Water Under the Bridge
In this year’s midterm elections, there is no talk of satchels of cash from donors. Nor is there any hint of illegal actions reaching Watergate-like proportions. But the fund-raising practices that earned people convictions in Watergate — giving direct corporate money to a campaign and doing so secretly — are back in a different form in 2010. (NYT, 10/17/10)
As part of its ongoing effort to gin up support for Democrats, the New York Times awakens an old ghost: Watergate!
Meltdown
They (Republicans) are re-running the strategy of denial perfected by Mr. Cheney a decade ago, repudiating years of peer-reviewed findings about global warming and creating an alternative reality in which climate change is a hoax or conspiracy. (NYT, 10/18/10)
Call it a “two-fer” for this Times editorial. They work in their bete-noire Dick Cheney while also beating up Repubs for rejecting global warming. Note to the Times however: given the Climategate scandal, we’d suggest that the concept of “peer-reviewed findings” does not carry the same weight it used to.
Secret Secrets
A secretive network of Republican donors is heading to Palm Springs for a long weekend in January, but it will not be to relax after a hard-fought election — it will be to plan for the next one. (NYT, 10/19/10)
Could the Times have finally uncovered that elusive beast: the vast right-wing conspiracy?
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