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NY Times DC Chief Denies 'Liberal' Tag: 'I've Voted for Republicans and Democrats'
http://newsbusters.org/node/10384 ^

Posted on 01/25/2007 4:11:06 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest

Philip Taubman, Washington bureau chief for The Times, is responding to reader questions in the paper's editions this week.

Among those he addressed this morning is the one below:

Q. Please tell us your voting record for the past ten years. I want to confirm your liberal bias.
--David Owens
A. I'm always amazed at the certitude with which people make assumptions about journalists and their political views. I'm sorry to disappoint you, but I have voted for Republicans and Democrats over the years. And I published a book in 2003, Secret Empire: Eisenhower, The CIA, and The Hidden Story of America's Space Espionage (Simon & Schuster), that recounts President Eisenhower's critical leadership role in the development of spy satellites and other breakthroughs in military and intelligence technology during his presidency.

Let's analyze Taubman's response. "I'm sorry to disappoint you" implies a denial of the "liberal" accusation. But what is the evidence he offers? First, the fact that "over the years" he has voted for Republicans and Democrats.

But what does that mean? Did Taubman vote for Ronald Reagan, or did he perhaps pull the lever a couple times for a next-door neighbor when she was the GOP candidate for town council? Taubman doesn't tell us, and his failure to do so is telling.

Continuing does the fact that Taubman had kind things to say about a Republican president who served over a half-century ago and did, after all, command Allied forces in WWII, prove anything? Ultimately, of course, Taubman's personal predilections are not nearly so important as the bias reflected in the stories that do and do not appear in the Times' pages. And as is documented week in and week out at NewsBusters and elsewhere, the liberal leanings of the Times coverage is hard to deny. Taubman does not even seek to address it.Contact Mark at mark@gunhill.net


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: eisenhower; mediabias; nytimes; philiptaubman
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1 posted on 01/25/2007 4:11:12 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: Behind Liberal Lines; Miss Marple; an amused spectator; netmilsmom; Diogenesis; YaYa123; MEG33; ...

No-bias-at-the-Times ping to Today show list.


2 posted on 01/25/2007 4:12:38 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest (Watching the Today Show since 2002 so you don't have to.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Did Taubman vote for Ronald Reagan, or did he perhaps pull the lever a couple times for a next-door neighbor when she was the GOP candidate for town council? Taubman doesn't tell us, and his failure to do so is telling.

I call BS!

3 posted on 01/25/2007 4:14:30 AM PST by airborne (Elect an Airborne Ranger,Vietnam Veteran for President ! Duncan Hunter 2008!!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I've voted to elect Democrats.

I've voted to prosecute Republicans.

Fair and balanced.


4 posted on 01/25/2007 4:15:27 AM PST by Enduring Freedom (President Bush - Your Public Relations Team Sucks!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

You can call a turd a gem, but it still stinks.


5 posted on 01/25/2007 4:15:47 AM PST by Fierce Allegiance ("Campers laugh at clowns behind closed doors.")
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Which Republican, Chafee, Snowe, Collins, Specter?
6 posted on 01/25/2007 4:16:47 AM PST by tobyhill (The War on Terrorism is not for the weak.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Well I guess that's that. The New York slimes is NOT bias! The older I get, the more I learn!


7 posted on 01/25/2007 4:19:49 AM PST by jmaroneps37 (Millions of Democrat babies aborted in 1988 or earlier did not vote this year.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I once voted for a Democrat for a local office, because he was running unopposed. I guess I, too, can say "I've voted for both Republicans and Democrats, so that proves I have no ideological bias."


8 posted on 01/25/2007 4:20:36 AM PST by Sloth (The GOP is to DemonRats in politics as Michael Jackson is to Jeffrey Dahmer in babysitting.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
I'm always amazed at the certitude with which people make assumptions about journalists and their political views. I'm sorry to disappoint you, but I have voted for Republicans and Democrats over the years.

Voting for Guilliani twice does not count.

9 posted on 01/25/2007 4:21:08 AM PST by Always Right
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

What does publishing a book have to do with voting?


10 posted on 01/25/2007 4:23:18 AM PST by Mo1 (Mrs. Bill Clinton - "We're going to take what you have and give it to others for the common good.")
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Not only does he lie in the pages of the times, he lies while giving interviews! ONCE A LIAR, ALWAYS A LIAR!

ny times: "ALL of the LIES we can think of to print"!

LLS


11 posted on 01/25/2007 4:23:22 AM PST by LibLieSlayer (Preserve America... kill terrorists... destroy dims!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Newspapers across the country have editorial boards that lean one way or the other. That is expected. However, the paper's news pages should stick to the 5 W's. The New York Times has long ago lost sight of that journalistic cannon.
12 posted on 01/25/2007 4:23:22 AM PST by aligncare (*This is a test of the emergency tagline warning system. This is only a test*)
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To: Sloth
I once voted for a Democrat for a local office, because he was running unopposed.

I would just write in "Bullwinkle."

13 posted on 01/25/2007 4:24:39 AM PST by Sir Francis Dashwood (LET'S ROLL!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Which band had the old song with the line,"liar, liar"?


14 posted on 01/25/2007 4:42:50 AM PST by Joe Boucher (an enemy of islam)
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To: Joe Boucher

The Castaways ?


15 posted on 01/25/2007 4:48:31 AM PST by mouske
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To: Joe Boucher
"Which band had the old song with the line,"liar, liar"?"

Three Dog Night had one.

16 posted on 01/25/2007 4:53:37 AM PST by haywoodwebb (Christ died for our sins.)
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To: Joe Boucher
Which band had the old song with the line,"liar, liar"?

The Castaways -- Liar, Liar (1965). From Minnesota. They were all about 16 years old when the song was a smash.

17 posted on 01/25/2007 4:54:33 AM PST by Jhensy
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
I'm sorry to disappoint you, but I have voted for RINOS and Democrats over the years.

There, fixed it for him.

18 posted on 01/25/2007 4:57:45 AM PST by Arrowhead1952 (The terrorists have many allies in the United States, especially in the democrat party.)
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To: haywoodwebb

Thanks, that was the one I was thinking of.


19 posted on 01/25/2007 4:58:21 AM PST by Joe Boucher (an enemy of islam)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
"Q. Please tell us your voting record for the past ten years." "A. I have voted for Republicans and Democrats over the years."

Did he answer the question? NOPE!

20 posted on 01/25/2007 5:06:38 AM PST by moonman (`)
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