BARTLETT’S BIAS

You’d think something as innocuous as Bartlett’s quotations wouldn’t be spoiled by leftist bias. But it has been. Is this my paranoid reading – just because president Reagan wasn’t included until now? Nope. Finally, the editor, Justin Kaplan has come clean. According to USA Today:

After the last edition, Kaplan was criticized for ignoring President Reagan. “I admit I was carried away by prejudice. Mischievously, I did him dirt,” he says. He has added six Reagan quotes, including “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall,” which Kaplan calls “one of the greatest moments in Western history.”

I wonder if, in a few years’ time, Howell Raines will admit the same about Bush.