Joyless Potpourri: Reid Mangles Facts, Attacks McEnany, Trashes Cotton

November 19th, 2020 10:51 PM

A day before she accused Trump’s legal team of engaging in “sedition,” MSNBC’s ReidOut host Joy Reid managed on Wednesday to mangle an on-air correction (after being called out by NewsBusters), shout down a Black ex-Trump aide, smear White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany, and imply criticism of Susan Rice was racist.

Woke NYT Cowards Embarrassed in NYMag: ‘Twitter Is Editing This Bitch'

November 10th, 2020 10:30 AM

“Times Change -- In the Trump years, the New York Times became less dispassionate and more crusading, sparking a raw debate over the paper’s future.” That was the provocative headlines over an embarrassing expose by New York magazine contributing editor Reeves Wiedeman, posted on the magazine’s website Monday. The paper is doing very well in the Trump era; subscriptions rose from 3…

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Tom Cotton Slam Dunks CNBC Host Over Hunter Biden Laptop Story

October 25th, 2020 6:26 PM

On Friday's Squawk Box, Senator Tom Cotton stunned Andrew Ross Sorkin into momentary speechlessness with his reply to a question about the media suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story.

FINALLY! DOJ Files Antitrust Suit Against Google

October 20th, 2020 1:43 PM

The heat has steadily risen for Big Tech over the last few years, and it appears, at least for Google, that the hot water has reached a boiling point. Google’s day of reckoning may finally be upon us. The Department of Justice (DOJ) has filed its long-anticipated antitrust lawsuit against Google in the Washington D.C District Court on Tuesday, following more than a year of investigations.

MSNBC’s Idea of a ‘Reality Check?’ Get an Obama Official Fact Checker

August 28th, 2020 6:39 PM

Over four nights, MSNBC trashed the Republican National Convention as a “repugnant” “crime” and repeatedly censored the speakers, skipping several speeches. But the whole hypocrisy and ridiculousness of the cable channel’s coverage might be distilled down to one moment. On Thursday night, convention speaker Tom Cotton hammered Joe Biden, saying things like this:

Union at NY Times Demands ‘Sensitivity Reads’ to Censor Content

August 5th, 2020 10:35 AM

The Tom Cotton controversy never dies at The New York Times. The News Guild of New York, which represents more than 1,200 workers at the Times, called for a meeting with Times leaders and demanded what they call "sensitivity reads" to provide an “extra layer of vetting” to make the newspaper “more diverse and equitable.” In Cotton's case, that would have meant killing the law…

Tom Cotton Rips NY Times for Running China Prof's Op-Ed Slamming USA

July 24th, 2020 11:07 AM

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) ripped The New York Times on Wednesday after they published on op-ed from a Chinese scientist trashing the American response to the coronavirus. "Explicit Chinese propaganda: No problem," he tweeted. "Op-ed from a Republican Senator supported by most Americans: Fire the editor!" 

NY Times's Radical New Advice Columnist Smears Vet Cotton as 'Fascist'

June 16th, 2020 10:25 AM

Liberal feminist Roxane Gay has a new gig at the New York Times as the paper’s “Work Friend” work-advice columnist, and she used a fascinating query to launch her latest column, “Taking a Stand Against an Employer.” Twist: That "employer" happens to be the New York Times itself. An (anonymous) employee of the paper was appalled by the paper’s publication of an op-ed by…

NY Times’ Douthat Eviscerates Own Paper Over Cotton Meltdown

June 14th, 2020 7:23 PM

The New York Times right-leaning columnist Ross Douthat used his perch for a long piece about the paper’s recent ideological meltdown over an op-ed from a Republican senator: “The Tom Cotton Op-Ed and the Cultural Revolution -- How liberalism, and the liberal media, are changing before our eyes.” He kills the Times with kindness.

The Cultural Revolution in American Journalism

June 13th, 2020 4:00 PM

Over there at the History Channel is this short history of China’s “Cultural revolution” back there in 1966. It was, but of course, the brainchild of China’s Communist founder and leader Mao Zedong.  Here is a bit of the description, with bold print for emphasis supplied: "“The Cultural Revolution was launched in China in 1966 by Communist leader Mao Zedong in order to reassert his authority…

NY Times: Boycott Your Relatives Until they Get Woke, Donate Money

June 9th, 2020 11:51 AM

Liberal Democrats consider themselves experts on everything, and they don’t mind sharing their "wisdom" with all the people they consider less than brilliant. One example of this concept is the New York Times newspaper, where reporters and columnists tell the rest of us how to handle even the most mundane tasks, especially after the COVID-19 pandemic and the nationwide protests.

They Have a Scalp: NYT Editor Bows to Mob, Resigns Over Cotton Op-Ed

June 7th, 2020 10:26 PM

In the latest blow to free speech, outside criticism, and exposure to opposing views, the woke, snowflake-laden New York Times and Philadelphia Inquirer newsrooms forced the resignations Sunday afternoon of opinion editor James Bennet and executive editor Stan Wischnowski, respectively.

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NYT Writer: Treating ‘Rogue’ GOP Fairly ‘Doesn’t Actually Work’

June 7th, 2020 4:47 PM

Journalism is dead. That fact was made abundantly clear by New York Times staff writer and founder of the factually-inaccurate 1619 Project, Nikole Hannah-Jones in an appearance on the CNN’s so-called “Reliable Sources” Sunday, where she argued that the media couldn’t legitimately treat the Republican Party fairly because they were a “rogue” organization and being fair would…

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Meyers Trashes NYT for Running Cotton's 'Chilling,' 'Fascist' Op-Ed

June 5th, 2020 8:33 PM

On Friday’s edition of Late Night, host Seth Meyers trashed Senator Tom Cotton's op-ed in The New York Times calling for President Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act in an effort to put a stop to the looting and rioting that has engulfed major cities. In addition, Meyers repeatedly argued that the United States has become an “authoritarian regime.”