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But they endorsed Pataki, Giuliani and Bloomberg. They went after Clinton relentlessly, not because he wasn't liberal enough for them, but because he had sex in the White House with someone other than his wife. Actually, they went after Clinton from day 1, probably because they thought he was a horndog hillbilly. They also have regularly published the frothings of William Safire, Abe Rosenthal (a former executive editor), Michael Kelly, John Tierney, Andrew Sullivan, etc. And their political reporting is atrociously vapid, as most political reporting is. You could say that the Times' Maureen Dowd invented the style of slasher-reportage, tearing the candidate you're covering down, not for substance, but for style, that has become all-pervasive in US political reporting. In short, the Times is less liberal seeming if you scratch the surface a little.
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