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Elaine Sciolino

• November 10 -- Ashcroft’s “Excesses” vs. Arafat’s “Aura”
One sign the New York Times is a liberal newspaper is when Attorney General John Ashcroft gets rougher press than a terrorist. On the Times front page, Ashcroft is assailed by critics for sacrificing civil liberties, while the dying Palestinian leader Arafat was a cult hero, touted as a “guerrilla fighter and Nobel Prize winner.”

• March 31 -- U.S. "Puritan Streak" Made Monica "A Big Deal"
Elaine Sciolino celebrates the social liberalism of Spain's prime minister-elect and blasts "the puritan streak in American politics that made the Monica Lewinsky affair such a big deal."

• March 22 -- Francisco Franco Is Still Dead...Times Bias Is Still Disgraceful
If Elaine Sciolino’s consistently hostile reporting on Spanish Prime Minister José María Aznar wasn’t enough, she compares him to Spain’s former fascist dictator General Francisco Franco.

• March 15 -- Reign Fall in Spain Means Stormy Weather for Bush
Elaine Sciolino also fingers Bush for blame for the Spanish ruling party's loss in Sunday's election and sees the results as a problem for Allied forces in Iraq.

• March 12 -- Bush-Backing Spanish PM to "Get the Blame" for Terror?
Elaine Sciolino's hostile profile of Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar appeared the morning of a terrorist attack in Madrid, and her story on the attack works in the same anti-Aznar points: "Ninety percent of Spaniards opposed Mr. Aznar's decision to back the United States in the war against Iraq, and some say that if Arab groups are responsible for the attack, Mr. Aznar will get the blame."

• March 11 -- "Strident" Spanish PM "Dragged His Country" Into War
Can the Times ever forgive European leaders who backed Bush in Iraq?

• February 20 -- "Intifada? What Intifada?"
Elaine Sciolino's take on a EU anti-Semitism conference is stained by this puzzler: "Much of the debate focused on finding a definition for the new wave of anti-Semitic acts and statements that have swept through Europe since the Israeli crackdown on Palestinians in 2000." Didn't the Palestinian intifada have something to do with that "crackdown"?

• December 2 -- Propping Up Prospects for a Left-Wing "Peace" Deal
Elaine Sciolino calls an unofficial left-wing Israeli peace deal a rebuke to "hard-line" Ariel Sharon, and indulges in moral equivalency.