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Tony Kushner

• August 5 -- Celebrating a "Joyous Cultural Pep Rally" for Lefties
What does Marxist playwright Tony Kushner have to do to get in the NYT? Just about anything.

• February 24 -- More Cushy Press for Reagan-Hating Tony Kushner
Marxist, Reagan-hating playwright Tony Kushner is again praised in the Times, by theatre critic Ben Brantley: "And be grateful that Mr. Kushner, in the liberal tradition of E. M. Forster, continues to probe the West's failure to connect with cultures different from its own."

• December 17 -- Getting Reagan Wrong on AIDS
Dudley Clendinen, former national correspondent and editorial writer for the Times, claims: "'Angels in America' begins in the mid-1980's, in the Reagan era, when the president uttered not a word about AIDS…" Wrong: Reagan mentioned AIDS five times in his 1986 State of the Union.

• November 25 -- Giddy Over Gay Marriage
The Massachusetts ruling opening the door to gay marriage inspires the Times to two striking examples of labeling bias. To Elisabeth Bumiller, those against gay marriage are "social conservatives," those in favor are not liberals but "gays, lesbians and their supporters." Yet the supporter quoted most prominently is Marxist playwright Tony Kushner, author of the Reagan-hating "Angels in America." Tamar Lewin replicates the exact pattern of labeling bias as Bumiller: Five conservative mentions versus zero liberals.

• November 25 -- "Perfect Timing" for Gay Marriage
Wedding writer Lois Smith Brady assumes her readers are as giddy as she about the Massachusetts Supreme Court legalizing gay marriage: "Last week's ruling by the highest court in Massachusetts legalizing gay marriage was perfectly timed in many ways....it comes just in time for same-sex couples to begin planning a June wedding."