PoliPundit notes that President Bush and Vice President Cheney have been waging a quiet war against The New York Times, as part of their larger efforts to end-run the legacy media.

But given that the Times has admitted that they're not objective in their coverage, or quotes like this from their publisher, who can blame them?

Not Pappa Bush, who told Paula Zahn of CNN back in late August that he's "given up" on the Times himself.

Of course, as Michael Medved and James Pinkerton recently noted, a media that feigns objectivity is a relatively new phenomenon, and that its return to partisanship signals a long overdue death to the early 20th century progressive movement in American politics.