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Republican Convention

• 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 8 -- "War Hero" Kerry vs. "Sissy" George Bush
Frank Rich is back from vacation and in full foam: "Only in an election year ruled by fiction could a sissy who used Daddy's connections to escape Vietnam turn an actual war hero into a girlie-man."

• September 8 -- Lauding Left-Wing Convention Disruptors
Diane Cardwell seems to admire a radical left-wing group's successful disruption of convention speeches by Bush and Cheney: "While thousands of demonstrators chanted on the streets, drawing only glancing attention from the Republicans, their members were inside Madison Square Garden night after night, unfurling banners and baring their slogans, forcing even the president to take notice."

• September 7 -- Gee, Every Single One of Them?
Rick Lyman has the scoop on Dick Cheney.

• September 7 -- Democratic Heartburn on the Times' Front Page
There's a heaping helping of Democratic angst on Sunday's front page, painting a picture of a disillusioned Kerry camp.

• September 7 -- Dowd Defends Times Against Bush's Quote "Distortion"
Maureen Dowd, of all people, rises to defend the historical honor of her paper by accusing George Bush in his acceptance speech of distorting words from a Times column penned in 1946. Dowd's defense is rather ironic, considering her own history of distorting quotes.

• September 7 -- "Questioning Kerry's Patriotism," Again
David Halbfinger claims Kerry's patriotism was questioned at the Republican convention: "But he returned to the offensive after his character, voting history and even his patriotism were questioned by Republicans in New York this week, and after Democrats faulted him for a hesitant, halting response last month to televised attacks on his military record." Halbfinger also dashes cold water on polls showing Bush with a substantial lead.

• 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 1 -- Pining for Clinton-Era Heaven
Edmund Andrews and Robin Toner portray the Clinton years as positively paradisiacal: "Four years ago, when the nation still seemed in an era of boundless prosperity…."

• September 1 -- Beethoven, Anti-Bush Protester
Music critic Allan Kozinn takes in an anti-Republican "collaborative performance piece" in Manhattan and thought one classical piece fit right in: "Beethoven was an idealist who opposed tyranny, and in the context of a discussion about curtailed civil liberties, elective war and a striving toward empire--the subjects of several of the speeches--it seemed entirely at home."

• September 1 -- Showing the Violent Face of Anti-Bush Protest
The Times doesn't hide the violent, ugly behavior of some anti-Republican protesters: "…marauding crowds cursing at delegates in Midtown and the detention of hundreds of protesters near ground zero--created a day of disorder in a convention week already marked by sustained protests against the Bush administration and the war in Iraq."

• September 1 -- Republicans Disrespecting Veterans?
Jim Rutenberg stirs a controversy among Republican delegates: "When speakers at the Republican convention discuss Senator John Kerry's service in Vietnam, they use words like 'respect,' as Rudolph W. Giuliani did on Monday, giving nary a hint of the unsubstantiated charges by a veteran's group that Mr. Kerry lied to get his war medals, which dominated the campaign for two weeks before the convention began."

• September 1 -- Kerry Slow to Respond to "Unsubstantiated" Assaults
David Halbfinger and Jodi Wilgoren hint at changes to come in the suddenly faltering Kerry campaign and again bash charges from the Swifties: "Mr. Kerry was slow to respond to an assault on his Vietnam combat record and character, with largely unsubstantiated accusations, by the group Swift Boat Veterans for Truth."

• September 1 -- Stolberg Profiles "Zig Zag Zell"
Congressional reporter Sheryl Gay Stolberg departs from her usual laudatory tone in a profile of "traitor" Democratic Sen. Zell Miller, who's giving the keynote speech tonight for Bush.

• September 1 -- The Republican's "Evangelical" Staging
David Kirkpatrick files another label-heavy story about social conservative influence in the Republican party: "Senator Brownback urged a crowd of several hundred in a packed ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria hotel, reprising a theme of a speech by Patrick J. Buchanan from the podium of the 1992 Republican convention that many political experts say alienated moderate voters in that election….at times the staging of the evening resembled an evangelical Protestant church service."

• September 1 -- Context for Kerry Quotes, but None for Bush's "Gaffe"
Elisabeth Bumiller again plays up a Bush "gaffe" to portray Bush on the defensive: But when Bush attacks Kerry in similar fashion, she allows the Kerry campaign to put the quote in context.

• September 1 -- Dick Cheney, Puppet Master
Rick Lyman has an unfavorable profile of Dick Cheney, comparing him to Dan Quayle and letting Democrats gloat: "Kerry campaign officials say that simply by mentioning the vice president or Halliburton, the military contractor he once headed, they can reinforce an image of a Republican administration that has favored the interests of the rich and the powerful…the image persists of Mr. Cheney as the backstage manipulator, the guy who is pulling the president's strings and effectively running the government."

• 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 31 -- Stop the Presses
"Swing-State Delegates Confident in Bush and Don't Much Like Kerry."

• August 31 -- GHWB vs. NYT
Bush Sr. on the NYT: "It's consistently liberal, consistently opposes the president on almost everything editorial….I've given up on them."

• August 31 -- Selling Anti-Republican Art in Manhattan
More anti-Bush art projects: Critic Stephen Holden admires radical novelist E.L. Doctorow, while David Carr celebrates Bush-hating comedian Margaret Cho.

• August 31 -- Apple Takes a Bite Out of the Swift Boat Veterans
Long-time campaign correspondent and former Times Washington bureau chief R.W. Apple interviews his old friend Sen. McCain and discusses the Swifties: "The advertisements questioning Mr. Kerry's war record, the work of a 527 group of Swift boat veterans, were largely financed, at least initially, by rich Texas Republicans, some with past links to Mr. Bush."

• August 31 -- Cute Communists and Jerky Anarchists in Manhattan
Charming Commies and violent anarchists on the streets of Manhattan.

• August 31 -- Party Centrists in Despair
Katharine Seelye cites Hillary Clinton in a story on the plight of the embattled Republican moderate: "Many moderates are irked that in the party's search for independent and undecided voters, it is putting forward moderate candidates but not a moderate agenda, allowing Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, the New York Democrat, to deride the scene as a Potemkin convention."

• August 31 -- Did Republicans "Cross the Line" on 9-11?
Todd Purdum provides the latest criticism of the Bush campaign for discussing the single-most significant event of his presidency, 9-11: "From morning to night, the Republicans strode proudly, even defiantly, right up to that line--if not over it--and the delegates responded with roaring approval…."

• August 31 -- Over-Excitement Over Bush's Terror Comment
Elisabeth Bumiller gets a front-page story out of a Bush comment on the terror war ("I don't think you can win it") and tries to gin up a controversy.

• August 31 -- NYT Springs at "Conservative" Republican Platform -- But Took a Dive Over the Democrat's Liberal One
The "conservative" Republican platform makes the lead headline of the Times and even gets its own front-page story. So how did the paper cover the liberal Democratic platform back in July?

• August 30 -- Still Whining About Willie Horton
Robin Toner files the latest example of media obsession with the Willie Horton ad.

• 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 Already Upstaged in NYC
Have the protesters already "upstaged" the Republicans?

• August 30 -- Lost in Cambodia
In his story on Bush and Kerry's Vietnam history, David Halbfinger manages to bring up Cambodia without mentioning Kerry's discredited tales of spending Christmas 1968 there.

• August 30 -- "Moderate" Traub vs. "Extremist" Republicans
James Traub again portrays himself as a moderate while attacking Republican extremism: "…it is conservative culture, the culture permeating the Bush administration, that is shot through with Sixties moralism and self-righteousness, the calls to ideological purity, the insistence that the other is not merely wrong but illegitimate."

• August 30 -- Are Swifties Questioning Kerry's Patriotism?
Todd Purdum rehashes an old chestnut of Republicans questioning Democratic patriotism: "But the old culture wars followed [Kerry] into the 21st century, and he now finds himself bombarded by veterans who question not only his patriotism but his honor."

• August 30 -- The Lead Convention Story So Far: Left-Wing Gripes
A Republican Party "controversy" makes the front page of the Times special convention section: David Kirkpatrick's story, "Cheney Daughter's Political Role Disappoints Some Gay Activists," is dominated by criticism from left-wing gay-rights groups.

• 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 30 -- Boosting Anti-Bush Crowd Figures, Again
The Times again manages to pass along the highest crowd estimates for an anti-Bush rally in Manhattan, the same way it did during the anti-war protests of March 2003, and passes along more "protesters-as-mainstream-citizens" talking points.

• August 26 -- Did We Mention That They're Conservative?
David Kirkpatrick reviews the Republican Party's platform committee and overdoses on the term "conservative."

• August 25 -- Rummy Trouble on "Eve" of Republican Convention?
Douglas Jehl's front-page story strains to make the just-released Abu Ghraib report a political problem for Bush and Donald Rumsfeld on the "eve of the convention" (still five days away).

• August 17 -- Hocking Another Anti-Republican Art Project
Times contributor Edward Gomez files the latest bit of NYT PR for anti-Republican art.