You can usually tell just how much Democrats are actually to blame for something… by how much blame the New York Times casts on President Bush.

The White House on Sunday issued a blistering 500-word response to a scathing 5,000-word article on the front page of Sunday’s New York Times that says President Bush and his style and philosophy of governing played a direct role in the mortgage meltdown that’s crippling the nation’s economy.

The response accused the nation’s largest Sunday paper of “gross negligence.”

“The Times’ ‘reporting’ in this story amounted to finding selected quotes to support a story the reporters fully intended to write from the onset, while disregarding anything that didn’t fit their point of view,” White House Press Secretary Dana Perino said in an e-mailed statement.

Of course, we already know who is really to blame. But that story wouldn’t fit the agenda of the liberals at the New York Times.

And they wonder why their stock has lost over 70% of its value. (It’s ironic that when I went to get the link to their stock page, their current stock price was $6.66)

Dana Perino summed it up best:

“Most people can accept that a news story recounting recent events will be reliant on ‘20-20 hindsight’. Today’s front-page New York Times story relies on hindsight with blinders on and one eye closed.

We shouldn’t be surprised, it’s their standard approach to “journalism”.