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Everyone “knows” the New York Times is liberal so when they call Jeb Bush a “cerebral policy maven” despite his apparent lack of any ideas and ignore his record of sleaze and incompetence, their puffery is taken as “reporting”. The same goes for the Times hostility to Hillary Clinton – and to every Democratic front-runner for 20 years. Today the Times ran a front page story on Jeb Bush’s remarks about his daughter and her addiction problems that was utterly fawning and cringe-worthy. The headline was:

Jeb Bush Drops Guard to Share Family Account of Addiction

and the story begins like this:

Jeb Bush’s elder son, George P. Bush, is the land commissioner of Texas and is nicknamed “47” — a look ahead to when, many joke, he will become the 47th president.

His younger son, John Ellis Bush Jr., briefly saw his name floated as a contender for a Florida congressional seat.

But Mr. Bush’s daughter, Noelle Bush,has stayed far from the world of politics, in part because of her long
struggle with addiction. She faced felony charges that she tried to fill
a fraudulent prescription for Xanax when she was 24, and later ended up in jail after she was found with pills and then crack cocaine in her
shoe.

On Tuesday, Mr. Bush spoke of how his family dealt with his daughter’s
difficulties, which became uncomfortably public when he was governor of Florida.

“What I learned was that the pain that you feel when you have a loved one who has addiction challenges and kind of spirals out of control is
something that is shared with a whole lot of people,” he said.

It’s fun to imagine what a NY Times front page story would look like if Hillary Clinton had a second daughter, one with drug problems, and had also given a speech.

Headline: In calculated move, Hillary Clinton brings up sordid details of daughter with drug, crime, and prostitution problems

Article: In what seems like a desperate effort to revive a flagging campaign, dogged by scandal and perhaps an effort to distract attention from her own possible criminal issues, Hillary Clinton provided a carefully rehearsed and edited narrative about her daughter’s involvement with heroin and cocaine, omitting mention of allegations of prostitution and evading any admission of her own responsibility for a daughter’s life ruined by neglect, a cold bitchy mother and a philandering absent father.

Something like that.