NY Times or Angry Internet Troll? Hits ‘Facts Optional’ GOP Convention

August 27th, 2020 5:50 PM

On the first night of the Republican National Convention, the New York Times immediately tried to poison the well for the Republicans launch of the 2020 campaign, under the headline “Nominating Trump, Republicans Rewrite His Record.” Meanwhile, the paper helped Biden rewrite his own legislative history regarding the 1994 crime bill.

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Morning Joe Democrat: Riots Just an 'Excuse' to Vote for Trump

August 27th, 2020 1:18 PM

On Morning Joe, Princeton professor Eddie Glaude Jr. says that riots are just an "excuse" for people to vote for President Trump: "they already wanted to."

NY Times Smears Nicholas Sandmann, Trump With Racist Canards

August 26th, 2020 4:40 PM

Night Two of the Republican National Convention is in the books, and the New York Times' “On Politics” newsletter editor Giovanni Russonello found racism everywhere he looked, both in what was said and what was not said on stage. The “racist” drumbeat continued with Lisa Lerer and…

Nasty NYT: Racist McCloskeys 'Threatened Peaceful Protesters’?

August 25th, 2020 6:00 PM

The Republican National Convention launched last night, and the New York Times launched its contemptuous coverage with Trump-hostile White House correspondent Peter Baker setting the table on Monday’s front page: “As Woes Grow, President Aims To Shift Story.” Baker told a whopper about the now famous McCloskey couple of St. Louis, supposedly “brandishing guns at peaceful Black Lives…

NY Times Socialist Screech: Capitalists Are 'Hijacking America'!

August 25th, 2020 11:33 AM

The New York Times hates capitalism. It's right there on the front of Sunday's Book Review. Behold journalistic balance today: One radical lefty author praising another radical lefty author. Far, far-left writer Anand Giridharadas reviewed Kurt Andersen’s latest book, Evil Geniuses – The Unmasking of America: A Recent History.

NYT Gets Emotional Over Biden’s Bio: 'A Good Man to Defeat a Bad Man'

August 22nd, 2020 9:36 AM

The New York Times got mawkish over Democratic nominee Joe Biden’s acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention Thursday night. The front page of Friday’s New York Times found reporter Matt Flegenheimer’s prose in full overbearing flower paying homage to his challenging personal biography: “Despair, Detours and the Fulfillment of a Dream.” Former White House…

OH PLEASE: NY Times Wonders If Obama Can Forgive USA for Voting Trump?

August 20th, 2020 6:35 PM

The third night of the virtual Democratic National Convention was highlighted by a scathing speech by former president Barack Obama attacking his successor Donald Trump. White House correspondent Peter Baker’s lead story used Obama’s speech to both praise the former president and denigrate the current one, under the headline “Obama Sees Chance to Save a Legacy Under Siege." Baker commiserated…

The NY Times Celebrates (Some) Women, Just Not This One

August 19th, 2020 7:09 PM

Donald Trump registered quite the achievement: He managed to make the avowedly feminist New York Times criticize renowned suffragist Susan B. Anthony in “With Eye on Election, Trump Plans to Pardon Women’s Suffrage Icon,” after the president announced he would mark the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment, giving women the right to vote, by pardoning Anthony, who was arrested and…

NY Times Melts: Abnormal Trump's 'Racist and Sexist Attacks'

August 18th, 2020 4:09 PM

The Democratic National Convention launched in virtual mode, and the New York Times was predictably gushing -- but still reserved plenty of space for invective again President Trump. White House correspondent Peter Baker in particular has become openly contemptuous of the president. He was granted a half-page of text for his Tuesday “news analysis,” “Racist Attacks, Conspiracy Theories and War…

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New York Times Swings and Whiffs on Transgenders In Sports

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August 18th, 2020 2:48 PM

An in-depth New York Times examination of the controversy over males competing in women's sports stumbles out of the starting blocks and limps home to the finish line. The story by Gillian R. Brassil and Jeré Longman on Tuesday is mostly supportive of transgenders competing with opposite-gender sports and cites some dubious sources…

NY Times Blind to Racial Discrimination at Yale, Sees It in Improv

August 18th, 2020 11:57 AM

The New York Times eagerly scours the country for racism and reliably finds it, which makes Saturday’s story defending Yale University (named after a slave-trader) even more fascinating. Reporters Anemona Hartocollis and Giulia McDonnell Nieto Del Rio fought the possibility of racial discrimination against Asian-Americans in Yale’s admission process, instead suggesting racism the part…

The NYT Scrubs Anti-Blackness From Jorge Ramos’ Op-Ed

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August 16th, 2020 6:47 PM

Univision senior anchor Jorge Ramos has a habit of saying one thing to American media and another overseas. And it appears that The New York Times got wind of his overseas remarks after publication of his latest op-ed. The opinion piece, originally published on August 7th, was entitled “Can a Latina Girl Dream of Being President of the United States?” Shortly after publication, the op-ed’s…

SICK: NY Times Smears Tea Party as Precursor to QAnon Conspiracy

August 15th, 2020 3:15 PM

New York Times tech reporter Kevin Roose smeared the Tea Party by comparing it to the nutty QAnon conspiracists on Friday’s front page: “Far Right to Election Night: QAnon Gaining at Ballot Box.” The jump-page text box underlined the offensive comparison: “Two movements with similar roots on conservative fringes.” According to the conservative-hostile Roose, there are "more parallels…

Who's 'Nasty'? NYT News Pages Smear Trump as Sexist, Racist to Kamala

August 14th, 2020 6:40 PM

The New York Times will strenuously defend Joe Biden’s VP pick Kamala Harris from those racists and sexists who would dare criticize her, as shown in Thursday’s “White House Memo” by Katie Rogers: “Kamala Harris Crystallizes Trump’s View of Women: They’re ‘Nasty’ or Housewives -- As Ms. Harris joined the Democratic ticket, the president wasted no time calling her “nasty” and praising…