RAINES WATCH

When I saw the headline in the New York Times – “Bush Slashing Aid For E.P.A. Clean-Up …” from Bush-hater Katharine Seelye, I barely read the article. I’m not alone in skipping through these Raines-sponsored DNC-written press releases recycled as news. I should have been more diligent. Slate’s Jack Shafer has the goods on Seelye’s distortions. Jack nails it cold. It’s yet more devastating evidence of why the Times simply cannot be trusted any more. (Correction. Too many July 4 cocktails: I first wrote that Elizabeth Bumiller wrote the story. I get my Bush-haters muddled up. Sorry.)