NYT Downplays Al Qaeda Use of Mentally Impaired Suicide Bombers

February 2nd, 2008 10:10 AM
Yesterday, NewsBusters' Kyle Drennan noted how CBS used the news of two coordinated and related suicide bombings in Baghdad to declare that "the new Baghdad feels a lot like the old Baghdad," and as a platform for a far-left guest to declare that "the surge isn't working."Drennan's first commenter noted the mentally impaired state of the women who blew themselves up -- something CBS "somehow"…

NY Times: We're Above the Law

February 1st, 2008 3:08 PM
The mainstream media seems to believe that they are above the law. they feel that anything that they do should be protected by law, no matter if they are engaging in actions that walk close to the line of treason. Today, Breitbart News is reporting that New York Times reporter James Risen, one of the two reporters who blew the whistle on the US government's use of overseas wire-tapping (a…

Depriving Hannity, Dobbs, Glenn Beck of Free Speech Rights? No Worries

February 1st, 2008 2:37 PM

Dan Gainor Appears on Fox Biz to Discuss Bad Biz at NYT

February 1st, 2008 9:43 AM
Business & Media Institute Director Dan Gainor appeared on the Fox Business Network January 31 to discuss reasons why The New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT) revenue numbers decreased recently - saying that its product is the problem. "People have lost confidence in the media according to most studies...Most Americans understand that the...mainstream media are overwhelmingly liberal,…

NYT's Tale of Two Withdrawals: Respecting Edwards, But Giuliani 'Livin

January 30th, 2008 2:43 PM

Meat Is Murder -- Or at Least Manslaughter -- at the NYT

January 29th, 2008 2:07 PM

Brian Wesbury in the WSJ: 'The Economy Is Fine (Really

January 28th, 2008 4:49 PM
I have referred to Mr. Wesbury's work frequently. That's because he has been, as he is today, a sober voice standing up to Old Media-driven economic hysteria with those stubborn things known as facts. Wesbury first caught my attention when he expressed alarm in late 2005 that 43% of the country thought we were in a recession -- not about to go into one, actually in one. That same poll metric…

Investors Continue Revolt Against NYT

January 28th, 2008 3:50 PM
Despite its best efforts, the New York Times Company continues to find itself plagued by wave after wave of investor complaints spurred on by the fact that the company's shares have fallen from near $50 to just under $16 since 2004.First it was Morgan Stanley's audacious attempt to end the Times's dual-class share system which enables the radical leftist Sulzberger family to continue running the…

NYT: Celebrating America's Decline, 'Waving Goodbye' To The U.S.A

January 28th, 2008 12:41 PM
Through the pessimistically, penumbrous pen of Parag Khanna, the New York Times has declared that the U.S.A. is finished. Yes, we have lost our "global hegemony" and we will find that by 2016, "America’s standing in the world remains in steady decline." Boy, it looks bad the for the good 'ol U.S. of A., as far as the Times is concerned. My guess is that the news of our demise is being greatly…

‘Meet the Press’ Panel Marvelously Takes on Clintons’ Race Baiti

January 27th, 2008 8:43 PM
As NewsBusters reported Sunday, the mainstream media in general have shied away from truly examining the racist campaign strategy recently being employed by the Clintons in their effort to defeat Barack Obama for the Democrat presidential nomination. One huge exception is NBC's "Meet the Press," which on Sunday, with the assistance of guests Maureen Dowd of the New York Times, Chuck Todd of NBC…

NYT: AZ Prop 300 'Frightening' Away Illegal Alien Students

January 27th, 2008 1:53 PM
The New York Times wants you to know that legislators in Arizona are mean to illegal immigrants trying to go to the state's schools on the cheap. The Times wants you to imagine that Arizona's new anti-illegal laws are oppressing those poor, illegal immigrant students that come into Arizona expecting to get all sorts of loans and financial breaks just because... well, just because they happen to…

NYT’s Frank Rich: The Clintons Kick Reporters Like Dogs

January 27th, 2008 11:38 AM
Well, sports fans, as the Clintons continue to disingenuously carp and whine that they're not being treated fairly by the media, more and more press members and outlets are striking back. On Sunday, the New York Times columnist Frank Rich jumped on the anti-Clinton bandwagon actually opining that the resurrection of Bill could help the Republicans retain the White House in November. In a piece…

Mickey Kaus Refutes Clinton's Obama-Jackson Comparison

January 27th, 2008 11:02 AM
In the wake of Hillary Clinton's 2-1 thrashing in South Carolina at the hands of the politician I typically refer to as BOOHOO (Barack O-bomba Overseas Hussein “Obambi” Obama), the spin from Mrs. Clinton's husband is that it has no more significance than Jesse Jackson's Palmetto State victories in 1984 and 1988.Kausfiles blogger Mickey Kaus shows that the claim doesn't stand up to scrutiny (links…

Liberals Hating on Hillary: 'Loathing Seems a Lot Less Irrational

January 26th, 2008 6:08 PM
On the east and west coasts today, two liberal columnists unleashed a torrent of vitriol at Hillary and Bill Clinton. At the Los Angeles Times, contributing editor Jonathan Chait [a past master of political hatred] asked Is the right right on the Clintons? Consider these blistering excerpts [emphasis added]:Something strange happened the other day. All these different people -- friends, co-…