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Dick Cheney

• November 23 -- Condoleezza Rice Not as "Bellicose" As Feared?
A second Bush administration, unrestrained by the caution of Colin Powell, will lead the United States into an unending series of confrontations with the world.

• November 22 -- A Double Standard on Anti-Terror Cheap Shots?
Labeling bias and double standards on political "cheap shots" in a front-page story from Philip Shenon and Carl Hulse.

• November 18 -- "Crusted-Nut-Bar Dick Cheney"
Maureen Dowd isn't moving on: "President Bush is purging the naysayers who tried to temper crusted-nut-bar Dick Cheney and the neocon crazies on Iraq."

• November 4 -- "Blunt" Cheney Claims Mandate for Bush
Richard Stevenson doesn't see much of a second-term honeymoon for the president and seems to question how a "blunt" Cheney could take cheer from an "often vituperative" campaign.

• November 1 -- Cheney "Stale" on the Stump
Coverage of the vice presidential hopefuls tilts in John Edwards' direction.

• October 26 -- Polarizing Bush, Secretive Cheney
George W. Bush: "On issues, Mr. Bush reaches out sparingly." 
Dick Cheney: "Democrats argue that Mr. Cheney is one of the most divisive figures in American politics."

• October 19 -- Kerry Hurt by Lesbian Comment?
Adam Nagourney argues Kerry's "strong performance" in the debates may have been jeopardized when he brought up Dick Cheney's lesbian daughter and insists Bush "dodged" a question on whether homosexuality was a choice.

• October 15 -- No Sympathy For the Cheneys
A story on John Kerry's unprompted debate mention of Dick Cheney's lesbian daughter comes off as unsympathetic to the Cheneys, and tries hard to make gay marriage a conflict between Cheney and Bush.

• October 6 -- "Arid, "Astringent," "Practically Growling" Cheney
James Bennet piles on the negative adjectives.

• October 6 -- Dick "the Slasher" Cheney
Reporter Katharine Seelye's blogs the debate between Dick "the slasher" Cheney and the "engaging" John Edwards.

• October 6 -- Drawing Out Cheney's "Ire"
Adam Nagourney suddenly starts taking polls seriously, and picks up on the theme of Edwards throwing Cheney off his game: "Mr. Edwards frequently drew the vice president's ire -- and also drew Mr. Cheney's attention away from Mr. Kerry, his intended target."

• October 6 -- "Cheney on the Defensive"
Today's Times hammers home the idea that John Edwards more than held his own with Dick Cheney: "Mr. Edwards appeared to hold his own in the remarkably intense thrust and parry of the evening, at times putting Mr. Cheney on the defensive."

• October 1 -- Still Misquoting Cheney
Adam Nagourney sticks mostly to facts in his rundown of the first presidential debate but works in yet another misleading anecdote about Dick Cheney.

• September 28 -- Clam Up About Iraq, Cheney
The Times seems to want Dick Cheney to stop talking about all that scary terror stuff: "But these advance workers could not control what Mr. Cheney said or predict that his dark message would be out of sync with what many in his ardently supportive audience wanted to hear: his stand on domestic social issues."

• September 27 -- Bush's "Un-American" Campaign
"President Bush and his surrogates are taking their re-election campaign into dangerous territory" is the baleful opening sentence of a Times editorial, "An Un-American Way to Campaign."

• September 24 -- Harassing Halliburton
The Times is still harassing Halliburton: "Controversy is nothing new for the company, which was run by Vice President Dick Cheney for five years until 2000."

• September 16 -- Edwards As "Moderate," Plus More Misleading on Cheney
An off-lead story on Kerry's suddenly invisible running mate misleadingly labels Edwards a moderate and repeats a misreading of Dick Cheney's war-on-terror speech.

• September 10 -- "If A Republican Had Said That…."
How would the Times react if Bush told an audience to "beware of false prophets which come to you in sheep's clothing"?

• September 10 -- Bumiller All Wet on "Explosive" Cheney Remark
More misleading by the Times regarding a recent Dick Cheney quote on fighting the terror war--plus, a tale of two hecklers.

• September 9 -- Taking Cheney Far Out of Context, Again
Katharine Seelye and Ralph Blumenthal treat seriously the new controversy over Bush's Vietnam service--quite a change from how the Times treated the Swift Boat Veterans.

• September 9 -- More Mangling of Cheney's Terror Comments
Adam Nagourney turns media-mangled comments from Dick Cheney on the terror war into a fretful article: "Is it possible for a candidate to go too far, and alienate the very voters he is trying to court?....The remarks were among the more dire offered in a presidential campaign since 1964, when Lyndon B. Johnson broadcast a television advertisement, with a mushroom cloud, warning that the election of Barry Goldwater would lead to nuclear war."

• September 8 -- NYT Clips Cheney's War on Terror Quote
A misleading headline tops a misleading front-page story by David Sanger and David Halbfinger on Cheney's recent remarks about the war on terror.

• September 7 -- Gee, Every Single One of Them?
Rick Lyman has the scoop on Dick Cheney.

• September 1 -- Dick Cheney, Puppet Master
Rick Lyman has an unfavorable profile of Dick Cheney, comparing him to Dan Quayle and letting Democrats gloat: "Kerry campaign officials say that simply by mentioning the vice president or Halliburton, the military contractor he once headed, they can reinforce an image of a Republican administration that has favored the interests of the rich and the powerful…the image persists of Mr. Cheney as the backstage manipulator, the guy who is pulling the president's strings and effectively running the government."

• August 30 -- The Lead Convention Story So Far: Left-Wing Gripes
A Republican Party "controversy" makes the front page of the Times special convention section: David Kirkpatrick's story, "Cheney Daughter's Political Role Disappoints Some Gay Activists," is dominated by criticism from left-wing gay-rights groups.

• August 25 -- Only "Republican Efforts" to Put Gay Marriage on the Map?
Robin Toner stakes a claim to the front page with "Cheney Stakes Out His Own Position On Gay Marriages." But who put gay marriage on the table in the first place, Bush or gay activists?

• August 3 -- One Post-Convention Poll Finding the NYT Likes
"Republicans are fighting back to retain the allegiance of the country's veterans," David Kirkpatrick claims in a story introduced by the loaded subhead "Democratic Push Makes Big Inroads."

• July 19 -- Don't Be Fooled by Facts: McCain Still Hostile to Bush-Cheney
Judging by Thomas Crampton's article, the Times is still eager to use Sen. John McCain as a wedge issue against Bush, despite the fact McCain is now campaigning for him.

• July 15 -- Front-Page "Rumors" of Cheney Resignation
Elisabeth Bumiller tries to stir up some controversy in the Bush camp with a front-page "rumor" that Vice President Dick Cheney is leaving the ticket.

• July 12 -- Still Ignoring the 9/11 Commissioners
Philip Shenon's story on the 9/11 commission's upcoming final report again insists the commission undermines White House arguments about a relationship between Iraq and Al Qaeda--despite what the cochairmen of the commission say.

• 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.

• June 30 -- Who's the Most Polarizing Republican of All?
David Johnson and Richard Stevenson file a story on "polarizing" Attorney General John Ashcroft, days after Stevenson relayed criticisms that Dick Cheney was "among the most polarizing figures in politics."

• June 18 -- Dick Cheney Takes On "Outrageous" NYT
David Sanger and Robin Toner's front-page story is headlined "Bush and Cheney Talk Strongly of Qaeda Links With Hussein." More accurate would have been "Cheney Castigates NYT." Then again, the vice president hasn't been too impressed with Times headlines lately.

• June 15 -- Swiping at Cheney from Baghdad
In the middle of Edward Wong's story from Baghdad about the insistence by some groups that Saddam Hussein be charged with a crime, he takes a detour to Florida to critique a Dick Cheney speech.

• April 28 -- Linda Greenhouse Wants a Smackdown
Times Supreme Court reporter Linda Greenhouse confessed the Supreme Court hearing on the Bush energy task force must have been a “baffling letdown” to spectators looking for political embarrassments for Dick Cheney or Antonin Scalia as the court explored fine legal points.

• April 13 -- Taking Another Quack at Scalia
Dredging up Justice Scalia's "Duck-Gate."

• January 15 -- "Love Story," Starring Paul O'Neill
Times editor Andres Martinez likes Paul O'Neill's book and "Bill Clinton's fiscal discipline," dislikes the Bush administration's "shoddy, if not dishonest, decision-making."

• December 15 -- Dick Cheney's "Pheasantgate"
Elisabeth Bumiller squeezes 800 overwrought words out of vice president Cheney's recent pheasant-hunting jaunt: "A lot of other people noticed the fallen birds: hunters who pursue birds in the wild, the Democratic presidential candidates and the Humane Society of the United States, which likened the shootings to the first day of the Iraq war."

• December 12 -- Halliburton's Front-Page Non-Scandal
Douglas Jehl's front-page story begins out of breath: "A Pentagon investigation has found evidence that a subsidiary of the politically connected Halliburton Company overcharged the government by as much as $61 million for fuel delivered to Iraq under huge no-bid reconstruction contracts." Not until the ninth paragraph do we get this line, which deflates the story's allegedly scandalous import: "The officials said Halliburton did not appear to have profited from overcharging for fuel."

• November 11 -- Alan Cowell’s Anti-Cheney Conspiracy
Alan Cowell reviews the book “Modern Jihad” and brings up a liberal conspiracy theory regarding Vice President Dick Cheney’s old company: “Ms. Napoleoni draws a startling comparison with the era of the Crusades against Islamic dominance, arguing that economic imperatives propel the war on terrorism in 2003 as much as they did in the 11th and 12th centuries. (Consider the contracts in Iraq awarded to the Halliburton Company and other United States businesses, and she may have a point.)”

• October 13 -- Cheney Lashes Out
Eric Schmitt's report on a Dick Cheney speech positions the vice president as Bush's heavy, "lashing out" and "ridiculing" critics.

• September 23 -- Backhanded Bush Compliment: He’s Now Less Misleading
Richard Stevenson gives out backhanded compliments for what he calls the Bush administration’s recent “increase in straight talk.” Stevenson writes: “By the standards of a White House that insists that nearly everything at all times is proceeding precisely according to plan, and where misjudgment is typically held to be a stranger, the last few weeks have brought a new, unvarnished tone.”

• 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.

• April 1 -- Curb Your Enthusiasm, Mr. Sanger -- Bush never claimed Iraq war would be easy
Did the Bush administration downplay the risks of war with Iraq? Times Washington reporter David Sanger seems eager to believe it, insisting Sunday the White House “is scrounging for evidence that it warned the nation all along that this could be a long slog” and that “there is a recognition that the enthusiasm of the hawks got out of control.”