The Interior of Things

Leers
Abortion rights groups have been leery in recent years of taking their battles to the increasingly conservative Supreme Court. (New York Times, 6/11/2015)

The last two appointees were Sonia Sotomayer (2009) and Elena Kagan (2010)...yet the Supreme Court is "increasingly conservative." Does the New York Times even have a fact checker? How about an editor?


The Trips
In private conversations with acquaintances, she has given the impression of not especially enjoying the klieg-light life in the White House even as she is criticized periodically for foreign trips, like the one she will take this month to England and Italy with her mother and daughters for a mix of official events and sightseeing, partly subsidized by taxpayers as other first ladies’ trips have been. (New York Times, 6/11/2015)

Poor beleaguered Michelle Obama. You never heard the graceful Laura Bush complain and she took just as much abuse as the endlessly aggrieved Michelle.

And what the Times does not tell you - because it is a hopelessly biased paper - is that the criticism of Michelle's trips was over the gaudy spectacle of her and her daughters and her daughters' friends partying in Europe while America was mired in a recession. 


Bill Clinton Says He Will Stop Giving Paid Speeches if Hillary Wins, Will Not Stop Chasing Women (New York Times and RedStateVT, 6/11/2015)


Emotional Rescue
It took a long time for Hillary Rodham Clinton to fully understand the story of her mother’s devastating childhood. But now, four years after her death, Dorothy’s story is forming the emotional foundation of her daughter’s campaign for president, and will be a central theme in her big kickoff speech on Saturday. (New York Times, 6/12/2015)

The Clinton Campaign Pity Party continues. Next up: The time Chelsea gave Hillary the devastating news that her baby had colic.

Tomorrow in the New York Times campaign coverage: Did Marco Rubio's financial problems cause him to undertip a waitress at Chili's, an in-depth investigation.