Power Line is up in arms over the NYT’s hatchet piece against likely-soon-to-be-Speaker John Boehner (R-OH). They’re right of course; the NYT piece was absurd. It actually claimed — no joke — that Boehner is in the pocket of lobbyists because he opposed cap-and-trade, caps on debit card fees, tax hikes on hedge funds, and various other idiotic Democratic policies that Republicans oppose already.
But what I think is more interesting is the timing of the NYT piece. If you do a search on New York Times stories about John Boehner, you don’t see a lot of hatchet jobs. Boehner simply hasn’t been a target for the NYT. But, the NYT hopped on the anti-Boehner bandwagon within three days of White House’s decision to campaign against him. The only other NYT attack piece I could find directed at Boehner is a Paul Krugman column that also came out after the White House designated its target.
There is no plausible inference other than this: The New York Times takes its cues from the Democratic leadership.
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