NYT's Charles Blow: Obama Is Not Good For Jews
"Is President Obama good for the Jews?" asked New York Times columnist Charles Blow Saturday.His answer was quite surprising: "For more and more Jewish-Americans, the answer is no." In his piece marvelously titled "Oy Vey, Obama," Blow referred to Thursday's Pew Research Center report finding "33% of Jewish voters identify with or lean toward the Republican Party, up from 20% in 2008." From…
Eight Years of Bias: The Liberal Media vs. the War in Iraq
The peaceful departure of the last U.S. combat forces from Iraq this week was another milestone towards the successful end of a war that many liberal journalists declared lost four years ago. Since early 2009, the war in Iraq has been a relatively low priority for the national press, which has focused on decrying the war in Afghanistan and cheerleading the Obama administration’s aggressive…
N.Y. Times Recirculates Supermarket Tabloid Story in Sympathetic Story
The New York Times prizes itself as the newspaper of record, as the very definition of prestige media. So it's a little shocking to see them spreading the latest headlines from the Globe supermarket tabloid. Sheryl Gay Stolberg's mournful story about Obama's "otherness" and how "Misperceptions Stick" about the president began:Americans need only stand in line at the grocery checkout counter to…
Media Use Crazy Weather to Hype Global Warming, Despite Admissions Wea
Last winter, as blizzard snowfalls piled up into several feet in the nation's capital, conservatives mocked global warming alarmists for trying to link weather incidents to global warming. But as summer heat waves, volcanoes and sinkholes have appeared recently, climate alarmists proved they missed the point. A top Obama administration scientist attacked global warming skeptics during the…
On Page One, N.Y. Times Plays Up Sharron Angle's 'Awkward Retreats' fr
Following in the footsteps of The Washington Post, Wednesday's New York Times put Sharron Angle on the front page, pushing strongly on Harry Reid's notion that her extremism and ineptitude are working in Reid's favor. Reporter Adam Nagourney played up Republican pessimism: Since Ms. Angle won, her campaign has been rocked by a series of politically intemperate remarks and awkward efforts to…
NYT Scrubs GZM Imam's 'Iconic' Paragraph From Original Online Report
On December 8 of last year, at some point before hitting the "print" button, someone at the New York Times decided that a story about what has since become known as the Ground Zero Mosque needed to be reworked. Earlier that day, the Times published an online powder-puff piece by reporters Ralph Blumenthal and Sharaf Mowjood about Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf's GZM plans. The pair's story was revised…
Maureen Dowd: Obama Needs Bush's Help On Ground Zero Mosque
Mark August 18, 2010, on your calendar as the day New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd published a piece bashing Barack Obama and praising George W. Bush.This comes less than 24 hours after CNN.com did exactly the same thing over the same issue.Needless to say, Dowd's position in her column entitled "Our Mosque Madness" went completely contrary to public opinion regarding the building of an…
Tom DeLay Cleared -- N.Y. Times Puts the Story on Page A-18 (Behind Or
When former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay announced that the Justice Department was dropping its six-year investigation of his relationship with convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff, The Washington Post put the news on the front page Tuesday. The New York Times decided that this story was best put on page A-18. The front page of the Times covered flooding in Pakistan, Team Obama's tough evaluation…
ZBB BS: WSJ Editorial Scoops Beat Journalists on Financial Condition o
Here's yet another example illustrating why one must treat the editorials at the Wall Street Journal as a primary source of hard news during Democratic presidential administrations. On Monday, President Obama visited ZBB Energy Corp, a maker of high-tech batteries in Menominee, Wisconsin. Helene Cooper at the New York Times, where a larger version of the picture at the right appeared, reported…
N.Y. Times: Obama's Mosque Tolerance Upsets Those Who Want a 'White an
As President Obama struggled to step back from what the New York Times called a “strong defense” of the Ground Zero Mosque proposal, Times reporter Sheryl Gay Stolberg felt the president’s pain in a Sunday "Political Memo" article, arguing that his shifting stands on the issue betray that this debate “is riskier for him than for his predecessors.” Stolberg wrote this is because his enemies want…
Joseph Epstein Renounces Gray Lady: 'She's Become a Bit...of a Slut
Correction: A previous version of this post incorrectly identified the author in question as Richard Epstein. The post's author was in fact Joseph Epstein. NewsBusters regrets the error. Author Joseph Epstein disowned the New York Times today. "Adios, Gray Lady," he proclaimed at the Weekly Standard's website. "She's become a bit - perhaps more than a bit - of a slut," Epstein claimed, "whoring…
WaPo's Frank Ahrens Suggests Krugman, Kudlow as Potential Romer Replac
Paul Krugman and Larry Kudlow - not exactly two guys you would associate with one another. However, they are two media figures Washington Post columnist Frank Ahrens thinks should be candidates for the same job. In his Aug. 15 column, Ahrens wrote about some of the people that should replace outgoing chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers Christina Romer. He named several…
Maureen Dowd Hysterically Claims MSNBC Is Tearing Down Obama
New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd said Sunday MSNBC is tearing down President Obama.More amazing than that, she was actually serious.In her "No Love From The Lefties," Dowd bashed "progressives" for not staying on the President's bandwagon.This includes MSNBC who she hysterically claimed "is trying to make its reputation by tearing down [Obama]":
NYT's Charles Blow Defends Sarah Palin from Democrat Death Wishes
New York Times columnist Charles Blow on Saturday actually defended former governor Sarah Palin from death wish attacks by two Democrat officials in New Hampshire.In case you missed it, on Tuesday Keith Halloran, a Democrat candidate for the New Hampshire House, posted in a Facebook thread about the plane crash that killed former Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens, "Just wish Sarah and Levy [sic] were on…