Public Wins Kudos of NYT Ed. Board (But Why Don't Folks Love Obama Mor

September 20th, 2011 5:08 PM
In Sunday’s lead editorial, New York Times editors express their frustration over why the public doesn’t realize how much it truly agrees with President Obama on things like taxes and stimulus and compromise: “Leadership Crisis – Americans agree with Mr. Obama on a great deal. Why don’t they know it?” At least the public can be comforted in knowing it has met with the approval of the…

NYT's Joe Nocera: Republicans Will Poison Your Hamburger

September 20th, 2011 11:36 AM
New York Times columnist Joe Nocera last made headlines for his August 2 rant comparing the Tea Party to terrorists. He later apologized in print. Now he's accusing the congressional G.O.P. of food terrorism. Nocera preemptively blamed Republicans in Congress for the next E.coli outbreak in his Saturday column, “Killing Jobs And Making Us Sick.”   “In January, Mr. Obama signed a food safety…

David Brooks: 'I’m an Obama Sap

September 20th, 2011 10:52 AM
Let us give credit for honesty (at least temporarily) to the New York Times "conservative" columnist, David Brooks, for his brutal self-recognition of a political flaw. Brooks flat out admits that he is a sap: I’m a sap, a specific kind of sap. I’m an Obama Sap. Brooks lays out in some detail his discovery of what most of the rest of us already knew; his extreme gullibility when it comes to…

Voluntary Taxes? Obama Will 'Ask the Rich' to Pay More, Claims New Yor

September 19th, 2011 2:15 PM
Sunday’s lead New York Times story by White House correspondent Jackie Calmes pushed the president’s new plan to raise taxes on “the wealthy.” The president, in what the Times seems to think is a bright idea, is calling his proposal the “Buffett rule,” after the billionaire who made waves with his complaint, printed in the Times, that uber-wealthy investors like him were not being taxed enough…

McConnell: If Buffett Feels Guilty About His Taxes 'He Should Send in

September 18th, 2011 12:11 PM
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) doesn't think the President's new "Buffett Rule" to create a higher tax rate for millionaires makes sense. Speaking on Sunday's "Meet the Press," McConnell said, "With regard to his tax rate, if [Warren Buffett's] feeling guilty about it, I think he should send in a check" (video follows with transcript and commentary):

NYT's Krugman Hears Non-Existent Eruption of Crowd Cheering Death

September 16th, 2011 1:55 PM
New York Times columnist Paul Krugman just can't stop offending of late. Krugman confounded even liberals with his ill-timed blog post on the morning of September 11 decrying President George W. Bush and New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani as “fake heroes” in the aftermath of the World Trade Center attacks. In his Friday column “Free To Die,” he suggested Republicans would prefer people die for…

NYT's Nagourney Disappointed Reagan Library Not Marking Iran-Contra An

September 15th, 2011 2:42 PM
After last week’s Republican presidential debate at the Reagan presidential library in Simi Valley, Calif., reporter Adam Nagourney took advantage of the spotlight to review on Tuesday both the Reagan and Nixon libraries, located some 80 miles apart on opposite sides of Los Angeles: “An Admiring Approach at the Reagan. History, Warts and All, at the Nixon.” His main concern: Not enough critical…

NYT's Calmes Sees Obama's Plan as Job Creator, Warns Stubborn GOP 'Cou

September 15th, 2011 9:31 AM
New York Times White House reporter Jackie Calmes and Binyamin Appelbaum reported Wednesday on Obama’s latest big-spending “stimulus” proposal, “Bigger Economic Role for Washington,” enthused that the chance of some of it coming law “could have a substantial effect on economic growth and unemployment....could add 100,000 to 150,000 jobs a month over the next year, according to estimates from…

NYT Book Critic: Michael Moore Belongs on Same Shelf With Thomas Paine

September 14th, 2011 4:45 PM
The front of Wednesday’s New York Times Arts section featured Dwight Garner’s review of the new book by left-wing documentary film-maker Michael Moore, “Here Comes Trouble -- Stories From My Life.” Garner, a fan, called Moore (infamous for his anti-conservative conspiracy theories and vicious, purposely misleading mockery of Republicans) a “necessary irritant,” and in one nauseating paragraph…

Rumsfeld on Cancelling NYT: What Krugman Said Was 'So Repulsive and Re

September 14th, 2011 2:12 PM
Former Secretary of State Donald Rumsfeld has had a subcription to the New York Times for roughly 60 years. As he told radio host Joe "Pags" Pagliarulo Tuesday, he cancelled it as a result of Paul Krugman's "repulsive and repugnant" blog posting on 9/11 (video follows with transcript and commentary):

New NY Times Executive Editor Abramson Admits, Sort of, the Times's Li

September 14th, 2011 12:08 PM
Jill Abramson, the paper’s new executive editor, talked with the Times’s public editor Arthur Brisbane on Sunday, and touched on the paper’s perceived liberal slant. Abramson didn't quite deny it.   Brisbane: The legendary Times executive editor A. M. Rosenthal once told a colleague he felt the need to steer The Times to the right to compensate for the leftward political leanings of some…

NYT Reporters Huff: Social Security Is Not a Ponzi Scheme

September 14th, 2011 9:45 AM
Tuesday's New York Times's “Check Point” was the latest liberally slanted fact check of a G.O.P. presidential debate, this time by two liberal reporters, Michael Cooper and Nicholas Confessore, “Perry’s Criticism of Social Security as ‘Ponzi Scheme' Dogs Him in Debate.” Confessore, who once worked for the liberal journals Washington Monthly and American Prospect, once again staunchly…

Krugman on Social Security Circa 1996: 'The Ponzi Game Will Soon Be Ov

September 14th, 2011 1:13 AM
As NewsBusters reported Tuesday, liberal media outlets and their members have been talking about Social Security being a Ponzi scheme since at least 1967. Add New York Times columnist Paul Krugman to the list of detractors as demonstrated by something he wrote for the December 1996/January 1997 issue of Boston Review:

Discredited NYT Issa Story Used as Basis for Left Group's Ethics Compl

September 14th, 2011 1:12 AM
It would appear that there is a reason beyond alleged "journalistic integrity" why the New York Times hasn't pulled its error-riddled, only partially corrected mid-August story by Eric Lichtblau ("A Businessman in Congress Helps His District and Himself") about California Republican Congressman Darrell Issa. Issa has identified 13 serious errors in the Times story, the cumulative effect of…