Deal with it.
The author, David Brooks, wrote for the Washington Times and the Weekly Standard before working for the NY Times. He's not a liberal. He's guilty of being from New York, like me, and I'm no liberal.
Every time I see him on TV, he's arguing against some hard core lefty, such as Mark Shields on PBS' The News Hour. Here, he's enthusiastically praising the optimism of folks who expect to work their way to prosperity, while commenting on the results of this PEW poll.
I'll agree that Brooks has a compulsive trait for sociological analysis, but don't you think Karl Rove looks at the PEW poll results also, even if it's recognized for its leftwing bias?
Besides getting insights into how the left, the enemy, thinks, the NY Times serves other functions. Where else would Arlen Specter have "Paying for Asbestos" printed, the New York Sun? Can you tell me about any other conservative newspapers with a national reputation?
The fact remains that the NYT publishes lies, distortions, one sided garbage and opinions disguised as facts and ALWAYS HAS. They are becoming increasingly irrelevant as the masses begin to realize that the "Pravda" in the Times is nothing like the truth. People don't have to accept the lamestream media's garbage as truth anymore. To hell with the New York times. The only people who give a rat's a$$ what it says are new yorkers anyway.