If anybody was still wondering whether the NYTimes was carrying the GOP agenda or not, this latest interview should give us an answer.

As has been reported these last few weeks, the GOP has stopped using the "liberal" attack and replaced it by a "socialist" attack. They have been calling the reforms proposed "socialist", and attacking leading Democrats as "socialists" even though only people who do not understand what socialism is could even ask themselves if anybody among the leading Democrats was even close to the European social-democracy, let alone full blow socialism.

However, we could have expected better from the paper of record "The New York Times", which the right continues to call a liberal newspaper.

Some of us have been questioning whether the Times, just as NBC or Time Magazine, was taking its questions directly from the GOP talking points emailed directly to them every morning.

The answer was given to us in this interview

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/08/us/polit...

Obama’s Interview Aboard Air Force One
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The first six weeks have given people a glimpse of your spending priorities. Are you a socialist as some people have suggested?

A. You know, let’s take a look at the budget – the answer would be no.
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Seriously, a reporter from a leading paper in the nation is asking such a stupid question?

http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/politica... /

Of course, both the Times and Newsweek justify the question by saying it led Obama to an interesting answer, but, seriously? How was Baker able to ask such a stupid question without laughing.