Connecticut Senate race: WaPo endorses Lieberman, NYT endorses Lamont

No real surprises here with the way the endorsements fell, considering the NYT’s anti-war Iraq stance and the WaPo’s pro-Iraq war stances (expressed in various editorials in the past). However, the WaPo’s editorial discusses Lieberman’s other strengths, in addition to his steadfast support of the Iraq war, while the NYT focuses primarily on Lamont being the anti-Bush/anti-Iraq war candidate that Lieberman isn’t.

Here’s the WaPo’s well-reasonsed endorsement of Lieberman, and the NYT’s “we’re ok with him because he’s not Lieberman” endorsement of Lamont.

Hat tip: Greg Tinti at Outside the Beltway

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camojack says:

July 31, 2006 at 1:25 am

From my observations, the Washington Post is much more fair and balanced than the New York Times. Of course, that’s really not saying much, huh?

Phil says:

July 31, 2006 at 2:20 am

The New York Slimes is so far to the left that anything in the moderate left looks to be way to the far right from their perspective. You couldn’t find a media that is as far to the left as the New York Crimes.