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Frank Rich Rehashes 'Sadomasochist' Smear Against 'Passion of the Christ,' Buries Social Conservatism

Frank Rich put his original "sadomasochist" attack on "The Passion of the Christ" in someone else's mouth, and kept this box office prediction stuffed down the memory hole: "Indeed, it's hard to ...

Matt Bai Makes Up 'Hateful 25-Year-Olds' Hurling 'Racial Slurs' at Tea Party Rallies

Matt Bai passes along a discredited liberal myth from March: "The question of racism in the amorphous Tea Party movement is, of course, a serious one, since so much of the Republican Party seems ...

Christians: Surprising Allies In the Fight for Amnesty! Just Like They Were Three Years Ago

Laurie Goodstein today: "At a time when the prospects for immigration overhaul seem most dim, supporters have unleashed a secret weapon: a group of influential evangelical Christian leaders." A ...

Win for Privacy in Arizona; Randal Archibold Oddly Underwhelmed

Randal Archibold's story on a win for privacy rights in Arizona doesn't match the tone of his articles on how frightened illegal immigrants are of the state's new immigration law: "The state...has ...

Kevin Sack Writes About 'Heterosexist Language and Customs' in a News Story on Gay Weddings

Kevin Sack on the gay couple behind the online gay wedding planning mag Legally Wed: "The magazine includes a consumer guide to vendors who are practiced in avoiding heterosexist language and ...

Times Glad 'Wide-Eyed Admiration' for Wall Street Is Over

In Friday's lead, Binyamin Appelbaum and David Herszenhorn welcome re-regulation by Congress over financial markets: "The government watched and did nothing as the bulk of financial activity moved ...

What? G.O.P. Misses Liberal Sen. Chafee's 'Traditional Notion of Fiscal Responsibility'

Matt Bai salutes political hero Lincoln Chafee, liberal Republican senator turned independent candidate for governor of Rhode Island, for his "more traditional notion of fiscal responsibility" and ...

NYT Standards: Privacy for Illegal Immigrants, But Not for Prop 8 Donors?

Reporter Kirk Johnson overheats on the front page: "A list of 1,300 Utah residents described as illegal immigrants has sown fear among some Hispanics here, and prompted an investigation into its ...

'Bellicose' Bloggers Against 'Monument to Religious Tolerance' (i.e., a Mosque) at Ground Zero

The Times makes a lot of positive but unsubstantiated assumptions about a Muslim community center and mosque scheduled for construction at Ground Zero, where thousands were murdered in the name of ...

Times Enviro-Blogger Confident Climategate Is Discredited

Andrew Revkin tells his readers not to worry about a pro-global warming government scientist expressing the desire to "beat the [expletive] out of" a prominent climate skeptic, and puts blame on ...
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