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Here’s that New York Times article on Sarah Palin’s baby—and you’re going to be surprised, because far from the “exposé” that Drudge was trumpeting, it turns out to be ... a puff piece: Fusing Politics and Motherhood in New Way. No one has ever tried to combine presidential politics ...
Hang on to your hats. One of the headlines at Drudge Report: NYT PREPARES TO FRONT EXPOSE ON PALIN’S BABY... DEVELOPING...
Documentary filmmaker Errol Morris interviewed me a few weeks ago about the Iranian fauxtography incident, and today the interview and his excellent piece on the use of faked photos is in the New York Times: Photography as a Weapon - Errol Morris.
New York Times columnist Bob Herbert is seeing racist phallic symbols in John McCain’s campaign ads: Obamania Has Herbert Hallucinating. Beyond parody. Herbert says the McCain “Celeb” ad shows two phallic pieces of architecture: the Leaning Tower of Pisa, and the Washington Monument. But he didn’t even get that right. ...
LGF, Election 2008, John McCain, Advertisement, Politics, Barack Obama, New York Times, Herbert
From the Stunning Leap of Illogic Department, a post at the New York Times editorial board “blog” accuses the McCain campaign of running a racist advertisement—that “Celeb” ad featuring images of Paris Hilton and Britney Spears. I had to read this twice to try to understand the point, and I’m ...
LGF, New York Times, Barack Obama, Election 2008, Racism, Race Card
Another title for this one might be “Jawdropper of the Day.” At Drudge: NYT REJECTS MCCAIN’S EDITORIAL; SHOULD ‘MIRROR’ OBAMA Mon Jul 21 2008 12:00:25 ET An editorial written by Republican presidential hopeful McCain has been rejected by the NEW YORK TIMES — less than a week after the ...
New York Times “standards editor” Craig Whitney warns the staff not to let their true feelings show: The Times is No Place for ‘Funny, Bittersweet, or Just Bitter or Idiotic’ Political Bumper Stickers. On a recent road trip, I found numerous funny, bittersweet, or just bitter or idiotic political ...
They finally got around to it—but only after I redirected any hits from their page claiming credit to my post calling them out on it: In Image of Iran’s Power, There’s Less Than Meets the Eye. Little Green Footballs, a conservative blog, identified the altered image on Wednesday. Last ...
LGF, Iran, Nuclear Proliferation, Shahab 3 Missile, New York Times
The New York Times’ empty suit ombudsman Clark Hoyt grapples with the issue of whether the Times acted ethically, by deliberately “outing” the CIA operative who interrogated Khalid Shaikh Mohammed. Of course, Hoyt decides the Times is blameless. The Public Editor - Weighing the Risk - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com. Notice ...
Here’s another good piece by Bruce Bawer on the New York Times’ ongoing crusade to whitewash and sanitize the image of Islam: The Times, It Ain’t a-Changin’. Just imagine the world picture of somebody whose primary — or even (God forbid!) sole — source of news is the New ...
LGF, Islam, New York Times, Media Bias, Media Blindness, Vlaams Belang
Leave it to the New York Times (and the dishonest Barack Obama Fight the Smears web site) to try to pin the blame for the ludicrous Michelle Obama “whitey tape” rumor on “conservative blogs,” when the simple fact is that it was started by idiot liberal blogger Larry Johnson, who ...
Here’s a good post by Robert Spencer on the assault on free speech being led by Islamic front groups, delusional leftist government organizations, and the New York Times: Jihad Watch: New York Times isn’t sure that free speech is such a good idea. Previously at LGF: NY Times: Unlike Other, ...
LGF, New York Times, Media Bias, Jihad, Islam, Political Correctness, Militant Islam, State Department
The New York Times, scrupulously fair as always (cough), suggests that it might be time for the United States to reconsider this antiquated idea of “free speech” and join the rest of the world in prosecuting people like Mark Steyn: American Exception - Unlike Others, U.S. Defends Freedom to Offend ...
LGF, Mark Steyn, Islam, Canada, Human Rights, Free Speech, New York Times
What does it take to get the New York Times to publish an op-ed agreeing with the Bush administration? A disturbingly misguided effort to fight a real world problem with fantasy measures and empty words, of course. What Do You Call a Terror(Jihad)ist? - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com. While the ...
LGF, New York Times, Media Bias, Jihad, Islam, Political Correctness, Militant Islam, State Department
New York Times “blog” The Lede has a surprisingly even-handed (for them) article on the kaffiyeh controversy: Doughnuts: The Third Rail of American Politics? - The Lede - Breaking News - New York Times Blog. And yes, I’m still getting hate mail over this one. Who knew there were so ...
LGF, New York Times, Media Bias, Kaffiyeh, rachael ray, dunkin donuts
Well, at the New York Times “blog” The Lede, Mike Nizza has now added a link to LGF in his post about the Koran-shooting incident, after first mistaking another blog for mine: Reactions: Defusing a Koran Shooting in Iraq - The Lede - Breaking News - New York Times Blog. ...
LGF, New York Times, Media Bias, Militant Islam, Islamic Supremacism, Koran
In their quest to find showcase “moderate Muslims,” the New York Times strikes out again with an article that completely glosses over the radical opinions of their latest poster boy: Jihad Watch: New York Times presents Islamic supremacist as moderate non-zealot.
LGF, New York Times, Media Bias, Militant Islam, Islamic Supremacism
A New York Times article on young Iraqis who are sick to death of their medieval Islamic clerics has a classic Fark.com caption: After five years of seeing it close-up, the view of young Iraqis toward radical Islam is pretty much the same as the average poster on Little ...
CBS and the New York Times stacking polls in favor of Democrats? Say it ain’t so.
Lots of readers emailed about this New York Times article by anti-Israel reporter Steven Erlanger, because the headline is so ludicrously understated: In Gaza, Hamas’s Insults to Jews Complicate Peace. Insults that complicate peace: suicide bombings, rocket attacks, random murder, genocidal intent, indoctrination of children into a death cult. Those ...
LGF, Hamas, Gaza, Terrorism, Rockets, Militant Islam, New York Times
You know the New York Times screwed up when even their rubber-stamping “public editor” can’t co-sign: What That McCain Article Didn’t Say. The article was notable for what it did not say: It did not say what convinced the advisers that there was a romance. It did not make ...
New York Times executive editor Bill Keller has figured out why there was such a negative reaction to their sloppy hit piece on John McCain: their readers are dense. WASHINGTON - The embattled executive editor of the New York Times defended its John McCain story Friday with a novel ...
The New York Times editorial board just loves it when Western leaders apologize for actions for which they had no responsibility: Removing the Stain on Australias Soul.
This kind of blatantly biased garbage shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone any more, but the New York Times pulled off another one of their patented wool-over-the-eyes jobs this week, with a story about Guantanamo Bay co-written by a radical leftist British moonbat—unidentified, of course: Worthington Spins, Old Grey Hag ...
The New York Times’ Freakonomics “blog” is having a little contest: A Six-Word Motto for the U.S.? Imagine my surprise to find that out of almost 700 comments, the vast majority are competing for the most downbeat, defeatist, self-hating motto possible. It’s kind of amazing how much negativity can be ...