The New York Times under Pinch Sulzberger has, for all practical purposes,  become an arm  of the Democratic National Committee.  If Howard Dean, instead of Bill Keller and Andy Rosenthal, were formally given the assignment to select articles for the front page and columns for the opinion pages, I doubt you would know the difference.  In December, the Times chose not to run an un-sourced smear piece that first appeared in the Drudge Report,  accusing  John McCain of a relationship with a Telecom lobbyist, probably because McCain was going nowhere in the nominating process, so why attack him? But now that McCain looks like the GOP nominee, the Times has decided to play the National Enquirer role and get the trash out.  The story is nothing but innuendo as far as the lobbyist's alleged business and romantic relationship to McCain are concerned, and mainly raises old issues about the Keating 5 scandal from the early 80s. There is no evidence that...(Read Full Post)