If Only the New York Times Applied the Same Standard to Republicans

The NYT does a hit piece on James Lee Witt today.

There is no doubt the high ranking administration officials in both parties bounce back and forth between public service and high paying private work. The most important inquiry is whether the private largesse is being received as some past reward or future payment for the provision of beneficial governmental action. There is no suggestion that this is the case for Witt and, indeed, despite the implication contained in the headline and lede paragraph of the article, Witt is actually doing more than one would normally expect in avoiding excessive profiteering from his work (Is the NYT suggesting he pought to be working for free?). He has cut his fee almost 50% for his Hurricane Katrina work with the State of Louisiana and he has also severed ties with a lucrative client in Allstate.

The NYT could write this same piece with worse facts 50 times a day regarding Republicans, and would actually do us all a greater service if it looked at the conflicts issue throughout those circumstances.

Instead, it seems Arthur Sulzberger is content on turning the NYT into more of a piece of shit everyday given its continuing Judith Miller garbage and the Jodi Wilgoren (aka "Spongebrain NoFacts") creationism story.

UPDATE: Armando at the DailyKos also has an excellent piece up about the NYT's chicanery regarding Judith Miller's "newly discovered" notes.