NY Times Accuses Giuliani of 'Incendiary' Comments on Crime, Flips Rac
October 19th, 2009 6:59 PM
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani was out campaigning this weekend with current NYC mayor Michael Bloomberg, who is running for a third term. The New York Times loathed Giuliani's 2008 presidential campaign, and has run several revisionist articles suggesting his mayoralty, during which the city's crime rate plunged, was ridden with racial demagoguery and racist police brutality.Monday…
Anita Dunn and Mao: Establishment Press Predictably Mostly Muzzled
October 18th, 2009 4:08 PM
This won't surprise anyone who reads this blog regularly, but it needs to get on the record nonetheless: The airing of a June video showing interim White House Communications Director Anita Dunn praising Mao and Mother Teresa as "two of my favorite philosophers" to a group of high school students is barely news in the establishment press. In an August 2008 report on the Obama campaign, Anne E.…
Disparate Coverage in NYT: Kevin Jennings vs. Catholic Priest
October 18th, 2009 1:57 PM
(HT: Catholic League.)Consider the following two stories. Pay attention. There will be a quiz.1. The Obama administration has appointed Kevin Jennings as a "czar" inside the Department of Education. In addition to being the founder of a group called the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), Jennings once wrote a foreword to a book called Queering Elementary Education. In that…
New York Times Declares Fox News Winner in Fight With Obama
October 17th, 2009 11:44 PM
Here's something virtually every American likely thought they'd never see: the New York Times declaring Fox News the winner in a fight with Barack Obama.Yet, that's what David Carr declared in "The Battle Between the White House and Fox News." In his piece published at the Times website Saturday evening, Carr almost seemed disgusted with all the attention the White House is giving to a cable…
CBS’s Couric Finally Notices Obama’s $1.4 Trillion Deficit
October 17th, 2009 3:15 PM
Back on October 7, when the Congressional Budget Office reported that the federal deficit had ballooned to a massive $1.4 trillion during President Obama’s first year on the job, Katie Couric’s CBS Evening News did not tell viewers. But Couric finally caught up to the bad news after the Obama White House put out its final numbers on Friday afternoon.Couric disclosed the news in a brief item that…
Media Stepping Up Attacks On Conservative Republicans
October 17th, 2009 1:45 PM
On Friday, NewsBusters reported the recent piece in the Wall Street Journal that lambasted TEA party protestors for demanding conservative Republicans to run in 2010. An article from the NY Times on October 15 echoed that sentiment, claiming that opposition to ObamaCare was "demanded" by the "narrowed conservative base." You see, Republicans don't oppose President Obama's agenda because they…
NY Times Fears 'Raw...Fearsome,' 'Unchecked Fervor' of Campus Protest
October 16th, 2009 12:59 PM
New York Times reporter Michael Brick went to College Station, Texas, to preview a college visit by Barack Obama today commemorating the 20th anniversary of the first President Bush's "Points of Light" volunteer organization. In the condescending "At A&M, a Dance of Decorum for Obama Visit," Brick posed fears that campus conservative activists at Texas A&M might embarrass themselves and…
The Nation's Climate Change Solution: 'Make the Recession Worse
October 16th, 2009 12:41 PM
A lefty magazine editor has come up with a list of brilliant solutions to the planet's purported climate change problem: make the recession worse, make goods more expensive, and restrict all intercontinental travel to blimps.So said Emily Douglas, web editor for The Nation, who, when asked Wednesday how we could "reverse our culture of consumerism," replied immediately "make the recession worse…
CBS Warns: Thinning Arctic Ice May ‘Speed Up’ Global Warming
October 15th, 2009 5:53 PM
On Thursday’s CBS Early Show, correspondent Elizabeth Palmer proclaimed: “Climate scientists say the ice has helped keep the planet cool by reflecting the Sun’s rays. Once it’s largely gone, though, the sea will absorb heat more rapidly and global warming will speed up.” However, an October 6 New York Times article declared: “Over the Summer, a Spread of Thicker Arctic Ice.” Co-host Russ…
Maureen Dowd Attacks Dick, Liz, Mary (Cheney), Palin and Limbaugh
October 15th, 2009 10:45 AM
New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd must have woken up on the far-left side of the bed Tuesday given the number of prominent conservatives she chose to abuse in her article published Wednesday.In "Daisy Chain of Cheneys", Dowd went after former Vice President Dick Cheney, his two daughters Liz and Mary, former Alaska governor Sarah Palin, former Vice President Dan Quayle, Rush Limbaugh, the…
NYT Blog Says PWC's Study Is 'Industry Report,' While It Omits Dem Ped
October 13th, 2009 9:52 AM
Let's see. A Big 4 independent public accounting firm vs. the Democratic Party's go-to health care economics guy. Who has more presumptive credibility? It's more than a little offensive to see the people whose party gave us entitlement programs with multitrillion-dollar unfunded liabilities (Social Security and Medicare), pension plans that are completely unsustainable (the federal government…
Gay-Friendly Protest Coverage of NY Times in Sharp Contrast to Sour
October 12th, 2009 4:51 PM
Sunday's gay rights rally on Capitol Hill garnered a positive story on the first page of Monday's New York Times National section by reporter Jeremy Peters, "New Generation of Gay Rights Advocates March to Put Pressure on the President." Peters claimed that "tens of thousands" had gathered on the West Lawn of the Capitol Sunday to prod Barack Obama to move more aggressively to promote greater…
NY Times: Fox Biz Flirting with CNN’s Lou Dobbs
October 12th, 2009 12:29 PM
Is Fox News Channel president Roger Ailes about to score another big name personality for his fledgling off-spin business channel? According to The New York Times television and digital media reporter Brian Stelter, News Corp's (NASDAQ:NWS) Fox Business Network is considering adding CNN "Lou Dobbs Tonight" host Lou Dobbs to its lineup. "The business channel is also keen on another administration…