Byron, regarding what The New York Times isn’t prepared to tell its readers, Jodi Kantor (the Times reporter covering the Obama story) does use the phrase “God damn America” in this report in The International Herald Tribune (in effect, the Times’ overseas edition) and even manages to cite yours truly and NRO. Yet, as you say, the phrase appears in none of Kantor’s stories for the Times itself. Strange. Is the IHT now the director’s cut of the NYT?