Lovely. After days and days of left-leaning and outright liberal pundits and blogs telling us that race was irrelevant in the Jayson Blair fiasco at the New York Times, Howell Raines comes out and pisses in their punch. "Our paper has a commitment to diversity and by all accounts he appeared to be a promising young minority reporter," Mr. Raines said. "I believe in aggressively providing hiring and career opportunities for minorities." "Does that mean I personally favored Jayson?" he added, a moment later. "Not consciously. But you have a right to ask if I, as a white man from Alabama, with those convictions, gave him one chance too many by not stopping his appointment to the sniper team. When I look into my heart for the truth of that, the answer is yes."

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