WHEN IT RAINES, IT POURS

“We all knew the poll was coming. At regular intervals since he took over the New York Times, hyper-liberal new executive editor Howell Raines has tried to get traction on a president he despises. Usually, this is done by crude front-page editorializing – most memorably R.W. Apple’s front-page prediction of the Afghan campaign as a “quagmire,” or the saturation Enron-coverage a few months back. But polls are particularly tempting methods for advancing naked political agendas under the guise of objective journalism. They work well because a poll gives a patina of empiricism to the prejudices of its architects …” See the rest of my latest piece, this time for the New York Sun, here. And yes, I know. I’m gonna lay off the Times for a while. Enough’s enough.