I was congratulating the New York Times for breaking the story about Bush’s illegal spying on citizens just in time to help the Senate shoot down the Patriot Act renewal. Then I read
Ariana Huffington’s view of the story, which is far from congratulatory. She reams them for sitting on the story as long as they did, and suggests that by not publishing it before the 2004 election, they helped Bush win the election. She’s got a point. After the whole Judy Miller fiasco, and now this, it looks like the NY Times is trying to compete with Fox News to be Bush’s biggest booster.