Credibility Issue Thirteen days after Al Gore's debate whopper about the student who had to stand in her class at Sarasota High School, the New York Times finally waddles in with a dispatch from Sarasota about the issue. The result is a Times whopper that is right up there with Mr. Gore's.
Plans are underway for the construction of an Olympic size swimming pool.
The metro section of today's Times features a front-page report about a new tower in Times Square to be occupied by Arthur Andersen, the accounting firm. It will be interesting to see if the Times, which has been pontificating in its editorial columns against George W. Bush's tax plan on the grounds that it is slanted toward the rich, will come out with an editorial opposing the Arthur Andersen subsidy. Such an editorial would be unlikely, because the Times Company is itself seeking a similar tax break for its own new headquarters tower near Times Square. The Times article doesn't exactly throw this issue into sharp relief, but enough of the key facts are there to show this scheme for what it is. Maybe it has in mind the joint communique issued by King Abdullah and by Muammar Gadhafi, the Libyan terrorist tyrant, after Gadhafi's official visit to Jordan from October 3 to October 7.