NYTimes Mag Celebrates 'Iconic' Hillary, 'Highminded' Yet 'Hardheaded

Reporter Steven Lee Myers heaped praise on Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in a 5,500-word profile for the New York Times Sunday Magazine, evident in the title, "Last Tour of the Rock-Star Diplomat." One of Myers's big scoops is that Hillary Clinton can remember names and personal details, which is apparently just as important as all that foreign policy guff: "Whatever she might have…

NY Times Suddenly OK With Warring President: Is Obama Intervention in

Is Syria next on Obama’s intervention list? New York Times reporters Helene Cooper and Steven Lee Myers speculate in Monday’s “U.S. Tactics in Libya May Be a Model for Other Efforts.” The text box works in a typical crack at Bush administration foreign policy: “Using force when justified but not going it alone.”  The implication, common in the pages of the Times, is that Bush somehow went it…

NY Times Reporter: Shame How Netanyahu and Conservatives Ignored Obama

Saturday’s lead from New York Times reporter Steven Lee Myers did its best to paint Israel’s conservative, pro-security prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu as being disingenuous and stubborn in the face of President Obama’s reasonable offer for Israel to give up land to the Palestinians: "Israeli Leader Rebuffs Obama On ‘67 Borders – Both Denounce Hamas – Meeting at White House Underscores…

'Critics' (and NYT Reporters?) Say Bush 'Squandered the Country's Mora

'Ever Upbeat' Bush Deluded in His Iraq War Optimism, Says NYT

NYT on Karl Rove: Polarizing, Divisive Right-Winger