NYT's Maureen Dowd Whines on 'Women's Lower Caste' in the Catholic Chu

May 24th, 2012 2:23 PM
Maureen Dowd has devoted her last two Times columns to her problems with the male hierarchy of the Catholic Church. Wednesday's edition featured "Father Doesn't Know Best" (get it?). Dowd is confused about the idea of a church insisting its members adhere to its core beliefs, while ranting about "women's lower caste in the church." That subject is a hobbyhorse for Dowd, who has previously…

'Indelible Image' of Boy Patting Obama's Hair Boosts President, Gushes

May 24th, 2012 1:15 PM
New York Times White House reporter Jackie Calmes gushed over Obama's hair as a symbol of hope for blacks in Thursday's "When a Boy Found a Familiar Feel in a Pat of the Head of State," which made the front page of the paper's National section and is the most emailed Times story as of Thursday morning. In a convenient bit of public relations, the would-be "indelible" image (the initial online…

NYT Claims 'An Uneventful Weekend' in Chicago...Except for the Mass Ar

May 24th, 2012 8:20 AM
Monica Davey and Steven Yaccino reported for Tuesday's New York Times from Chicago, the site of the NATO summit and left-wing protests and put the best spin on the violent clashes that led to 90 arrests over the course of a week: "Day of Subdued Protests Follows Night of Clashes in Chicago." The text box: "The prospect of widespread chaos does not materialize." Apparently left-wing protests…

'No Option but to Raise Taxes,' Say All the 'Budget Veterans' Selected

May 23rd, 2012 3:50 PM
New York Times White House reporter Jackie Calmes on Saturday once again nodded along to the wisdom of the liberal priorities of the Obama administration and its supporters, this time as they're pushing the necessity of raising taxes: "As a Debt Battle Looms, Budget Veterans See No Option but to Raise Taxes." It depends on which "budget veterans" you talk to, of course, and Calmes only talked…

Anderson Cooper Slams NYT's Tom Friedman: 'He's Smart, But He's Not "J

May 23rd, 2012 10:30 AM
As NewsBusters previously reported, three time Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman got his butt kicked by CNN's Anderson Cooper on Jeopardy! last Friday. Cooper told NBC's Jimmy Fallon Tuesday regarding Friedman's performance, "He's smart, but he's not Jeopardy! smart!" (video follows with transcribed highlights and commentary):

UPDATE: Continued Presence of NYT's 'Wall Street Psychopaths' Op-ed Be

May 22nd, 2012 9:26 PM
Last night (at NewsBusters; at BizzyBlog), I noted the total inadequacy of a correction the New York Times made to a notorious William Deresiewicz op-ed ("Fables of Wealth") published on May 12. Deresiewicz originally claimed that "A recent study found that 10 percent of people who work on Wall Street are ‘clinical psychopaths’ … (The proportion at large is 1 percent.)." The study he cited was…

Smugfest: NYTimes Editor Tanenhaus, Joe Klein Tag-Team to Condescendin

May 22nd, 2012 2:49 PM
Not content with letting partisan liberal journalist Joe Klein review "radical Republican" Jonah Goldberg's new book The Tyranny of Clichés, the May 18 edition of the paper's Book Review podcast opened with book editor Sam Tanenahus talking with Klein about his hostile Times book review. Tanenhaus (pictured), author of a little screed called The Death of Conservatism that was discredited within…

NYTimes Assigns Condescending Hit Piece on Jonah Goldberg's 'Infantile

May 22nd, 2012 12:14 PM
Surprising no one, the New York Times handed its review of Jonah Goldberg's new book, The Tyranny of Clichés, to a political enemy, Time Magazine political columnist Joe Klein (pictured), which he did under the loaded headline "Hating Liberals." The paper similarly handed its review of Goldberg's previous book, 2007's Liberal Fascism, to unsympathetic history professor David Oshinsky. Klein…

NATO Protests Were Sign of Potential Occupy Strength for NYTimes...Unt

May 22nd, 2012 8:02 AM
The NATO summit meeting in Chicago this weekend was the target of a diverse collage of left-wing groups as people with the Occupy movement streamed into Chicago for protests that culminated in violent clashes with cops and 45 arrests on Sunday. Before the summit the Times reported the protest would be a sign of how strong Occupy remained. Yet once the violence and terrorism charges began flying…

Unacceptable: NYT's 'Correction' to Op-ed Writer's Incurably False 'Wa

May 22nd, 2012 12:58 AM
The New York Times apparently wants us to believe that it has done its journalistic duty by issuing a "correction," the text of which will follow the jump, to an especially odious May 12 op-ed ("Fables of Wealth") written by William Deresiewicz. The author, who describes himself as "An essayist, critic and the author of 'A Jane Austen Education,'" originally claimed, as quoted at the Media…

NYT's Shear Rips Drudge, Breitbart, Accuses GOP of Racial Attacks on R

May 21st, 2012 4:02 PM
Political reporter Michael Shear uses a half-baked Times "expose" to accuse the GOP of using racial attacks by bringing up the legitimate issue of the anti-white, anti-American, paranoid ravings of Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Obama's pastor for decades in Chicago, in Saturday's "Race and Religion Rear Their Heads." Perhaps the uglier side of politics is always close to the surface. President…

Krugman Falsely Claims Romney Wants to Enact Greece's Failed Economic

May 20th, 2012 7:30 PM
New York Times columnist Paul Krugman on Sunday continued his campaign to get Barack Obama reelected by misinforming the public about the economy. Appearing on CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS, the Nobel laureate falsely claimed Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney wants to enact Greece's failed economic policies here in America (video follows with transcript and commentary):

George Will and Laura Ingraham Slam NYT for Rev. Wright Romney Super P

May 20th, 2012 4:20 PM
The New York Times on Thursday published a front page piece about a Mitt Romney supporting Super PAC that allegedly considered bringing a lot of attention to Barack Obama's America-hating Reverend Jeremiah Wright. Conservatives George Will and Laura Ingraham both slammed the Times for this shoddy report on ABC's This Week Sunday with the former saying the truth "didn't fit their narrative"…

NYT’s Tom Friedman Bombs on ‘Jeopardy

May 19th, 2012 5:21 PM
Despite winning three Pulitzer Prizes, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman bombed on Jeopardy! Friday. By the end of the show, he had amassed a pitiful $1,000 placing him third behind CNN’s Anderson Cooper and NBC’s Kelly O’Donnell (video follows with transcribed highlights and commentary):