SOMETIMES, PERCEPTION IS REALITY: The New NY Times Public Editor Goes There: ‘Why Readers See The Times as Liberal.’

Well, our source was the New York Times, to quote from the legendary Soviet Ambassador Alexi de Sadesky. As Daniel Okrent, the Times’ first public editor (“ombudsman” is probably too sexist a word for the vaporous Gray Lady) noted in 2004, after the body blows of the Jayson Blair debacle and Howling Howell Raines’ weird obsession with the Augusta National Golf Club in the wake of 9/11, “Is the New York Times a Liberal Newspaper? Of course it is.”

And as with the party its serves, its leftwing bias has only gotten worse in the years since.