Things That Make You Go Hmm: Arsenio Calls Out Brian Williams for Igno

February 19th, 2014 12:31 PM
Liberal reporters, particularly those at MSNBC, are quick to accuse conservatives of racism when it doesn’t exist. So it’s particularly amusing when they’re accused of it themselves.  Arsenio Hall, on his Tuesday night show, did just that when he noticed NBC’s Brian Williams and the New York Times left him out when they reviewed the new late night talk show scene. After putting up a still…

Liberal Billionaire Pledges $100 Million to Bully U.S. on Global Warmi

February 18th, 2014 6:45 PM
Liberals absolutely love complaining about so-called dark money, until a climate alarmist starts waving around his millions. Make that $100 million. Billionaire and former fossil fuel investor Tom Steyer recently announced plans to use his organization, Next Generation Climate Action, to inject millions of dollars into the 2014 election. Steyer, No. 1,031 on Forbes magazine’s billionaire’s…

Krugman: How Do I Love Spending Your Money? Let Me Count The Ways

February 13th, 2014 9:35 AM
If you’re confused about what to get Paul Krugman for Valentine’s Day, it’s not like he hasn’t dropped enough hints. He likes spending. Gobs of it. In fact, he thinks President Barack Obama is far too miserly with the public dime. Since Obama was elected in 2008, Krugman, a Nobel Prize-winning economist, has called for an increase in U.S. government spending 133 times in his New York Times…

Washington Post Blogger Agrees: Thomas Friedman Is a Tiresome Blowhard

February 9th, 2014 8:19 AM
Washington Post media blogger Erik Wemple has cried foul against a New York Observer article titled “The Tyranny and Lethargy of the Times Editorial Page." Wemple is right that this article by Ken Kurson is loaded with negative attacks from anonymous Times “insiders,” but stops short of saying this is exactly what the Times (and the Post) do to politicians they don’t like. (See the Vicki Iseman…

New York Times Displays Pretzel Logic Defending ObamaCare’s Latest W

February 7th, 2014 4:24 PM
As Sarah Jean Seman at Townhall.com adroitly points out: “The 2.5 million workers that will be driven out of the workforce due to Obamacare is actually 'a liberating result of the law,' in the eyes of The New York Times.” Seman went on to quote what perhaps is the most absurd, twisted logic in the entire February 5 editorial by the Times:

NY Times Allergic to The D-Word At Corruption Trial of Former New Orle

February 7th, 2014 2:14 PM
Friday’s New York Times led off the National section on A-11 with Campbell Robertson’s story “Taking Stand, Nagin Defends Acts as Mayor of New Orleans.” But the entire article on the Democrat’s corruption trial unspooled for 931 words without the word “Democrat.” Jurors have heard how Nagin enriched himself from contractors rebuilding the city after Hurricane Katrina. The Times also couldn’t…

The Media's Most Outrageous Olympic Outbursts: Ashamed of the U.S.A

February 7th, 2014 9:48 AM
Sports fans checking in on coverage of Team USA at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia might want to brace themselves for unexpected outbursts of liberal preaching from reporters covering the games. Over the years the MRC has documented lefty reporters and writers using the games to celebrate socialist policies, bash expressions of patriotism and even work in jabs against Republicans. In…

The Media's Most Outrageous Olympic Outbursts: Saluting the Socialists

February 6th, 2014 10:00 AM
Sports fans checking in on coverage of Team USA at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia might want to brace themselves for unexpected outbursts of liberal preaching from reporters covering the games. Over the years the MRC has documented lefty reporters and writers using the games to celebrate socialist policies, bash expressions of patriotism and even work in jabs against Republicans,…

NYT Public Editor Scolds Paper For Not Disclosing Change to Christie S

February 5th, 2014 10:55 PM
On Saturday (at NewsBusters; at BizzyBlog), I noted how the New York Times had made a critical change to a story about New Jersey Governor Chris Christie's possible knowledge of lane closures in the area of the George Washington Bridge. The initial story was that a Port Authority official "has evidence" in the matter. A short time later, that claim was watered down to a far more speculative "…

WashPost Celebrates 'Semi-Liberal' NJ Democrat Retiring Under Ethics C

February 5th, 2014 1:06 PM
On Tuesday, staunchly liberal Rep. Robert Andrews (N.J.) -- lifetime ACU score of 13.5 -- announced he's retiring from Congress. For his part, reporter Jason Horowitz of the New York Times noted in the lead paragraph of his Wednesday morning print article that the 12-term Democratic congressman's legacy was dogged by his "alleged misuse of his campaign funds." By contrast, however, the…

Even NYT 'Conservative' Ross Douthat Calls GOP Immigration Push 'Perve

February 4th, 2014 3:19 PM
New York Times columnist Ross Douthat could hardly be considered a conservative in the mold of, say, a Ted Cruz. Most often he has reflected the "conservativism" of fellow New York Times columnist David Brooks who last summer came out in strong support for the Senate immigration bill. Therefore it was a very pleasant surprise that Douthat broke with his fellow "conservative" columnist by…

Networks Censor Spat Between Obama Admin. and Israel Over Kerry 'Boyco

February 3rd, 2014 2:44 PM
ABC, CBS, and NBC's morning newscasts have yet to report about the bilateral squabble between the Obama administration and Israel over Secretary of State John Kerry's warning on Saturday that the U.S. ally faces "an increasing delegitimization campaign that has been building up....There are talks of boycotts and other kinds of things." The war of words comes days after actress Scarlett…

NYT Caught Altering Christie Story: Port Authority Official No Longer

February 1st, 2014 2:53 PM
Longtime readers here may recall that yours truly and others have written about liberties New York Times reporter Kate Zernike has taken with the truth, especially in her reporting on the Tea Party movement. Her penchant for inventing baseless stories about alleged racism in the movement once caused the late Andrew Breitbart to label her "a despicable human being." Breitbart might well have…

Blow's New Euphemism for Abortion: 'A Full Range of Reproductive Optio

February 1st, 2014 8:55 AM
The reluctance of abortion-rights advocates to call the procedure by its name, and their preference for euphemism, is legend. To the euphemistic lexicon of "pro-choice," "women's health," "reproductive freedom," etc. ad nauseum, Charles Blow has made the latest contribution.  His New York Times column of today speaks of Republican candidates opposing "a full range of reproductive options for…