Poll: New York Times Viewed Favorably By More People Than GOP Is
September 28, 2007 -- 11:07 AM EST // //

Oh, this is too much. Check out this fascinating number buried in the new Fox News poll:

I'm going to read you the names of several institutions or organizations. Please tell me whether you have a generally favorable or unfavorable opinion of each one...

The U.S. Military: Favorable 86%; Unfavorable 10%

The Democratic Party: Favorable 50%; Unfavorable 40%

The New York Times: Favorable 47%; Unfavorable 22%

The Republican Party: Favorable 44%; Unfavorable 47%

MoveOn.org: Favorable 11%; Unfavorable 22%

So more people view The New York Times favorably than see the GOP in a positive light -- despite a weeks-long campaign by the GOP to demonize the paper as riddled with anti-military bias from top to bottom. And the number of people who view the Republican Party unfavorably is more than double the number that have a negative view of The Times.

I guess we'll have to view this as some form of justice. There's not much good to salvage from this whole sorry affair, so this'll have to do.

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