take a swipe at Bill Frist, was snide in their approval of Bush's Fed Chairman nomination, and lobbied for "The U.N. Route for Syria," all columns that would make your neighborhood conservative gnash her teeth. And, of course, I've got a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you if you think that the Times is never guilty of liberal bias. But at least they give their political "opposition" the opportunity to make their case. It's more than you can say about any of the conservative paper's today, where all you'll find is acclaim for Fed Chair Ben Bernanke, a thrashing of the Times' handling of Judith Miller, and a defense of US conduct in Iraq.

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