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Matt Bai

• November 1 -- Bush "Bulge" Rumor Takes Hold in "Dark Corners" -- Like the NYT?
Matt Bai laments in the Sunday Magazine: "A rumor that the president somehow cheated in the televised debates -- was that a wire under his jacket? was he listening to Karl Rove on a microscopic earpiece? -- flies across the Internet and takes hold in dark corners of the public imagination." And in the New York Times.

• July 27 -- G.O.P. "Pushed Toward Extremism"
Matt Bai pens a cover story for the Times Sunday magazine, citing the intolerance and intemperance resulting from the conservative activism of the 1970s: "…the national dialogue, as a result, has grown less temperate and less tolerant." Bai then warns that new left-wing groups may some day become as "extremist" as the conservatives.

• October 14 -- The Right's "Dr. Evil"
Times Magazine writer Matt Bai gets a peek into a strategy session held by conservative "godfather" Paul Weyrich and comes away very afraid: "The prickly Weyrich presided with a scowl from the dais…using words that made him sound like some liberal's parody of Dr. Evil."

• August 12 -- But Is It a “Vast” Right-Wing Cabal?
Times Magazine writer Matt Bai again praises a moderate Republican senator fighting “extremist” and “fringe” elements to his right and talks of a “right-wing cabal that administration officials would consult on a regular basis.”