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NY Times Mag Cover Story on Young Repubs Battling 'Far Right, 'Extreme Wing'

Robert Draper in the Times magazine: "But [Lee] Atwater, the legendary R.N.C. chairman, did not have to worry about freelance voices like Limbaugh and Todd Akin offending whole swaths of ...
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NY Times Suggests Tea Party Sen. Ted Cruz Takes Confrontation to New Lows of 'McCarthyism'

Reporter Jonathan Weisman is shocked, shocked to find partisanship in the U.S. Senate: "Without naming names, Senator Barbara Boxer, Democrat of California, offered a biting label for the ...

Horrors! Sen. Menendez (D) Scandal Uncovered by Republican Group, NYT Chides on Sunday's Front Page

Eric Lipton made the front page of Sunday's Times with a strange sort of rebuttal to the paper's investigation into influence-peddling scandals surrounding Democratic Sen. Robert Menendez: ...
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NYT's Book Review Editor Sam Tanenhaus Goes to Liberal Outlets, Plays Race Card on GOP

Times Book Review editor Sam Tanenhaus keeps going to liberal outlets and playing the race card against the GOP: "Republicans looked pretty good on civil rights under Eisenhower. We had the ...

Where's the Party ID? San Diego's $1 Billion Gambling Mayor Not Identified as a Democrat by NY Times

The New York Times ran a front-page story on Maureen O'Connor, the newly disgraced former mayor of San Diego who lost at least $13 million in casinos over the years, wagering a staggering $1 ...
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Still Trying to 'Parse' What New NYT CEO Mark Thompson Knew About Savile Sex-Abuse at BBC

Vanity Fair journalist Maureen Orth throws her hands up at the shifting stories regarding what Thompson knew about the Jimmy Savile sex-abuse controversy by the former BBC director general: "Today ...
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More Sympathy for Hagel in NY Times; GOP 'Further Strain Partisan Tensions' by Unprecedented (?) Filibuster

Boo hoos on Chuck Hagel's delayed nomination from Times reporter Jeremy Peters: "Senate Republicans on Thursday blocked President Obama’s nominee to lead the Pentagon in a defiant move likely to ...
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More New York Times Happy Talk on Amnesty for Illegal Immigrants

Barack Obama simply can do no wrong. Reporter Ashley Parker: "As senators gathered Wednesday for the first hearing on the proposed sweeping changes in immigration law, they said the president’s ...

New York Times Again Defends Chuck Hagel From Mean GOP; Plus Do Only Conservatives Feel 'Ire'?

From the start the Times has oozed sympathy for the plight of Obama's nominee for secretary of Defense, Chuck Hagel, warning darkly of the disappearance of congressional "comity" and ...
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Mark Landler Bids Adieu to Imaginary 'Era of Single-Minded Deficit-Cutting' in New York Times

There was an era of "single-minded deficit-cutting?" When? NYT's Mark Landler: "Mr. Obama also signaled, however, that the era of single-minded deficit-cutting should end. He noted that the ...
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