According to the Times, the rhetoric surrounding the Sotomayor fight has become ugly on “both sides” [emphasis added]:

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich on Wednesday called Supreme Court nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor a “racist” for remarks she made in 2001, joining an emerging conservative line of attack and enflaming both sides of the battle as interest groups fundraise over her nomination.

Slight problem. While the Times details the unhinged “racist” rhetoric from the right, the newspaper never even hints that similarly enflamed lines of attack have been unleashed from the left. (Either from liberals defending Sotomayor or questioning her record.) That's because there haven't been any such attacks.

The news is that the right-wing has already gone completely ballistic over the Sotomayor nomination, but the Times wants you believe everyone has.