December 5, 2015 --

The New York Times lead editorial, November 25 --"The Case Against Woodrow Wilson" -- provides a good example of the paper's politically-partisan policy.

The editorial called for renaming Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs as well as a residential area named for President Wilson. The editorial explained: "He was an unapologetic racist whose administration rolled back the gains that African-Americans achieved just after the Civil War, purged black workers from influential jobs and transformed the government into an instrument of white supremacy."

Nowhere in the editorial is Wilson identified as a Democrat. The editorial went no further in referencing political affiliation than to remark that "[t]he man [Wilson] chose for the postal department...had campaigned on the promise that the Democratic Party could be counted on to keep black people out of its own ranks" and out of government in the South. The editorial might have noted that Wilson's administration rolled back the gains African-Americans achieved under Republican presidents -- but that would have given a measure of credit t the GOP, which clearly is contrary to Times policy.

Consider, too, the Nicholas Kristof columns of November 19 and 22, calling for the admission of refugees from Syria into the United States. The November 19 column, "Betraying Ourselves," cited the tragedy of the Hamburg-American liner St.Louis, turned away from Cuba and barred from entering U.S. waters, May and June, 1939. Wrote Kristof, "That is a stain on our conscience that risks being repeated. Some 26 Republican governors are trying to block entry of Syrian refugees."

NOT MENTIONED by Kristof is the fact the St.Louis, with its more than 800 Jewish passengers trying to flee Hitler, was turned away when a Democrat, Franklin D. Roosevelt, was president.

NOT MENTIONED, further, by Kristof was the failure of The New York Times to urge President Roosevelt to give refuge to Jews fleeing Hitler. NOT MENTIONED by Kristof was the paper's third, and final, editorial on the tragedy of the St. Louis, June 14, 1939, telling the Jews of Hitler's Europe that the days of mass immigration to America were over.

Kristof, early in his November 22 column, ""The Statue of Liberty Must Be Crying. '" offered this irrational, if vicious partisan attack: "Thank goodness House Republicans weren't in charge when Jesus was a refugee." He concluded this column by citing the efforts of assistant secretary of state Breckinridge Long to keep Jewish refugees from reaching the United States in the Hitler years, and going as far as writing that Long's policies with "led to the deaths of tens of thousands of Jews." But nowhere does Kristof tell readers that Breckinridge Long was appointed to his State Department post by Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

The Times lead editorial, December 3, "The Horror in California," on the San Bernardino shootings, included the paper's usual sneering tone towards Republicans. The editorial commented: "Those who reject sensible gun controls will say anything to avoid implicating the growth in the civilian arsenal." The following observation, however, does not come from a Republican: "It is impossible to prevent all violence by hate-filled sociopaths and ideologues willing to die...." It comes from the November 18 Times editorial: "What It Will Take to Fight ISIS."