Fired NY Times Columnist Dishes on Her Cowardly, Censorious Editors
January 26th, 2026 5:32 PM
Journalist Meghan Daum interviewed former New York Times opinion columnist Pamela Paul on the Friday episode of her podcast, “The Unspeakeasy,” the conversation appearing under the provocative rubric “How To Get Fired from the New York Times.” Paul became a New York Times opinion columnist after nearly a decade running the paper’s Book Review. She was fired by Opinion editor…
LAT Columnist: Obama's Too Smart to Speak Clearly, or Something
May 26th, 2011 12:05 PM
Liberals are quite fond of chalking up President Obama's shortcomings to his near-inhuman intelligence. His repeated failures to offer policies that are both popular and successful are routinely written off as failures in "messaging." Honestly presented, that translates roughly to "too smart for the rubes he governs."
But now Obama isn't just too smart for the country, he's apparently too…
LA Times Columnist Calls Sarah Palin a 'Special-Needs Case
April 25th, 2011 9:32 AM
A day before the liberal website Wonkette posted a truly disgraceful piece about Sarah Palin's Down's syndrome son Trig, the Los Angeles Times published an article calling the former Alaska governor a "special-needs case."
Columnist Meghan Daum's "Why Sarah Palin Doesn't Get What She Deserves" was just another in a long line of hit pieces on the woman from Wasilla the elite media love to hate…
LATimes: Men Secretly Sympathize With Adulterers, 'See Sanford in Mirr
July 2nd, 2009 7:23 AM
Meghan Daum of the L.A. Times has had an epiphany. The story of adulterous South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford is still in the news, she's decided, because America's men see themselves reflected in him. Yes, Daum apparently feels that all men are adulterers, so they sympathize with him causing the story to keep bumping along.
Daum spies some "gasp--empathy" for the governor in various corners…
