I have no respect for either paper, but I almost fell off my chair when I read the following in an Austin American-Statesman editorial (September 2, 2006) about Democrats criticizing Wal-Mart:
The efforts of Democratic Senate leaders Harry Reid, Joseph Biden and Hillary Clinton and others are cowardly, hypocritical, and ignorant of larger economic truths.
The AAS has moments of non-hypocrisy.
They are few, and far between, but exist.
The Houston Chronic, not so. It aspires to be the Jayson Blair levels of the NYT.
"The Houston Chronic is more liberal than even the Austin paper"
Last week the Houston paper actually used editorial space to blast Republicans for calling the opposing party the democrat party rather than the democratic party!