Posted 1:28 AM by Scoobie Davis

Ideological Balance in the Washington Times?
In the past year, the Moonie-owned Washington Times (not to be confused with the respectable Washington Post) has irked me more than usual. First, the Times excerpted portions of the intellectually dishonest book At Any Cost: How Al Gore Tried to Steal the Election by Times reporter, Bill Sammon. Next, last November, an article by Times reporter Joseph Curl distorted a speech by Bill Clinton in order to give the impression that Clinton said that America deserved the WTC attacks (click here and here for detailed analyses of this particularly noxious smear).

This morning when I went to the Times web site, it was no big surprise to see the headline “Enron woes not sticking to White House” (this was the newspaper that shamelessly tried to spin away the Iran Contra scandal for the Reagan White House). However, I was pleasantly surprised—no, floored—to see an op-ed column by Bruce Fein that takes Dick Cheney to task for withholding information about the Energy Task Force meetings he held with members of Enron. This shows that either the Times is either putting forth a more balanced approach to the news or that Cheney’s stonewalling is so egregious that even the Washington Times could not ignore it. In my opinion, the unrelenting bias of the Times lends support to the latter explanation. This isn't good news for Messrs. Bush and Cheney.