A week ago, our Obama Escrow Pledge campaign made the Wall St. Journal. Today we made the NY Times:

Bob Fertik, president of Democrats.com, a progressive Web site, started asking his readers last month to pledge money to an escrow fund for Mr. Obama, as opposed to contributing to him outright. The idea was to make Mr. Obama rethink his decision to support the Bush administration’s wiretapping measure.

Mr. Obama initially said he would try to filibuster a vote, but on Wednesday he was among 69 senators who voted for the measure, which to many liberals represents a flagrant abuse of privacy rights. The legislation grants legal immunity to telecommunications companies that cooperated with the wiretapping program.

So far, 675 people have pledged $101,375 to Mr. Fertik’s escrow fund, money that theoretically would be donated to Mr. Obama once he showed a firm commitment to progressive values, Mr. Fertik said.

But Mr. Fertik also said that while Mr. Obama’s change on the spying issue upset some supporters, it was not necessarily emblematic of a troubling shift to the center. He said he continued to support the senator, though he added, “We don’t see the need to close our eyes and hold our noses until November.”

The article is bizarrely framed by the title, "Obama Supporters on the Far Left Cry Foul." Since when is it a "far left" position to support the 4th Amendment?

It was the NY Times which first broke the story about Bush's warrantless wiretapping - although the Times held the story for more than a year to let Bush steal his second term. And the Times recently published several editorials against immunity.

The NY Times is a case study in ideological schizophrenia. Its editorials advocate "liberal" positions, but its op-ed and news pages publish rightwing lies from the likes of William Kristol and Judy Miller.

The core problem of the NY Times is that it has no convictions whatsoever - just like the current Pelosi-Reid misleadership of the Democratic Party. If they did, Democrats.com would have no reason to exist.