NY Times on the debate & laughing at-- not with--Dean, etc

[cryofan]

Amazingly, for the NY Times, this article on today's debate, actually reflects in reality pretty much what happened. And somehow -- somehow -- Dean failed to receive less than his customary 75% of the article's copy being centered around him.

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JOHNSTON, Iowa, Jan. 4 — For sheer comedic appeal, the Democratic presidential debate on Sunday was short a Sharpton, though it had its moments. As when Howard Dean offhandedly promised to balance the budget "in the sixth or seventh year of my administration."

Someone howled, and the audience, noticeably short of Dean partisans, broke up at the presumptuousness. Dr. Dean seemed not to realize that he was the butt of the joke, and even his campaign manager, Joe Trippi, later said he thought the crowd was laughing with him.


Laughing *with* him...yeah, right, Joe....

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Also, amazingly, Kucinich got plenty of copy about him in this article. Here is some of it:


Mr. Kucinich, a former mayor of Cleveland, owned up to having "fired the chief of police, live, on the 6 o'clock news on Good Friday," adding: "If any of you can top that, I'll yield to you. But let's say that in the years since, I have learned a certain amount of diplomacy."


The other candidates' answers were more self-serving.




The article even ends -- astoundingly! -- with positive paragraphs about Kucinich. He even gets an upbeat quote to close the article.

I have to wonder whether the Times is afraid that even the somnolent sheeple are beginning to twig to their evil little game.

The rest of the article here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/05/politics/campaigns/05IOWA.html