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Public Lives

• November 18 -- The Times' Toilet Humor
Reporter Robin Finn finds anti-Bush toilet humor ("I Pee on Bushes") amusing.

• October 12 -- No Hedging When It Comes to Pushing Lefties
Liberal reporter Chris Hedges again uses the Times to publicize a left-wing figure: "In the battle over Jesus, what he stood for, what he represents and how faith is experienced and sustained, the Rev. Dr. James A. Forbes Jr., the senior minister of Riverside Church, is determined to provide an alternative vision to the one offered by religious conservatives."

• September 23 -- A Sympathetic Hearing for an Extreme Bush Hater
The paper's "Public Lives" profile offers more anti-Bush ammo.

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

• April 20 -- Hedges Lauds Another Defender of Anti-Israeli Violence
Chris Hedges, infamous for being unplugged while delivering an anti-war commencement speech, profiles a pro-Palestinian professor that ignores his defense of violence against Israeli soldiers.

• April 14  -- "Tune In" to Liberal Radio, Says the Times
Robin Finn's profile of "Air America" host Lizz Winstead hands the liberal radio network a helpful bit of PR: "Five-dollar words aren't funny. Liberals sometimes are. Tune in if you don't believe her."

• February 6 -- "Conservatives" Against Death Penalty, Patriot Act
Chris Hedges' latest "Public Lives" profile ostensibly deals with a conservative Republican figure--one who is passionately anti-death penalty and calls the Patriot Act "a serious erosion of the rule of law."

• January 28 -- Loving Those Who Love Paul Robeson
Anti-war reporter Chris Hedges profiles (another) Paul Robeson admirer--a preacher's son fighting for gay rights.

• August 12 -- The Times Stands for “Common Decency” (Part I )
When it comes to expanding government programs, that is. A “Public Lives” profile by Robin Finn is yet another instance of the Times using the feature to boost left-wingers. This time it’s Dan Cantor, organizer of “a third-party political movement steeped in populist values and--no joke--common decency.”

• August 4 -- No Nukes!
Reporter Lydia Polgreen is sad that liberal environmentalists have been unable to shut down a nuclear power plant near Manhattan and regrets the missed opportunity of 9-11: “Yet nearly two years after the terrorist attack, the decades-old struggle to close Indian Point seems no nearer to its goal.”

• July 25 -- The Times Catches Up With Times Watch
The Times finally corrects Chris Hedges’ July 1 story in which he falsely claims Sen. Joe McCarthy derailed the career of Stalin-supporting actor-activist Paul Robeson. As Times Watch noted on July 1: “Joe McCarthy had nothing to do with it, Hedges’ fantasies of ‘McCarthyism’ notwithstanding.”

• July 1 -- Chris Hedges’ Love for Local Lefties
Times reporter Chris Hedges, whose anti-war rant got him booed off a college commencement stage, contributes a chronologically challenged profile of a left-wing judge whose courtroom has a picture of Stalinist actor Paul Robeson on the wall.