Charlie Savage
N.Y. Times Finds Eric Holder's Politically Tone-Deaf -- But They Didn
February 16th, 2010 12:09 PM
On February 18, 2009, Attorney General Eric Holder threw a rhetorical bomb, calling America "a nation of cowards" on the subject of race. On Monday, the New York Times reported that this caused major gaffe havoc inside the Obama administration. He needed a "minder" to watch his mouth. But here's the funny part: the news pages of the Times didn't acknowledge the speech -- for weeks.On March 8, in…
NYT: Swift Boat Vets Inspired Term for 'Smearing a Political Opponent
July 16th, 2009 3:44 PM
In his Wednesday afternoon "Caucus" post on nytimes.com, "Conservative Ad Accuses Sotomayor of Supporting Terrorists," Times legal reporter Charlie Savage used a new anti-Sotomayor ad from the Committee for Justice to smear the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth campaign against Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry in 2004. Taking advantage of the fact that the new ad was written by someone…
