"It's melting! Melting!"

On Hugh Hewitt's show this afternoon he described the front page of the New York Times as a "donation in kind to the Kerry campaign." The missing explosives story is about a year and a half old, but what's that against a chance to smear Bush? Normal people would have asked when they went missing, and ask what the responsibility of the UN inspection regime was in the matter. The Times, however, has sold its soul for John Kerry.

What was once a national, even a worldwide, leading newspaper, is shrinking like the Wicked Witch of the West in the shower. It's becoming a parochial little paper for liberal New Yorkers, an oddity for the rest of us to wonder at. It's a has-been, still wealthy, but not offered any good parts these days. The cognoscenti read it with a corrective filter.