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Jodi Wilgoren

• November 1 -- Bush's "Façade" vs. "Relaxed, Playful" Kerry
The Times on Bush's campaign style: "Any crack in the façade could be fatal at the polls." The Times is more affectionate with Kerry: "Relaxed, playful and workmanlike, and hopelessly superstitious."

• October 28 -- How's Our Anti-Bush Scoop Playing Out?
The lead story from Elisabeth Bumiller and Jodi Wilgoren on the Al Qaqaa controversy skips fact-finding in favor of a meta-analysis over how the Times' suspiciously timed story is playing between the two campaigns.

• October 19 -- Rebutting Bush So Kerry Doesn't Have To
David Sanger and Jodi Wilgoren accuse Bush of "a far more incendiary characterization" of Kerry and helpfully disputes Bush's characterizations of Kerry's positions.

• October 14 -- Times Leads With Kerry's Loaded Lesbian Comment
Surprisingly, the Times' front-page debate coverage includes undecided Iowa voters reacting with disapproval to Kerry's invoking of Dick Cheney's lesbian daughter.

• October 12 -- How About Those Pro-Kerry Polls?
Another campaign story embraces recent poll findings -- now that they show Kerry doing better: "But Democrats, buoyed by a week of developments that undercut Mr. Bush's claims of vigorous job growth and his main justification for invading Iraq, said they would not lose the momentum heading into the final debate."

• October 8 -- Bush's Main Rationale for War Has "Unraveled"
"Mr. Kerry, emboldened by the report's unraveling of the administration's main rationale for going to war, shot back with his sharpest indictment yet…."

• October 5 -- "Standing Ovations" for Kerry on Stem Cells
The Times hypes stem-cell research: "Scientists say that embryonic stem cells hold great hope for medical treatments. But many conservatives and opponents of abortion criticize such research because it involves the destruction of human embryos….Polls show that strong majorities of the public favor an expansion of stem-cell research, and Mr. Kerry is routinely asked about it -- and wins standing ovations for his answers."

• September 10 -- "If A Republican Had Said That…."
How would the Times react if Bush told an audience to "beware of false prophets which come to you in sheep's clothing"?

• 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."

• August 26 -- Wilgoren Pitches in for Balanced Campaign Coverage
Jodi Wilgoren makes up for her previous credulous characterization of a Kerry campaign event by noting Kerry supporters can pitch softballs as well: "….the steady stream of softballs that followed could have come from a pitching machine."

• August 25 -- Gunning for the Swift Vets
Jodi Wilgoren follows Kerry to Manhattan and again unleashes loaded terms ("unsubstantiated," "Republican-financed") to characterize the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.

• August 20 -- "Fed Up" Kerry Takes on Swift Boat Vets
The headline to Jodi Wilgoren's piece on Kerry's response to the Swift Boat veterans reads "Fed Up, Kerry Says Bush Lets Group 'Do His Dirty Work,'" which assumes Kerry is justified in his counterattack.

• August 19 -- Excusing Kerry's Unenthusiastic VFW Reception
Jodi Wilgoren notes John Kerry received a less enthusiastic reception that Bush did at the VFW convention, but has an excuse ready: "Even Mr. Kerry's mixed reception as he criticized the Iraq war was notable because the V.F.W. typically tilts Republican and tends to stand behind an incumbent commander in chief."

• July 12 -- "Wedge Issues" Only on the Right?
Jodi Wilgoren reports from North Carolina: "Mr. Kerry made an oblique reference to conservatives' efforts to use gay marriage and other wedge issues to win Bible Belt states like North Carolina." Does "wedge issue" means "popular issue disliked by liberals"?

• July 8 -- Wilgoren Watches the Democrats
Jodi Wilgoren, one of the paper's more balanced political reporters, nabs the front page with her story on the new Kerry-Edwards ticket and at least hints at the ticket's liberal bent.

• May 17 -- Front-Page Cheers for Kerry-McCain
Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Jodi Wilgoren get front-page treatment for the latest exercise in media wishful thinking: A Kerry-McCain ticket.

• May 5 -- Page One for Michael Moore, Vets Against Kerry Buried
While Kerry’s Vietnam-heavy ad campaign made Tuesday’s page one, a group of fellow Navy “swift boat” Vietnam veterans assembling in Washington to declare John Kerry unfit for the presidency were assigned to Wednesday’s page 20. The Times saved front-page space for Michael Moore’s new anti-Bush film, but the radical-left director drew no label.

• April 30 -- Team Kerry is Too White?
A liberal newspaper should get this scoop first: black and Hispanic activists say that Team Kerry lacks “diversity” and is failing to appeal directly to minority voters. But how about a “liberal” tag for the “affirmative action” groups?

• March 26 -- A Tale of Two Tax Plans
A proposal from the Democrat candidate is a "response to widespread anxiety," while the Republican plan "would increase the nation's already swollen federal budget deficit."

• March 11 -- Cutting Kerry Slack On His Bush Attack
John Kerry attacked George Bush, saying: "These guys are the most crooked, you know, lying group that I've ever seen." But the Times front-page story on the Kerry campaign chooses to emphasize the positive--from the Kerry point of view, anyway.

• March 10 -- When Bushies Attack
While Adam Nagourney questions Bush's "fierce campaign of attacks" on Kerry, Jodi Wilgoren uncritically repeats John Kerry's own attacks against Bush.

• December 9 -- Gore and Lieberman, Centered
Al Gore's shocking endorsement of the candidacy of Vermont Gov. Howard Dean (and his implicit rejection of former running mate Sen. Joe Lieberman) gives the paper another chance to insist Gore and Lieberman are "centrists."