a smear?
Your point is becoming harder to discern as you broaden your net looking for...what? Is it your thesis that there's a media conspiracy against Obama? Or just the NY Times? It was only a week or so ago that the media was being accused of jumping on the Obama bandwagon. Quite a dramatic reversal, if that's where you're going.
All you've presented so far is Cohen's editorial repeating the smear email's talking points, but the second article doesn't mention any of that, it's only an analysis of a subset of the issue of race in the campaign.