Krugman: If Biden passes the American Families Plan, Republicans are screwed
The raison d'être of the Republican Party for much of the past 100 years has been to slam the brakes on anything that would make the poor and middle class feel … Read More
Category: NewYorkTimes
Just one more reason Ron Johnson is too stupid to be in Congress
He’s not the only one, of course. For instance, I’m convinced Matt Gaetz has the largest head-to-brain-size ratio in the animal kingdom and that Louie Gohmert is the lamentable result of … Read More
NYT: NY Post reporter refused to allow his byline on flawed Hunter Biden story
We’ve all seen this absurd Hunter Biden October “surprise” story by now. In short, it makes no sense. A mystery figure dropped off a wet laptop at a Delaware computer … Read More
Watergate prosecutor says 'no question' Donald and Ivanka could be jailed for tax fraud
I’ll just get this out of the way at the outset. I doubt that Donald Trump will ever go to prison. It’s just too hard to imagine a former U.S. president … Read More
Rep. Ilhan Omar responds to vicious Trump tweet with sweet burn about his taxes
Trump has always brayed like a dopey ass on Twitter, but in the wake of the seismic New York Times report about the ocher abomination’s taxes, the rejoinders kind of … Read More
“Together, You Can Redeem the Soul of Our Nation” – John Lewis
That is the headline on this wonderful piece in today’s New York Times, written by the late Congressman with the request that it be published on the day of his … Read More
Rubin Blasts NY Times for not Calling Trump a Racist
Jennifer Rubin gets a lot of flack here over the suspicion that she isn’t really on our side, she’s just against Trump, and will go back to screeching at us … Read More
“Our democracy hangs in the balance.”
That is the first sentence of an op ed now up at the website of The New York Times, whose title is America, This Is Your Chance and which is … Read More
'I Wish I Could Do Something for You,’ My Doctor Said
That is the title of this powerful opinion piece at the NY TImes Website. The subtitle reads “Young, healthy people like me are getting very, very sick from the disease … Read More
Could the USAID Predict program, which ended under Trump, have prevented the COVID-19 outbreak?
As snarky as I like to get vis-à-vis the ocher abomination, I really can’t say I know the answer to this. But now that The New York Times appears to … Read More
I've started a new media newsletter, Press Run, to help hold the press accountable
Because now more than ever. Press Run is my proudly progressive dissection of the political press. And in this crucial election year, I feel like it's more important than ever. … Read More
2019, the year the press tried—and failed—to stand up to Trump
With Donald Trump becoming the first American president to be impeached in his first term, while holed up in the White House tweeting endless attacks around the clock like some … Read More
Impeachment has been a messaging disaster for the White House. Why won't the press say so?
The impeachment of Donald Trump was always going to be a messaging war, and on paper it should have been a rout for Republicans. With his Twitter megaphone reaching more … Read More
The New York Times' impeachment coverage devolves into Republican talking points
Firmly adopting Republican spin as the best way to view the House impeachment of Donald Trump, The New York Times in recent days appears to have forfeited much of its … Read More
Media pushes 'Dems in disarray' over impeachment—again
Poised to pass two articles of impeachment in the full House this week, Democrats have remained extraordinarily united throughout the process while nearly half the country stands in favor of taking … Read More
New York Times aids GOP's cynical 'partisan witch hunt' narrative on impeachment
It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that Republicans have had less than nothing (or nothing real, anyway) to fall back on in their defense of Donald Trump during the … Read More
The New York Times can apparently read Democrats' minds, but not Trump's mind to know if he's lying
A gigantic double standard was on display in The New York Times on Wednesday as the newspaper reported on articles of impeachment brought against Donald Trump. It's a disturbing double standard … Read More
Half of America wants Trump removed from office. Why does the press keep shrugging that off?
With the House Judiciary Committee poised to take up the impeachment baton and hold a new round of public hearings this month, the Beltway press continues to absorb and echo … Read More
Is The New York Times being obtuse or intentionally gaslighting us?
Okay, so they appear to have changed this headline since Talking Points Memo’s Josh Marshall screen-grabbed it. But it raises an important question — and that question is: “What the ever-living … Read More
Why is the press so obsessed with what Wall Street and billionaires think of Elizabeth Warren?
It turns out the media's obsession with the superrich isn't confined to the world of celebrity and entertainment. In politics, the press also seems utterly fascinated with how the 0.1% … Read More
It's almost 2020 and New York Times editors are still debating if Trump's a racist
Wasting untold time and energy, New York Times newsroom leaders continue to struggle with the not-very-difficult question of whether they ought to refer to Donald Trump as a racist. More than … Read More
Memo to media: Don't screw up the impeachment hearings
Four months after the Beltway press badly failed in its coverage of special counsel Robert Mueller's congressional testimony on the Russia scandal, the D.C. press corps has a chance at redemption this … Read More
Trump's reelection campaign spreads lies online—and the press touts it as savvy
Campaign Action It’s gone from bad to worse: After spending years refusing to call Donald Trump a liar, the press is now toasting his reelection campaign, which is built on lies. … Read More
The GOP's 'process' attacks on impeachment are a joke—and the press should say so
Nancy Pelosi called the GOP's impeachment bluff this week, and in doing so she completely undercut the “process” attacks they have been making about the House inquiry. Demanding that a … Read More
Remember that scathing anonymous NYT op-ed from a Trump insider? The author has a new book
Ooh, boy. Trump is going to lose whatever scintilla of a mind he has left. The senior Trump administration official who wrote that anonymous (and utterly scathing) New York Times column … Read More
After flogging 'her emails' endlessly in '16, NYT puts news of Hillary's innocence on page 16
So, in case you missed it yesterday, Hillary Clinton has been cleared of all wrongdoing in the “big” email controversy that sent both right-wing propagandists and the mainstream media into … Read More
Fact-checking Democrats in the age of chronic Trump lies
At the outset of his presidency, several major news outlets eagerly and proudly announced that they were going to fact-check Donald Trump's every utterance and document all the misinformation he … Read More
Biden Comms Director Shreds NY Times for Op-Ed by “a “discredited right-wing polemicist.”
In a two page letter to NY Times Executive Editor Dean Baquet, Biden Campaign Comms Director Kate Bedingfield slammed the paper for amplifying Don the Con’s phony controversy against Joe Biden Op-Ed by running … Read More
Terrific piece on taxes by Dave Leonhardt – UPDATED
now up at the New York Times website and titled The Rich Really Do Pay Lower Taxes Than You. I strongly urge everyone to read it. There is a mobile … Read More
Visiting foreign journalists call out Trump's increasingly erratic behavior. Why won't D.C. press?
Donald Trump's stupefying public performances last Wednesday as the widening collusion scandal continued to gain momentum were stunning, even by his erratic standards. Trump uncorked rambling, incoherent, angry, whiny monologues … Read More
Visiting foreign journalists call out Trump's increasingly erratic behavior. Why won't D.C. press?
Donald Trump's stupefying public performances last Wednesday as the widening collusion scandal continued to gain momentum were stunning, even by his erratic standards. Trump uncorked rambling, incoherent, angry, whiny monologues … Read More
Why does The New York Times assume impeachment poses political problem mostly for Democrats?
Adopting a warped view of the Ukraine collusion scandal that's engulfing Donald Trump's presidency, The New York Times seems to think that it's Democrats who are caught in a “tricky” … Read More
Why does The New York Times assume impeachment poses political problem mostly for Democrats?
Adopting a warped view of the Ukraine collusion scandal that's engulfing Donald Trump's presidency, The New York Times seems to think that it's Democrats who are caught in a “tricky” … Read More
It's time: Newspapers should demand Trump resign. That's what they told Bill Clinton
Openly colluding with a foreign government to dig up dirt on his political opponent, while offering up the assistance of the Department of Justice. Freezing U.S. foreign aid to make sure … Read More
It's time: Newspapers should demand Trump resign. That's what they told Bill Clinton
Openly colluding with a foreign government to dig up dirt on his political opponent, while offering up the assistance of the Department of Justice. Freezing U.S. foreign aid to make sure … Read More
The Truth About Those NY Times “Swing Voters” Who Don't Favor Trump Impeachment.
Matt McDermott is a democrat friendly pollster and director of Whitman Insight Strategies. x No, the New York Times did not talk to six “swing voters†about impeachment. The article … Read More
Confused Fox News not sure how to spin Trump's admitted Ukraine collusion
Fox News has never cared about having a coherent and consistent message. As a propaganda and disinformation network, it's not Fox News' job to make sense: It's Fox News' job, these … Read More
Confused Fox News not sure how to spin Trump's admitted Ukraine collusion
Fox News has never cared about having a coherent and consistent message. As a propaganda and disinformation network, it's not Fox News' job to make sense: It's Fox News' job, these … Read More
NY Times Publisher Says drumpf Would Not Get His Reporter Out of Egypt so He Turned to Ireland
NY Times Publisher Arthur Sulzberger wrote a piece in his own newspaper yesterday stating the government of drumpf’s favorite dictator, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi, was about to arrest one of … Read More
How the press keeps helping Trump spread his crooked Ukraine conspiracy
Tapped to handle damage control on the stunning revelation that Donald Trump aggressively tried to pressure a foreign country to dig up dirt on his possible 2020 Democratic opponent, Secretary … Read More
How the press keeps helping Trump spread his crooked Ukraine conspiracy
Tapped to handle damage control on the stunning revelation that Donald Trump aggressively tried to pressure a foreign country to dig up dirt on his possible 2020 Democratic opponent, Secretary … Read More
Good grief, New York Times—Trump is not a 'populist' like Warren
Signaling that it's going to work hard to elevate Donald Trump during the upcoming presidential campaign, The New York Times recently suggested that Trump and Elizabeth Warren are politically similar … Read More
Good grief, New York Times—Trump is not a 'populist' like Warren
Signaling that it's going to work hard to elevate Donald Trump during the upcoming presidential campaign, The New York Times recently suggested that Trump and Elizabeth Warren are politically similar … Read More
NYT signs up to help Trump campaign with endless false equivalency
Oh, look! A Biden scandal, once removed, that kind of looks like something resembling a scandal — even though it’s already been thoroughly debunked by numerous fact-checkers! Let’s spend the next … Read More
*resident Looneytoons Calls for Everyone at The NY Times to Resign. Twitter Has Better Ideas.
x …She can never recover, and will never return to Greatness, under current Management. The Times is DEAD, long live The New York Times! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September … Read More
Letting Trump constantly lie about 9/11 means the press will let him lie about anything
Sometimes it feels like the press has just completely surrendered to Donald Trump's relentless lies, and that reporters have essentially thrown up their hands, signaling that Trump has complete permission … Read More
Letting Trump constantly lie about 9/11 means the press will let him lie about anything
Sometimes it feels like the press has just completely surrendered to Donald Trump's relentless lies, and that reporters have essentially thrown up their hands, signaling that Trump has complete permission … Read More
NYT uncovers new allegation against Brett Kavanaugh that the FBI ignored
So remember Brett “Bart O’Kavanaugh” Kavanaugh? He’s on the Supreme Court now because he screamed a lot at one of his hearings and the FBI did at most a 1/16th-ass … Read More
Media coverage of Trump rallies is completely broken
The good news is cable news channels, even including Fox News, no longer treat Donald Trump rallies as must-air events. The bad news is that news outlets still cover the redundant, news-free … Read More
Media coverage of Trump rallies is completely broken
The good news is cable news channels, even including Fox News, no longer treat Donald Trump rallies as must-air events. The bad news is that news outlets still cover the redundant, news-free … Read More
