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Eric Alterman

• October 21 -- Mr. Dee Dee Myers Slams Anti-Clinton Book
The credit line to a harshly negative review of an anti-Clinton biography notes reviewer "Todd S Purdum, a Washington correspondent for The Times, covered the Clinton White House." It could have gone on to say, "…and is the husband of former Clinton press secretary Dee Dee Myers."

• July 16 -- Kristof’s Conspiratorial Sources
Columnist Nicholas Kristof pounces on the controversial sentence in Bush’s 2003 State of the Union address concerning Saddam seeking uranium in Africa: “After I wrote a month ago about the Niger uranium hoax in the State of the Union address, a senior White House official chided me gently....” But Bush didn’t refer to Niger. Kristof also notes a group of “retired spooks” are calling for VP Cheney’s resignation without mentioning the group’s ties to a left-wing group and its suggestion the toppling of Saddam’s statute was a set-up.

• July 7 -- Democrats Are Too Good for the World
James Traub writes: “Maybe Democrats are just nicer, but a more philosophical view is that liberals are committed to, are in fact bedeviled by, ideals about process that do not much preoccupy conservatives, at least contemporary ones. Liberals put their faith in such content-neutral principles as free speech, due process, participatory democracy. Is that too lofty?” Ask a campus conservative about liberal love of free speech, or Robert Bork about liberal love of due process.

• May 19 -- Loving Sidney
The Times has given former Clinton aide Sidney Blumenthal not one, not two, but three reviews of “The Clinton Wars,” Blumenthal’s 822-page partisan tome defending the Clintons.

• March 20 -- “Altered” States At The Times
The Times gave left-wing media critic Eric Alterman’s book “What Liberal Media?” two favorable reviews in less than a week. Today’s thumbs-up came courtesy of Orville Schell, journalism dean at the University of California at Berkeley and contributor to the left-wing Nation magazine.