From the New York Times: Richard Mellon Scaife, the bankroller of the American Spectator magazine’s Arkansas Project in the 1990s, has penned an editorial in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review praising Hillary Clinton. (Scaife owns the daily, Pittsburgh’s second-largest.) Scaife stopped short of saying the paper would actually endorse Clinton over Barack Obama in Pennsylvania’s April 22 primary. But it is a strange piece, considering the amount of money Scaife once paid to derail the Clintons.

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