NY Times 'Fact Checker' Whacks Vivek on Jan. 6 Was 'Largely Peaceful'

August 29th, 2023 8:01 AM

The New York Times’ resident fact-checker Linda Qiu took on rising Republican star Vivek Ramaswamy after his breakout performance in last week’s GOP presidential debate, and her interesting choice of terminology unwittingly demonstrated the paper’s liberal mindset. In response to Ramaswamy’s claim (one not even made at the debate, but to the Atlantic magazine) that there were…

NYT: Failed Mueller Probe Noble, Durham’s Mere ‘Fodder for Grievances'

October 23rd, 2022 11:34 AM

New York Times legal reporter Charlie Savage and the paper’s official fact-checker Linda Qiu teamed up on Wednesday’s front page to cover the acquittal of Igor Danchenko for lying to the FBI in “Russian Analyst for Trump Dossier Acquitted of Lying to the FBI.” For the Times, it was a golden opportunity to again bash special counsel John Durham’s investigation into how the FBI…

Column: The New York Times Discovers Biden's a Liar

October 12th, 2022 6:03 AM

The New York Times is signaling that they’re not wild about Joe Biden running for president again. Suddenly, they announced his statements are routinely un-factual. He's a habitual liar. Why is this discovery emerging now?

NY Times 'Fact Checker' Nitpicks Cruz, Trump Remarks at NRA Meeting

May 31st, 2022 12:42 PM

On Friday, New York Times "fact checker" Linda Qiu evaluated claims made by Sen. Ted Cruz and former president Donald Trump at the NRA convention in Houston. Her nitpicking of Cruz as "misleading" and "exaggerating" was especially selective and shape-shifting.

NY Times Accuses ‘Xenophobic’ GOP of ‘Weaponizing’ Baby Formula Crisis

May 15th, 2022 4:02 PM

The current baby formula shortage crisis was predictable, notwithstanding President Biden’s claim about having to be a mind-reader to see it coming: A story warning of shortages appeared in the Wall Street Journal back in January. Also predictable: The New York Times circling the wagons to protect the Democratic president’s reputation from unfair, even “xenophobic” Republican attacks…

New York Times in the (Gas) Tank for Biden, But Blamed President Bush

March 12th, 2022 6:22 PM

The New York Times ran a biased story by official fact-checker Linda Qiu in defense of President Biden and high gas prices: “Invasion and Pandemic, Not Policies, Are Driving Up Gas Prices.” The online headline was more partisan: “Republicans Wrongly Blame Biden for Rising Gas Prices.” It's a far cry from the paper's reaction to high prices during the last Bush administration.

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ROUNDUP: Lib Media Propaganda Machine Defends Biden on Gas Prices

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March 11th, 2022 3:46 PM

The liberal media has been firing its propaganda machine on all cylinders to cover for President Joe Biden’s disastrous energy policies that helped send gas prices sky-high. It seems The New York Times, CNN, Bloomberg News and The Washington Post took a page out of White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki’s playbook with article headlines that read more like Soviet-style…

NYT's Stolberg: ‘Political Blowup Over Crack Pipes…Racist Undertones'

February 26th, 2022 1:01 PM

It started with a story from the Washington Free Beacon, or as the press would have it, the “conservative Washington Free Beacon.” The New York Times joined other outlets in desperately tamping down a report that made their favored political party look ridiculous: News the Biden administration was funding crack pipes to drug addicts. The Free Beacon’s…

NYTimes Makes Hay of Jan. 6 Anniversary, Shuns Comparison to BLM Riots

January 6th, 2022 2:54 PM

The New York Times is making hay during the intense Democratic politicization of the one-year anniversary of the violent Capitol Hill riots of January 6, 2021, which an online headline called “the worst American attack in democracy in centuries.” Times fact-checker Linda Qiu assured readers the Black Lives Matter riots weren’t nearly so violent as the Capitol Hill assault,…

NY Times Bashes Biden on Afghanistan: ‘Seemingly At Odds With Reality'

August 22nd, 2021 6:48 AM

As the situation in Afghanistan becomes only more grim, the New York Times is properly condemning the Biden Administration’s lack of foresight and criticizing Biden’s false statements regarding the US evacuation. Saturday’s front page featured a “news analysis” from Peter Baker, which suggested Biden’s botching of the Afghanistan pullout might damage his electoral selling points. …

NY Times Dismisses GOP Painting 'Moderate Democrats' as 'Radicals'

October 28th, 2020 12:11 PM

With a week to go before Election Day, the New York Times is playing aggressive defense for the Democrats, suggesting any mention of socialism is a dangerous lie while dismissing predictions and rhetoric by President Trump as “lies.” Democrats are being responsible and issue-oriented (and praised even when attacking their party leadership), while the GOP is fear-mongering.

NYTimes Engages in Awful Fact-Checking, Tars GOP 'Alternate Histories'

August 28th, 2020 10:42 AM

The New York Times set the table for Night Three from the Republican National Convention by accusing Republicans of “using selectively edited scenes to exaggerate violence from the summer protest movement….warping momentary scenes of violence from largely peaceful protests earlier this year into scenes of chaos.” A convention recap tried to gin up sympathy for poor Joe Biden: "The…

NY Times or Angry Internet Troll? Hits ‘Facts Optional’ GOP Convention

August 27th, 2020 5:50 PM

On the first night of the Republican National Convention, the New York Times immediately tried to poison the well for the Republicans launch of the 2020 campaign, under the headline “Nominating Trump, Republicans Rewrite His Record.” Meanwhile, the paper helped Biden rewrite his own legislative history regarding the 1994 crime bill.

NYTimes Plays Statistical Games, Hypocritically Hits Trump's China Ban

March 29th, 2020 1:53 PM

New York Times fact-checker Linda Qiu targeted President Trump’s coronavirus response, with statistical sleight of hand, and managed to criticize Trump both for what he does and for not doing it quickly enough: “Analyzing the Patterns in Trump’s Falsehoods About Coronavirus.” After the paper criticizing Trump for the restrictions, Qiu then criticized him for skepticism of those restrictions.…