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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (223264)	1/29/2002 5:04:18 PM
From: Zoltan!	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

NYTimes, renown Dem/socialist paper: THANK GOD FOR THE POST: The left-wing lurch of the New York Times increasingly means that the Washington Post is the paper of record for simple news coverage. This is a terrible shame. We need the Times’ high standards to be protected. But recall how the Times spun its political/Enron poll on Sunday. Now look how the Post reports washingtonpost.com very similar findings today. Night and day. Of course the big news is George W. Bush’s historically unprecedented ratings. If this was Bush 41, the numbers would have started cascading downward by now. They haven’t. What’s more, W has a 61 percent score on the critical question of understanding the problems of most people. That’s big news for compassionate conservatism. But more interesting is the way in which Republicans generally have picked up support. Republicans now have a 7 point advantage in Congressional races, compared with a 7 point deficit coming up to the last elections. They have their highest rating since 1981. That need not convert into electoral victory, but it’s clearly good news. Bush has creamed the Democrats on the budget and taxes and deficits. Tom Daschle has far lower positives than his party. The president isn’t likely to become complacent. He knows – perhaps better than his advisers – that his re-elect number still hasn’t cracked 50 percent. But the public is smart about Enron. They smell something highly unpleasant, but they aren't hyper-ventilating and want simple, full disclosure. Cheney, in my opinion, should get off his high horse and get on with disclosing names and dates (without details of the content of discussion). As to the broader question of bias, it happens that I know Dana Milbank of the Post and Rick Berke of the Times. Rick is more liberal than Dana but Dana is no conservative. Still, Milbank kept his bias under control. He saw a good story in the data and reported it. Why can’t the Times? andrewsullivan.com

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (223264)	1/29/2002 5:05:59 PM
From: Zoltan!	Respond to of 769670

NYTimes, renown Dem/socialist paper: KLEIN ON THE NEW YORK TIMES: “The Times' domestic policy "reporting"—on issues like health insurance, welfare reform, race, and religion—has long languished in a niche between the New Republic and The Nation; I don't suspect that will change.” That’s from Joe Klein, slate.msn.com a liberal Democrat with some centrist edges, certainly no member of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy. And people wonder why “Bias” is at Number 1. andrewsullivan.com