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Campaign 2000

• November 3 -- Will the Times Take Its Own Advice?
From the Times' post-election, pre-concession lead editorial: "When a victor is finally, officially announced, it is important for the entire country to accept him as the rightful president." But will Bill Keller?

• October 29 -- The NYT: Your One-Stop Shop for Florida Gripes
Abby Goodnough forwards Democratic complaints from Florida about chief elections officer Glenda Hood: "Critics say that after the deeply polarizing recount, Gov. Jeb Bush should have picked a nonpartisan elections expert for the job. Instead he appointed Ms. Hood, a politically ambitious Republican who was among the state's 25 electors for George W. Bush four years ago."

• October 28 -- Passing Along Democratic Complaints from Florida
A front-page story from Florida by Adam Nagourney and Abby Goodnough lends credence to Democratic charges of bad faith among Republican officials.

• 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.

• October 5 -- "Valuable Historical Perspective" From a Far-Left Paranoid
A new book by cartoonist/far-left conspiracist Ted Rall (who once wrote about the possibility Bush had Sen. Paul Wellstone assassinated) achieves "some valuable historical perspective," according to staff editor Neil Genzlinger.

• September 7 -- Reviving an Anti-Bush Sr. Urban Legend
Kate Zernike revives an anti-Bush Sr. urban legend, the myth that during the 1992 campaign, George H.W. Bush marveled at a grocery-store scanner as if he'd never seen one before.

• July 28 -- Celebrating Barack Obama
Katharine Seelye celebrates Barack Obama, the convention's keynote speaker, and doesn’t challenge liberal conspiracy theories of black disenfranchisement in Florida.

• 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.

• March 29 -- Still Harassing Katherine Harris
A lead editorial brings up liberal villain Katherine Harris and spreads misleading information on her role in the 2000 presidential election: "Purging voting rolls too aggressively, as Ms. Harris did in 2000, can change the party breakdown of the electorate." But the company that did the purging was hired by the state in 1998, before Harris took office.

• January 2 -- Tolerance Takes the Subway; Pro-Bush Prejudice Hits the Road
Critic Roberta Smith's look at the "artistic underground" of the NYC subway system includes this snarky putdown of those narrow-minded Bush-voting denizens of the "Red" states: "I would say that large, active systems of mass transit are the main difference between the red and the blue states of the 2000 electoral map (California excepted). People who travel only by private car--most of America--can too easily stick to their own kind and cling to their prejudices and misconceptions without the threat of contradictory experiences."