The NY Times Strives to Paint a More Positive Picture of a Cop-Killer
March 25th, 2009 4:00 PM
On Wednesday, the New York Times did its best to muddy the seemingly clear-cut case regarding the character of cop-killer Lovelle Mixon, who shot and killed two motorcycle officers at a routine traffic stop in Oakland, then shot and killed two SWAT sergeants while on the run, before being himself killed by police. The text box painted a mixed picture of the murderer of four officers: "A man who…
Mark Levin Takes On Media Bias in New Book
March 25th, 2009 11:34 AM
In his newly released book ‘Liberty and Tyranny’ author Mark Levin criticizes the mainstream media for its systematic support of left-wing causes. In chapter 8, entitled "On Enviro-Statism," Levin focuses on the media’s slanted coverage of global warming and points out its confusion on the subject:In 1975, scientists again raised the specter of global cooling. A famous article appearing in…
Liberal Economist Krugman Explains Populist Backlash Will Cause Geithn
March 25th, 2009 10:41 AM
Talk about unintended consequences. All this populist anger ginned up by congressional Democrats, the media and the Obama administration is going to hinder the Treasury Department's strategy to rescue the banking system. Paul Krugman, the liberal New York Times columnist and winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in economics explained to Bloomberg News on March 24 that this is just what is happening…
No 'Tea Party' in NY Times, But Room for Leftist 'Bus Tour' of AIG Hom
March 23rd, 2009 5:15 PM
A left-wing "bus tour" protest prowled the affluent neighborhoods of Fairfield, Conn. on Saturday afternoon, looking for AIG execs to harass. The protest, run by a group sponsored by unlabeled leftists ACORN, were railing against the bonuses paid out to employees of the struggling insurance giant. The New York Times found the stunt worthy of a full story in the national section of Sunday's paper…
Krugman Criticizes Obama, Hell Freezes Over
March 21st, 2009 3:34 PM
Mark March 21, 2009, as the day pigs flew and hell froze over: the shamelessly liberal New York Times columnist Paul Krugman actually criticized the Obama administration.I kid you not.Unfortunately, he did so at his blog at the New York Times website, which means far fewer people will see his critique than if it had been published in print.But as it seems foolish to look a gift horse in the mouth…
NYTimes' Cooper Somehow Misses Obama 'Special Olympics' Jab
March 21st, 2009 6:00 AM
All day Friday the newspapers, TV stations, radio, and the Internet were abuzz with Barack Obama's failed joke about the Special Olympics Thursday night on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno. In shades of John Kerry's failed joke about the unschooled being "stuck in Iraq," the president's apologists said he was merely joking and didn't mean to say anything disparaging about people with developmental…
NYT Columnist: People Only Want Info That Confirms Prejudices
March 19th, 2009 6:18 PM
"[T]here’s pretty good evidence that we generally don’t truly want good information — but rather information that confirms our prejudices. We may believe intellectually in the clash of opinions, but in practice we like to embed ourselves in the reassuring womb of an echo chamber."I hardly ever agree with anything New York Times columnist Nicolas Kristof writes, but his piece on Wednesday was…
Team Obama Pleases Pot Smokers, Gay Lobbyists, But AP Won't Call Them
March 19th, 2009 3:03 PM
Journalists -- starting with Time's Amy Sullivan, the former Tom Daschle aide -- strenously tried to suggest Barack Obama would not be a politician of the libertine left, and could even make a bold play for Bible-quoting evangelical voters. But as the Obama administration kicks into gear, it's getting obvious that the libertine-left side is winning. Reporters just won't call them that. See two…
False 'Moderation' from NY Times Legal Reporter Neil Lewis
March 17th, 2009 3:16 PM
Liberally slanted legal reporter Neil Lewis has a scoop-let on President Obama's anticipated first court appointment, the "moderate" Judge David Hamilton, to the federal appeals court in Chicago ("Moderate Is Said to Be Pick for Court"). Lewis saw this upcoming move as a "signal" Obama's future appointees would be "moderate" as well. But how truly moderate is David Hamilton, federal trial court…
Sports Illustrated Columnist Peter King Bemoans Coulter's Critique of
March 16th, 2009 8:31 PM
Perhaps it was her attack on his NBC "Football Night In America" colleague Keith Olbermann that spurred this reaction. But, for whatever reason, Sports Illustrated columnist Peter King dedicated a paragraph to conservative heroine Ann Coulter in the unlikeliest of places. King, without citing the specific instance, aimed his attack at Coulter in his March 16 "Monday Morning QB" Sports…
NYT Again Says Conservatives Are Doomed, This Time in...Utah
March 16th, 2009 5:06 PM
Uncovering secret moderation among Western conservative yokels in the age of Obama is becoming a specialty of the New York Times's Western-based reporter Kirk Johnson. On Inauguration Day, Johnson wrote in condescending fashion about the "orderly phalanx marching behind Mr. McCain" in Oklahoma, which had the bad taste to give McCain his largest margin of victory in any state. This Saturday, he…
Times Watch Quotes of Note -- Nicer to Bomb-Throwing Ayers Than Willia
March 15th, 2009 9:21 AM
Presenting the latest edition of Times Watch Quotes of Note: Some of the most biased quotes from the New York Times. Nicer to Bomb-Thrower Ayers Than Conservative Buckley"In your new book, Race Course: Against White Supremacy, you and your wife, Bernardine Dohrn, describe your long struggle against racism and social injustice. Do you think Obama's victory has put America on a new course?""How did…