CNN to Righty NYT Columnist, Film Critic: ‘Stop Writing About Movies'

Clay Waters
June 24th, 2022 8:30 AM

CNN senior writer Brian Lowry, and by extension CNN media reporter Brian Stelter mocked right-of-center New York Times columnist Ross Douthat for daring to write about two new movies in his latest column, even though he’s been a movie critic for National Review for years. Stelter’s June 19 newsletter included a snotty take from Lowry that suggested Douthat should stick to…

 

NYT’s Douthat: Soft Coverage of Riots, Kavanaugh Radicalizes the Left

Clay Waters
June 13th, 2022 8:30 PM

New York Times columnist Ross Douthat took a polite shot at the mainstream liberal press, including his own paper, in Sunday’s “Why the Memory of Jan. 6 Can’t Prevent a Trump Resurgence.” One major reason: The mainstream liberal press. Douthat argued that the liberal establishment (including its press handmaidens) unwittingly reinforce the idea that Trump isn’t a “uniquely malign…

 

Former NYT White House Reporter Begs Media Dems: Go Easy on Biden!

Clay Waters
December 11th, 2021 2:30 PM

Is Frank Bruni, former White House correspondent for the New York Times, whispering to media liberals to keep it down with the chatter about sagging polls and infighting that threaten to endanger Biden’s reelection, Democrats in Congress, and democracy itself? Because that seems the subtext of his opinion posted Thursday, “Democrats' Infighting Only Helps Republicans.” Note that when…

 

New York Times Columnist Commits Hunter Biden Laptop Heresy

P.J. Gladnick
October 28th, 2020 7:30 AM

New York Times columnist Ross Douthat committed what could be considered heresy at that newspaper due to criticizing social media and mainstream media suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story.

 

NY Times’ Douthat Eviscerates Own Paper Over Cotton Meltdown

Clay Waters
June 14th, 2020 7:23 PM

The New York Times right-leaning columnist Ross Douthat used his perch for a long piece about the paper’s recent ideological meltdown over an op-ed from a Republican senator: “The Tom Cotton Op-Ed and the Cultural Revolution -- How liberalism, and the liberal media, are changing before our eyes.” He kills the Times with kindness.

 

NYT Columnist Douthat: Cohen Testimony Discredits Steele Dossier

P.J. Gladnick
March 4th, 2019 1:48 PM
"Conservative" columnist Ross Douthat of the New York Times sounded like he was committing editorial-page heresy on Saturday for claiming that Michael Cohen's testimony before Congress last week cast doubt on the validity of the Christopher Steele Dossier which has been the main pillar of the quickly dissipating Trump-Russia collusion conspiracy theory.  
 

David Brooks' Mini-Me Reflects Original on Trump Disrupting Culture

P.J. Gladnick
September 27th, 2017 2:50 PM
The one thing that all New York Times house "conservatives" are united on is their hatred of President Donald Trump. In fact, it is pretty much a job requirement. The New York Times will barely tolerate their slightly conservative (on a few topics) views but only if they express complete hostility towards Trump. Political diversity at the Times on the subject of Trump is absolutely taboo.
 

NYT Fires ‘Warning Shot for Hard-Line,’ ‘Ultraconservative’ Catholics

Clay Waters
August 3rd, 2017 5:20 PM
Jason Horowitz, the New York Times’ most showily left-wing political reporter, made common cause with a piece making the rounds of Catholic intellectual circles singling out “ultraconservative” Trump-supporting conservatives as dangerous, in “From the Vatican, a Warning Shot for Hard-Line Catholics in the U.S.”
 

NYT’s Douthat Lays Soft-Spoken Smackdown Upon the Liberal Media

Clay Waters
June 18th, 2017 6:57 AM
New York Times columnist Ross Douthat, one of now two slightly right-leaning voices on the paper’s resolutely smugly liberal opinion page, penned “Notes on a Politcal Shooting” Sunday on the assassination attempt on House Republican Steve Scalise by a Bernie Sanders supporter. In his own diplomatic way -- his gentle tone a protective necessity to avoid riling the liberal comment section and…
 

Nation Columnist: Almost All Righty Pundits Specialize in ‘Bulls**t’

Tom Johnson
May 20th, 2017 10:59 AM
The Nation’s Eric Alterman doesn’t mind that a few weeks ago, The New York Times added another conservative op-ed columnist. He just wishes it hadn’t been the “awful” Bret Stephens, who used to write for “the rubes who believe what they read in Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal” but now is tasked with impressing the “smarter and more sophisticated” readership of the Times.
 

Ross Douthat Childishly Begs for Trump's Removal via 25th Amendment

P.J. Gladnick
May 18th, 2017 12:15 PM
Ross Douthat, the "conservative" David Brooks mini-me at the New York Times, wants President Donald Trump removed from office pronto. Although Douthat admits in his May 16 column that Trump has probably not done anything actually impeachable, he still wants him out of office because his supposed "childishness" offends him. 
 

Ross Douthat Goes Off NYT Reservation with Faint Trump Praise

P.J. Gladnick
April 27th, 2017 7:09 PM
The New York Times version of political diversity is that even if you are a scorned "conservative" you can still be tolerated on their pages but ONLY if you are resolutely anti-Trump. A supposed conservative was recently hired by the Times but read this description about him in the very first sentence of this April 12 Politico story:
 

Sportswriter: Liberal Dominance of His Field ‘Suits Me Just Fine’

Tom Johnson
February 18th, 2017 4:03 PM
Lateral movement in one direction or the other routinely comes into play in sports. That’s not the case in sports media, which almost always go to the left. “Today, sportswriting is basically a liberal profession,” declared Bryan Curtis in a Thursday piece for The Ringer. Curtis noted that “Donald Trump’s election was merely an accelerant for a change that was already sweeping across…
 

NYT's Ross Douthat Has Hilariously Horrible History of Bad Predictions

P.J. Gladnick
February 17th, 2017 10:56 PM
The New York Times and the Washington Post are chock full of "conservative" columnists who reflect the lack of political diversity in their newsrooms by being united in their opposition to Donald Trump. However, of all these "conservatives," there is one with the saving grace of at least being comically entertaining in that he consistently provides hilariously wrong predictions about Trump. He is…