NY Times Laments Success of Trump’s ‘Echo Chamber’ on Crime vs Reality

Clay Waters
August 19th, 2025 10:56 AM

New York Times reporters Jess Bidgood and Lisa Lerer went to great lengths to undermine President Trump’s possibly successful effort to use National Guard troops to cut crime in our nation’s capital in “Trump Wants to Fight Democrats on Crime. They’re Treading Cautiously." The 1,600-word piece in Tuesday’s edition assumed crime was a declining problem in big cities and that Trump was…

 

NYT Cites Bad Polls for Trump on Iran, But Made Sad Excuses for Obama

Clay Waters
June 28th, 2025 12:49 PM

After gushing over Zohran Mamdani’s win in NYC’s Democratic mayoral primary, Wednesday’s New York Times “On Politics” newsletter wrote about how President Trump’s devastating strike on Iran’s nuclear capability is polling among Americans, under the subhead “A wary public isn’t convinced on Iran strikes." In 2011, they blamed the public for not liking Obama's attack on…

 

NY Times Cries Sexism: ‘Will US Ever Be Ready for a Female President?'

Clay Waters
December 28th, 2024 6:27 AM

Thursday’s New York Times story by Lisa Lerer and Jess Bidgood was a 1,500-word excuse-making lament over Kamala Harris’s embarrassing loss to Donald Trump, “Will the U.S. Ever Be Ready for a Female President?” Trump's win "has only deepened anxieties over gender bias and prompted a fresh round of debate over the electability of women to the nation’s highest office."

 

NYT Guns for GOP, Lets Lefty Youth Hit Opponents: 'We’ll Outlive Them'

Clay Waters
April 3rd, 2018 9:45 AM
The New York Times visited the district of a purportedly vulnerable Republican congresswoman to report “Gun Control and Fall Elections: Moment or Movement?” Reporting from Northern Virginia, Matt Flegenheimer and Jess Bidgood piled another log on the Democratic heat wave toward November, chiding gun rights advocates as sometimes offering "unsavory" tactics, while letting anti-gun teen activists…
 

The New York Times Embraces Social Libertinism at a Catholic College a

Clay Waters
April 9th, 2013 1:25 PM
Social liberalism continues to dominate the New York Times. Reporter Jess Bidgood didn't even blink over the controversy of a Planned Parenthood-affiliated student group distributing condoms on a Catholic campus, Boston College, in Monday's "Ban on Free Condoms Jeopardizes Student Group’s Work With Catholic College." Bidgood led off with libertine language from the condom-pushers: Chelsea…
 

New York Times Displays Its Gun Fear on Sunday's Front Page

Clay Waters
January 28th, 2013 8:12 PM
Between the multiple editorials calling for stricter gun laws and the denunciations of the NRA by its reporters, it's safe to say the urban liberals at the New York Times lack a cultural affinity for guns. Using the Sandy Hook massacre as an excuse, the paper treats as vital and disturbing Sunday front-page news something that's been going on for decades: The gun industry encouraging youth to…