Howell Raines, who worked at the New York Times for 25 years and eventually served as the paper's Executive Editor from 2001 to 2003 before leaving amid the Jayson Blair scandal, describes himself in a column today as "liberal to radical on most issues."

Raines' liberalism was never in doubt, but it is somewhat surprising to see Raines call himself a radical - not exactly the kind of label you would expect to be affixed to a man who ran the most influential newspaper in the world.

And I'm sure there was never any liberal bias at the New York Times during his tenure at the helm of the paper, just as Jill Abramson and Bill Keller insist is still the case today.

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