In reports Friday and today, the New York Times described Karl Rove’s speech to the RNC last week as “searing,” “lacerating,” and “blistering.” In that speech, Rove said:

At the core, we are dealing with two parties that have fundamentally different views of the world and fundamentally different views on national security. Republicans have a post-9/11 view of the world and Democrats have a pre-9/11 view of the world. That doesn’t make them unpatriotic, not at all, but it does make them wrong — wrong deeply and profoundly and consistently.

Meanwhile, a few days earlier, the Times nearly ignored Al Gore’s speech at Constitution Hall in which he said:

What we do know about this pervasive [NSA] wiretapping, virtually compels the conclusion that the president of the United States has been breaking the law repeatedly and insistently. A president who breaks the law is a threat to the very structure of our government.

Gore’s speech was given two-and-a-half paragraphs at the end of a story about challenges to the NSA surveillance program. In its brief coverage, the Times said Gore “entered the fray” over the surveillance but did not otherwise characterize his speech.