Sunday, January 02, 2005
Adam of The Times Stumps for the DLCers;
Mole for the GOP?
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Watch for this byline when reading your morning New York Times:
By ADAM NAGOURNEY
Then, you can safely skip over it, and move on to the next article in the paper, or click onto another article on the site.
After having his not liking John Kerry ooze up through his dispatches throughout the recent presidential campaign as the beat writer for The Times, and after writing a string of personal, negative stories about the candidate he was supposedly following impartially, Adam Nagourney has decided (or was he assigned?) to insert himself squarely into the current battle for the Chair of the DNC.
Democrats Entangled: So What Happened in That Election, Anyhow?
Do not expect an informed discussion about that question in the title. It's basically a rehashing of the themes the TV talking heads were prattling about in the week after the election.
If you're Karl Rove and the GOP machinery, how much better could it get, then having The Paper of Record running stories emphasizing the corporate donations-based Status Quo wing of the Democratic Party, who assert that it was just not enough focus on "values" and "terrorism" that cost them the election. The content and well-funded "Republican Lite" Boys—Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV), incoming Gov. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and the hapless, but ever-lovely outgoing DNC Chair Terry McAuliffe—all get a firm pat on the back from ol' Adam here. Even their current poster boy for the Chair, former Rep. and former member of the 9/11 Commission Tim Roemer, gets a nod from Adam to say a few words about How to Paint a Different Face on Strong Republican Issues.
You won't have to search very long to notice that there is only passing mention of the massive grassroots Reform Movement within the Democratic Party—which spurred a million people to hit the streets in February 2003 and created the outpouring of volunteers and cash and technology that infused the effort to unseat George Bush—and that mention is only indirectly, as something these tried and true Democrats need to put up with on their way to their next defeat.
It really is incumbent upon the editors of The Times to keep Selective writing, and Opinion writing to to its well reknowned Op-Ed page, which has rightly won awards for years.
posted by Gotham 10:14 AM
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