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Adam Nagourney

• November 24 -- Americans "At Best Ambivalent" About Bush's Plans
No honeymoon for Bush's second term: "At a time when the White House has portrayed Mr. Bush's 3.5-million-vote victory as a mandate, the poll found that Americans are at best ambivalent about Mr. Bush's plans to reshape Social Security, rewrite the tax code, cut taxes and appoint conservative judges to the bench."

• November 4 -- Nagourney: Bush to Push "Conservative Agenda"
Adam Nagourney weighs the state of politics after Bush's convincing triumph: "[Bush] positioned himself and his party to push through a conservative agenda in Washington over the next four years."

• November 3 -- Who Won The Election, Anyway?
Kerry conceded, but someone reading Adam Nagourney's pre-concession story would think it was Kerry, not Bush, on the verge of victory.

• November 1 -- Pushing Bush's Alleged Lack of Legitimacy
The NYT files its final poll, emphasizing doubts about Bush's legitimacy: "The anxiety appears to be a legacy of the disputed election of 2000: half of respondents in this latest poll said they did not think Mr. Bush legitimately won the presidency in 2000, compared with 45 percent who considered the outcome legitimate."

• October 28 -- Passing Along Democratic Complaints from Florida
A front-page story from Florida by Adam Nagourney and Abby Goodnough lends credence to Democratic charges of bad faith among Republican officials.

• October 25 -- Conservative Bush vs. Not-That-Liberal Kerry
The Times evaluates the possible election-loss aftermath for John Kerry ("more liberal than Mr. Clinton, but, Mr. Bush's attacks on him notwithstanding, not by much") and George W. Bush ("a clear conservative candidate").

• October 19 -- Kerry Hurt by Lesbian Comment?
Adam Nagourney argues Kerry's "strong performance" in the debates may have been jeopardized when he brought up Dick Cheney's lesbian daughter and insists Bush "dodged" a question on whether homosexuality was a choice.

• October 19 -- Down the Stretch With Bush and Kerry
Adam Nagourney and Janet Elder summarize the paper's poll showing Bush and Kerry basically tied.

• October 14 -- Taking Time to Defend Kerry
Adam Nagourney and Robin Toner's post-debate rush job makes one attempt to weigh the competing claims in the debate -- in Kerry's defense.

• October 8 -- "Bush Pushes Limits on the Facts" on Trail
Only Republicans push the limits of truth, according to Adam Nagourney and Richard Stevenson's "In His New Attacks, Bush Pushes Limits on the Facts," featuring a cameo by liberal bogeyman Lee Atwater.

• October 6 -- Drawing Out Cheney's "Ire"
Adam Nagourney suddenly starts taking polls seriously, and picks up on the theme of Edwards throwing Cheney off his game: "Mr. Edwards frequently drew the vice president's ire -- and also drew Mr. Cheney's attention away from Mr. Kerry, his intended target."

• October 1 -- Still Misquoting Cheney
Adam Nagourney sticks mostly to facts in his rundown of the first presidential debate but works in yet another misleading anecdote about Dick Cheney.

• September 30 -- Bush Still Looking for "Solid Lead" in Polls
Campaign reporter Adam Nagourney is still minimizing Bush's lead.

• September 27 -- Democratic Patriotism Under Attack, As Usual
Adam Nagourney and Robin Toner pass on as credible liberal complaints that Republicans are questioning the patriotism of Democrats.

• September 20 -- Softening the Poll Blow for Kerry
The latest Times poll shows Bush with a nine-point lead among likely voters, but the paper's headline softens the blow. Also: Is the Times stamping out "unsubstantiated" descriptions of the Swift Boat Vets?

• September 16 -- Edwards As "Moderate," Plus More Misleading on Cheney
An off-lead story on Kerry's suddenly invisible running mate misleadingly labels Edwards a moderate and repeats a misreading of Dick Cheney's war-on-terror speech.

• September 10 -- Did Bush Get a Bounce? "Yes, but…."
Campaign reporter Adam Nagourney on Friday reluctantly admits the obvious--Bush got a bounce out of his convention.

• September 9 -- More Mangling of Cheney's Terror Comments
Adam Nagourney turns media-mangled comments from Dick Cheney on the terror war into a fretful article: "Is it possible for a candidate to go too far, and alienate the very voters he is trying to court?....The remarks were among the more dire offered in a presidential campaign since 1964, when Lyndon B. Johnson broadcast a television advertisement, with a mushroom cloud, warning that the election of Barry Goldwater would lead to nuclear war."

• September 7 -- Polls, Schmolls, Says Nagourney: Part II
Adam Nagourney again plays down the apparent success of the Republican convention: "Yet if history is any guide, the contest is far from settled....Polls taken right after a convention offer an inflated sense of a candidate's standing."

• September 7 -- Polls, Schmolls, Says Nagourney: Part I
Adam Nagourney dismisses the latest polls showing Bush with a lead and notes: "Even some Republicans were conceding that Mr. Bush's convention--described by Republicans and Democrats alike as a success--might not ultimately make that much of a difference."

• 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 30 -- Another "Unsubstantiated" Portrayal of the Swifties
A front-page story by Adam Nagourney and Elisabeth Bumiller paints a picture of a plugged-in Bush but continues to characterize Swift Boat Veterans claims as "unsubstantiated."

• August 30 -- Republicans "Putting 9/11 Into August"
The Times helps spread the idea of Republicans politicizing 9/11, while puffing up party controversy.

• August 23 -- "Undermining" Swift Vets, Ruing "False Information" on Blogs, Talk Radio
The Times insists that the "most serious contentions" of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth "have been undermined by official records and conflicting accounts." Co-author Adam Nagourney frets in a related story about "this era when so much unsubstantiated or even false information can reach the public through so many different forums, be it blogs or talk-show radio."

• August 4 -- Bush Knew of Terror Threat Long Ago?
Adam Nagourney flubs a key fact in an article on the Democratic party's response to terror threats: "…the disclosure that the Bush administration had elevated the alert based on intelligence collected three or four years ago." Nagourney is apparently confusing the age of the terror-related information with the date the Bush administration actually gained the data.

• 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.

• 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 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 21 -- Bush Campaign on Defensive (Just Ignore What I Wrote Yesterday)
Adam Nagourney and Richard Stevenson write on Bush's "hard-edged" campaign, suggesting he's "had to campaign in solidly Republican areas, and to stress conservative issues, to maintain the enthusiasm of his base. In contrast, Mr. Kerry appears so confident of support from his base…" But Nagourney's own reporting suggests differently.

• July 14 -- Nagourney vs. "Fierce" Bush
Adam Nagourney is sensitive to Bush campaign rhetoric: "President Bush swept across three states that he narrowly lost in 2000 on Tuesday with a vigorous defense of his record and a fierce attack on Senator John Kerry….Mr. Bush went to lengths and used often harsh language in trying to discredit Mr. Kerry."

• 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?"

• July 7 -- Edwards' Liberalism Goes Unmentioned…
The National Journal rated Kerry's VP pick John Edwards the fourth-most liberal senator in 2003. Yet the Times fails to label Edwards as liberal. Things were just a bit different when Bush picked Dick Cheney in 2000.

• June 29 -- Burying the Bush Rebound
Adam Nagourney and Janet Elder’s front-page story reads as if a new NYT/CBS poll finds nothing but bad news for Bush. But the Times buries the lead: Bush has gained seven points since a CBS poll last month.

• May 27 -- Blandly Regurgitating Gore's Manhattan Meltdown
James Barron listens to Al Gore's extremist anti-Bush rant and the strongest words he uses to describe it are "a broad-gauge attack." Barron also leaves off extreme elements of Gore's speech, as when he accuses the Bush administration of "establishing an American gulag."

• May 18 -- "Civil Rights Leader" Jesse Jackson
Adam Nagourney and Richard Stevenson, in Topeka for the 50th anniversary of Brown vs. Board of Education, call left-wing activist Jesse Jackson a "civil rights leader."

• April 19 -- John Ashcroft, Loser
Adam Nagourney and Eric Lichtblau fill in their scorecard for the 9/11 Commission, and put Attorney General John Ashcroft firmly in the loser category: "By the time he was finished, even some Republicans were saying he might have been better off staying at home, and some commission members suggested he may have damaged his relations with them."

• April 13 -- The Adams' Family Bias
Adam Nagourney paints a Bush press conference as a defensive move and cements his point with quotes from former Times reporter Adam Clymer--who's not exactly a "major-league" Bush supporter.

• April 12 -- Where "PDB" Means "Pin Damage on Bush"
The Times uses the August 2001 "President's Daily Briefing" to hit Bush for allegedly missing clues to 9-11--despite the memo's lack of detail.

• April 7 -- Kerry-McCain, Media Dream Team
Adam Nagourney reports on Kerry's VP hunt--and it doesn't take long for media hero John McCain to show up.

• March 29 -- Still Standing Up For Clarke
The Times paints Clarke's 9-11 testimony as confirming the Bush administration's worst fears, while cheering Clinton's anti-terror efforts: "The evidence suggests that Mr. Bush allowed the terrorism issue to drift down the list of White House priorities from the relatively high importance given it by President Bill Clinton's national security aides."

• March 26 -- Clarke's Book a Must-Read, Say D.C. Lefties
It's still all Clarke at the Times, with two front-page stories. Rachel Swarns finds unlabeled leftists to chatter about Clarke's must-read book, while a news story concludes: "With the economy faltering and Democrats so united, Mr. Bush's terrorism credentials are portrayed by his supporters as the strongest assets he has going against Mr. Kerry. The revelations--in particular, the account offered by Mr. Clarke--could give Mr. Kerry ammunition to attack Mr. Bush on foreign policy." And the Times is pitching in.

• March 17 -- "Greater Scrutiny" of Bush After Madrid, From….?
Nagourney teams up with Richard Stevenson for a lead story placing the Bush campaign on war footing, with a subhed claiming: "President's Foreign Policy Faces Greater Scrutiny After Madrid Attack." Yet the actual article hardly mentions Spain.

• March 17 -- Burying Pro-Bush Poll Results?
Did the Times bury the real news in its story on a CBS/NYT presidential poll--the part showing a pro-Bush uptick?

• March 16 -- Kerry's "Astute" Gaffe
Did Kerry really mean for his attacks on Republicans as "crooked" and "lying" to go public? Kerry aides are pushing the theory, and a Times front-page headline takes the bait: "When Senator John Kerry made offhanded remarks about Republicans this week, some aides say, the comments were not accidental but the move of an astute politician aiming a spotlight on a topic harmful to his opponent."

• 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.

• December 17 -- Bush's Poll Numbers: Nice, But What About Those Funerals?
The Times front page gives Bush his due regarding his rising approval ratings--but a couple of the paper's poll questions suspiciously conform to its crusade on Bush's non-attendance at soldiers' funerals: "There was also clear public disapproval about some ways that Mr. Bush has responded to the war at home."

• December 9 -- Gore and Lieberman, Centered
Al Gore's shocking endorsement of the candidacy of Vermont Gov. Howard Dean (and his implicit rejection of former running mate Sen. Joe Lieberman) gives the paper another chance to insist Gore and Lieberman are "centrists."

• December 1 -- Bush in Baghdad: OK, But What About Those Funerals?
Adam Nagourney tosses cold water on Bush's Thanksgiving appearance in Baghdad: "The trip came at a time of rising criticism of the president for not attending the funerals of the returning war dead." Criticism driven by the Times itself.

• 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 15 -- “Carnage” In Iraq?
Reporter Adam Nagourney writes on the “continuing carnage in Iraq.” Carnage?

• July 15 -- “Unpopular” Ashcroft? Only At The Times
Adam Nagourney’s profile of Democratic presidential candidates claims Attorney General John Ashcroft is an “unpopular” and polarizing figure nationwide. But while many Democrats don’t care for John Ashcroft, a poll shows the public at large does.