"Just the Ticket" -- Obama/Clinton 2012 -- Bill Keller, New York Times -- 1/9/2012

[karynnj]

67. +10000

Given that he was editor when Judith Miller aided Cheney in pushing lies about WMD. He was STILL editor when the NYT praised Bush's second inaugural to the heights. Totally ignored was that Bush essentially spoke of Iraq being an attempt to "spread democracy" - which was exactly what Bush had denied for two years - and if said would have cost him the election.

What seems clear is that he is either a neo con or flirted with it - and that may explain the really biased coverage of the 2004 race - where Bush was covered by Elisabeth Bumiller, who always gave him the benefit of the doubt - even when there was none and agreed with the public editor, Okrent (sp?) who backed a reporter who justified writing that Kerry was a social loner by saying that she spoke to 20 long term friends from at least college days - because apparently, you can be a social loner and have more than 20 very close almost 40 year long friendships.