“Paper of record” misrepresents Lebanon's Metn by-election

Complaints ... complaints ... via (of course) the Instantpundit, from LebanonNow, here.

" ... In his article published on August 6, Fattah (New York Times: see below) painted the Metn by-elections as an unambiguous defeat for Amin Gemayel’s Kataeb party. He referred to the loss as “a referendum on the March 14 Movement, which has increasingly alienated many Christians.” In his follow up article from August 10, Fattah claimed that American support had “doomed” Gemayel’s by-election campaign..."