Mickey Kaus notes a correction in the New York Times necessitated by the paper’s false claims that the economy is in recession and that speeches by Bush and Cheney caused markets to drop:
If a NYT editor, or reporter, is so blinded by animosity toward the Administration that they automatically believe these false things are true, what else do they automatically believe is true?
This follows on the heels of an exquisite analysis of stories by Nina Bernstein on the Times front page about “child only” welfare cases which spin bureaucratic attempts to circumvent time-limits as evidence of widespread starvation.
The Times has always had an axe to grind, but I don’t remember it being quite so shameless in the past. Apparently this new anti-administration jihad is the result of Howell Raines’ stewardship. It’s a damn good thing we still have a respectable paper in the Washington Post.