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NYT, down for the count.

First line of David Rosenbaum’s piece on the Bush phase-out plan from Thursday’s paper: “If individual investment accounts become an integral part of Social Security, as President Bush is proposing, what will happen to workers who become disabled before they retire?”

At this point I guess you can’t blame the individual reporters, some of whose reporting is superb. It’s just that the editors seem to have given the stylebook to Rove and Luntz for a scrub, or done it themselves on R&L’s behalf.

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