Katie Benner
Loathsome NY Times: Governors’ Kidnapping Attempts ‘Egged on' by Trump
October 17th, 2020 9:37 AM
The New York Times stoked Democratic fears of Trump-inspired political violence in Friday’s “Fears of Political Violence Rise as Trump’s Language Heats Up.” The paper shamelessly linked President Trump to acts of “right-wing” violence all over the country: "The arrest of more than a dozen right-wing extremists who are accused of targeting the governors of Michigan and Virginia is…
New York Times Begs You to Ignore Damning Trump Dossier Details
September 27th, 2020 6:45 PM
Recent bombshell revelations regarding the infamous “dossier” of Russian disinformation, which began its sordid life as opposition research funded by Democrats for the 2016 presidential campaign, before being used to try to dislodge Donald Trump from office, made the New York Times under the blatantly biased and remarkably defensive headline “Justice Dept. Releases…
From the NY Times, With Hate: Mussolini, Jonestown, Fascism at RNC
August 31st, 2020 1:20 PM
On the fourth and last night of the Republican National Convention, the New York Times strangely issued fact checks not just for facts, but for warnings and predictions from Republican speakers if Democrats won the presidency. And each night, the paper’s team of live commentators offered gross, personal insults to the speakers: "...on the first day of the R.N.C. we…
NY Times Front Page Hits Fox News for Blaming China for Coronavirus
April 3rd, 2020 11:28 AM
The New York Times’ crusade to use the coronavirus to cripple its ideological enemies continued on Thursday’s front page with reporter Jeremy Peters’ over-excited hit piece “Pro-Trump Media’s Virus Pivot: From Alarm to Denial to Blame.” The subtitle: “Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh and other right-wing commentators turned a pandemic into a battle of us vs.…
NY Times Scared of ‘Authoritarian’ Barr Pandering to ‘Far Right' GOP
December 9th, 2019 10:50 PM
New York Times reporters Jeremy Peters and Katie Benner caught up to a weeks-old story, keyed to a speech by Attorney General William Barr to The Federalist conservative legal society that frightened the left. On Monday’s front page, they tried to transform Barr into a “far-right...authoritarian” bogeyman: “Right Rejoices As Barr Assails Liberal Culture -- No-Apologies…
NYT Perked Up in the PM: Democrats 'Painted' Trump as 'Risk to Nation'
July 24th, 2019 8:03 PM
Wednesday was Mueller Day on Capitol Hill. For seven hours the special counsel provided testimony before the House Judiciary Committee and the House Intelligence Committee, carried live for those Americans still interested in his completed investigation into Russian meddling in the U.S. electoral process in 2016. The Times saw "conservative conspiracy theories" and griped that Rep.…
NYTimes Bemoans Mueller Outfoxed by Trump, ‘Handpicked' Barr
June 2nd, 2019 5:12 PM
Saturday’s New York Times “news analysis” was filled with regret that straight-shooting Robert Mueller was outfoxed by dastardly Donald Trump and his “handpicked” sidekick Attorney General William Barr. Mueller turned out just too principled for his own good: "Mr. Mueller’s refusal to pass judgment on whether the president broke the law is one example of…
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‘The Russians Have Clearly Won’; MSNBC's Nance Melts Down After Letter
March 25th, 2019 5:19 PM
As NewsBusters illustrated all day on Sunday, MSNBC’s nonsense was shooting out into the ether like water from a fire hose During the 6:00 p.m. Eastern hour, so-called experts offered hot takes such as “the Russians have clearly won” and “Mueller basically seem to abdicate or punt on” the obstruction portion of the investigation.
NY Times Reacts to Mueller Report With Petulance, Disappointment
March 24th, 2019 2:59 PM
After 22 months of speculation, special counsel Robert Mueller released to Attorney General Bill Barr on Friday afternoon his report on allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 election (which the press and Democrats winnowed down to the catch-all accusation of “collusion”). While the report itself is under wraps, thus far it appears Mueller and his team have wrapped up their…
Trump Rejects Quotas for School Discipline, NYT Sees ‘Attack on Obama'
December 18th, 2018 2:42 PM
The front page of Tuesday’s New York Times focused on the Trump administration “planning to roll back Obama-era policies aimed at ensuring that minority children are not unfairly disciplined, arguing that the efforts have eased up on punishment and contributed to rising violence in the nation’s schools.” Reporters Erica Green and Katie Benner don’t seem to approve of…
NYT Again Tries, Fails to Discredit Nunes' Oversight of Russia Probe
May 13th, 2018 4:03 PM
The New York Times’ attacks on the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Rep. Devin Nunes, continued in Sunday’s news section: “Wielding Threats, Nunes Attacks Justice Dept.” The text box featured typical liberal media weasel wording: “Some see an effort to weaponize documents and undermine the Russia inquiry.” When the Times claims “some see,…
Knocking Trump, NYT Downplays Danger of MS-13 Gang on Front Page
March 2nd, 2018 11:45 AM
Some crimes, like the Parkland massacre, earn the full outraged attention of the New York Times, which is fitting. But when Trump wages a rhetorical war on other murderers, like the immigrant gang MS-13 who bludgeon teens to death, the paper responds with hand-wringing explainers like Friday’s front-page corrective suggesting the threat of MS-13 is overblown and surely is unrelated to Obama…
NYT's Duplicitious Hit on Trump's 'Unparalled War on Law Enforcement'
February 4th, 2018 5:55 PM
The media meltdown continues, in the wake of the release of the House Intelligence Committee memo detailing alleged misconduct by the FBI and the DOJ. In “Trump’s Unparalleled War,” on the front of Sunday’s New York Times, reporters Sharon LaFraniere, Katie Benner, and Peter Baker’s fancy they’ve uncovered a conspiracist in the White House who has launched…
Greece Heads for Default, Despite Media Predictions It Wouldn’t
May 18th, 2012 2:32 PM
Greece is the perfect example of the eventual outcome of unchecked spending – especially as it creeps closer and closer to defaulting on its massive debts, despite multiple government bailouts in May 2011. One recent BBC News headline warned: “Greece: ‘Default within the euro is possible’.”
But, looking back, some journalists predicted the opposite: that the…
