Sunday’s Times has a big piece on how John McCain is using his wife’s jet for campaign purposes. Roger Kimball does a great job slamming the piece, but I thought the last paragraph from the Times deserves an extra mention:

The Times analysis may be inexact for a variety of reasons. For one, flight records do not show how many, if any, campaign travelers were aboard a plane on a given flight. Also, the companies that collect flight information may not capture all flights.

Is this the new standard at the NY Times? Close enough for horseshoes, hand grenades and hit pieces on the Republican party?