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August 19, 2004

New York Times and the News: Sports

One of Glenn's readers says the press isn't really liberal, it is partisan, "Think of it like a sporting event where folks desperately want one team to win and the other to lose."

As if by way of proof, James Taranto notices this:

Yesterday Gail Collins's New York Times editorial board declared not only that Chávez was the legitimate winner but that it will brook no dissent on the question:

It is time for President Hugo Chávez's opponents to stop pretending that they speak for most Venezuelans. They do not, as the failure of a recall referendum, promoted by the opposition, decisively demonstrated on Sunday. . . . The opposition . . . needs to stop shouting foul.

This editorial ran three days after the Venezuela vote. Meanwhile, after more than three years, the Times is still shouting foul over America's 2000 election. Today, 1,381 days after George W. Bush's victory, the Times begins its lead editorial this way:

One of the scandals of the last presidential election was the large number of voters who were denied the right to vote because of foul-ups in the election system, like errors in the voting rolls or problems in directing voters to their correct polling places.

Question the election of a socialist less than a week after the voting: bad. Question the election of a Republican almost four years later: good. All's fair as long as it helps your "team" win.

Posted by bubba138 at August 19, 2004 02:02 PM