The New York Times Continues Its War on Gore

Busy orchestrating attacks on Gore's global warming crusade, conservatives received a gift last week in the form of a New York Times article alleging that 'mainstream' scientists were raising concerns about Gore's facts. Dredging up the media's 2000 campaign meme about Gore being loose with the truth, the Times resurrected the premise that Gore's an exaggerator who cannot be trusted.

It's hard to overstate just how closely the Times article echoed conservative talking points about global warming (i.e. alarmists are driving the debate) and about Al Gore (his exaggerations cannot be trusted). Yet for close readers of the Times, last week's attack on Gore came as no surprise--the Times' coverage of Gore for years has dripped with an odd disdain; a completely out-of-context contempt for the former vice president.

Read the full Media Matters column here.