Mark Levin's New Book Hits NYT Bestseller List, Will They Review It?

September 27th, 2023 7:25 PM

On Wednesday evening, wildly popular nationally syndicated radio talk show host, as well as the host of the Fox News program Life, Liberty & Levin, Mark Levin took to Twitter to announce his new book "The Democrat Party Hates America" has now reached #1 on the New York Times (NYT) best-seller list. If you open a window and listen closely, you'll hear the muffled sobs of…

How Often Did Media Promote Pundits From Iran's 'Expert Initiative'?

September 26th, 2023 2:09 PM

Jay Solomon over at Semafor is out with a piece that details how the Iranian Foreign Ministry worked closely with a bunch of American and European academics to help sell the Iran nuclear deal back in 2014 by repeating Tehran’s lines. Members of the group, dubbed the Iran Experts Initiative, were frequent sources for media outlets before and after the deal was signed in 2015.

NY Times 'News Analysis' RIPS 'Hard Right' GOP 'Wrecking-Ball Caucus'

September 26th, 2023 12:55 PM

New York Times chief Washington correspondent Carl Hulse’s coverage of the fight in Congress over a government shutdown versus conservative insistence that federal spending must be reduced given the national debt has now surpassed $33 trillion. Hulse ignored that in favor of several stories painting Republicans as nihilistic extremists. (Hulse reliably sides with Democrats in Capitol…

NY Times ID’s Shady Sen. Menendez as a Dem…When It Fits the Narrative?

September 25th, 2023 11:17 AM

Perennially shady Democratic Sen. Robert Menendez (NJ) was indicted on bribery charges Friday, and the partisan labeling by the New York Times has been unpredictable, sometimes aggressively identifying him as a Democrat senator, sometimes ignoring the D. Times reporter Glenn Thrush had the audacity to see a silver lining for the Biden DOJ in this new indictment, exemplified…

NY Times Reporter: Biden Interviews Left to 'Friendly Talk Show Hosts'

September 25th, 2023 6:48 AM

Reporters and columnists from pro-Biden news outlets are very slow to lament being shut out of questions to the president. Fox News media reporter Joseph Wulfsohn reported on Sunday morning that New York Times White House reporter Zolan Kanno-Youngs complained at the liberal Texas Tribune Festival in Austin that the president is limited to "friendly talk show hosts."

30 Years Ago: Media Gushed Over the Clintons’ Crazy Health Care Scheme

September 23rd, 2023 8:51 AM

Thirty years ago this week, Bill and Hillary Clinton outlined their ill-fated plan for unprecedented government intervention in the health care sector. The liberal media loudly crowed their approval, assuring voters “reform” would end the “shame” of America as the only developed nation without universal coverage.

NYT Puts Protective Cloak Over Slob Sen. Fetterman, Hits 'Hard-Right'

September 21st, 2023 6:18 PM

New York Times congressional correspondent Annie Karni thought she had a good “gotcha” in response to Republican criticism of the Senate’s new relaxed dress code, imposed by Majority Leader Sen. Charles Schumer (NY), in response to a fellow Democrat’s insistence in showing up on the Senate floor dressed like a slob in defiance of Senate rules. In Wednesday’s “For Some Senators, New…

New York Times Again Normalizes Nutty Enviromental Protest in NYC

September 20th, 2023 8:27 PM

The New York Times’ coverage of an environmental protest in Manhattan, “Fingers Pointed at President, Protesters Demand End to Fossil Fuels,” felt familiar. The story template, of normal people “young and old” filling the streets, was identical to the paper’s mainstreaming of previous left-wing protests, a template from former leftist protest movements like Occupy Wall Street, the…

The Pope’s Penchant for Polite Gibberish About Communist China

September 18th, 2023 10:56 AM

WASHINGTON -- There is still more gibberish emitting from the pope as he travels to and from the Far East. Now he is safely home in the Vatican, so only his close advisers will hear the claptrap that comes from him as he tries to placate the Red Chinese and the Russians and, who knows, maybe he is even aiming his rhetoric toward North Korea and the Palestinians. He has kind words for anyone…

Lay Off the Rum: NYT Guest Essay Calls for ‘Geoengineering the Oceans’

Business
September 18th, 2023 9:58 AM

The New York Times seems to get a kick out of pushing hubris-riddled blather normalizing the ridiculous notion that governments can control Mother Nature to fight climate change.

Is The White House Instructing The Media's Anti-RFK Jr. Coverage?

September 16th, 2023 4:00 PM

The Biden White House - in the person of Biden aide Ian Sams - made news recently when it became known that Sams had sent out a letter to media organizations telling them they needed to malign the GOP House impeachment inquiry.  So is the Biden White House quietly issuing orders to rev up negative coverage of Biden rival and critic RFK Jr.?

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FLASHBACK: The Nasty Media Campaign to Destroy Brett Kavanaugh

September 16th, 2023 8:50 AM

Five years ago this week, the media began their infamous campaign of innuendo and attacks against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. All in all, it was a shoddy excuse for journalism.

NY Times Smears Impeachment Inquiry: It's to 'Appease Far-Right' Pols

September 15th, 2023 11:54 AM

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's opening of a Biden impeachment inquiry was treated with maximum cynicism on the front page of The New York Times.  The labeling began right in the headline and lead sentence of Wednesday’s front-page story. This was all about "appeasing far-right lawmakers" who might remove McCarthy from his job. That's now how the paper covered the first Trump…

Paul Krugman in La-La Land: ‘Economic Data Have Been Surreally Good’

Business
September 14th, 2023 3:42 PM

When it was revealed Sept. 12 that the U.S. poverty rate spiked in 2022 for the first time in 13 years, President Joe Biden’s mouthpiece at The New York Times had some egg on his face.