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Carl Hulse

• 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 22 -- Poor, "Poignant" Tom Daschle
Pity poor Tom: "In the Senate, the Democratic leader, Tom Daschle of South Dakota, who lost his re-election bid, delivered a poignant farewell speech that brought him a standing ovation…The scant Republican showing provoked Senator Frank R. Lautenberg, Democrat of New Jersey, to speak out….Outside the Senate chamber, the common ground Mr. Daschle spoke of seemed hard to find."

• November 8 -- "Angry Conservatives," Erroneous Names
Carl Hulse's story on Sen. Arlen Specter's controversial abortion statements begins with loaded language: "Angry conservatives flooded Senate phone and fax lines on Friday…." Plus: Who are "The Concerned Women of America"?

• November 5 -- Tom Delay "Pushes the Limits"
Carl Hulse profiles Tom DeLay: "In the weeks leading up to the voting, Mr. DeLay was hit with back-to-back scoldings from the House ethics committee, reinforcing his reputation as a lawmaker who pushes the limits…with President Bush and other top Congressional Republicans talking about trying to reduce the partisanship that has gripped Capitol Hill, some are wondering whether the combative majority leader will move in that direction as well."

• August 23 -- The Vanishing Republican Moderate, Again
Carl Hulse employs a standard liberal trope: "But [moderates] worry about their real influence in a party dominated by conservatives at a time when the ranks of House moderates are thinning."

• July 13 -- Sunny Skies in the West for Dems
Reporter Carl Hulse delivers Democratic optimism: "Democrats See New Hope in Republican Strongholds."

• June 8 -- Reagan's Devolving Idea of Missile Defense
The passing of Ronald Reagan is the apparent hook for a Times story on missile defense, which features the eye-rolling tone the Times usually employs when discussing the issue. The paper also quotes two unlabeled outside experts from the same liberal defense group.

• June 2 -- "More Oversight of Bush" Needed, Says GOP?
Carl Hulse's piece carries the blunt headline, "Even Some in GOP Call For More Oversight of Bush." But does the story deliver?

• May 25 -- Slanted "Lines of Loyalty" on Bush's Iraq Speech
Carl Hulse's review of Bush's prime-time address on Iraq is titled "Distinct Views of Iraq Speech Follow Lines of Loyalty." Hulse's story follows the same lines, slanting responses toward the Democratic side.

• 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").

• May 17 -- "Mild-Mannered" Tom Daschle?
Carl Hulse covers a speech by "mild-mannered" Sen. Tom Daschle on the "startling meanness" of modern politics (he evidently missed Daschle comparing conservative critics to the Taliban)

• May 3 -- The “Nonpolitical” Democratic Response?
On both Saturday and Sunday, the Times plugged “nonpolitical” National Guardsman Paul Rieckhoff as he slammed President Bush in the Democratic response to the President’s weekly radio address.

• March 26 -- Giving the Losers the First Word
The Unborn Victims of Violence Act passed by a wide margin, but Carl Hulse's piece lets the liberal minority have the first word: "Opponents denounced the bill, adopted on a vote of 61 to 38, as an effort to undermine the constitutional right to abortion by recognizing the fetus as a person."

• March 4 -- Bad for Bush to Push Marriage Amendment
Carl Hulse puts the onus on Bush and Republicans to justify their push for a marriage amendment: "Senate Republican leaders said Wednesday that they would aggressively pursue a constitutional amendment banning gay marriages despite Democratic arguments that the proposal is divisive, unnecessary and a distraction from more pressing issues." And are there really no liberals involved in the fight over gay marriage?

• February 12 -- "Conservatives" and "Others"
"Two kinds of senators at the Times."

• November 14 -- With Friends Like These…
Citing Sen. Chuck Hagel, reporters Steven Weisman and Carl Hulse see a potential Republican crackup over Iraq. But Hagel is hardly an administration supporter on Iraq, and the Times knows it.

• September 25 -- Times Skips The Full Teddy
Carl Hulse’s “Democrats Step Up Attacks on Iraq War,” is true to its word: “The increasingly tough tone was first struck by Senator Edward M. Kennedy…who charged the administration with perpetrating a ‘fraud’ with its justification for the war on Iraq.” But Hulse fails to deliver the full paranoid flavor of Kennedy’s anti-Bush animus—Kennedy accuses Bush of making up the Iraqi threat “in Texas” for political advantage, and of bribing other countries to go along.

• August 5 -- South Carolina’s Jewish Problem?
The retirement of Sen. Ernest Hollings included this out-of-nowhere bit on the chances of potential Democratic candidate Inez Tenenbaum: “South Carolina has not elected a woman to a top post like senator or governor, and it is unclear whether the state is ready for one, let alone a woman who once lobbied for abortion rights and has a Jewish surname, said Brad Gomez, a political scientist…Ms. Tenenbaum is Methodist. Her husband is Jewish.” Thanks for clearing that up, guys!