NYT buries story on IRS bullying conservatives…
It’s not front page news, apparently……Not front page material in the Grey Lady’s news judgment. But good enough for page A-11. With the third paragraph reassuring readers that an agency spokesperson had insisted
But of course. One does wonder, though, how the Times would have played the news if, a few years back, it had come to light that the IRS had been auditing Valerie Plame. But … then, perhaps in the Times‘s lofty judgment, the IRS was merely doing what it should do. This, anyway, was how the Times editorial page saw it last year:
One big, ham-fisted organization admiring the work of another. |

I wouldn’t even use the .@NYT to pick up DOG SHlT. It would be a desecration of the SHlT.