Finally: NY Times Notices Soft-on-Crime Hurting Dems in Big Cities

Clay Waters
June 6th, 2022 7:22 PM

The front page of Monday’s New York Times acknowledged the obvious: The crime issue is hurting Democrats badly on the ground: “Debate on Crime Splits San Francisco Democrats.” The report from Tim Arango and Thomas Fuller spotlighted San Francisco’s controversial District Attorney Chesa Boudin, who may prove too far left for…San Francisco? "...his message of leniency for perpetrators…

 

Slime of the NY Times: Four Years of Blaming Trump for Hate Crimes

Clay Waters
November 19th, 2020 7:53 PM

Unbelievable as it sounds, the media may actually miss Donald Trump if he departs the White House in January – who else will they blame hate crimes on if he’s no longer in office? New York Times reporter Tim Arango jumped on what may be the paper’s last chance to blame physical assaults against minorities on the president, in Tuesday’s: “Hate Crimes At Highest Since 2008, F.B.I.…

 

NYT Devotes Full Page of Fawning to AOC, Who Alone Understands Crisis

Clay Waters
May 5th, 2020 7:11 PM
Tuesday’s New York Times used the coronavirus pandemic to push both the leftist fight against “inequality” and left-wing politician Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. She was fawned over in the lead National story slot, a full-page profile: “Lonely Voice in Congress Amplifies Plight of a Stricken District.” And from the “don’t let a crisis go to waste” department, Tim Arango and Thomas Fuller rooted…
 
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Megyn Kelly Rips Psaki Over Panetta's Early Iraq Withdrawal Claims

Tom Blumer
October 4th, 2014 12:13 AM
On her Thursday Fox News show, Megyn Kelly interviewed the State Department's Jen Psaki. Psaki's thankless and impossible task was to defend the administration against former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta's assessment that U.S. troops completely left Iraq too early. Video and the damning portions of the transcript follow the jump:
 
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Will Press Notice Panetta's Contention That U.S. Left Iraq Too Early?

Tom Blumer
September 20th, 2014 10:48 PM
On Sunday, CBS's "60 Minutes" will broadcast Scott Pelley's recent interview of former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta. In CBS's promotional tease, which was broadcast on Friday, in response to Pelley's question about whether he was confident that the U.S. troop withdrawal "was the right thing to do" at the time it was done, Panetta said, "No, I wasn't." That's big news. How big? So big that,…
 
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Gingrich — and Reality — Also Humiliated Jay Carney on CNN

Tom Blumer
September 11th, 2014 10:55 AM

As the midnight oil-burning Curtis Houck at NewsBusters noted last night, John McCain ripped into Jay Carney's attempts to rewrite history Wednesday evening on CNN. Among other things, he reminded the former White House Press Secretary that "We had it (the Iraq War) won, thanks to the surge." In other words, our military and Iraqi government had achieved victory. Barack Obama and his…

 

Bozell Column: No Tears for National Review

Brent Bozell
November 18th, 2008 11:11 PM