Flashback: Media Exploited Giffords’ Shooting to Slime Conservatives

November 5th, 2022 12:30 PM

An exceptionally repulsive feature of journalism these days is when media figures use tragedies to smear their political adversaries as dangerous threats. That’s clearly happening now, and it happened in 2011, when irresponsible journalists wrongly blamed the conservative Tea Party for inciting the shooting of Rep. Gabby Giffords and murder of six other citizens.

NYT Tries to Dismiss Rising Crime: BUT It Was Worse in the '90s!

November 4th, 2022 9:29 PM

The front page of Friday’s New York Times admitted voters were worried about crime, which may bode well for Republicans in Tuesday’s elections – but the reporters also did their best to chip away at that argument in “Fear of Crime Looms Large for Voters, to Republicans’ Advantage.” After anecdotes from three crime-concerned voters spread across the country, the Times worked…

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‘$126 Million’: New York Times Finally Crowns Soros ‘Largest Donor’

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November 4th, 2022 5:37 PM

Why do conservatives care about liberal billionaire George Soros’ outsized influence in politics? Surprisingly, The New York Times just revealed at least 126 million reasons why Soros — the “largest donor of 2022” — is a big player in the Nov. 8 midterm elections.

NYT’s Deluded Social-Media Censor Frets Musk Twitter on Side of Thugs

November 2nd, 2022 6:50 PM

New York Times technology reporter Kevin Roose, who consistently uses his column to nudge social media enterprises toward anti-conservative censorship, had a leftist take on entrepreneur and free-speech advocate Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter, in Sunday’s edition: “Pivot for Twitter: The ‘People’s Tool’ Has Now Become a Mogul’s Toy.” The online headline was even more hostile,…

NYT Front Weeps Over GOP Campaign to ‘Demonize and Dehumanize’ Pelosi

November 2nd, 2022 11:11 AM

The shocking attack at the San Francisco home of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi gave The New York Times all the excuse it needed to blame violent Republican rhetoric. Reporter Catie Edmondson launched the blame game in Sunday’s edition with “Pelosi Attack Highlights Increasing Fears of Violence Incited by Politics,” blaming not the deluded home invader himself, but some mean…

WashPost's Wemple Atones for Not Condemning Cowardly, Woke NY Times

October 31st, 2022 2:49 PM

Erik Wemple, media critic at the Washington Post, issued a fascinating and revealing mea culpa on October 27, regarding the disgraceful firing in the summer of 2020 of former New York Times editorial page editor James Bennet, after Bennet ran an op-ed by Republican Sen. Tom Cotton that suggested sending in troops to quell the rioting stemming from Black Lives Matter…

NY Times: ‘Democrats Say Racism Is the Real Messaging' in GOP Ads

October 29th, 2022 7:54 PM

New York Times congressional correspondent Jonathan Weisman injected charges of racism into the 2022 campaign’s late stages under a partisan headline: “Democrats Say Racism Is the Real Messaging in Republican Crime Ads.” Weisman predicably launched by portraying Republican crime concerns as a cynical “seize” of an issue before quickly inserting race.

At DeSantis Debate, NY Times Falsely Cries 'False...Misleading Claims'

October 28th, 2022 9:47 PM

New York Times reporters Patricia Mazzei and Maggie Astor reported on Monday evening’s one and only debate in the Florida governor’s race, pitting sitting Republican Ron DeSantis against Democrat and former state governor Charlie Crist. But under the guise of fighting misinformation on abortion and transgender issues by Ron DeSantis, the reporters spread their own: "....asked whether…

NYT Can't Applaud UK's Historic Hindu PM: 'Extreme Wealth...Privilege'

October 27th, 2022 11:41 AM

The snotty headline on the front page of Tuesday’s New York Times, “Sunak’s Ascent Is a Breakthrough for Diversity, With Privilege,” proves conservatives will never pass the media’s lopsided diversity tests. Even when the UK Conservative Party makes history with Rishi Sunak, the first Hindu and first “person of color” to rise to Prime Minister, instead of indulging in the…

Soros Gave $17.6M to Group Pushing Big Tech to Censor Election Disinfo

Business
October 27th, 2022 10:21 AM

Another group heavily financed by liberal billionaire George Soros is joining a growing network of organizations he funds calling on Big Tech to do more to censor so-called election “disinformation” before the midterms.

NYT Fawns Over ‘Tax Me Now’ Heiress: 'Dream Scenario Is I Get Taxed'

October 26th, 2022 9:44 PM

The New York Times fawned over a wealthy “tax me please” European heiress in “This Heir to a Fortune Wants It Taken Away for Fairness’ Sake.” Emma Bubola’s loving “Saturday profile” piece bubbled over with a strong undercurrent of sympathy for guilt-ridden leftist economics: "By the time her extraordinarily wealthy grandmother died last month, Marlene Engelhorn already knew who she…

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Column: What Border Crisis? What Biden Fiasco?

October 26th, 2022 5:56 AM

New York Times podcast host Michael Barbaro proclaimed -- to among others, listeners on almost 300 NPR stations -- that Republicans were elevating crime and illegal immigration as issue that are "manufactured crises," that the hype doesn't "actually conform to reality."

NY Times Front Page Excoriates GOP’s ‘Incendiary…Devil Terms’ Language

October 25th, 2022 11:34 PM

An elaborately presented New York Times Sunday front-page story introduced the paper’s study condemning the “devil” language of Republican politicians, under the surprisingly moralistic headline “For Trump’s Backers in Congress, ‘Devil Terms’ Help Rally Voters,” brought to you by “investigative reporters” Jennifer Valentino-DeVries and Steve Eder. Once again “election deniers” are in…

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NYT Essay Says ‘History May Absolve’ Van Gogh Climate ‘Soup Throwers’

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October 25th, 2022 1:14 PM

The New York Times published a garbage essay by a radical environmentalist defending young climate fanatics for throwing “soup” on a world-famous Vincent van Gogh painting, calling it an example of “creative methods” to stop fossil fuel production.