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Abu Ghraib

• September 21 -- Florida Now, Florida Forever for the Times
The Times editorial page still hasn't recovered from Florida 2000, and also accuses Bush of "sweeping aside the Constitution."

• September 20 -- LeDuff on Rodney King: "Even Good Guys Make Mistakes."
Rodney King comes off more like Martin Luther King in a profile by Charlie LeDuff.

• August 25 -- Rummy Trouble on "Eve" of Republican Convention?
Douglas Jehl's front-page story strains to make the just-released Abu Ghraib report a political problem for Bush and Donald Rumsfeld on the "eve of the convention" (still five days away).

• July 19 -- "Ethnic Cleansing Celebrated As the Height of Piety"
Nicholas Kristof's column is slightly less offensive than its title ("Jesus and Jihad") but it's close: "No, I don't think the readers of [the Christian apocalyptic novel] 'Glorious Appearing' will ram planes into buildings. But we did imprison thousands of Muslims here and abroad after 9/11, and ordinary Americans joined in the torture of prisoners at Abu Ghraib in part because of a lack of empathy for the prisoners."

• July 7 -- Have I Mentioned Abu Ghraib This Week?

• June 11 -- Abu Ghraib, at the Movies
There's no Abu Ghraib movie out yet, but movie critic Steven Holden wastes no time bringing it up: "Arriving right on the heels of the Abu Ghraib scandal, the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival has a new, uncomfortable resonance for those who habitually regard the United States as remaining above the moral fray."

• June 11 -- Abu Ghraib, on the Tube
The Times keeps Abu Ghraib in the news with a story about a commercial condemning the Abu Ghraib prison abuse, made by "spiritual leaders from different faiths" who all turn out to be liberals.

• June 10 -- Locking Up the Abu Ghraib Offenders
Abu Ghraib month continues on the Times op-ed page, stacked with three op-eds on the prison abuse scandal, two of which advocate a rounding up of offenders.

• June 9 -- Abu Ghraib: First like My Lai, Now Like the Nazis?
First the Times compared Abu Ghraib to the Vietnam massacre at My Lai. Now they're upping the ante: "While nudity as a disciplinary or coercive tool may be especially objectionable to Muslims, they are hardly the only victims of the practice. Soldiers in Nazi Germany paraded naked prisoners in daylight…."

• June 9 -- Laying Blame for Abu Ghraib on Bush
A Times lead editorial, "The Roots of Abu Ghraib," goes all out to link Bush to the Abu Ghraib prison abuse: "Each new revelation makes it more clear that the inhumanity at Abu Ghraib grew out of a morally dubious culture of legal expediency and a disregard for normal behavior fostered at the top of this administration."

• June 4 -- "Ludicrous Visions" of US Troops Showered With Flowers?
An editorial on George Tenet's resignation slams "one of the more ludicrous visions offered by Mr. Rumsfeld's team, like the one of grateful Iraqis showering American soldiers with flowers." Yet the paper's own reporting shows that "ludicrous vision" was absolutely accurate.

• June 2 -- Memorial Day In Abu Ghraib
Shaila Dewan's Tuesday story marks Memorial Day in Powell, Wyoming--via Abu Ghraib.

• June 2 -- Nice Speech, Rumsfeld -- But What About Abu Ghraib?
Marc Santora covers Defense Secretary Rumsfeld's commencement speech at West Point and shoehorns in this out-of-nowhere reference: "The speech, which made no mention of the abuse of prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, drew polite applause."

• June 1 -- Back to Abu Ghraib
All roads lead back to Abu Ghraib at the NYT.

• June 1 -- Frank Rich's Pornographic Hypocrisy
Editor Frank Rich contemptuously dismisses conservatives who dare link the prisoner abuse of Abu Ghraib to pornography: "The hypocrisy of those pushing this line knows few bounds." Yet the left-wing essayist Susan Sontag, so admired by Rich, made precisely the same argument in the cover story of the NYT magazine.

• May 27 -- Abu Ghraib "Abuse" Under Both U.S. and Saddam
Elisabeth Bumiller's report on Bush's call to raze the Abu Ghraib prison likens the abuse of Iraqis by U.S. soldiers to the torture and death practiced there by Saddam Hussein.

• May 27 -- More Reminders of Abu Ghraib
The release of transcripts from Henry Kissinger leads to a seemingly inevitable Abu Ghraib reference.

• May 24 -- Kristof's Anti-War "Scream" Fest
Nicholas Kristof sticks it to Bush and Rumsfeld: "Donald Rumsfeld has presided over the most foolish conflict since the War of Jenkins' Ear in the 18th century, and he is at the top of a military force that tortured prisoners. " Then he lashes out at the "neo-con ideologues who screamed for war."

• May 24 -- Susan Sontag, the Times' Anti-American Essayist
The Sunday magazine gives its front page over to radical intellectual Susan Sontag's on Abu Ghraib, the same person who wrote after 9-11: "Where is the acknowledgment that this was not a 'cowardly' attack on 'civilization' or 'liberty' or 'humanity' or 'the free world' but an attack on the world's self-proclaimed superpower, undertaken as a consequence of specific American alliances and actions?"

• May 19 -- Flooding the Zone on Abu Ghraib
The Washingtonian recently crowned the Washington Post the clear winner over the New York Times for comprehensive coverage of the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse story. As if making up for lost time, Wednesday's NYT becomes Abu Ghraib central.

• May 18 -- Celebrating Another "Independent" Republican (and Bush Critic)
Carl Hulse lauds Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, another Republican with an "independent streak" (Times' code meaning "often sides with Democrats").

• May 13 -- U.S. "High-Handed and Arrogant"
Reporter Steven Weisman pours skepticism all over Bush's Middle East proposals.

• May 11 -- Abu Ghraib = My Lai, Again
Now it's Krugman's turn.

• May 10 -- Abu Ghraib = My Lai?
Frank Rich compares the abuse at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison to the My Lai massacre in Vietnam.