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Frank Bruni

• November 3 -- Kerry Wins! Says Media Types
Frank Bruni blogged the Campaign 2004 coverage and noted some of his media colleagues were predicting a Kerry win early on: "By an extremely significant margin -- OK, five to one -- my news media colleagues, a.k.a. drinking buddies, said their readings of the signs, couple with their instincts, pointed toward a victory for Senator John Kerry."

• September 16 -- Kitty Kelley Finds a Cozy Home at the Times
The Times finds a cute way to put Kitty Kelley's unsubstantiated anti-Bush allegations (or as Frank Bruni would say, "thoroughly researched piece of work") into the paper.

• July 7 -- Edwards' Liberalism Goes Unmentioned…
The National Journal rated Kerry's VP pick John Edwards the fourth-most liberal senator in 2003. Yet the Times fails to label Edwards as liberal. Things were just a bit different when Bush picked Dick Cheney in 2000.

• January 16 -- Does Frank Bruni Dislike Silvio Berlusconi? The Eyes Have It
Frank Bruni's latest scoop on his personal bugbear, Italy's "epically wealthy and willful" prime minister Silvio Berlusconi: Plastic surgery!

• December 8 -- Berlusconi Makes Bruni Looney
Something about Italy's pro-war, pro-Bush prime minister gets under Frank Bruni's skin.

• December 5 -- When In Rome, Beat Up On Pro-Bush Berlusconi
Frank Bruni paints Italy's Bush-supporting, pro-war PM as self-congratulatory and gaffe-prone: "[He] spoke energetically and expansively, in soliloquies bereft of self-criticism and brimming with self-congratulation....There was no sense of equivocation in Mr. Berlusconi, whether he was cheering the United States, trumpeting his plans to transform Italy's economy or discussing, without apology, his ever-lengthening string of political gaffes."

• October 17 -- Times to the Pope: Happy Anniversary, You Conservative Alienator
Frank Bruni hammers home his theme of the Pope as hidebound alienator: "'This pope has done so much for peace and dialogue, but also for the unity of the church,' said Cardinal Cláudio Hummes, the archbishop of São Paulo, Brazil. On that last point, many Catholics would disagree."

• August 20 -- Bruni Bashes Berlusconi
Frank Bruni again takes on Italy’s conservative prime minister, “whose commingling of public and private power is unrivaled in Europe and has prompted questions about whether democracy can truly flourish when one man dominates so much of a country.”

• June 30 -- Frank Bruni Sees Red In Italy
Frank Bruni wonders if Italy’s right-leaning Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, is too hard on Communism: “He also owns one of Italy's biggest publishing houses, Mondadori, which several years ago released ‘The Black Book of Communism,’ a harshly negative appraisal of the ideology's legacy.” Has the Times ever criticized a book for being too tough on the Nazis?