The Times Best?

The NY Times is at their partisan best here:

Kitty Kelley's catty new book about the Bush family is a perfect artifact of our current political culture in which unsubstantiated attacks on Senator John Kerry's Vietnam War record and old questions about President Bush's National Guard service get more attention than present-day issues like the Iraq war, the economy, intelligence reform or the assault weapons ban.
It is also a perfect artifact of a cultural climate in which gossip and innuendo thrive on the Internet; more and more biographies of artists and public figures dwell, speculatively, on familial dysfunction and disorder; and buzz - be it based on verified facts or sheer rumor-mongering - is regarded as a be-all and end-all.

Notice that the Swift Boat Vets facts are "unsubstantiated attacks" while the "old questions about President Bush's National Guard service" are not unsubstantiated? Typical Times. Kitty Kelley is a heathen who makes a living digging into people's pasts and reporting rumors and innuendo. I guess that is a backhand to the bloggers who are exposing Rather, CBS, and the Times for the Democratics shills they are.