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Andrew Breitbart vindicated on Pigford after years of attacks from Media Matters and others

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Posted by    Friday, April 26, 2013 at 12:30pm

After two and a half years, it seems Andrew Breitbart has finally been vindicated for his tireless efforts on the Pigford story.

A front page investigative piece from the New York Times has put Pigford back on the map, in a big way: Federal Spigot Flows as Farmers Claim Discrimination.

The deal, several...

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RIP Amos Shuchman: “Loved everything about NYC, except the New York Times”

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Posted by    Tuesday, February 26, 2013 at 9:30am

Obituary for Amos Shuchman, whose family paid for it to be run in The New York Times (emphasis mine, h/t CAMERA):

SHUCHMAN–Amos, of New York, on February 1, 2013. Beloved and caring husband of Alice Shuchman for 51 years, father of Daniel (Lori Lesser) and Nina (Brian Roth), grandfather of Jacob, Sarah,...

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NY Times Jim Rutenberg uses blowtorch against Free Beacon while defending Think Progress

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Posted by    Sunday, February 24, 2013 at 9:38pm

Michael Goldfarb declined to be interviewed “in person” for the article about him being written by Jim Rutenberg of The New York Times.

There’s no sense in cooperating with people who are out to get you, and Rutenberg was out to get Goldfarb.  When the NY Times profiles a conservative in general,...

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It’s impossible to guess where The New York Times now finds racism

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Posted by    Friday, February 22, 2013 at 9:35am

Wow.  Just…wow:

For decades, hundreds of college players have gathered each year at the N.F.L.’s scouting combine, where their strength is tested, their speed is timed and, in a test to measure their intelligence, they are asked questions like “When a rope is selling 20 cents per 2 feet, how many feet...

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NY Times digital trolling

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Posted by    Thursday, February 14, 2013 at 9:22am

The New York Times has an interesting article in this Sunday’s magazine, Can the Republicans be Saved From Obsolescence?

There is much to learn from the article about how much more open Democrats are to the digital era, how insular Republican leadership is, and how Obama won the war the Romney campaign...

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Hey China, only we can attack The NY Times

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Posted by    Thursday, January 31, 2013 at 6:45pm

There are Times that we need to stick up for The NY Times.

Whatever we have said about The Times, we don’t regret.

But we stand with The Times when it gets hacked by China:

For the last four months, Chinese hackers have persistently attacked The New York Times, infiltrating its computer systems and...

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This week in anti-Israel lawfare

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Posted by    Thursday, January 31, 2013 at 11:41am

David Gerstman a/k/a SoccerDad has a Mideast Media Sampler he circulates by email which is very informative and used by many bloggers.

With his permission, I’m posting today’s sampler about the anti-Israel lawfare being conducted by the U.N. Human Rights Council cheered on by The New York Times and law professor George Bisharat (who has been discussed here before, see...

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Reporting on incitement against Israel and Jews rarely is fit to print at The NY Times

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Posted by    Wednesday, January 23, 2013 at 11:50am

Gilead Ini of Camera writes how The NY Times finally reporting on anti-Semitic and anti-Israel incitement by Egyptian President Morsi stands in contrast with near silence about similar incitement in Palestinian society, Why Egyptian hate speech, and ‘NYT’ reporting on it, matter:

Would it be a problem if a society, following the encouragement...

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Waiting for Roger Cohen’s mea culpa on Muslim Brotherhood

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Posted by    Sunday, December 23, 2012 at 10:05am

It’s time for the person most consistently wrong about the Muslim Brotherhood to admit that just about everything he said about the Muslim Brotherhood and Egypt’s Arab Spring was wrong, including:

Already we hear the predictable warnings from Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu: This could be Iran 1979, a revolution for freedom that...

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I would never be so insulting as to accuse the U. Penn Political Science Department of tokenism

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Posted by    Thursday, December 20, 2012 at 11:11am

This is a follow up to my post, I would never be so insulting as to accuse the NY Times of tokenism, regarding the demeaning accusation by University of Pennsylvania Politic...

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I would never be so insulting as to accuse the NY Times of tokenism

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Posted by    Wednesday, December 19, 2012 at 5:01pm

The New York Times today ran a demeaning Op-Ed about Tim Scott, the Republican Congressman from South Carolina who was just appointed to the seat being vacated by Jim DeMint.

The Op-Ed was written by U. Penn. Political Science Professor Adolf L. Reed Jr.,  The Puzzle of Black Republicans, and accused Republicans of engag...

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And the Award for the most snide and offensive NY Times Op-Ed of 2012 goes to …

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Posted by    Wednesday, December 19, 2012 at 12:04pm

This reprehensible column about Tim Scott by Adolf L. Reed, Jr., a U. Penn. Political Science Professor, The Puzzle of Black Republicans:

… But this “first black” rhetoric tends to interpret African-American political successes — including that of President Obama — as part of a morality play that dramatizes “how far we...

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As freedom in Egypt slips, Thomas Friedman clings to delusions about the Muslim Brotherhood

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Posted by    Sunday, December 16, 2012 at 7:15pm

When I announced that The award for the person most consistently wrong about the Muslim Brotherhood goes to … Roger Cohen of The NY Times, it was suggested that...

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Mohammed Morsi not backing down, despite warning from Roger Cohen of NY Times

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Posted by    Thursday, December 6, 2012 at 7:30pm

Roger Cohen of The NY Times famously told us in February 2011 (emphasis mine):

Already we hear the predictable warnings from Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu: This could be Iran 1979, a revolution for freedom that installs the Islamists. But this is not 1979, and Egypt’s Facebook-adept youth are not lining up...

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Tunisia, cradle of the Arab Spring, devolves into Islamist nightmare

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Posted by    Thursday, December 6, 2012 at 9:18am

In February 2011, Roger Cohen of The NY Times demanded that we abandon the phrase “the Arab Street” as a relic of the past which no longer applied, even as crowds in Tunisia surged around a Synagogue shouting “”Jews, remember Khyabar, the army of Mohammed is returning”":

Cohen further asserted that “the usual Muslim-hating naysayers” were...

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