Objective Reporting, NYT-style

I had to do a double-take at the cover story in Sunday’s New York Times Magazine and its matter-of-fact subhead referring to Joe Biden as a “sage on foreign policy.” So sage that he was one of the key Senate supporters/enablers of one of the most forseeably unwise foreign policy adventures in recent history: Iraq. In fairness to Biden, he was no less “sage” about Iraq in 2002-2003 than the New York Times front page.