Days After NYT's Kirkpatrick Calls Brotherhood 'Moderate Political For

December 8th, 2012 9:58 AM
This one comes straight from the "There are none so blind as those who refuse to see" Department. On Wednesday, in an interview with talk show host Hugh Hewitt (HT Daily Caller), New York Times Cairo Bureau Chief David D. Kilpatrick characterized Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood as "not violent by nature," and as "a moderate, conservative but religious, but moderate, regular old political force." (…

NYT's Steinhauer Treats House Conservatives as Childish, Shows Strange

December 7th, 2012 2:54 PM
On Friday's front page, New York Times reporter Jennifer Steinhauer relayed the shock retirement of leading conservative Sen. Jim Demint of South Carolina, "Tea Party Hero Leaving Senate For New Pulpit." Steinhauer used her full allotment of "conservative" labels. Meanwhile, another Steinhauer story bolstered Republican House leader John Boehner against those childish conservatives in his…

NYT's Conservative vs. Liberal Contrast: 'Clashes Over Curbs on Labor

December 7th, 2012 2:21 PM
On Friday, New York Times reporters Steven Yaccino and Monica Davey sourly greeted landmark conservative right-to-work legislation from Michigan in "Bills Placing Limits on Unions Advance in Michigan Legislature," The paper ran four paragraphs of quotes from the losing side, compared to three from the winners. By comparison, the introduction of two liberal laws in Washington State, on gay…

NYT's Controversial CEO Mark Thompson Has Blasted Rupert Murdoch, Crit

December 7th, 2012 5:58 AM
When he was director general of the BBC, controversial new New York Times Co. chief executive Mark Thompson "launched a scathing attack on Rupert Murdoch's media empire, warning that BSkyB [Murdoch's British Sky Broadcasting Group]" was too powerful and threatened to "dwarf" the BBC. He also accused Sarah Palin of misleading the American public by using the phrase "death panel" when discussing…

New York Times' Preston Ditches Balance to Identify With Illegal 'Drea

December 6th, 2012 4:00 PM
You know there's something afoot when the New York Times portrays former President George W. Bush as a fount of wisdom. Julia Preston, the paper's most slanted-immigration reporter, reported from D.C. on Wednesday, "Praising Immigrants, Bush Leads Conservative Appeal for G.O.P. to Soften Tone." Preston, who is unabashedly pro-amnesty, doesn't actually name these "conservatives" supporting…

NYTimes' Alarmist Climate Reporter Hails Lefty College Divestment Push

December 6th, 2012 11:34 AM
The New York Times's alarmist environmental reporter Justin Gillis made the front of Business Day Wednesday with a left-wing protest movement at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, which is apparently "at the vanguard of a national movement": "The Divestment Brigade." A group of Swarthmore College students is asking the school administration to take a seemingly simple step to combat pollution…

Krugman vs. CNBC

December 6th, 2012 10:02 AM
Nobel prize winning liberal economist Paul Krugman, who has often argued that President Obama’s $831 billion stimulus was too small, has now decided he knows what’s good for everyone’s health (besides government-controlled healthcare). His health advice? “Don’t spend much time watching CNBC” because it is “bad for your financial and intellectual health.”

NYT Sports Columnist William Rhoden Wishes NFL Would Ban Gun Ownership

December 5th, 2012 11:10 AM
On MSNBC's The Ed Show Monday night, New York Times sports columnist William Rhoden defended NBC sportscaster Bob Costas's controversial comments, made during halftime of an NFL game Sunday night, on the murder-suicide committed by Kansas City Chief player Jovan Belcher, even agreeing to the idea that the NFL commissioner try to ban players from owning guns. Costas had quoted an anti-gun…

Front-Page NYT Praise for Obama's 'Cliff' Negotiator, 'Policy Nerd' Wh

December 4th, 2012 4:20 PM
New York Times's Sheryl Gay Stolberg profiled White House chief of staff and "fiscal cliff" negotiator Jacob Lew (who may be the next Treasury secretary) on Sunday's front page, calling liberal Lew "a policy nerd" who "morphs into a warrior" when it comes to helping the poor. Yet he's also a "pragmatist," just like his boss Barack Obama, and also makes "a mean potato kugel."

Apocalypse Soon at the New York Times: 'Higher Seas and Greater Coasta

December 4th, 2012 3:27 PM
New York Times environmental reporters Justin Gillis and John Broder teamed up on Monday to unload some hot warming bias: "With Carbon Dioxide Emissions at Record high, Worries on How to Slow Warming." Gillis (pictured) in particular has a history of apocalypse-now! style climate reporting that has been ridiculed by actual scientists in the field. He and Broder certainly didn't hedge, taking as…

CBS Blames Jovan Belcher Murder-Suicide on 'Gun Culture' in NFL and U

December 4th, 2012 2:20 PM
Jim Axelrod filed a completely one-sided report on Tuesday's CBS This Morning linking the Jovan Belcher murder-suicide to a lack of gun control inside the NFL  – and in the country in general. Axelrod turned to only pro-gun control advocates as talking heads – Brady Center flack Marcellus Wiley, NBC's Bob Costas, and New York Times sportswriter William Rhoden. Rhoden blamed the widespread…

NYT's DC Bureau Chief Spouts Conventional Wisdom on GOP Losing Tax Deb

December 4th, 2012 9:18 AM
New York Times Washington bureau chief David Leonhardt appeared on The Diane Rehm Show on NPR Friday and purveyed Washington's conventional wisdom about how Republicans were losing the battle of the "fiscal cliff." Leonhardt also foresaw "the end of the great era of American tax cutting." After Laura Meckler of the Wall Street Journal brought up Republican Rep. Tom Cole taking Obama's…

Mark Thompson Update: Fresh Questions on When NYT CEO Found Out About

December 3rd, 2012 3:56 PM
Patrick Goodenough of CNSNews reported Monday morning on new developments in the Mark Thompson controversy, concerning what the New York Times Co.'s new chief exeuctive knew about accusations against BBC star entertainer Jimmy Savile, when Thompson was head of the BBC: "Emails Raise New Questions About When NY Times CEO Learned of BBC Child Sex Scandal."

NYTimes' Julia Preston Celebrates Illegal Immigrant 'Dreamers' Emergin

December 3rd, 2012 2:09 PM
The New York Times continued to push for amnesty for illegal immigrants, this time on Saturday's front page, courtesy of its most reliable pro-amnesty reporter, Julia Preston, reporting from New Haven, "Young Immigrants Say It's Obama's Time to Act." For the umpteenth time the paper boasted of illegals emerging "from the shadows" (although for a such a frightened group, they sure do get their…