The Conservative Surge in Twitter Followers – The Elon Musk Effect?

May 10th, 2022 9:23 AM

In January, I wrote about a USA Today article centered around a New York University study that supposedly disproved the claim that social media platforms, like Twitter, discriminate against conservatives. USA Today said, “Despite repeated charges of anti-conservative bias from former President Donald Trump and other GOP critics, Facebook, Twitter and Google's YouTube are not…

With Roe Threatened, NYT Dumps 'Pregnant People' and Finds 'Women'

May 8th, 2022 6:45 PM

Linda Greenhouse reported on the Supreme Court for the New York Times for 30 years. Since then, she’s appeared in the paper on a regular basis giving her fiercely pro-choice opinions. So it’s no surprise she had a say about the shocking leak of a draft opinion that appears to overturn the Supreme Court’s Roe vs. Wade decision legalizing abortion nationwide. Sunday’s edition…

My Body, My Choice: Media Support for COVID Mandates Runs Against Roe

May 7th, 2022 4:00 PM

So the cries of anguish and anger from the American left goes up. The leaked opinion from the Supreme Court says there is a possibility the controversial 1973 Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion may, in fact, be overruled. And the angry shriek from all manner of left-leaning media is that leftist favorite cry: “My body my choice.” Well now. No one has done a better job of eviscerating…

Galling NYT on Roe Draft: ‘Concern Law Isn’t Justice’s Primary Guide'

May 6th, 2022 9:42 PM

The banner over the two lead Roe v. Wade stories in Thursday’s New York Times read: “Leak Intensifies View That Court Is Too Political.” The individual headline over the one by Shawn Hubler and Michael Wines confirmed: “A Concern That the Law Isn’t Justice’s Primary Guide.” Yes, after decades of cheering left-wing judicial activism on abortion, affirmative action, and gay…

NYT Wonders How Apartheid Misinformation Has Impacted Musk

May 6th, 2022 12:21 PM

The New York Times has a theory where Elon Musk’s belief in free speech comes from: his sheltered childhood as a white boy in Apartheid South Africa.

NY Times SCOTUS Scribe Sees Opinion Leak 'Blow to Court's Legitimacy'

May 5th, 2022 4:49 PM

Thus far, New York Times coverage of the Supreme Court bombshell -- a leaked opinion that would overturn the 1973 abortion ruling Roe v. Wade -- has been only slightly hysterical. But Adam Liptak’s front-page story, “Extraordinary Breach Delivers Blow to the Court’s Legitimacy” harped on the leak of a draft opinion as a blow to the Court’s legitimacy – before we know who…

NY Times Sees No Censorship of Conservatives on Twitter. What Laptop?

May 4th, 2022 10:20 PM

In the wake of Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter, New York Times reporter Jeremy Peters mocked conservatives for suggesting Twitter was biased against conservative ideas and posts: "Right-wing accounts were never purged from Twitter to the degree that the sometimes overblown commentary suggests, though some high-profile users have been temporarily suspended for violating standards…

NewsBusters Podcast: The New York Times Tucker Haters Want Him Fired

May 4th, 2022 10:00 PM

Why would the New York Times publish almost 20,000 words inveighing against "apocalyptic" Tucker Carlson and his "racist" show? Because they want to destroy his show on Fox. MSNBC is happy to help.

Column: The Unintentionally Hilarious Anti-Tucker Carlson Term Paper

May 4th, 2022 6:06 AM

On Sunday and Monday, the New York Times published almost 20,000 words of “investigative reporting” on the Tucker show, announcing they'd watched 1,150 episodes and chronicled all the guests and the messages and the monologues. This should be defined as “opposition research.”

Tucker vs NY Times, Round 2: ‘Nativist Tilt and Racial Scaremongering’

May 2nd, 2022 5:19 PM

In Part Two of the New York Times’ vast hit piece against Tucker Carlson’s Fox News show, “How Tucker Carlson Reshaped Fox News -- and Became Trump’s Heir,” which dominated Monday’s front page, reporter Nicholas Confessore claimed the host “had adopted increasingly catastrophic views of immigration and the country’s shifting demographics….Even among the generally right-of-…

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CBS Fawns Over Book From NYT Reporters, Skirts Dirt on Democrats

May 2nd, 2022 5:16 PM

As part of their weeks-long media tour promoting their book This Shall Not Pass, New York Times reporters Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns joined Monday’s CBS Mornings and, as predicted, almost the entirety of their eight-minute-plus segment was devoted to trashing the Republican Party and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) while all but ignoring attempts by the authors to…

NY Times Goes to War on Tucker: ‘Most Racist Show in History of Cable'

May 1st, 2022 10:30 PM

The New York Times is running a three-part expose of Fox News show host Tucker Carlson. sub-titled “American Nationalist,” delivered by a staggering ten-person research/reporting crew led by reporter and MSNBC contributor Nicholas Confessore, including an exhaustive analysis of 1150 episodes of Tucker Carlson Tonight. Confessore relied on anonymous sourcing and hostile…

NY Times Says Illegal Aliens Voting Is a 'Fake Threat' -- But Wait...

May 1st, 2022 8:19 AM

The front page of Friday’s New York Times carried a two-pronged attack on Republicans. Reporter Jazmine Ulloa accused the Republican of both lying and racism in “Republicans Devise Fake Threat To Election, by Way of the Border.” Voting by illegal immigrants is a "fake" charge, but the Times hates requiring proof of citizenship at the polls.

NYT: FL Under DeSantis:‘Rightward Lurch…Rigid Conservative Orthodoxy'

April 29th, 2022 10:03 PM

Another day, another hostile New York Times story about the star Republican governor of Florida (and potential 2024 presidential candidate) Ron DeSantis: “Rapidly Flexing Power, DeSantis Turns Florida Into a Lab for the Right,” Miami bureau chief Patricia Mazzei portrayed Florida as a hot-headed state throwing a conservative temper tantrum led by a attention-seeking governor :"Florida…