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Senate

• November 9 -- "Conservative" Sen. Reid to the Democrats' Rescue?
A Times editorial tilts the labeling field.

• November 1 -- "Conservatives" vs. Democrats in the Senate
The Times runs down nine crucial Senate races and uses the term "conservative" six times, twice in its short summary of the race to unseat Tom Daschle.

• October 18 -- "Hard-Right" Coors Family, "Conservative" O'Connor?
Kirk Johnson throws around some loaded labels in his story on the Colorado senate race: "It is a question that would have shocked the old line, hard-right conservative patriarchs of the clan begat by Adolph Coors."

• October 4 -- Chafee's "Painful Journey of Political Conscience" to Diss Bush
Sheryl Gay Stolberg throws another softball to a Republican critical of Bush, liberal Sen. Lincoln Chafee: "Pensive and intellectual, he hardly appears suited for the bare-knuckle world of politics and seems to exist on the periphery of things, ambling about the Capitol like an absent-minded professor making a study of its power-hungry inhabitants."

• August 11 -- Another "Independent-Minded" Bush Critic
Reporter Sheryl Gay Stolberg praises yet another moderate Republican senator, and frequent Bush critic, Sen. Susan Collins: "Independent-minded but cautious…with her pleasant demeanor and penchant for being well prepared…."

• July 13 -- Sunny Skies in the West for Dems
Reporter Carl Hulse delivers Democratic optimism: "Democrats See New Hope in Republican Strongholds."

• March 26 -- Giving the Losers the First Word
The Unborn Victims of Violence Act passed by a wide margin, but Carl Hulse's piece lets the liberal minority have the first word: "Opponents denounced the bill, adopted on a vote of 61 to 38, as an effort to undermine the constitutional right to abortion by recognizing the fetus as a person."

• March 2 -- Cleland Wuz Robbed!
Editorial writer Adam Cohen spreads paranoia in a story on electronic voting machines, hinting that just maybe there's some doubt about two Republican Senate wins in 2002.

• February 17 -- Democratic Whistleblowers, Republican Villains
Neil Lewis sounds indignant over Republican Senate staffers who obtained Democratic memos: "But the Democrats have now confidently gathered in a herd on the moral high ground….Faced with a difficult-to-defend situation, many Republicans simply withdrew from the field of battle, quietly slipping out of the room." The Times hasn't always been so judgmental about partisan use of improperly obtained information.

• December 3 -- Bush Killed Kyoto?
A lead story laments the apparent killing of the Kyoto Protocol, which would have required draconian cuts in the output of greenhouse gases on the part of industrial nations: "The Bush administration rejected the pact, essentially giving Russia veto power over its enactment." But it wasn't just Bush: The U.S. Senate rejected Kyoto by 95-0 in 1997.

• November 6 -- Jehl Buries Dirty Details of Demo Memo
Douglas Jehl buries the contents of a Democratic intelligence committee memo which suggested using the supposedly bipartisan committee for political advantage during Bush's re-election campaign--and ignores a Democratic senator's fiery criticism of the tactic.

• August 5 -- South Carolina’s Jewish Problem?
The retirement of Sen. Ernest Hollings included this out-of-nowhere bit on the chances of potential Democratic candidate Inez Tenenbaum: “South Carolina has not elected a woman to a top post like senator or governor, and it is unclear whether the state is ready for one, let alone a woman who once lobbied for abortion rights and has a Jewish surname, said Brad Gomez, a political scientist…Ms. Tenenbaum is Methodist. Her husband is Jewish.” Thanks for clearing that up, guys!

• June 25 -- There Are No Liberals Here
For the second day in a row, reporters Robin Toner and Robert Pear team up for labeling bias. On Wednesday it was liberal Sen. Barbara Boxer’s turn for a whitewash.