All the conservatives fit to print

A funny thing about the outside contributors chosen by the New York Times to provide commentary on the debate and the Democratic convention — liberals are not invited:

If you read yesterday’s New York Times, you likely came across a feature headlined “‘Trump Brought Darkness; Harris Brought Light’: 14 Writers on Who Won the Presidential Debate.” If you read it closely, you might have noticed that of the 14 writers in question, eight work directly for The New York Times and six are outside contributors. The eight Times employees include a relatively even mix of liberals and conservatives. The six outside contributors, on the other hand, are 100 percent conservative.

Wild, right? Well, we’re just getting started.

The New York Times published similar features after each night of the Democratic convention last night. Four nights, four pieces, a total of 13 appearances by outside contributors with clear ideological backgrounds or affiliations … all 13 of them conservatives.

And we are not done yet!

In July The New York Times did the same thing for the Republican convention: Four nights, four pieces, a total of 17 appearances by outside contributors with clear ideological backgrounds or affiliations … all 17 of them conservatives.

All together these nine opinion roundups feature 36 appearances by outside contributors with readily-apparent ideological backgrounds or affiliations — and all 36 are conservatives. (To be clear, there are fewer than 36 people involved; the Times turned to most of the right-wing writers multiple times.)

Here’s the list:

Dan McCarthy, editor of Modern Age: A Conservative Review (4 times)

Josh Barro, former Manhattan Institute fellow (3 times)

Katherine Mangu-Ward, Reason Magazine editor (4 times)

Kevin Williamson, most famous for advocating hanging women who have abortions

Kristen Soltis Anderson, Republican pollster (8 times)

Liam Donovan, Republican strategist formerly with the National Republican Senatorial Committee (5 times)

Matt Labash, writer formerly with The Weekly Standard (7 times)

Matthew Continetti, founding editor of Free Beacon; also previously of National Review and The Weekly Standard

Peter Wehner, worked in three Republican presidential administrations (3 times)

That’s two (2) guys named Matt who used to work for The Weekly Standard and zero (0) liberals.

Two (2) people who are literally Republican Party political operatives, and zero (0) liberals.

Obviously, not all of these people are Trump supporters — some of them might even be voting for Harris — but it remains striking that the Times could find an actual liberal to provide commentary even as a token. And needless to say there’s zero chance they would invite a roster of nothing but people on the left to balance out Bret Stephens and David Brooks.