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Conservatives

• November 4 -- Overdosing Again on "Conservatives"
David Kirkpatrick continues his label-happy conservative beat reporting.

• November 4 -- Conservatives All Over the Country, But Few Liberals Around
A mother lode of labeling bias in the NYT's state-by-state Election Night rundown: Twenty uses of "conservative" but only two "liberals."

• November 2 -- More Conservative Christian Conservatives
David Kirkpatrick files two stories on conservative Christians and dredges up Pat Buchanan's Republican convention speech from 1992.

• September 1 -- The Republican's "Evangelical" Staging
David Kirkpatrick files another label-heavy story about social conservative influence in the Republican party: "Senator Brownback urged a crowd of several hundred in a packed ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria hotel, reprising a theme of a speech by Patrick J. Buchanan from the podium of the 1992 Republican convention that many political experts say alienated moderate voters in that election….at times the staging of the evening resembled an evangelical Protestant church service."

• July 27 -- G.O.P. "Pushed Toward Extremism"
Matt Bai pens a cover story for the Times Sunday magazine, citing the intolerance and intemperance resulting from the conservative activism of the 1970s: "…the national dialogue, as a result, has grown less temperate and less tolerant." Bai then warns that new left-wing groups may some day become as "extremist" as the conservatives.

• July 12 -- NYT to WFB: "You Seem Indifferent to Suffering…"
Reporter Deborah Solomon interviews retiring National Review founder William F. Buckley: "You have made so many offensive comments over the years. Do you regret any of them?....You seem indifferent to suffering. Have you ever suffered yourself?"

• July 12 -- "Under Pressure from Conservatives…."
The Times puts its standard stamp on the gay rights issue in a front-page story by Adam Nagourney and David Kirkpatrick: "…under pressure from conservatives, President Bush is escalating his support for a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage." Are Democrats never "pressured by liberals?"

• June 29 -- Prominent Conservative Speakers “Mistake” for GOP
Noting how moderate Republicans will have prominent roles at the GOP convention, Adam Nagourney insists Bush has learned a lesson from his father: “The White House appears to be working to avoid the mistakes of Mr. Bush's father in 1992. At that year's convention, in Houston, more conservative speakers were given high-profile spots…."

• June 3 -- "Americans United" to Beat Bush
A front-page story by David Kirkpatrick puts the Bush campaign on the defensive over a campaign email asking for help from religious congregations--a revelation that appeared the day before on a liberal group's website.

• May 17 -- Still No Liberals in the Gay Marriage Debate
Sunday's front-page sports a story by conservative beat reporter David Kirkpatrick on the apparent lack of interest that conservative religious activists have shown regarding a proposed constitutional ban on gay marriage.

• March 29 -- Labeling Bias Not "Left Behind"
Conservative beat reporter David Kirkpatrick previews the newest book in the popular "Left Behind" series of apocalyptic Christian novels. But he fails to identify the left-wing beliefs of a prominent critic.

• January 30 -- Critics of Liberal Bias Should "Get Out More"
In her review of Dennis Miller's new talk show, Alessandra Stanley wonders how conservatives can possibly complain about liberal bias: "Conservatives in Hollywood and New York always complain about stigma and persecution in the media and entertainment worlds, which makes one wonder why they don't get out more."

• January 29 -- The Times Discovers New Species: Conservatus Republicus
Conservative media denizens reacted with bemusement to the news that the Times is starting a "conservative beat." Times Editor Bill Keller admits in an interview: "We haven’t always had a real three-dimensional understanding of where conservative activists are coming from."

• December 30 -- The Times Remembers Joseph Coors, "Right-Wing Nut"
James Traub marks the death of Joseph Coors Sr., the beer magnate who helped found the conservative Heritage Foundation: "Since Joseph Coors was a right-wing nut as well (and a Bircher to boot), I stuck to Michelob."

• October 27 -- Republican Party "Most Extreme" Ever
Contributing writer James Traub rationalizes the Bush-bashing tomes taking over the best-seller lists: "Our political culture has not been infected by some virus from outer space, or from TV. The carrier was Newt Gingrich….Gingrich brought delegitimation to the core of G.O.P. strategy….The politics of delegitimation worked, at least in the short term. Republicans gained control of both houses of Congress in 1994…Today's Republican Party is arguably the most extreme--the furthest from the center--of any governing majority in the nation's history."

• October 14 -- The Right's "Dr. Evil"
Times Magazine writer Matt Bai gets a peek into a strategy session held by conservative "godfather" Paul Weyrich and comes away very afraid: "The prickly Weyrich presided with a scowl from the dais…using words that made him sound like some liberal's parody of Dr. Evil."

• October 13 -- Nagourney's Non-Story on Conservative California Worries
Adam Nagourney files another evidence-thin non-story on how Schwarzenegger's win could be bad news for Republicans: "Mr. Schwarzenegger's sweeping victory stirred anxiety among some conservatives." But Nagourney comes up with just one.

• 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.

• April 4 -- Utah: Conservative, Religious, and (Naturally) Bigoted
Nick Madigan’s story on white supremacists in Utah takes some cheap shots: “Traditionally conservative, independent and avowedly religious, many Utahans have long tolerated what some people elsewhere consider to be extreme points of view.”

E-mail TimesWatch Director, Clay Waters, with TimesWatch feedback at cwaters@mediaresearch.org