Who would cover the story of the collapse of the Bush marriage for the NYT? Elizabeth Bumiller? Adam Nagourney? Jodi Wilgoren?

No. The Times is *right*. Only the Clintons' marriage is fair game. Besides, Republican's don't have marital or family problems, anyway. Having taken their wedding vows, all Republican men are strong, moral and true; all Republican women are humble, good mothers, who never stray farther than Church on Wednesday and Sunday; Wedded bliss abounds among Republicans(except for that Cheney girl...)

...the movie "Dave". When does Bush have his "episode"?

They started when Bush's approval ratings really went south, so I'm not sure if they're leading a trend or just following it.

Please - a public official's marital problems and private life are no one's business. Unless it's a Democrat, in which case, if there's no news to report, we'll happily invent some. Damn you, liberal media!!!

Was the Globe's "before" and "after" pix of Laura's facelift. Sanctimonius prude.

The Clintons are still on their first marriage.

I eagerly await the Times' exposes of Guiliani's and Gingrich's serial adulteries, which led to the break-ups of several of their marriages, as well as salacious coverage of the circumstances of McCain's divorce.

I thought the Times was supposed to have some sort of ombudsman overseeing the quality of their reportage now. Perhaps he was out partying with McCain all week.

In 1991 the New York Times printed the name of a Florida woman raped by William Kennedy Smith, but not the names of two other women in the Washington DC area who testified they too had been attacked by Smith. Of course...they were Washingtonians, it wasn't like they were the peasants from south of the Potomac River. As for the woman in Florida, well, hey, she's an Outsider, so she didn't count.

Similarly, the private live of a former governor and two-term president from the Ozarks is much more the stuff of titillation by the New York Times than would be the case for somebody with a northeastern pedigree, somebody like a current president born in Connecticut, prep schooled at Andover Academy and ushered into Yale and into the Harvard Business School. After all, Bill Clinton admitted to eating McDonald's food! And he went out running! In shorts! Like Jimmey Carter, he obviously had no place among the genteel aristocrats of Washington, and was duly punished by having every personal flaw scrutinized and magnified.

Based on that, I don't expect an awful lot of scrutiny by the New York Times into the personal history of Elizabeth Dole. Or the relationship between Jeb Bush (living in Tallahassee) and Columba Bush (living in Miami) - they may be living in Florida but they're the Right Kind of People.

...He's drunk half the time, and screws Condi a couple times a week.

She's usually blissfully medicated, and when she's not, she's screaming at the slutty twins.

They probably have little time for each other.

Typical upper-crust Republican marriage.

They seem to have a distinct lack of relationship with their parents. I suppose they'll show up after they've finished graduate school. It seems to be a Bush family tradition to ignore your children, send them away until they're in their mid-to-late 20s, and then give them jobs managing Republican political campaigns. Then they'll be able to have a relationship with other members of the Bush family, because they'll have something of interest to talk about.

Yes...the same interest the Bushes discuss every night, Pinky... how to take over the world!

The NYT is getting ready to go into full underwear-sniffing mode as the Democrats' chances of regaining control of Congress increase. Expect more of the same. Do denounce it, however.

The war in Iraq is taking Iraqi and American lives everyday, yet the NYT explores the Clinton marriage on its front-page? Que pasa?

Just another crummy propaganda tool. Welcome to the freedom of the press to print all kinds of garbage, but be uncritical to the powers that be including the owners and publishers.

This makes me wonder if the gop isn't up to their usual tricks: a story breaks about a certain event surrounding a rethug, and all of a sudden the rethugs break essentially the same story, but this time, turn the focus to a dem!

(prob no more true for Bill and Hillary now than it ever was, anyway!)

If it was wrong to report on the Clinton's marriage then why print this trash?