Biden Tells Slavish Media to Praise Bidenomics

Business
December 27th, 2023 11:31 AM

When a reporter lobbed a softball at President Joe Biden, the president took the opportunity to demand further adulation from the media. 

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FLASHBACK: How the Media Covered the Demise of the U.S.S.R.

December 23rd, 2023 8:45 AM

It was 32 years ago — on Christmas Day, December 25, 1991 — that the world rejoiced at the final dissolution of the Soviet Union. But some in the media refused to blame the communist system for its failures, even as they treated Gorbachev, the last communist, better than his Western counterparts and his anti-communist successors.

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NYT Critic Takes Aim At Kids' Shows For 'Weirdly Present' Fathers

Culture
December 20th, 2023 1:46 PM

Popular kids cartoon Bluey and the Daily Wire’s Chip Chilla are in the crosshairs of a New York Times writer for apparently having ‘weirdly present’ fathers. You can’t make this stuff up.

NYT Twists Own Poll to Shield Biden from Scathing Economic Numbers

Business
December 20th, 2023 11:05 AM

The New York Times beclowned itself by twisting the results from its own poll to suppress the reality that Americans are frustrated with President Joe Biden largely because his economy stinks. 

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Scarborough Skeptical About Colorado Judges Barring Trump From Ballot

December 20th, 2023 9:40 AM

On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough is surprisingly skeptical about the ruling of the Colorado Supreme Court barring Donald Trump from the Republican primary ballot there on the grounds that he is barred from office under the 14th Amendment for having committed insurrection against the Constitution. Scarborough suggests that a finding of insurrection should be made by a jury convicting him of…

BONKERS: Paul Krugman Claims 2023 ‘One of the Best Years Ever’ for US Economy

BONKERS: Krugman Claims 2023 ‘One of the Best Years Ever’ for Economy

Business
December 20th, 2023 9:39 AM

New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, a master in the art of being perpetually wrong, stayed true to form by making the ludicrous claim that 2023 was a stellar year for the U.S. economy under President Joe Biden.

NYT 'Heir Apparent' Bennet Blasts Rag's Lefty 'Culture of Intolerance'

December 19th, 2023 1:24 PM

If someone who was once considered “heir apparent to run the Times” declares that his former paper has become an intolerant “illiberal” hellhole, you should listen. The latter part of former New York Times opinion editor James Bennet’s 17,000-word autopsy of his former employer sharpened the focus on the suffocating liberalism of the media world in general and the Times --and…

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Scarborough Mocks Speaker Johnson's Non-Existent Southern Accent

December 19th, 2023 9:47 AM

On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough mocks Speaker Mike Johnson's southern accent, although in fact Johnson does not have a southern accent. Scarborough also mockingly calls Johnson, "Jesus's man in Congress." Mika Brzezinski gloats at the prospect that Rudy will not have "a penny left to his name" when the two plaintiffs in the defamation case are "done with him."

Fired NYT Editor Nukes Paper's Path: ‘Liberal Bias to Illiberal Bias'

December 17th, 2023 4:04 PM

Media mavens may remember the blow the New York Times reputation took when James Bennet was forced out of his Editorial Page Editor slot at the paper. It came in June 2020, days after the paper ran an op-ed by Republican Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas that called upon President Donald Trump to use troops to quell violence connected to Black Lives Matter protests, after the death of…

At NY Times, Cynical Weisman Paints Antisemitism As GOP Wedge Issue

December 16th, 2023 10:44 PM

New York Times reporter and controversialist Jonathan Weisman made the front page of Monday’s New York Times with “Is Anti-Zionism Always Antisemitic? A Fraught Question for the Moment.” Weisman approached the sensitive matter with his trademark politically corrupted cynicism: In Weisman’s world, no matter the gravity of the issue at hand, Republicans are invariably being…

Fired New York Times Editor James Bennet: The Times 'Lost Its Way'

December 16th, 2023 4:00 PM

In the day, it was a news-grabbing story. NewsBusters’ own Curtis Houck headlined the story when it happened in 2020. 

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Real Time Pans Media's Anti-Red State, Pro-Palestinian Bubbles

December 16th, 2023 12:09 PM

Friday’s season finale of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher condemned two media bubbles. First, the New York Times’s progressive bubble after former editor James Bennet penned a lengthy essay in The Economist recounting the 2020 Tom Cotton op-ed and second, the media’s bubble that seeks to blame Israel for the lack of Israeli-Palestinian peace.

The NYT Joins the Acela Media’s Collective Freakout Over Univision

December 12th, 2023 12:01 AM

The idea that the onetime home of Walter Duranty should be taken seriously on anything pertaining to an editorial shift, or concern over an editorial shift at any other media outlet, is laughable. But, alas, here we are. The Old Grey Lady is the latest to weigh in on the Acela Media’s collective panic over Univision’s interview of former President Donald Trump specifically, and over a…

NYT Finds Fear, Sorrow in 'Little Palestine,' Relays CAIR Propaganda

December 11th, 2023 8:50 PM

Local “enterprise reporter” Christopher Maag’s latest New York Times byline boasted of having “spent four weeks reporting in Paterson and Clifton, N.J., interviewing members of the Palestinian community,” and the resulting journalism certainly identified with the Palestinian cause, with added melodrama that started in the headline: “In a Place Called Little Palestine, People Feel…