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Recall

• October 10 -- "Shrill, Privileged" Doctors vs. "Advocate" Ralph Nader
A New Jersey bureau chief squeezes in class warfare and several other liberal cliches in his column on "shrill" and "privileged" doctors protesting high insurance premiums.

• October 10 -- Jay Leno, Partisan Republican
When is it controversial for a TV personality to show political favoritism? When the politician is Republican.

• October 6 -- Republican Win In California = Bad News for Bush?
Reporter Adam Nagourney does some Schwarzenegger scandal-mongering.

• September 29 -- California Needs Higher Taxes, Part 1
Charlie LeDuff characterizes the campaign of Arnold Schwarzenegger (now leading in the California governor’s race) as a feel-good exercise that ignores the need for tax hikes: “Promising deliverance without sacrifice and a balanced budget without tax increases…”

• September 29 -- California Needs Higher Taxes, Part 2
Dean Murphy is another Times reporter suggesting Schwarzenegger would have to raise taxes as governor, claiming the “state's formidable obstacles to raising taxes” have “tied [Gray] Davis's hands in keeping the state fiscally afloat. On the bright side: a Schwarzenegger win could mean a tax hike.

• September 16 -- The Times’ California Leanin’
A federal appeals panel has delayed the California recall election, citing the unreliability of punch-card voting. But a Times editorial ignores some inconvenient facts in order to assert that the panel “did the right thing.”

• September 15 -- Times Swoons for Bible-Thumping Clinton
Bill Clinton visited a Los Angeles church to boost beleaguered Gov. Gray Davis.

• August 27 -- Schwarzenegger’s False Liability
Reporter Charlie LeDuff grades how former Gov. Pete Wilson’s team is doing in advising California gubernatorial candidate Arnold Schwarzenegger.

• August 25 -- Conservative California Cannibalism

• August 22 -- Krugman the Inexplicable
Paul Krugman’s “Conan The Deceiver” tries to defend California Gov. Gray Davis: “Although news reports continue, inexplicably, to talk about a $38 billion deficit, the projected gap for next year is only $8 billion.” It’s not “inexplicable.” It’s in the governor’s own budget for 2003-2004, and Davis said the same thing months ago.

• August 11 -- Puffing Up Huffington
Two stories on California’s surreal governor’s race try to make Arianna Huffington more palatable, calling her “populist” and “progressive.” Would it kill the Times to call the liberal Huffington “liberal?”

• August 8 -- Schwarzenegger, “The Villain”
Charlie LeDuff’s piece on the California recall election brings up “tabloid accounts of groping and boorish behavior on movie sets” against Arnold Schwarzenegger, proving the Times has changed its tune on scandal-mongering since Bill Clinton.

• August 7 -- The Running Man
The Times story on California’s recall vote notes Sen. Feinstein is out, while action-hero Arnold and “populist” Arianna are in, and offers its readers snob appeal: “Instead of talking about issues like nuclear proliferation and appropriations, as Ms. Feinstein did, Mr. Schwarzenegger made light of his decision to run….” And is Arianna Huffington really a populist independent or just another left-winger?

• August 1 -- Krugman’s Dubious Proposition
Paul Krugman’s op-ed on California’s massive deficit absolves Democratic Gov. Gray Davis of blame and instead fingers the 25-year-old tax-limiting measure Proposition 13, which he claims “led to a progressive starvation of California's once-lauded public schools.”

• July 25 -- Can’t “Recall” Reagan as California Gov.?
The Times piles on Rep. Darrell Issa, who led the recall drive against Gov. Gray Davis of California: “Democrats today said he would be the ‘poster child’ of their antirecall campaign, mainly because he is the sort of conservative Republican who has traditionally fared poorly in statewide elections.” Conservative California Govs. Ronald Reagan and George Deukmejian might disagree.