NY Times Hints Racism a Factor in Democrat Ford's Failure in TN Senate
November 8th, 2006 12:21 PM
Like Chris Matthews last night, The Times seems to be bitter about not having everything go the Democrats' way last night, putting its usual racism spin on one of the GOP's few bright spots -- Bob Corker's win over Harold Ford Jr. in the race for Senate in Tennessee.Adam Nossiter's "Republican Hangs on to Frist's Senate Seat" opens: "Tennessee's open Senate seat stayed in Republican hands on…
CNN, NYT: 'Robo-Call' Campaign Phone Strategy Only a GOP Problem
November 7th, 2006 10:45 AM
Have you heard the brouhaha about so-called “robo-calls”? These are repeat telephone calls by a telemarketing software program that critics claim violate federal communications laws. As you might imagine, the media have been wrongly depicting this as exclusively being a Republican strategy, while ignoring the Democrat campaigns that are doing exactly the same thing.The New York Times published…
New York Times Downplays Democrat Success on Election Day
November 7th, 2006 1:12 AM
What a difference a week makes – along with a huge gaffe by a former presidential candidate, and some unexpected changes in polling results. The New York Times has published an Election Day article entitled “For Democrats, Even a Gain May Feel Like a Failure” (hat tip to AJ Strata) that dramatically lowered the bar of expectations for the Party of Pelosi and Reid. The piece by Adam Nagourney…
New York Times Covers GOP Ads Focusing Negatively on Nancy Pelosi
November 5th, 2006 12:48 PM
This Thursday New York Times article slipped under the radar until Howard Kurtz referred to it Sunday morning on CNN’s “Reliable Sources.” Thanks for the hat tip, Howard. Anyway, it was rather shocking – even though it was buried on page A22 – to see a headline like “G.O.P. Ads Star Democratic Leader” at the Times. Even more amazing were the opening paragraphs (links to four of these ads follow):…
'Dowd' Jones Hits New Low: Cheney-Rumsfeld Like Haggard-Hooker
November 4th, 2006 9:56 AM
Karmic balance? The Dow Jones hits a new high. The 'Dowd' Jones hits a new low. In her pay-to-read column this morning, Maureen Dowd of the New York Times analogizes the relationship of Vice-President Cheney and Defense Secretary Rumsfeld to that of preacher Ted Haggard and a male prostitute.Setting the titillating tone with her headline, "A Wartime Love Story", Dowd writes:At the heart of…
NYT: Saddam Was a Year Away From Atomic Bomb
November 3rd, 2006 1:55 AM
In a story apparently designed to attack the Bush administration less than a week away from the midterm elections, the New York Times has instead delivered a stunning November Surprise to the Democrats: Saddam Hussein's regime was perhaps only a year away from developing nuclear weapons at the time of the US invasion.
Hume Marvels at How Papers Buried Kerry Story, Cites ABC Quote Highlig
November 1st, 2006 7:54 PM
“The John Kerry flap may have been the major political story yesterday, and even today,” Brit Hume accurately noted in his Wednesday “Grapevine” segment since, indeed, the ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts led with it both Tuesday and Wednesday night. But he observed, “you might not have known that from the newspaper coverage. Not a single front-page headline in the New York Times, Washington…