The Daily Howler - 10/24/05

TIMES TURNS GLOOM-AND-DOOMY! The Times talked up the mayor it loves—then went gloom-and-doomy on Bush: // link // print // previous // next //

MONDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2005

TIMES TURNS GLOOM-AND-DOOMY: We had to laugh at Saturday’s Times editorial concerning last week’s NAEP results. “Happy Talk on School Reform,” read the headline; the editors battered President Bush for doing what they themselves often do—for pretending that things may be better in the schools than a set of test scores really suggests. The Times just hates that “happy talk”—now. But uh oh! Just last spring, the Times pretended that New York City schools were gaining big ground thanks to Mayor Bloomberg’s brilliant policies (see THE DAILY HOWLER, 10/6/05, with links to prior reporting). But now, when Bush does much the same thing, the Times rises up in high dudgeon. The Times talks happy—for pols they like. For Bush, they turn gloom-and-doomy.