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News Story Hits G.O.P.'s 'Untrue...Misleading' Claims About Drilling, Social Security

Three liberal reporters teamed up to fact-check the Republican debate (and defend President Obama): "The candidates' arguments run into factual hurdles."

Stingy Perry 'Cemented' Texas's Status as Health Care Pariah State

Kevin Sack: "Mr. Perry, by contrast, eschewed direct efforts to expand coverage in Texas and cemented its status as the state with the highest rate of people without insurance....After Mr. Perry's ...

Book Review Leads With Warnings of 'Rabid' Anti-Obama Conservatives

Editorialist Brent Staples carries his trade to the front of the Times Sunday Book Review: "Obama clearly went to Washington with a healthy respect for rational, principled conservatism. He was ...

Poor, Disrespected Obama: Republicans 'Simply Do Not Like the Man'

Jennifer Steinhauer spins a Republican request that Obama address Congress on a different night from the presidential debate as "disrespect" for the president, and played the race card: "There is ...

Calmes Ignores Hoffa's'Take These Son of a Bitches Out' Tea Party Attack at Obama Rally

Obama, still not to blame: "The president's Labor Day addresses trace the stubbornness of the crisis he inherited....a Democratic-controlled Congress had passed his two-year, $800 billion stimulus ...

Reporter Michael Shear Defends Social Security, Obama-Care Against Gov. Perry's Attacks

Reporter Michael Shear takes it upon himself to defend liberal programs: "When it comes to health care, Mr. Perry writes that President Obama's legislation on the subject was 'the closest this ...

With Job Growth at Zero, Calmes Still Insists Obama's 'Stimulus' Worked

Reporter Jackie Calmes, still cheerleading for Obama's "economic stimulus" plan: "Nonpartisan analysts and the Congressional Budget Office have credited the first stimulus package with helping to ...

Incensed That Obama Speech Pushed Back One Day, NYT Whines Boehner Needs to 'Grow Up'

Speaker John Boehner politely suggesting that President Obama could be accommodated to give an address to a joint session of Congress a day later than the date he originally requested is ...

NYT Film Critic Likes 'Old Fashioned Orgy,' Pans G-Rated 'Seven Days in Utopia'

In the September 2 "Weekend Arts" section, Times film critic Stephen Holden hailed an R-rated flick about friends hosting an orgy as a "friendly, ramshackle comedy" while panning a G-rated drama ...

NYTimes Paints Speaker Boehner as Having Issued 'Unprecedented' Refusal of President's Request

The September 1 Times portrayed House Speaker John Boehner's request that President Obama delay his speech to Congress by a day as an "unprecedented" refusal of a presidential request and evidence ...
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