And the New York Times thinks it's not a rag....

An interesting point of view from a dying institution....The New York Times.

June 15, 2011
The Tom and Jerry Problem
By BILL KELLER

If the 2012 election were held in the newsrooms of America and pitted Sarah Palin against Barack Obama, I doubt Palin would get 10 percent of the vote. However tempting the newsworthy havoc of a Palin presidency, I’m pretty sure most journalists would recoil in horror from the idea.

That is not — or not entirely — for the reasons Palin thinks: that journalists are liberal elitists, that they find the Tea Party fringe ridiculous or alarming or that they are infatuated with the cerebral black liberal in the White House. There’s a grain of truth and a loaf of myth in each of those. But I think it’s more visceral than that. It has to do with a profound and mutual lack of respect that is not quite like any I recall between a candidate (or pretend candidate) and the press...

Hey Bill, we know that as a fact already and it is because reporters in mainstream media are leftist.  But unlike the the editorial writers they lie about being objective.

The rest of the article is basic liberal crab about Palin is treating the media poorly, etc.  But line really stuck out.

...At the core of the media antipathy, though, is something more fundamental. The fact is, reporters want as badly as anyone else to see the country led by someone who inspires confidence. But watching Palin answer a question is like watching a runaway train struggling to stay on the rails, and fact-checking her is like fishing with dynamite...

OK...I'm reading this in a leftist rag, the remains of a once great paper that defined journalism.  The one that would never allow a single question of the abilities of a back bencher in a state legislature and a junior senator who never led anything in his life to led this nation. Hey Bill, how much confidence does B Hussein Obama give when he is happily overseeing the decline of America?  Did you ever once thing you should examine abilities of B Hussein Obama?  No, we know the answer to that question.   If you did your supposed job America would have never voted for the unqualified man-child in the White House.

At the bottom of this crap you get this:

Bill Keller is executive editor of The New York Times.

And this charlatan will be the first to say his group is objective and a representative of the American people.