Repulsive . . .

. . . but, sadly, hardly surprising. First the Post's low class critique of the wardrobe of Judge Roberts's children, and now the Gray Lady, which has grown very long in the tooth, is researching the adoption records of those children. If they're hoping to prove any degree of illegitimacy, they've already done so through their own actions.

Update: Michelle Malkin has much more. Hugh Hewitt has posted what is apparently the stock response of the NYT:

Dear Reader,

Thanks for writing to us.

While the public editor does not usually get involved in pre-publication matters, Bill Keller, the executive editor of the paper, told us that he would not stand for any gratuitous reporting about the Roberts's children.

He said that as an adoptive parent he is particularly sensitive about this issue.

In addition, a senior editor at the paper wrote, "In the case of Judge
Roberts's family, our reporters made initial inquiries about the adoptions, as they did about many other aspects of his background. They did so with great care, understanding the sensitivity of the issue. We did not order up an investigation of the adoptions. We have not pursued the issue after the initial inquiries, which detected nothing irregular about the adoptions."

Sincerely,
Joe Plambeck
Office of the Public Editor
The New York Times

He has answers to it, too, and they involve "coverup."