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Halliburton

• November 2 -- Final Pre-Election Cheap Shots from the Times
Frank Rich bizarrely conflates two bogus anti-Bush scandals, while an editorial uses Cheney's trip to Hawaii to accuse Republicans of "questionable ethnic gestures."

• 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."

• December 12 -- Krugman's Latest Conspiracy Refuted--by the Times
Paul Krugman goes conspiratorial about Bush's decision to exclude countries who opposed the Iraq war from the rebuilding process: "Yes, Halliburton is profiteering in Iraq--will apologists finally concede the point, now that a Pentagon audit finds overcharging?" That's a reference to the subject of Times lead story--but the story disputes Krugman's claim.

• 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.)”