NYT Gets Emotional Over Biden’s Bio: 'A Good Man to Defeat a Bad Man'

August 22nd, 2020 9:36 AM

The New York Times got mawkish over Democratic nominee Joe Biden’s acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention Thursday night. The front page of Friday’s New York Times found reporter Matt Flegenheimer’s prose in full overbearing flower paying homage to his challenging personal biography: “Despair, Detours and the Fulfillment of a Dream.” Former White House…

OH PLEASE: NY Times Wonders If Obama Can Forgive USA for Voting Trump?

August 20th, 2020 6:35 PM

The third night of the virtual Democratic National Convention was highlighted by a scathing speech by former president Barack Obama attacking his successor Donald Trump. White House correspondent Peter Baker’s lead story used Obama’s speech to both praise the former president and denigrate the current one, under the headline “Obama Sees Chance to Save a Legacy Under Siege." Baker commiserated…

The NY Times Celebrates (Some) Women, Just Not This One

August 19th, 2020 7:09 PM

Donald Trump registered quite the achievement: He managed to make the avowedly feminist New York Times criticize renowned suffragist Susan B. Anthony in “With Eye on Election, Trump Plans to Pardon Women’s Suffrage Icon,” after the president announced he would mark the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment, giving women the right to vote, by pardoning Anthony, who was arrested and…

NY Times Melts: Abnormal Trump's 'Racist and Sexist Attacks'

August 18th, 2020 4:09 PM

The Democratic National Convention launched in virtual mode, and the New York Times was predictably gushing -- but still reserved plenty of space for invective again President Trump. White House correspondent Peter Baker in particular has become openly contemptuous of the president. He was granted a half-page of text for his Tuesday “news analysis,” “Racist Attacks, Conspiracy Theories and War…

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New York Times Swings and Whiffs on Transgenders In Sports

Culture
August 18th, 2020 2:48 PM

An in-depth New York Times examination of the controversy over males competing in women's sports stumbles out of the starting blocks and limps home to the finish line. The story by Gillian R. Brassil and Jeré Longman on Tuesday is mostly supportive of transgenders competing with opposite-gender sports and cites some dubious sources…

NY Times Blind to Racial Discrimination at Yale, Sees It in Improv

August 18th, 2020 11:57 AM

The New York Times eagerly scours the country for racism and reliably finds it, which makes Saturday’s story defending Yale University (named after a slave-trader) even more fascinating. Reporters Anemona Hartocollis and Giulia McDonnell Nieto Del Rio fought the possibility of racial discrimination against Asian-Americans in Yale’s admission process, instead suggesting racism the part…

The NYT Scrubs Anti-Blackness From Jorge Ramos’ Op-Ed

Latino
August 16th, 2020 6:47 PM

Univision senior anchor Jorge Ramos has a habit of saying one thing to American media and another overseas. And it appears that The New York Times got wind of his overseas remarks after publication of his latest op-ed. The opinion piece, originally published on August 7th, was entitled “Can a Latina Girl Dream of Being President of the United States?” Shortly after publication, the op-ed’s…

SICK: NY Times Smears Tea Party as Precursor to QAnon Conspiracy

August 15th, 2020 3:15 PM

New York Times tech reporter Kevin Roose smeared the Tea Party by comparing it to the nutty QAnon conspiracists on Friday’s front page: “Far Right to Election Night: QAnon Gaining at Ballot Box.” The jump-page text box underlined the offensive comparison: “Two movements with similar roots on conservative fringes.” According to the conservative-hostile Roose, there are "more parallels…

Who's 'Nasty'? NYT News Pages Smear Trump as Sexist, Racist to Kamala

August 14th, 2020 6:40 PM

The New York Times will strenuously defend Joe Biden’s VP pick Kamala Harris from those racists and sexists who would dare criticize her, as shown in Thursday’s “White House Memo” by Katie Rogers: “Kamala Harris Crystallizes Trump’s View of Women: They’re ‘Nasty’ or Housewives -- As Ms. Harris joined the Democratic ticket, the president wasted no time calling her “nasty” and praising…

George Soros: Pandemic Is Providing a ‘Revolutionary Moment’

Business
August 13th, 2020 1:09 PM

Liberal billionaire George Soros has a knack for saying creepy globalist things. His latest comments on the opportunities he sees with the coronavirus pandemic are no exception. Soros told Italian newspaper La Repubblica in an interview that he described the virus as “a revolutionary moment when the range of possibilities is much greater than in normal times,” according to…

Crazed NYT Sees ‘Sexist and Racist Attacks' From Trump, Fox on Harris

August 13th, 2020 11:00 AM

The New York Times was offended on Sen. Kamala Harris’s behalf in its hysterical Wednesday morning coverage, after Republicans failed to properly bow to Joe Biden’s pick for vice-presidential running mate, a woman the paper clearly adores: “2020 Election Live Updates: After Harris Pick, Sexist and Racist Attacks From Trump and Fox News Hosts." Meanwhile, the paper’s gushing over…

NY Times Attacks Fox News on Front; MSNBC Nuts, Bigots Get A Pass

August 12th, 2020 5:00 PM

The New York Times used precious front-page space on Monday to gripe about…a rival news outlet, the paper’s latest attack on its successful right-leaning media rival Fox News. It emerged from media reporter Michael Grynbaum, “Boycott or Not, Fox News Bolts Past Networks.” 

NYT Tries, Fails to Fact-Check Video Showing Bible Burning in Portland

August 12th, 2020 3:55 PM

You have to hand it to the New York Times; they actually found a way to spin left-wing anarchists burning Bibles as “Russian disinformation,” all in one head-spinning headline to boot! 

In “Bible-burning video goes viral, a win for Russia disinformation,” (print headline), Times’ writers Matthew Rosenberg and Julian E. Barnes attempted to…

The NY Times IS LYING to You: Calls Harris a ‘Pragmatic Moderate'

August 11th, 2020 5:45 PM

Kamala Harris is the most liberal vice presidential nominee to ever be nominated. Her lifetime American Conservative Union Score (meaning the number of times she voted with conservatives as a Senator) is 3.03. In 2019 it was 0. Yet, The New York Times tweeted this demonstrably false claim: