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Racism

• July 20 -- William F. Buckley "Offensive," Al Sharpton Not?
Last Sunday, magazine writer Deborah Solomon said goodbye to retiring National Review founder William F. Buckley by asking him: "You have made so many offensive comments over the years. Do you regret any of them? This week she interviews left-wing activist Al Sharpton, who has made a career out of offensive comments. But she ignores them, and in fact invites Sharpton to criticize some Bill Cosby comments as racist.
• 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."
• January 19 -- No
Recess From Anti-Judge Pickering Slurs
A Times editorial denounces Bush for his recess appointment of Judge Charles
Pickering and again drops hints of racial insensitivity.

• November 14 -- Quoting
Zell Only When Liberals Yell
The Times won't report Democratic Sen. Zell Miller's excoriation
of his party over the Senate Intelligence memo, but quotes him to try
and make conservatives look bad.
• November 7 -- Ignorant
Mississippians for Bush
Paul Krugman accuses Republicans of racial tactics: "White
Mississippi voters, unlike their counterparts up north, are still
responding to Republican flag-waving--and it's not just the American
flag that's being waved."
• October 13 --
Adam Cohen's Charming Conservative
Assumptions
Writing about an Indian-American Republican's first-round win in the
Louisiana governor's race, editorialist Adam Cohen declares: "If even a small
percentage of white conservatives hold his ethnicity against him, it could cost
him the election."
E-mail
TimesWatch Director, Clay Waters, with TimesWatch feedback at
cwaters@mediaresearch.org
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