WashPost's Thiessen: Biden Blocked Court Nominations in 1988 and 1992
February 27th, 2016 10:41 AM
Conservative and center-right columnists often have to do far more digging than their liberal counterparts, simply because overwhelmingly left-leaning beat journalists, aka "Democrats with bylines," provide such unbalanced reporting on current events on a daily basis.
Fortunately, the Washington Post's Marc Thiessen did the necessary work by rummaging through available information about federal…
NYT Pities Dems: GOP Won't 'Even Shake Hands' With Obama's SC Nominee
February 26th, 2016 9:31 PM
The New York Times online headline captured the pro-Democrat, anti-GOP tone of the report from David Herszenhorn and Carl Hulse, “Supreme Court Fight Won’t Die, No Matter How Hard Republicans Try.” Another Hulse article described the Democrats' dilemma in pitiable terms: "They were absolutely astonished when Senate Republicans took the power struggle to an entirely new level by announcing that…
NYT Jumped on Perry's 'Stunning Rebuke,' Turned Sour After Case Axed
February 26th, 2016 8:18 AM
When you're a Republican running for president, it's phony charge on the front page of the New York Times, but vindication on Page 11. Texas Republican Gov. Rick Perry, who was smeared with trumped-up charges of abuse of power by Democrats in Texas while running for the Republican presidential nomination, was finally vindicated, as the last of the phony charges were dismissed: “Texas Court…
Even NYT Wants ‘Mischievous Child’ Hillary to Publish Paid Speeches
February 25th, 2016 6:46 PM
In an editorial set to appear in Friday’s print edition, the ultra-liberal New York Times editorial board blasted Hillary Clinton for acting like “a mischievous child” in repeatedly refusing to release the transcripts of her lucrative paid speeches to Wall Street firms. Right from the start of the 664-word piece, the editorial board took offense to Clinton’s canned excuse that “everybody does it…
Ted Cruz, Islamic Fatwa on Rushdie: Both 'Hard-Line' at the NY Times
February 24th, 2016 10:49 AM
So what’s the connection between Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz and Islamic organizations in Iran who just upped the reward for killing “blasphemous” novelist Salman Rushdie? Both are “hard-line” ideologues in the eyes of the New York Times.
Barely News: Nevada GOP Caucuses' Turnout More Than Doubles 2012
February 24th, 2016 10:33 AM
Yesterday morning, before the Republican Party's Nevada caucuses began, Nate Silver at the inexplicably hallowed FiveThirtyEight blog made a really naive and tone-deaf assumption. He reckoned that the caucuses would be a low turnout event, noting that in 2012, "only 1.9 percent of the voting-eligible population — about 33,000 people — participated in the Republican caucuses in Nevada," and spent…
NY Times Lauds Jorge Ramos' Get Out the Vote (for Democrats) Drive
February 23rd, 2016 4:46 PM
Illegal immigration (i.e., amnesty) is perhaps the most shameless slanted area of coverage in the New York Times, and on Tuesday reporter Nick Corasaniti did his duty, filing a 1,500-word profile of Univision and its provocative, activist, heavily biased chief news anchor Jorge Ramos, talking about his network’s new (Democratic) voting drive: “Univision Aims to Make the Hispanic Voting Bloc Even…
Biden in 1992: Without Advance Consultation, I'll Block ANY Nominee
February 23rd, 2016 11:13 AM
As noted yesterday at NewsBusters, an enterprising individual poster at C-SPAN posted a 1992 video of then-Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Joe Biden indicating that then-President George H.W. Bush should "not name a (Supreme Court) nominee until after the November election" — and that if he did, his committee would "seriously consider NOT scheduling confirmation hearings on the nomination…
The NY Times Takes a ‘Hard-Line’ on the GOP -- But No Labels for Dems?
February 22nd, 2016 3:15 PM
The New York Times continues to list portside in its labeling, going particularly overboard in the last several months in using “hard-line” and “hard-right” to describe conservative presidential candidates, their policy positions, and the voters those candidates are appealing to. Yet no similarly unflattering term emerged in stories about liberal presidential candidates Sen. Bernie Sanders and…
Mika Brzezinski: A Reporter Has Hillary Wall Street Speech Transcripts
February 22nd, 2016 11:59 AM
Early Saturday morning, while covering the upcoming Nevada Democratic Party caucuses, co-host Mika Brzezinski claimed on MSNBC's Morning Joe show that a "print reporter" has "actual transcripts" of certain of Hillary Clinton's paid speeches to financial firms.
This naturally leads to the question of whether we'll ever actually see the words Mrs. Clinton spoke which typically "earned" her roughly…
Notable Quotables: Liberal Loathing for 'Troll-Like' Ted Cruz
February 22nd, 2016 9:17 AM
This week, liberal journalists announce their disdain for the "troll-like" conservative presidential candidate Ted Cruz, who "operates below the level of human life," while USA Today says socialist Bernie Sanders is the "most Christian candidate" in the race. Also: reporters condemn the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's conservative philosophy, while playing the race card when it comes…
Berning Bridges: NYT’s Krugman on Sanders' 'Horrifying' Economic Plan
February 20th, 2016 3:39 PM
Snooty New York Times columnist/Democratic hack Paul Krugman is very unhappy with Bernie Sanders and his Hillary-bashing supporters. Krugman had previously antagonized the left-wing hive of “Bernie bros” – supposedly sexist critics of Hillary Clinton supporters, and on Friday Krugman lit into Sanders’ economic plan, suggesting an economic plan strongly endorsed by his campaign “outdoes the GOP”…
NYT: Delaying Supreme Court Confirmation is Racist
February 19th, 2016 9:05 AM
Senate Republican plans to delay Barack Obama getting another justice on the Supreme Court could be driven by only one thing -- racism! Well at least that’s what the New York Times’ Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Martin implied, when they collected a bunch of quotes from angry Obama supporters for a front-page February 18 story headlined: “Blacks See Bias in Delay on a Scalia Successor.”
NY Times Plays SCOTUS Fight Race Card Against GOP on Front Page
February 18th, 2016 6:57 PM
Leave it to the New York Times to turn a garden-variety partisan battle over the Supreme Court into a racial issue favoring the Democrats against Republicans: Thursday’s front page featured “Blacks See Bias in Delay on a Scalia Successor.” Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Martin, reporting from South Carolina, interviewed blacks suspicious of the GOP, given the party’s allegedly unprecedented…