New York Times Puts Front-Page Pressure on GOP to Dump Trump
July 10th, 2015 2:56 PM
Friday's front-page New York Times "news analysis" reveled in the alleged difficulties posed to the Republican Party by real-estate mogul and presidential hopeful Donald Trump, under fire for controversial statements about illegal immigrants from Mexico. A Times triumvirate of reporters held the party's feet to the fire and found an age/racial angle to boot ("aging, anxious white voters"), while…
NYT Pits 'Jovial' Sen. Graham vs. Possibly 'Unprincipled' Scott Walker
July 10th, 2015 8:44 AM
Moderate Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, constant critic of conservativces. Conservative activist Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin, who has survived brutal battles with public unions. Both are Republicans running presidential campaigns on their own terms, according to separate stories on A18 of Thursday's New York Times. But that's where the similarities in their treatment ends. While Graham…
Is the NYTimes Improperly Keeping Cruz's Book Off Its Bestseller List?
July 9th, 2015 8:36 PM
Politico media correspondent Dylan Byers is reporting that the publisher of Ted Cruz's new book inquired of the New York Times why, exactly, his popular new book A Time for Truth was not included on the bestseller list.
Gay Activist Larry Kramer Claims Many Old Hollywood Actors Were Gay
July 8th, 2015 1:02 PM
Did you know Spencer Tracy was gay? No? Well he’s one of many labeled as such in a gay activist’s new book.
The Hollywood Reporter interviewed prominent gay activist and filmmaker Larry Kramer about these claims in his new book, The American People: Volume 1: Search for My Heart.
Rubio Hammers NY Times for Claiming He's Cuba's 'Least Favorite Son'
July 6th, 2015 7:32 PM
On Monday, soon after the New York Times slammed Florida senator Marco Rubio as Cuba's “least favorite son,” the 2016 GOP presidential candidate fired back, accusing reporter Jason Horowitz of using the “Castro regime's propaganda” in his article, which was entitled “Marco Rubio Is Hardly a Hero in Cuba. He Likes That.”
In a Twitter message, Rubio asserted that the newspaper was following up its…
Not National News: Couple's $135K 'Gay Wedding Cake' Refusal Fine
July 6th, 2015 4:31 PM
Regardless of one's stance on these issues, it should be obvious that if the legalization of same-sex "marriage" is a national story, the determination by the radical left and its government "civil rights" enforcers to brutally punish those who won't support it because it violates the religious beliefs of the "offenders" should also be.
The former dominated the news last week. But the Associated…
Fun-Deprived NYT Critics Again Scorch Summer Movies for Sexism
July 5th, 2015 7:57 AM
They're at it again. New York Times movie critics A.O. Scott and Manohla Dargis once again drained the fun out of another slate of summer action flicks, smothering the popcorn with a heavy dose of stale feminist politics in "Heroines Triumph at Box Office, but Has Anything Changed in Hollywood?," their latest turgid annual summer movie diatribe against sexism in Hollywood. Liberal feminist male…
NYT Laments Walker's 'Hard Right Turn,' Loved Hillary's Gay Reversal
July 3rd, 2015 8:06 PM
Labeling bias on the front page of Friday's New York Times, with one of the paper's frequent GOP targets in the sights of reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Martin (pictured): "Scott Walker’s Hard Right Turn in Iowa May Hurt Him Elsewhere." It's the paper's latest attempt to poison the well for conservative candidates by warning them of lurching to the right. Meanwhile, the Times celebrated…
Liptak Lunges Left Again: NYT SCOTUS Reporter Leads With Losing Libs
July 1st, 2015 8:41 PM
New York Times Supreme Court reporter Adam Liptak weighed in on Tuesday's front page on two Supreme Court decisions, both favorable to conservatives. Yet in both cases Liptak led his coverage off by detailing the losing liberal arguments: "The move, which supporters of race-conscious admissions programs called baffling and ominous, signaled that the court may limit or even end such affirmative…
NYT Claims 'Embargo and Socialism' Protected Cuban Environment
July 1st, 2015 4:33 PM
Keeping people poor and unable to buy new cars, new homes or much of anything sure is nifty for the environment.
The New York Times sure thinks so. The Grey Lady (new name, the Green Lady) warned of an environmental “tsunami” approaching Cuba as relations normalize with the United States. In a tweet July 1, NYT Science claimed that the “embargo and socialism helped protect Cuba's environment,”…
NY Times: Crises Like Greece Persist' Despite Trillions 'Spent'
June 30th, 2015 11:47 AM
The current headline at a June 29 New York Times story by Peter Eavis, also appearing on the front page of today's print edition, is "Loads of Debt: A Global Ailment With Few Cures."
But the last portion of the story's web address is "... trillions-spent-but-crises-like-greeces-persist.html." That's because the original headline, the one used at the Times's Twitter account — was "Trillions Spent…
Honesty! NY Times Reporter Admits ‘I Live in a Bubble’
June 29th, 2015 3:27 PM
BREAKING: Elite lefty journalists residing on the coasts may not be representative of the population as a whole!
Well, New York Times education reporter Motoko Rich seems surprised by the news. She tweeted as much in response to an article highlighting the resurgence of maiden-name retention, or “how few women keep their names after marriage.”
Rich’s surprise, she tweeted, was “proof I live in…
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NYT’s Kantor Sees GOP in ‘Tough Spot’ and ‘Terrible Position’
June 29th, 2015 3:01 PM
On Monday’s CBS This Morning, co-host Norah O’Donnell asked New York Times reporter Jodi Kantor about how the Supreme Court’s gay marriage ruling would impact 2016 Republican candidates: “...none of the 13 Republican candidates who are running for president have embraced gay marriage. How does that affect the ongoing presidential campaign?”
Far More Are Delaying Major Life Events; NY Times Not Asking Why
June 26th, 2015 8:40 PM
There may no better illustration of how much harm the economy has inflicted on the American people during the Obama era than a March 2015 Harris survey commissioned by American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. The AICPA's Thursday press release reported that "a majority of American adults (51 percent) have delayed at least one important life decision in the last year due to financial…