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Richard Berke

• October 6 -- No Outcry Over NBC's "ILIE" -- But Times Smelled out "Subliminal" Message in "RATS" Ad from 2000
The MRC caught an NBC Nightly News graphic showing the letters "ILIE" for 16 seconds next to President Bush's face. The Times ignored it, perhaps dismissing the juxtaposition as inadvertent. But back in 2000, Democratic complaints about a single frame of an anti-Gore ad were front-page news.

• July 6 -- Richard Berke's Turkey of an Anecdote
Washington Editor Richard Berke cites an anti-Bush myth as fact: "There are also the manufactured surprises, like Mr. Bush's cloak-and-dagger Thanksgiving trip to Baghdad, which drew praise even from Democrats. (The public relations bonanza fizzled after the press reported that Mr. Bush had posed with a mouth-watering--but fake--turkey.)"

• January 2 -- Saddam's Capture: OK, But What About Those Funerals?
Editor Richard Berke puts the best anti-Bush spin on the good news out of Iraq: "But before Saddam was caught, not long ago, we were talking about casualties. We were talking about a situation where the president did not want to go to the funerals of a lot of the--the--the killed soldiers in Iraq, because why bring attention to the tragedy of--that was going on day after day there."

• April 29 -- Strange Republican Rituals
Times reporter Richard Berke livened up the normally soporific Washington Week in Review when the topic turned to Sen. Santorum’s remarks on homosexuals.