NY Times: Boy, Those 'Far Right' Texas Candidates Sure Are 'Hard-Line
February 15th, 2010 3:27 PM
A Monday New York Times story from Houston by Texas-based reporter James McKinley Jr., "Taking Texas Primary Even Further to the Right," focused on Texas gubernatorial candidate Debra Medina, whose reputation took a hit when she played coy in a radio interview with Glenn Beck on a question about 9-11. Medina responded with the thought that "the American people have not seen all the evidence there…
Brooks: 'What Biden Said on [MTP] Today Will be Laughed at Around the
February 14th, 2010 2:42 PM
New York Times columnist David Brooks says that what Vice President Joe Biden told NBC's David Gregory Sunday concerning the trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in New York City doesn't pass the laugh test."What Joe Biden said on ['Meet the Press'] today will be laughed at around the Arab world."Maybe even more shocking, speaking during the panel discussion segment that followed Biden's interview,…
Name That Congressman: AP Coverage of Ala. Prof's Prior Killing Ignore
February 14th, 2010 11:22 AM
UPDATE, 6:15 P.M.: An unbylined 11:57 a.m. AP report (i.e., 54 minutes after the time stamp of the original post at BizzyBlog) contains two paragraphs about Delahunt's involvement. Based on a search on Delahunt's last name at about 6:15 p.m., this version of AP's report is either still not at its main site, or has not been indexed by its search engine.Democratic Congressman Bill Delahunt's far…
NYT Shows Obama's Favorability, Approval Plummeting, Yet Stresses 'Edg
February 12th, 2010 3:32 PM
Give the New York Times points for nerve, anyway. Chief political reporter Adam Nagourney managed to take the paper's new poll, full of bad news for President Obama and Democrats, and to change the subject, twisting the findings to suggest that Republicans were the party in trouble, in Friday's front page story: “Obama Fares Better in Poll Than G.O.P." The online headline is similar: "Obama Has…
Lowered Bar: Obama's 95K/Month Jobs Promise Would Trail Other Recoveri
February 12th, 2010 12:35 PM
Press reports about the prediction by President Obama's Council of Economic Advisers that the economy would add an average of 95,000 jobs per month during calendar 2010 weren't exactly overflowing with praise, but were lacking in something one would have expected: historical context. Philip Elliott's Associated Press report provided none. Sewell Chan's New York Times coverage at least pointed…
Blizzard of Lies: Debunking The Warm-Air-Holds-More-Moisture Defense
February 12th, 2010 7:21 AM
Update: Rush cites this article to rip global warmist hypocrisy. On today's show, Rush Limbaugh cited NewsBusters and read from this article to demonstrate the global warmists' hypocrisy: "when there is less snow, they say it's because of global warming. When there is more snow, they say it's because of global warming. Now you cannot have it both ways." Rush played several clips of Dem…
NYT's Anti-Welfare Reform Reporter Takes 2nd Victory Lap: Food Stamp
February 11th, 2010 2:25 PM
Veteran New York Times welfare-beat reporter Jason DeParle took yet another victory lap in his Thursday story on how food stamps are losing their stigma in a piece co-written with Robert Gebeloff: "Once Stigmatized, Food Stamps Find Acceptance." These same two reporters wrote a national version of the same story with virtually the same headline less than three months ago, which appeared on the…
Think Tanks Do Journalism: Obama Admin's 'Budget Baseline' Incorporate
February 11th, 2010 12:28 PM
Two think tanks, the Tax Policy Center and the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB), have done something the New York Times, the Associated Press, and other supposed leading lights of establishment media journalism should have done days ago. As described in a Wall Street Journal editorial today, those two organizations have caught the Obama administration playing with the federal…
NYT Pits McCain Against 'Far Right' J.D. Hayworth, Denouncer of Illega
February 10th, 2010 5:39 PM
New York Times reporter Jennifer Steinhauer, previously heard insulting California voters for failing to vote for tax hikes, ventured over the border on Tuesday's front page to cover a Republican primary scuffle in Arizona involving Sen. John McCain being challenged from the right by former congressman J.D. Hayworth: “McCain, Facing G.O.P. Foe in Primary, Tilts to the Right.” The online headline…
NY Times Plays Up John Murtha's Anti-War Turn in Obit, Omits Smear of
February 9th, 2010 1:46 PM
John Murtha, who represented the 12th district of Pennsylvania for 35 years, died Monday. David Stout's obituary in Tuesday's edition of the New York Times, "Representative John P. Murtha Dies at 77; Ex-Marine Was Iraq War Critic," focused on Murtha's influential anti-war turn and "history of hawkishness," but omitted Murtha's smear of the military -- his preemptory claim that Marines in the town…
Media Liberals Paint Conservatives as 'Birthers', But First Birthers W
February 9th, 2010 11:10 AM
Here's something you won't hear from the liberal media: that whole "birther" conspiracy movement? Yeah, that was started by a couple of Democrats, and neither is named Orly Taitz.Their names, in fact, are Linda Starr and Philip Berg, according to John Avalon, author of the new book "Wingnuts: How the Lunatic Fringe is Hijacking America" (just to clarify, he singles out "wingnuts" on both sides of…
Surprise: NYT's Kate Zernike Turns Out Fair Story on Tea Party Convent
February 8th, 2010 6:03 PM
New York Times reporter Kate Zernike's coverage of the first National Tea Party Convention in Nashville made Sunday's front page: “At Tea Party Meeting, Looking to Forge a Full-Fledged Movement.”Zernike is best known to NYT bias hunters for her last-helicopter-out-of-Saigon defense of 2004 Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry against a group of fellow Vietnam veterans who questioned his…
Liberal Condescension Evident in Tea Party Coverage
February 8th, 2010 5:13 PM
Since Tea Party protests became an influential movement on the national scene last year, the left in general and the liberal media in particular have tried (unsuccessfully) to render it irrelevant in the eyes of the American people. By throwing around accusations of racism and dire warnings of impending violence, these pundits have tried, unsuccessfully to undermine the movement.University of…
Sarah Palin's Media Strategy Proves Instructive for Right
February 7th, 2010 2:25 PM
Whatever your feelings about Sarah Palin or her politics, she literally represents the future of conservative messaging. She has shown the nation that a public figure who is absolutely reviled by the mainstream media can not only make a splash, but can dominate the public stage and attract the eyes and ears of the nation in ways almost no other figure can.For the conservative movement, Palin…