Terrified NYT: 'Hard Right' Texas Turns 'Ultraconservative'

Clay Waters
March 2nd, 2021 10:11 PM

The front page of Wednesday’s New York Times read like a blast from the past: “Emboldened Republicans at the Helm, Texas Steers Hard Right.” The online headline: “‘Contested, Heated Culture Wars’ Mark Ultraconservative Texas Session.” For good measure, the headline on the inside continuation of the story read, “With Emboldened G.O.P. At the Helm, Texas Turns Even Further to the Right…

 

DISHONEST NY Times Pretends All Anti-Vaxxers Are 'Far-Right'

Clay Waters
February 10th, 2021 10:35 AM

A New York Times Sunday story by Los Angeles bureau chief Manny Fernandez pushed a myth that “anti-vaxxers” -- those opposed to vaccinations, often for discredited or conspiracy-based reasons -- are a predominantly “far-right” domain, in “A New Coalition Forms Against Vaccines in California.” The text box furthered the idea that those opposed to draconian lockdowns were driving the…

 

NYT: States 'Undermining' Stay-at-Home Efforts As 'Grim Milestone' Set

Clay Waters
April 28th, 2020 2:14 PM
The front of Tuesday's New York Times tackled how various states plan to re-open for business over a surprisingly sunny banner headline, “States Set Course To Unlock Doors Of U.S. Commerce.” But the optimistic headline was overridden by the doubt-ridden tone of reporters Jack Healy, Manny Fernandez, and Peter Baker, teaming up to seed the ground to say “I told you so” if the states' plans…
 

NY Times’s Texas Team Tout Dem Whining on ‘Incendiary’ GOP Race Talk

Clay Waters
August 24th, 2019 7:20 PM
The New York Times was in a panic in Saturday’s edition, with reporters Manny Fernandez and David Montgomery relaying Democratic whining about a GOP fundraising letter in “Texas Democrats Urge G.O.P. to ‘Eradicate’ Incendiary Rhetoric.” The Texas-based team of Fernandez and Montgomery have previously teamed up for freak-outs over the “far right,” “ultraconservative” Texas GOP, and they are still…
 

NYT Visits ‘Tranquil’ Border Town, Sees No Need for Trump ‘Alarm’

Clay Waters
January 9th, 2019 1:28 PM
The front of Wednesday’s New York Times declared all was well on the Southern border, no matter what President Trump or his alarmed supporters may say: “No Crisis Here, Say Neighbors Close to Mexico -- Citing Other Problems ‘That Need Fixing.’” The reporting team found nothing but “tranquility” all along the border. The jump-page headline: “No Immigration Crisis Here, Tranquil Town Along Southern…
 

NY Times Discovers 'Problem' of GOP Judge Shopping, 'Weaponized' Court

Clay Waters
December 25th, 2018 2:16 PM
There is a pernicious media trend to treat ordinary partisan things as out of the ordinary and a danger when conservatives do them. One offender is New York Times Supreme Court reporter Adam Liptak. Recently he worried about the Supreme Court’s legitimacy, now that it was finally leaning somewhat rightward. He exhibited a sudden concern about the ordinary partisan phenomenon of “judge shopping,”…
 

Beto Loses, NY Times Gushes: ‘Could Even Bigger Things...Be in Store?'

Clay Waters
November 8th, 2018 7:18 PM
Texas-based New York Times reporter Manny Fernandez sounded perturbed that the “Kennedyesque” Texas hope, Democrat Beto O’Rourke, lost to that unlikable conservative incumbent Sen. Ted Cruz on Wednesday: “Cruz Stays in Senate As Democratic Gains Fall Short in Texas.” On Thursday, Fernandez hewed to Democratic talking points by proclaiming Beto O’Rourke the moral victor in “Texas Looks Less…
 

NYT on ‘Cruz’s Far-Right Attack-Dog Persona, Failed Bid for President'

Clay Waters
November 5th, 2018 7:25 AM
The New York Times hit the campaign trail around the country over the weekend and offered several dispatches, including the strikingly titled “A purple flying unicorn discovered in Texas” from reporters Manny Fernandez and Mitchell Ferman. The paper’s hostility to incumbent Republican Sen. Ted Cruz is well-documented, so Fernandez’s loaded name-calling wasn’t surprising, but it was odd that he…
 

NYT's Texas-Sized Letdown: Dems Can’t Match Media Hype vs. ‘Far Right’

Clay Waters
March 7th, 2018 2:31 PM
As usual, the media and the New York Times appear to have overhyped hopes for a Texas takeover in Congress this November. The paper’s familiar anti-conservative labeling pattern was present in the paper’s live updates of results from primary elections in Texas, with “far-right” Republicans pitted against benign-sounding “progressives” – not “far left,” not even “liberal.”And Beto O’Rourke, the…
 

NYT Piles on, Laments Houston’s ‘Untrammeled Growth,’ ‘Laissez-Faire’

Clay Waters
August 31st, 2017 12:34 PM
Showing the timeliness and sensitivity it’s renowned for, the political left is using the tragedy of Hurricane Harvey in Houston to excoriate it as an example of an untrammeled free market run amok, and suggests such laissez-faire policies made the damaging storm even more dangerous. The front page of Thursday’s New York Times featured Manny Fernandez and Richard Fausset's “A Limitless City, Now…
 

NYT’s Fernandez Fights for Poor TX Dems, Still Attacks Bathroom Bill

Clay Waters
July 23rd, 2017 2:47 PM
New York Times Houston-based reporter Manny Fernandez continues to champion Democrats and act frightened of the dominant state Republican Party. First, his “Austin Journal” on Friday, “Long-Suffering Texas Democrats Suffer On as Lawmakers Meet,” overtly sympathized with those downtrodden Texas Democrats. The next day, he made a slanted, label-heavy return to the subject of the state's "bathroom…
 

Frightened NYT: Texas Has ‘Shifted Further to the Far Right’

Clay Waters
July 19th, 2017 2:02 PM
How "far right" can Texas go? The scare-mongering theme about “vanishing Republican moderates” is a popular myth at the Times and other liberal media outlets, especially in red states like Texas. The New York Times really went overboard with it Wednesday in “Bathroom Bill Tests the Clout of a Rare Moderate in Texas” by Manny Fernandez and David Montgomery. Fernandez, Houston bureau chief for the…
 

NYT Freaks Out Over Sanctuary City Laws in ‘Ultraconservative’ Texas

Clay Waters
May 11th, 2017 2:12 PM
Wednesday’s New York Times came to the passionate defense of “unauthorized immigrants” (don’t call them illegals!) in danger in “ultraconservative” Texas, and landed some ideological left jabs at the state in the process. Reporters Manny Fernandez and David Montgomery filed a hostile, label-stuffed story from Houston (and notice the quote marks around the term “sanctuary cities”: “With Measure…
 

NYT Has Blue State Blues: '2 Americas: One That Hates, One That Heals'

Clay Waters
November 16th, 2016 11:12 AM
Post-election, the New York Times seems dimly aware it has a “red state” credibility problem, but its pattern of coverage shows it has a long way to go. Sunday it whined about how the imminent Trumper invasion posted a threat to the cultural life of Washington, D.C., not exactly a top issue for blue-collar Macomb County voters. They aren’t as comfortable in red Texas, as shown by Manny Fernandez'…