NYT's Hulse Accuses Rep. of 'Disrespect' for Obama, Skips Own 2005 Rep
September 10th, 2009 1:27 PM
Covering President Obama's health care address to Congress, congressional reporter Carl Hulse filed a full story on the outburst by Republican Rep. Joe Wilson of South Carolina, "In Lawmaker's Outburst, a Rare Breach of Protocol." Yet Hulse managed to ignore his own reporting from Bush's 2005 State of the Union Address to suggest the GOP had been uniquely disrespectful to President Obama.…
NYT Editor Offers Tepid Excuses for Lack of Van Jones Coverage
September 9th, 2009 3:06 PM
A top editor at the New York Times this week owned up to the paper’s lack of coverage of the controversy surrounding former Green Jobs Czar Van Jones. Rather than leaving it there, however, the editor noted the paper’s minimal online coverage, insisted that the Washington bureau was short-staffed, and suggested that Jones and his contentious positions really were not important enough to cover at…
Today's Push for ObamaCare Matches Media Spin for HillaryCare in 1990s
September 9th, 2009 12:27 PM
As President Obama prepares to deliver his 29th speech on health care, this time before a joint session of Congress, it recalls Bill Clinton’s September 22, 1993 speech to Congress on the same topic. Back then, media liberals hit some of the exact same points journalists are making today: “reform” would end the “shame” of America being the only industrialized nation without universal coverage;…
NYT: August Recess Didn't Greatly Alter Opinion on ObamaCare
September 9th, 2009 11:28 AM
Have you ever wondered what planet liberal media members live on?Before you answer, consider the following astonishing quote from a New York Times article published Tuesday:While the month of August clearly knocked the White House back on its heels, as Congressional town hall-style meetings exposed Americans’ unease with an overhaul, the uproar does not seem to have greatly altered public opinion…
Palin Sticks to Her Guns in WSJ Op-Ed -- Says ObamaCare Would Give Gov
September 9th, 2009 7:48 AM
She's been ridiculed by the so-called masters of the universe in the mainstream media for warning President Barack Obama's health care proposals could result in one of one of her loved ones having to stand in front of one of "Obama's death panels" to determine their "level of productivity in society" to see if they are worthy of health care. But despite the criticism, she's not backing down from…
Van Jones: On the 9/11 Attacks, Not Just a 'Truther,' But Also a 'Dese
September 7th, 2009 11:49 PM
The "resignation" shortly after midnight on Sunday morning of President Obama's "green jobs czar" Van Jones has generally been seen as a convenient holiday weekend move. By Friday, after White House Secretary Robert Gibbs would only say that he still was a part of the administration, it was obvious that Jones's resignation was only a matter of time. The 9/11 truther and other evidence…
To NY Times Editor Tanenhaus: Obama 'Centrist, Explicitly Nonideologic
September 7th, 2009 6:24 PM
Catching up with a great catch in last week's Weekly Standard “Scrapbook” section, the September 7 issue highlighted an example of how it takes a worldview that sees liberals like Barack Obama as “consensus”-oriented/“explicitly nonideological” centrists -- and Republicans as “ideologically committed” conservatives -- to work at the New York Times. Sam Tanenhaus, editor of the newspaper's Book…
Media Spin Abounds Over Last Friday's Employment Report
September 7th, 2009 12:43 AM
On Friday, Uncle Sam's Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the nation's unemployment rate rose to a seasonally adjusted 9.7% in August, and that the economy lost another 216,000 seasonally adjusted jobs. In various ways, the press tried to put a happy face on the news and otherwise tried to minimize its impact. It also continued, as it has for years, to ignore what really happened on the…
NYT: Democrats Should Pass ObamaCare With No GOP Support
September 6th, 2009 4:51 PM
Candidate Barack Obama promised a new era of bipartisanship in Washington if Americans put him in the White House.Less than eight months after Inauguration Day, the New York Times has advised the President to ignore such idealism and ram through Congress a widely unpopular healthcare reform package without the support of even one Republican.Irrespective of the dangerous precedent and the long-…
NY Times Finally Picks Up Van Jones Story -- After He Resigns
September 6th, 2009 10:41 AM
Van Jones, Obama environmental adviser and "green jobs" czar, resigned late Saturday night, the culmination of days of controversy (ignored by the mainstream media) after the Gateway Pundit blog dug up evidence of Van Jones being a "Truther." He signed a 911Truth.org petition in 2004 questioning whether the Bush administration "may indeed have deliberately allowed 9/11 to happen." And the New…
Teenage Unemployment Rate at Record High: NYT Blog Post Commenters Exp
September 5th, 2009 11:03 PM
(image found at townnews.com) Yesterday's Employment Situation Report from Uncle Sam's Bureau of Labor Statistics had lots of dismal news. One of the bigger disappointments, but sadly not one of the bigger surprises, is that the teenage unemployment rate reached an all-time seasonally adjusted high of 25.5%. People who know even a little bit about economics should understand why, but an oddly…
Media's Coverage of 'Birthers' Greatly Outweighs Van Jones Coverage
September 5th, 2009 12:12 PM
The contrast between the virtual silence of major news outlets on Green Jobs Czar Van Jones’s belief in the Bush Administration’s complicity in the 9/11 attacks and the hubbub made about those who believe the President is not an American citizen casts light on the politicized attitudes of the mainstream media. NewsBusters has noted how the story has been ignored by the television media. Byron…