But before the Lieberman campaign will produce the log, they’re making the strange demand that Lamont and his wife release their tax returns first. This is rather odd. It’s like saying, “Before I comply with the law, you have to do something that wo…

Uh, I think you may have misinterpreted Mr. Calame. Here’s the paragraph to which you are referring:

What kept me from seeing these matters more clearly earlier in what admittedly was a close call? I fear I allowed the vicious criticism of The Times by the Bush administration to trigger my instinctive affinity for the underdog and enduring faith in a free press — two traits that I warned readers about in my first column.

So, speaking strictly for himself in his capacity as the “public editor”. A position from which he is not involved with the editorial process except as it pertains to addressing reader concerns and acting as an independent check on the regular editorial staff. Byron Calame acknowledges that he allowed right-wing criticism to influence him to side with the NYT against its critics ie right wing “mau-mauers”.

That is a far cry from acknowledging that right wing criticism affects editorial content at the NYT. Well, at least as far as letting the right wing criticism force NYT editorial content to the right as Calame has ackowledged that he allowed right wing criticism to force his editorializing to the left (in that he should have indicated that running the SWIFT story was a mistake but did not in response to harsh right wing criticism).

As I said before though, Mr. Calame is the “public editor” and as such does not involve himself with preparing the editorial content at the NYT.

At least that’s what I got out of it. That’s not so say that right wing “mau-mauing” doesn’t have an effect on NYT reportage, although I’d hate to see how left wing they’d be without right wing criticism, if it indeed affects them at all.

Looks like the one guy took off his driving gloves for the sign-holdin thing. Matter of fact, all of them have pretty pasty looking hands.

Nah, it’s not gloves. He just stopped shaving the back of his hands when he got to the wrist.

unless all Republicans are swept away by a cloud of locusts […]

the plague of frogs was always my favorite punishment for Pharoah. Could we get that one instead? Or even better, how about casting out into the darkeness, with the weeping and gnashing of teeth?

Why should Lieberman get away with this, then?

First of all, they are required to record what the payments are for. Second of all, at a cap of $100 per payoff, I mean purchase, that’s nearly 4,000 payments unaccounted for. And in the space of 2 weeks? With staff so green they don’t document anything?

You don’t have to be an accountant or campaign finance expert to call bullshit on this.