In her new book, Guilty: Liberal ‘Victims’ and Their Assault on America — ironically, currently #2 on The New York Times Best Sellers List — Ann Coulter excoriates America’s newspaper of wretched. Here are a few of her disclosures:

• “On October 15, 2008, the Obama campaign’s internal pre-debate talking points were inadvertently released to the media.” On the same day, The New York Times ran a story in its politics blog, “The Caucus,” that bore striking similarities to the Obama memo. For instance, both predicted that McCain would bring up Obama’s ties to ex-terrorist William Ayers. The Times essentially took the Obama memo, changed a few words, and slapped a byline on it.

• In the 2004 campaign, The Times repeatedly referred to charges of the anti-Kerry Swift Boat Veterans as “unsubstantiated.” But Coulter notes: “By contrast, not once did The Times describe the laughably unsubstantiated charge that Bush went AWOL from his National Guard service as ‘unsubstantiated’ out of 18 mentions of that allegation.”

• When a conservative says something dumb, for The New York Times, it’s proof positive that he’s a moron. But candidate Joe Biden’s repeated gaffes showed he “doesn’t take himself too seriously,” according to the paper.

• In reporting on public reaction to Republican intervention to save Terri Schiavio, a Times story claimed, “Polls indicating broad public opposition to government involvement in the Schiavo case may be giving some politicians second thoughts.” As evidence, it cited an ABC News poll that consistently misstated the facts of the case, and ignored a Zogby poll (that described the case correctly) showing respondents opposed withholding food and water from the disabled woman by 79% to 9%.

• During the 1984 campaign, The Times repeatedly ran stories claiming Mondale was closing the gap on Reagan. In 1996, there were no Times stories on Bob Dole catching up with Bill Clinton, even though Dole lost by a smaller margin than Mondale.

• Coulter comments on The Times’ use of ideological labels: “These are actual New York Times headlines describing two Supreme Court nominees: ‘An Advocate for the Right’ — News story on Bush nominee John Roberts, July 28, 2005. ‘Balanced Jurist at Home in the Middle’ — News story on Clinton nominee Ruth Bader Ginsburg, June 27, 1993.”

This only skims the surface. Coulter’s latest book contains reams of evidence on the way The New York Times acts as an adjunct for the left wing of the Democratic Party.

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