NY Times Obit Celebrates 'Bold...Fearless' Pro-Communist Lawyer Ratner

May 13th, 2016 11:35 AM
On Thursday the New York Times ran a worshipful obituary for Michael Ratner, former president of the Center for Constitutional Rights, a hard-left outfit founded by radical lawyer William Kunstler. The obituary by Sam Roberts appeared under an adulatory headline, “Michael Ratner, Bold Civil Liberties Lawyer, Dies at 72.” Left out of Roberts’ report? Ratner's solidary with Cuba's Communist…

NY Times Reporter Asks If It's 'Dangerous' for GOP to Insult Occupy Wa

December 5th, 2011 12:10 PM
The New York Times “Caucus” podcast recorded December 1 featured reporter and podcast host Sam Roberts wondering if it was a potentially dangerous tactic” for GOP candidates to insult the Occupy Wall Street movement. This exchange came a minute and a half from the end, after Roberts asked how the Occupy movement’s “99%” slogan was playing out in the Republican primary.

NYT's Overheated OWS Rhetoric: 'Wealthiest of the Wealthy Control More

October 27th, 2011 2:21 PM
Sam Roberts, who also hosts the New York Times’s weekly political podcast “The Caucus,” had a left-wing take on a study on income disparity in Wednesday’s edition suggesting it justified the left-wing Occupy Wall Street Protest: “As the Data Show, There’s a Reason the Protesters Chose New York.” Included was a graphic on “The New Gilded Age,” with an income disparity chart sourced from the left…

The NY Times on Bush and WMD: 'Does Karl Rove or the President Owe the

March 5th, 2010 6:05 PM
Sam Roberts, host of the weekly "Political Points" podcast at nytimes.com, and White House correspondent Peter Baker had an exchange about Karl Rove’s new book “Courage and Consequence,” about six minutes from the end of Thursday’s edition of “Political Points." Roberts parroted the conventional liberal wisdom about the Bush administration's failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq,…