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Bill Clinton

• November 18 -- Clinton's "Personal Scandal"
Clinton's impeachment for perjury just a "personal scandal"?

• October 25 -- The Return of the King

• October 14 -- Bush's "Rock-Hard" Positions vs. Clinton's "Mushy Middle Ground"
Bill Clinton, abortion moderate?

• September 1 -- Pining for Clinton-Era Heaven
Edmund Andrews and Robin Toner portray the Clinton years as positively paradisiacal: "Four years ago, when the nation still seemed in an era of boundless prosperity…."

• July 26 -- Sandy Berger, Terror Fighter
More pro-Sandy Berger spin from the Times: "[The 9/11 report] describes how Mr. Berger took the lead in December 1999 in mobilizing the F.B.I. and other domestic agencies to address the so-called millennium plot, in which attacks planned in Jordan and Los Angeles were disrupted." Or was it just plain old luck?

• July 23 -- Sandy Berger "Disrupted" Millennium Terror Plot?
After a string of blame-Bush stories in the Times, reporters David Johnston and Douglas Jehl squelch most of the anti-Bush bias in their story on the 9/11 commission's final report. But some misinformation still leaks through.

• June 24 -- The Times Repents for Dissing Clinton's Book
The Times, repenting for a harsh review of Bill Clinton's autobiography, is rushing a favorable review of the Clinton book onto its website--though it won't see print for another two weeks.

• June 23 -- Greg Packer Returns!
A Times report on the crowds for Bill Clinton's Manhattan book signing includes quotes from Greg Packer, the media's infamous "man on the street."

• June 21 -- Throwing the Book at Clinton
No one can accuse book reviewer Michiko Kakutani of going soft on Clinton's new autobiography: "The book, which weighs in at more than 950 pages, is sloppy, self-indulgent and often eye-crossingly dull--the sound of one man prattling away, not for the reader, but for himself and some distant recording angel of history."

• June 18 -- "Moved" by Whitewater's "Dignified Victim," Susan McDougal
Dave Kehr enjoys the pro-Clinton, anti-Ken Starr documentary "The Hunting of the President," noting "the film suggests that Mr. Clinton's peccadilloes were nothing compared with the vast, unethical lengths to which his enemies were willing to go to discredit him." And he admits to being moved by "dignified victim" Susan McDougal.

• June 10 -- Bill Clinton's "Fiscal Discipline" Ended Reagan Deficits
Todd Purdum's tribute to Reagan also salutes Bill Clinton's "fiscal discipline."

• May 18 -- Celebrating Another "Independent" Republican (and Bush Critic)
Carl Hulse lauds Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, another Republican with an "independent streak" (Times' code meaning "often sides with Democrats").

• April 2 -- Terror Reactions: "Upbeat" Bush, Somber Clinton
David Sanger writes: "It can be a bit jarring to move from the images of grisly American deaths to the invariably upbeat message of the Bush campaign…The contrast with some of his predecessors is notable….when American soldiers were killed in Somalia in an incident that many recalled on seeing the Falluja photographs, President Clinton declared that he was sending reinforcements." One contrast Sanger failed to mention--Clinton never visited the WTC after the 1993 terror attack.

• March 31 -- U.S. "Puritan Streak" Made Monica "A Big Deal"
Elaine Sciolino celebrates the social liberalism of Spain's prime minister-elect and blasts "the puritan streak in American politics that made the Monica Lewinsky affair such a big deal."

• March 25 -- Clinton "Distracted" from Terror "By Threat of Impeachment"
The Times blasts the "lack of urgency" of the Bush administration's pre-9/11 terror efforts in an editorial on Richard Clarke's testimony--and offers a lame excuse for Clinton's inaction.

• March 4 -- Haitian Conflagration Not Clinton's Creation?
Another editorial slams Bush for moving too slow in Haiti (after months of lamenting his "rush to war" in Iraq), adding: "After intervening to restore Mr. Aristide, the first democratically elected president in Haitian history, to office in 1994, Washington failed to do enough to help develop strong institutions, like an independent police force and judiciary, to sustain democratic rule." Remind us again: Who was president in 1994?

• February 11 -- Natl. Guard Queries Fair Game for "Posturing" Bush
Bush releases payroll records from his National Guard stint, but an editorial keeps the controversy alive: "Mr. Bush himself also made the issue of military service fair game by posturing as a swashbuckling pilot when welcoming a carrier home from Iraq." Vietnam-avoiding Bill Clinton would have never done such a thing--right?

• February 4 -- Bush's "Threats To Our Way of Life"
Nicholas Kristof claims Bush fiscal policy poses the real threat to the American way of life and applauds the fiscal conservatism of Bill Clinton.

• October 21 -- Mr. Dee Dee Myers Slams Anti-Clinton Book
The credit line to a harshly negative review of an anti-Clinton biography notes reviewer "Todd S Purdum, a Washington correspondent for The Times, covered the Clinton White House." It could have gone on to say, "…and is the husband of former Clinton press secretary Dee Dee Myers."

• September 25 -- The Times vs. “Scurrilous Biographies”…Sometimes
Michiko Kakutani reviews an anti-Clinton biography and doesn’t like it one bit: “Nigel Hamilton's new biography of Bill Clinton represents a sleazy new low in the chronicling of presidential lives. It regurgitates the most scurrilous and unsubstantiated rumors about Mr. Clinton and his wife…” So the Times would never herald a book full of “scurrilous and unsubstantiated rumors” about a president and his wife? Ask Nancy Reagan.

• July 28 -- Huge Study Confirms Bias at the Times
A huge study of newspaper political coverage from Reagan to Bush II finds: “The New York Times displayed a tilt toward the Democrats….The evidence suggests that the Times tilts somewhat toward the Democrats, particularly in its Congressional coverage.”

• July 7 -- Democrats Are Too Good for the World
James Traub writes: “Maybe Democrats are just nicer, but a more philosophical view is that liberals are committed to, are in fact bedeviled by, ideals about process that do not much preoccupy conservatives, at least contemporary ones. Liberals put their faith in such content-neutral principles as free speech, due process, participatory democracy. Is that too lofty?” Ask a campus conservative about liberal love of free speech, or Robert Bork about liberal love of due process.

• June 20 -- Times Editor Lelyveld Pummels NY Post as “Sleaze”
Times interim Executive Editor Joseph Lelyveld shows his contempt for a “sleazy” competitor, the right-leaning New York Post.

• June 18 -- Meet the New Boss: Same As the Old Boss
An excerpt from Clinton advisor Dick Morris’ new book describes how Times executive editor (now interim executive editor) Joseph Lelyveld coaxed Clinton into granting an interview -- by suggesting the Times wouldn’t bring up his Arkansas scandals.

• May 19 -- Loving Sidney
The Times has given former Clinton aide Sidney Blumenthal not one, not two, but three reviews of “The Clinton Wars,” Blumenthal’s 822-page partisan tome defending the Clintons.

• April 23 -- So What’s President Clinton’s Excuse?
Alessandra Stanley says reality-show host Monica Lewinsky “dallied with President Bill Clinton like a saucy Edwardian upstairs maid. Nor did that public disgrace shame her into silent penance.” So what’s her famous boyfriend’s excuse for not shutting up?