NY Times Trying to Create News on DeLay

The NY Times clearly doesn't share FoxNews' motto of "We report, you decide." Perhaps "we create, then report" would be more appropriate. As Bob Novak explains, there are 18 news organizations who have assigned a reporter to cover Tom DeLay, but the NY Times may have crossed the line by emailing former Congressman Bob Livingston suggesting he write an "anti-Delay" op-ed essay.

Would Livingston, who in 1998 gave up certain elevation to be House speaker because of a sexual affair, write about how Majority Leader Tom DeLay should now act under fire? In a subsequent conversation, it was made clear the Times wanted the prominent Republican to say DeLay should step aside for the good of the party.

Livingston in effect declined by responding that if he wrote anything for the Times, it would be pro-DeLay. But this remarkable case of that august newspaper fishing for an op-ed piece makes it appear part of a calculated campaign to bring down the single most powerful Republican in Congress.