Minds Think Alike

Glenn Reynolds seems to have figured out Mickey Kaus's all-too-subtle joke that had me hopelessly stumped:

MICKEY KAUS wonders why the New York Times hates poor people: "TimeSelect--and with it Web access to columnists such as Paul Krugman--is unavailable to those too poor to have credit cards. . . . News of the NYT policy comes at a time when Hurricane Katrina has raised profound issues of race, class, and gender." Heh.

Heh, heh, heh, heh...I don't get it. I guess because the Times is liberal and so is supposed to be concerned about the poor but here they're doing something anti-poor? I thought Kaus was maybe making fun of the dopey reader making such a ridiculous complaint by ironically tying it into the Katrina devastation, but I'm apparently off base here...any ideas?

And lord do I hate that little "Heh."

Update (9/29 7:39am): Kaus has used the "profound issues of race..." line again in an item on former NBA star Dave Bing - so he's obviously lampooning someone, presumably from the Times. Some initial Googling turned up nothing, however. I shan't rest until I figure out this joke!