Sudden Respect

A consistent double standard of New York Times coverage is how the paper treats sex- and religion-based restrictions around access to public pools, as shown by its contrasting treatment of controversies involving segregated swimming times, one involving Jews, the others involving Muslims. The most recent manifestation came in a long profile by Houston bureau chief J. David Goodman posted July…

Sometimes the New York Times takes a respite from its non-stop vituperation of President Trump to indulge in a side-quest of leftist hostility against another successful Republican, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. The New York Times Magazine issued a 5,000-word-plus collaboration with the left-wing non-profit news site ProPublica, “Capital Punishment Is on the Decline. Except in Ron DeSantis’s…

Wednesday’s PBS News Hour preached pro-abortion propaganda, rejoicing in an Arkansas woman who discarded the shackles of organized religion and converted to abortion support. Co-anchor Amna Nawaz: Since Roe v. Wade was overturned, a majority of Republicans continue to oppose abortion. But there's been a shift in opinion among many Americans. More Democrats and independents now say abortion…

The front page of Tuesday’s New York Times was graced with a profile of James Talarico, the elitist media’s newest hope to finally elect a Democrat in Texas: “Progressive Faith Powers Texas Democrat’s Run -- Evangelicals See Threat in Talarico’s Pastor.” The online headline and subhead was more provocative: “Are Texans Ready for Talarico’s Kind of Christianity? -- Jim Rigby, who rarely uses…

In 2022 the New York Times ran an enormous three-part series eviscerating conservative host Tucker Carlson for nationalism and racism and being “Trump’s heir.” Now that he’s rejected his Trump birthright over the Iran War, Carlson can be rehabilitated by the paper as an anti-war, anti-Trump voice, with interviewer Lulu Garcia-Navarro recognizing Carlson as “an object of a lot of fascination,…

Sightings of conservatives or limited-government types are hard to find on the PBS News Hour,  yet the D.C.-based Cato Institute, which takes the fiscal conservative side on government size and spending, has bucked the trend, with David Bier, Cato’s director of immigration studies, making four guest appearances over the previous year, all on immigration, and all in opposition to Trump…

Monday’s New York Times brought more “strange new respect” for Christianity, in a 1,600-word story by Lisa Lerer, national political reporter, and Elisabeth Dias, national religion correspondent, pumping up yet another Democratic candidate for a U.S. Senate seat in Texas, where the Democrats haven’t won a stateside office since 1994. This time there’s a religious angle, and the paper,…

Sudden respect for religion over the (previously) public airwaves? In the wake of the confrontations in left-wing Minneapolis over the shooting death by an immigration enforcement officer of protester Renee Good, who drove toward the officer after being given a lawful command to exit her vehicle, NPR is discovering the virtues of activist faith, at least when it can be turned to anti-Trump and…

The Orlando Sentinel’s lead editorial on Christmas Day, “Regard immigration in the spirit of the season” engages in hypocritical emotional blackmail against Christians by aiming to use their own religious precepts against them – Christians being a group that the paper has never held any particular brief for before. The soppy, manipulative pro-illegal immigration editorial (yet another…

On CNN This Morning, host Audie Cornish approvingly cites Andrew McCarthy in the National Review who wrote, apropos of the double-strike on a narco boat, reportedly intended to kill survivors of the first strike: "If this happened as described in the Post report, it was, at best, a war crime under federal law."

Tuesday’s PBS News Hour was blessed with a rare sight: A Catholic bishop as guest. But of course PBS didn’t invite him on to talk about the church’s opposition to abortion (there was no dissent at all in Wednesday’s News Hour story on an underground network of abortion pill providers). Instead, El Paso bishop Mark Seitz was featured for his opposition to deportation of illegal immigrants under…

Tuesday’s sudden passing of former Vice President Dick Cheney at 84 brought all the usual, likely long-taped-in-advance obituaries on ABC, CBS, and NBC that one should expect for major political figures. Not surprisingly, they not only harped on the Republican Cheney’s role in the war on terror, but engaged in heavy doses of sudden respect for the man they spent decades pillorying as a war…

Tuesday’s PBS News Hour showed more strange respect to a limited-government organization, the libertarian Cato Institute, when their views were in sympathy with the anti-deportation crusade of PBS News. White House correspondent Laura Barron–Lopez broke down the “more than $160 billion that are going to immigration enforcement and the deportation operation.”

Jason Horowitz, the New York Times’ Rome bureau chief and passionate fan of the late Pope Francis (he loved to cast opponents of the late pontiff’s political proclamations into the outer darkness as “archconservatives” or “ultraconservatives”) made Wednesday’s front page off-lead slot with another story to accompany his official obituary for Pope Francis: “As Ears Closed, Pope Amplified Those…