[Liz]

As LeDuff explained......[The NY Times was] my first newspaper job. I was an intern for three months at the Alaska Fisherman's Journal...... From fishwrap to fishwrap. A lateral career move.

Hey, give the guy a break. He's got nowhere to go but up.

With that bgrnd, LeDuff's prime reportorial material for the DNC's Diversity Desk.

They need experienced people there to hype DNC candidates as they prostrate themselves before the many hyphenates lining up for tax-paid handouts.

[Grampa Dave]

After his internship, he was probably asked to leave "The Alaska Fisherman's Journal", so in desperation, he tried the NY Slimes gig in lying, plagerism and DNC spinning.