NY Times Mangles Trump's Cheney 'Chicken Hawk' Gibe to Imply VIOLENCE

Clay Waters
November 3rd, 2024 6:32 AM

It’s an intriguing parallel: Father and daughter Republican political figures Dick Cheney and Liz Cheney, insulted as warmongers and chicken hawks by different political parties, twenty years apart. But the coverage in the New York Times couldn’t have been more different. When Donald Trump attacked Republican turned Kamala Harris supporter Liz Cheney as a “radical warhawk,” he was…

 

NY Times Pretends Transgender Fight Was Started by Right-Wingers

Clay Waters
April 17th, 2023 11:52 AM

The New York Times falsely cast conservatives as culture-war instigators over the controversy of transgender children on Sunday’s front page: “How a Campaign Against Transgender Rights Mobilized Conservatives.” The headline deck: “How a Campaign Against Transgender Rights Mobilized Conservatives -- Defeated on same-sex marriage, the religious right went searching for an issue that…

 

NY Times Promotes Showtime Slime of Racist, Dog-Whistling Reagan

Clay Waters
November 15th, 2020 2:32 PM

The cultural elite are sliming the legacy of President Ronald Reagan and using him as a cudgel to attack President Trump, reducing the former president to a racist proto-Trump, while suggesting the press and academia have actually been too soft (!) on Reagan’s legacy. New York Times California-based reporter Adam Nagourney wrote a full profile Thursday on Matt Tyrnauer and his four-…

 

NY Times' Bush Obit Can't Avoid Fake News About Supermarket Scanner

Clay Waters
December 1st, 2018 12:51 PM
New York Times reporter Adam Nagourney’s front-page obituary for President George H.W. Bush, who passed away Friday night at his Houston home at age 94, was in the main a respectful effort. But it was marred by the inclusion of a liberal media legend that won’t die: The myth of Bush touring the floor of a grocery store trade show in February 1992 during his re-election campaign, and supposedly…
 

Whining NYT Lambastes Lauer: Used ‘Two-by-Four’ Against Hillary

Clay Waters
September 8th, 2016 12:16 PM
Those oh-so-objective journalists at the New York Times went after a fellow journalist, NBC’s Today show host Matt Lauer, for being unfair to Hillary Clinton and not sufficiently attacking Donald Trump, both during and after the MSNBC/NBC Commander in Chief Forum Wednesday night. Reporter Maggie Haberman was particularly perturbed: “Clinton basically got a two-by-four equivalent in the questions…
 

NYT's Post-DNC High: 'Obama Laps the Field,' Fox Bias 'Under Fire'

Clay Waters
July 30th, 2016 3:48 PM
The New York Times post-convention political roundup praised Democratic stage-craft, Hillary Clinton’s acceptance speech, and forwarded complaints about bias at Fox News (but not CNN). Adam Nagourney’s “Stark Contrasts in Style and Substance” praised Democratic convention stagecraft and says that as a speaker who can “move a crowd, seize a moment...Barack Obama laps the field.”
 

Does NY Times Owe Romney Apology on Russia Mockery?

Clay Waters
July 27th, 2016 12:32 PM
Night 2 of Democratic Convention coverage: A New York Times reporter referred to the Clintons’ “very rich and complicated relationship,” the “historic” card was played nonstop, and the editorial page owes Mitt Romney an apology on Russia. The reporters weren’t particularly thrilled with Bill Clinton’s speech, but one reporter still found a euphemism for Bill Clinton's personal sex scandals,…
 

NYT Hails Obama as Popular 'Character Witness' for Hillary

Clay Waters
July 25th, 2016 12:04 PM
Monday’s New York Times highlighted Democratic “discord” on the eve of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, as outrage about the contents of a massive email leak from the Democratic National Committee, showing the DNC colluding to scuttle the insurgent campaign of Sen. Bernie Sanders in favor of Hillary Clinton. But a “White House Letter” from Julie Hirschfeld Davis was more…
 

NYT: ‘Vehement...Extreme...Incendiary’ Trump at ‘Dark...Toxic’ RNC

Clay Waters
July 22nd, 2016 12:31 PM
The final night of the Republican National Convention that crowned Donald Trump as the party’s nominee was greeted in dark tones on the front of Friday’s paper. Reporters Patrick Healy and Jonathan Martin found a “vehement” and “incendiary” candidate, while Michael Barbaro found himself flabbergasted by Trump’s failure to show  “humility, generosity and depth," and Adam Nagourney lamented "one of…
 

NYT: Nazi Trump, Persecuted Hillary, and Don’t Mention Liberal Media

Clay Waters
July 21st, 2016 3:19 PM
In Thursday’s New York Times, reporter Alexander Burns brought in Walter Mondale, failed presidential candidate in 1984, to bash Trump as a “hate advocate” in “Trump May Break Mold, but He Fits a Pattern, Too.” (A Nazi one.) Another aggrieved reporter defended Hillary Clinton from GOP “venom” that had a “strikingly sinister tone that makes the days of Swift-boating and Bush-bashing at past…
 

New York Times Spins for Jerry Brown on Oil Search on His Land

P.J. Gladnick
December 29th, 2015 12:25 AM
What do you do if you are a liberal governor trying to present the public image of a concerned environmentalist and then get caught red handed using state employees to find oil on your personal property? Why you have Adam Nagourney of the New York Times perform spin control to paint a picture of yourself as a rugged outdoorsy type surviving as a nature boy on that very same land you wanted to…
 

Sour NYTimes Warns GOP on 'Reading Too Much Into Their Victories'

Clay Waters
November 6th, 2014 9:15 AM
The New York Times greeted the GOP takeover of the Senate with a mix of honest and sour reporting, emphasizing "angry" voters while downplaying the ideological significance of an "expensive" campaign "stumbling" to a close, while insisting that the Democrats succeeded in hanging on to their voting base and warning Republicans "about reading too much into their victories."
 

New York Times Passes Along 'Endorsement' for Accused Cop-Killer Dorne

Clay Waters
February 11th, 2013 1:44 PM
The New York Times managed to find mitigating circumstances for ex-cop and accused killer Christopher Dorner, subject of a manhunt in California, in its weekend coverage. On Saturday, L.A.-based Adam Nagourney reported "For Some, Shooting Suspect's Charges of Police Racism Resonate – They Say Accusations Raise Memories Of Past Abuses, Despite Much Progress." The Times, which had nothing to…
 

Nagourney in NYTimes: 'Wednesday Evening, Rep. Barney Frank...Was One

Clay Waters
September 6th, 2012 1:31 PM
Oops. While celebrating in Thursday's New York Times the spotlight shown on gay issues during this week's Democratic National Convention, reporter Adam Nagourney (who is openly gay) wrote that gay Rep. Barney Frank spoke to the convention on Wednesday night. Nope: Frank was actually bumped when the program ran long and will deliver his speech tonight instead.