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Democratic Convention

Also See:
• Media Research Center's Twice-Daily Review of Network Convention Coverage
• More in TimesWatch's Elsewhere on the Web

• September 7 -- Democratic Heartburn on the Times' Front Page
There's a heaping helping of Democratic angst on Sunday's front page, painting a picture of a disillusioned Kerry camp.

• September 1 -- "Ruthless" Rudy Attacks Kerry
A day late, the Times jumps on Rudy Giuliani's "ruthless" Monday night "pummeling" of John Kerry. One headline: "Loves Dogs, Hates Kerry: A Two-Prong Campaign Tactic." Another line: "The Bush strategy is to vilify Kerry. Compassionately."

• August 3 -- Burying the Kerry "Bounce"
After a Democratic convention that delivered an anemic "bounce" to Kerry, reporter Adam Nagourney accentuates the positive.

• August 2 -- "Successful" Democratic Convention? Says Who?
Adam Nagourney and David Halbfinger assert: "News of the terror threat on Sunday also stirred renewed suggestions from some Democrats that the White House was manipulating terror alerts for Mr. Bush's political gain. They said the alert had been issued just as Mr. Kerry emerged from a convention that was described by Republicans and Democrats as a success." But conspiracy theories aside, polls have yet to discern much "success" from the Democratic convention.

• August 2 -- NYT Columnist Finds Huge Bias for Kerry Among Reporters
Columnist John Tierney finds enormous liberal bias among reporters at the Democratic convention: "When asked who would be a better president, the journalists from outside the Beltway picked Mr. Kerry 3 to 1, and the ones from Washington favored him 12 to 1. Those results jibe with previous surveys over the past two decades showing that journalists tend to be Democrats, especially the ones based in Washington."

• July 30 -- Krugman Sees Pro-Bush Media Bias
Paul Krugman accuses the media of pro-Bush bias: "…we're supposed to dislike Mr. Kerry simply because he's wealthy (and not notice that his opponent is, too). Republicans, of all people, are practicing the politics of envy, and the media obediently go along."

• July 30 -- Did Kerry "Turn Corner" With Voters Last Night?
Has John Kerry turned a corner? Todd Purdum thinks so: "Kerry may well have turned a corner on the path toward inspiring his party, and inviting swing voters to put him in the White House. He perspired visibly in the overcrowded hall, but his delivery was fluid, relaxed and assured, and he smiled often."

• July 30 -- Kerry's Got a Little of the "Reagan Glow"
TV reporter Alessandra Stanley gives Kerry's acceptance speech a thumbs-up: "Kerry looked happy. Really happy….his somewhat goofy, bridegroom radiance lit up the screen, lending his performance energy and spirit….Kerry had a little of the glow that Ronald Reagan transmitted in almost every television appearance."

• July 30 -- NYT (Finally) Mentions Kerry's Flip-Flop on Use of Vietnam Footage
Jim Rutenberg files "New Skirmish Over Images From Vietnam in a Kerry Video," which includes details of a Kerry flip-flop regarding his personal Vietnam footage first highlighted on Times Watch.

• July 29 -- More of John "Populist, Not Liberal" Edwards
Edwards: Not liberal, but "populist."

• July 29 -- Democratic "Coherence and Harmony"
Adam Nagourney greets John Kerry: "As the convention moved to its last two days, Democrats, and even a few Republicans, noted its unusual display of coherence and harmony and suggesting--should it last--that that could influence the campaign."

• July 29 -- You Can Trust Kerry, Says Baghdad Jim
David Johnston and Marc Santora couch criticism of Kerry's shifting war stance as "Republican attacks" and "talking points," while bringing in the dubious Rep. Jim (Bush is a liar) McDermott to defend Kerry.

• July 29 -- Embracing Al Sharpton
Michael Slackman covers Al Sharpton's fiery convention speech and sees no worries in the Democratic party's embrace of the hateful activist. In fact, Slackman appears to be the Times' go-to guy for favorable Sharpton pieces that glide over his hate-mongering past.

• July 29 -- Kerry Breaks Pledge to NYT's Keller -- Will the Times Take Note?
Jim Rutenberg on the Kerry bio-pic: "As the film details Mr. Kerry's own war service, in Vietnam, it shows the grainy film that Mr. Kerry brought back, mixed with archival footage of the war." But in 2002 Kerry told current Times Executive Editor Bill Keller "I have no intention of using" that footage.

• July 29 -- Republicans Impugning Kerry's Patriotism?
Todd Purdum lets the Republican "war room" in Boston accuse Democratic convention speakers of breaking the party's "positive" pledge, but turns the tables: "Of course, the Republicans have spent months seeking to impugn Mr. Kerry's character, patriotism and integrity." But have the Republicans actually done that?

• July 28 -- "Feisty" Teresa Heinz Kerry
The Times soft-pedals the controversy over Teresa Heinz Kerry's "feisty comments."

• July 28 -- John Kerry's Photo Flop
The Times has an amusing take on the photograph of John Kerry in blue: "The resulting photo made him look like the sperm played by Woody Allen in 'Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex but Were Afraid to Ask.'"

• July 28 -- Democratic Party's "Proud" Civil Rights Legacy?
Robin Toner and Todd Purdum tell of the Democrats efforts to close ranks: "…the party not only paid tribute to its proud legacy as the advocate of…civil rights." But there's a far less cheery history of the Democratic party's "proud legacy."

• July 28 -- Nagourney Spots Liberal Views When Cameras Are Off
Adam Nagourney picks up on some ideological massaging by the Democrats in their speaker line-up for Tuesday night, which the broadcast networks did not air live: "The show was different on Tuesday. It was a night to cheer Howard Dean and Edward M. Kennedy, two liberal icons in the Democratic Party….But when the attention of the networks slipped away, this has in many ways been a familiar kind of Democratic convention, providing a forum to the groups and interests that have long been central to the Democratic coalition…."

• 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 28 -- Foxy Republicans
The Times claims Republicans are "Fox's natural constituency."

• July 28 -- Howell Raines' Anti-Republican Rage
Now that former Executive Editor Howell Raines is off his NYT leash, his shrieking excoriations of Republicans are even more entertaining: "As long as affluent, educated Republicans are allowed to control wealth in this country, they're willing for the rednecks to pray in the public schools that rich Republicans don't attend, to buy guns at Wal-Marts they don't patronize, to ban safe abortions that are always available to the affluent, and to oppose marriage for gays who don't vote Republican anyway."

• July 28 -- Selling John Kerry's Foreign Policy
America's "international standing" "now suffers from the wide perception of American arrogance, dishonesty and ineptitude" because of Iraq, according to reporter Roger Cohen's front-page story.

• July 27 -- "Social Conservatives" vs. "Inclusion"
David Halbfinger knows what went wrong for the Republicans in 1992.

• July 27 -- Lauding Ron Reagan, Dissing Sound Science
The Times continues the misguided stem-cell crusade.

• July 27 -- Kennedy, Hillary Voting Records: Liberal or Not?
Hillary Clinton and Ted Kennedy have "so-called liberal" voting records?

• July 27 -- The Myth of Max Cleland
At the Democratic convention in Boston, the Times trumpets former Democratic Sen. Max Cleland as a Republican victim: "And there was Max Cleland, the triple amputee and former Democratic senator from Georgia whose defeat in 2002--by an opponent who ran commercials linking him to Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden…." Wrong.