My next-door neighbors are on vacation, so by mutual agreement I get to take their morning paper from the driveway. This is Newsday, a cheerleader for everything Left. It’s interesting, reading it, to see how people who work for a paper like this have internalized their leftism, so that they don’t (I am sure) even realise they’re displaying it.

Case in point, from the October 19 issue, page A4. This is a state-by-state report on the presidential race. For Virginia we get this:

The birthplace of Robert E. Lee hasn’t exactly been friendly to Democrats — until recently, when the state’s more moderate Washington, D.C. suburbs helped elect back-to-back Democratic governors …

See that? “Moderate” = Democratic. (And why would Robert E. Lee’s state not be friendly to Democrats? Wasn’t Abraham Lincoln a Republican?)

Then this from the October 21 issue, page A27. There is an aerial photograph of several hundred people marching on a broad highway. Heading: Bolivia’s march for change. Caption: “Led by Bolivian President Evo Morales, tens of thousands of his supporters march into El Alto yesterday on their way to La Paz, demanding lawmakers approve greater powers and wealth for the oppressed indigenous majority.”

I hardly know where to start with that. How do you “demand” wealth? I mean, you might ask politely for it to be “spread around” a bit more … but “demand”? You buckle down to work and help create wealth, that’s what you do about wealth. And then that “oppressed.” Who’s oppressed? Bolivia’s population breaks down by ancestry as Amerind-mestizo-white about 55-30-15. The Amerinds live mostly in the highlands of the west, and are poor; mestizos and whites live in the lowlands of the east and are richer. All enjoy the same civil rights, and have for decades. The current President, Evo Morales, is an Amerind. Far from wanting to “oppress” the highland Indians, the lowlanders have been trying to secede from them! That, of course, is the last thing the highlanders want. If the prosperous east secedes, from whom will the highlanders “demand” wealth? You can’t spread around what you don’t have.

That same issue of Newsday, page A5, carries a report of a Long Island school closed by a black-Hispanic race riot. This is pretty much a daily occurrence all over the U.S.A. now. Here was one in Madison, Wisconsin the other day. Just another one of the wonderful blessings brought to our nation by mass Hispanic immigration. Thanks, Mr. Bush, Sr.! Thanks, Mr. Clinton! Thanks, Mr. Bush, Jr.! Anyway, just look at the convolutions Newsday goes through to tell us this was a black-Hispanic rumble.

Hempstead District Superintendent Joseph Laria said some students were separated by their racial or ethnic affiliation in response to “a report that there was possible ill will growing between some of the students who were African-American and some of the students that were Latino.”

For sheer strangulated determination to say something the writer regards as wellnigh unsayable, that’s up there with the Japanese Emperor’s radio address to his nation after Hiroshima and Nagasaki: “The war situation has developed not necessarily to Japan’s advantage …”

On to today’s issue of Newsday. Page A5: Two officers shot. Two transit cops were wounded in the NYC subway when a turnstile-jumper grabbed one of their guns and started shooting. What does Newsday have to tell us about the perp? Only that he is “Raul Nunez, 32.” That’s as much as Newsday wants its readers to know about a guy who shot two cops. Over to America’s Newspaper of Record, reporting on the same incident:

Suspect Raul Nuñez, 32 — who sneaked back into the United State after he was deported to his native Dominican Republic in 2001 for a 1997 drug conviction — was at Bellevue Hospital with gunshot wounds to the legs and torso. He faces attempted-murder charges.

Oh, so the perp is an i-i. Of course, if Newsday had told its readers that, the readers would have lost control of themselves in a frenzy of race hate and stormed out into the streets of Long Island brandishing pitchforks and machetes, to hack to death any passer-by who looked Hispanic. Newsday readers, you see, are bestial types with little control over their vile emotions, who will launch a pogrom at the slightest opportunity. So Newdsay’s editors and reporters apparently believe. I bet they really do believe it. All liberals do.

Thank goodness for America’s Newspaper of Record. Look — they even gave us the tilde!