Bitter NY Times Smears JD Vance as Pushing 'Racially Charged Insults'

August 10th, 2021 10:00 AM

New York Times reporter Trip Gabriel became the latest reporter to insult a Republican U.S. Senate candidate in Ohio: “J.D. Vance Converted to Trumpism. Will Ohio Republicans Buy It?” It’s the paper’s latest poorly aimed blast at Vance, author of the acclaimed best-seller Hillbilly Elegy, a moving chronicle of his life, from growing up poor in Ohio to Yale Law School. Now…

NYT Crowns Lefty Heroine Bush on Eviction Revolt: What Constitution?

August 7th, 2021 2:24 PM

New York Times reporter Nicholas Fandos on Friday hailed new left-wing Rep. Cori Bush’s sit-in, in the paper’s lead National section story slot: “With Sit-In, a Lawmaker Gets Renters the Help She Never Had.” Bush’s sit-in on behalf of renters during Covid bore fruit when President Biden…

NYT Smears Kavanaugh Again, Uses Cuomo to Credit Dems With Standards

August 5th, 2021 8:51 PM

In an impressive feat of ideological dexterity, New York Times national politics reporter Jennifer Medina used the damning report outlining sexual misconduct committed by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to give the Democratic Party unearned credit for its high standards on combating sexual charges in their ranks in her Tuesday article “Cuomo, Trump and Other Politicians Accused of…

NY Times Plays Pretend With Trans Olympic Lifter: Shy History Maker?

August 5th, 2021 1:30 PM

Laurel Hubbard, a biologically male weightlifter who represented New Zealand in the female weight lifting category at the Tokyo Olympics (depriving an actual female of a spot) was glorified on the front of the New York Times sports section: “No Medal, No Matter: Competing Was No. 1.” Although Hubbard came in last after failing to complete any of "his" three lift attempts and having to…

Ken Burns Calls Mark Zuckerberg 'Enemy of the State,' Wants Him Jailed

August 4th, 2021 6:15 PM

Fox News media reporter Brian Flood reports PBS superstar filmmaker Ken Burns is swaggering around again and dropping bombs on Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg, suggested he’s an “enemy of the state” who should be in jail. Didn’t liberal hate this kind of “enemy of the people” talk, or is that just about the news media, not the social media?

SINKING SHIP: NY Times, MSNBC Abandon Andrew Cuomo (Chris Too?)

August 4th, 2021 11:18 AM

Andrew Cuomo’s allies in the press, who looked the other way at his years of bullying, are finally abandoning him. Op-eds in The New York Times, The Daily News, The Albany Times Union, even MSNBC, condemned the Democrat accused of sexually harassing and abusing multiple women. (…

ABHORRENT! New York Times Calls Osama Bin Laden ‘Devoted Family Man’ 

August 4th, 2021 10:13 AM

New York Times labels Osama bin Laden a “devoted family man.” 

Krazy Krugman: DeSantis Is ‘Ally of Coronavirus,’ 'Freedom' Is Racism

August 4th, 2021 9:57 AM

New York Times columnist Paul Krugman joined the rest of the liberal press Friday wagging his finger at Florida and its Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis over its handling of the coronavirus: "At every stage of the pandemic DeSantis has effectively acted as an ally of the coronavirus...he has helped create a state of mind in which vaccine skepticism flourishes and refusal to take…

NY Times, WashPost Adore Online Leftists Who Put the Bull in Bully

August 2nd, 2021 5:01 PM

Journalists love lefty activists — especially when they are pushing propaganda. The New York Times and Washington Post both celebrated how an online “influencer army” was promoting a “personality-driven campaign” in separate weekend stories.

NYT Troubled By Targeting of Left-Wing Arsonists: ‘Extreme Crackdown'

August 2nd, 2021 1:10 PM

Tech reporter Kashmir Hill made the front of the New York Times Sunday Business section with a long story lamenting that for an arsonist accused of setting a fire in a school, “2,000 Miles Was Not Far Enough” to escape surveillance. The text box summarized: “In the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd, someone set a fire at a Goodwill in St. Paul. That led to an arrest in Mexico…

NY Times Seizes on Alarmist CDC Guidance: 'Universal Masking'

July 31st, 2021 2:56 PM

New York Times covid-beat reporter Apoorva Mandavilli’s overheated lead story on Saturday, “Immunized People Can Spread Virus, the C.D.C. Reports,” seized upon rushed guidance from the Centers for Disease Control. The numbers from a comprehensive study of a virus outbreak over the July 4th holiday in the coastal resort town of Provincetown seem alarming at first glance. But are the…

The Mythological White Supremacist

July 30th, 2021 1:55 PM

Washington -- We at The American Spectator call it “Kultursmog,” and it is the only kind of smog of which our friends on the left approve. Actually, they not only approve of Kultursmog, but they contribute to it. Kultursmog is that aspect of American culture that is utterly politicized, and it is politicized by the politics of the left. Its leading centers of pollution are Hollywood,…

NYT Reporter Deletes Tweet Calling Trump Supporters 'Enemies of State'

July 29th, 2021 7:24 PM

The media are taking advantage of the politically hostile climate they created by increasingly pushing the boundaries on how much they can get away with in demonizing conservatives. New York Times  reporter Katie Benner provoked backlash Tuesday when she got a little too zealous in this effort, calling Trump supporters, “enemies of the state.”

NY Times's Answer to 'Media' Smears? Smear the GOP, of Course!

July 29th, 2021 9:40 AM

Five years after Jim Rutenberg got the ball rolling, New York Times media reporter Marc Tracy publicly angled for even less impartial coverage of conservative political figures in “Trump Is Gone, but the Media’s Misinformation Challenge Is Still Here.” The full deck of online headlines: Should news outlets contextualize false claims made by powerful people? Or ignore them completely?…