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AIDS

• July 14 -- No Aid for Bush's Liberal AIDS Cause
One would think an administration embarking on an aggressive campaign to fight AIDS in Africa would get support from the liberal media. Nope: "The administration's AIDS effort is under sharp scrutiny because it so big, so unabashedly Washington-dominated and tinged by the administration's political ideology." Then the Times brings up Iraq.

• June 15 -- Reagan and Bush, "Panderers to the Religious Right"
Frank Rich, who's never made a secret of his distaste for the Reagan administration, revels in the former president's "performance chops," if only to make Bush look callow by comparison.

• January 8 -- On Reagan and AIDS, Times Catches Up With Times Watch
The Times corrects a piece falsely accusing Reagan of never having mentioned AIDS--three weeks after Times Watch did.

• December 17 -- Getting Reagan Wrong on AIDS
Dudley Clendinen, former national correspondent and editorial writer for the Times, claims: "'Angels in America' begins in the mid-1980's, in the Reagan era, when the president uttered not a word about AIDS…" Wrong: Reagan mentioned AIDS five times in his 1986 State of the Union.

• November 19 -- AIDS "Angels" vs. "Rancid" Reaganites
Editor Frank Rich pens a poisonous, 2,200-word excoriation of the Reagan administration's attitude toward AIDS in a hagiography of HBO's adaptation of the anti-Reagan gay advocacy play "Angels in America." Rich writes: "This epic is, among other things, a searing indictment of how the Reagan administration's long silence stoked the plague of AIDS in the 1980's....it accurately conveys the rancid hypocrisy among powerful closeted gay Republicans in Washington as AIDS spiraled."

• November 6 -- Reagan, AIDS and Pope Pius XII
TV critic Alessandra Stanley reviews the melodrama over the botched and biased CBS miniseries "The Reagans," counting conservatives as hypocrites and painting Pope Pius XII in an anti-Semitic light.

• May 9 -- Time To Get Squeamish
Columnist Nicholas Kristof laments “some Americans get the willies when they see terms like ‘anal sex.’” But college girls with guns? Now that scares him.