NY Times' White House Team Breaks A Big One

America faces a health care crisis, stagnating wages, a pension implosion, and radical proposals for Social Security...So what is the New York Times using its limited White House resources to cover? Critically important and breathlessly effusive profiles of the President's personal butler, naturally. The paper's crack investigative White House reporter (the same one who admitted she was too afraid to ask questions before the Iraq War) breaks the story about how the butler courageously "holds Mr. Bush's speeches, notecards and trinkets," has a "wicked" sense of humor, manages a "perfect coif" and sports "immaculate good looks."

Seriously, folks - this is truly an embarrassment, especially for those reporters at the New York Times who still do serious work. Here's my question for the national press corps: after reading drivel like this Times story, do you really still wonder why you have become a complete and total laughingstock?