TimesWatch

Just How Moderate Is Arkansas's Blanche Lincoln, Anyway?

The Times placed left-of-center Arkansas Sen. Blanche Lincoln in the middle, but found angry conservative uprising in this pecular passage: "It may be a measure of the electorate's angry mood that ...

Blow Braces Against 'Unconscionable Conservative Tilts' Among Voters Come November

Columnist Charles Blow laments that each day is "bringing more news of unconscionable conservative tilts in the electorate" but rallies the leftist troops with a reworking of an positivity slogan: ...

Columnist Tom Friedman Displays His Power Lust Again on PBS

Thomas Friedman knows best: "I think we're entering an era - how long it will last I dare not predict - where being in politics is going to be more than anything else about taking things away from ...

Is Elena Kagan Not Left-Wing Enough to Satisfy the Times?

Liberal Supreme Court pick Elena Kagan not politically correct enough for the Times? "The administration has been pushing back against any suggestion that Ms. Kagan has been insensitive on racial ...

Ho Hum: NYT Strangely Sanguine About Job Loss During Obama Administration

A long front-page article about how some jobs aren't coming back doesn't even mention Obama's name. Did the Times cover unemployment under Reagan and Bush in similar fashion? Hardly.

'Robin Hood,' the First Tea Partier? So Says Politics-Obsessed Critic A. O. Scott

Times' politics-obsessed movie critic A.O. Scott finds parallels between the "manly libertarian rebel" that is the hero of "Robin Hood" and the Tea Party movement. Scott also again rides to how ...

Bush's Deregulatory Agenda 'Gone Too Far,' Says a Times....News Story?

So even the Bush administration knew they had "gone too far" in deregulation? That's according to Times reporter Eric Lipton, who doesn't sound very fair and balanced here: "The push for some of ...

Damien Cave Unloads Cheap Shots on News GOP to Hold 2012 Convention in Tampa

Where did that come from? "But Republicans be warned: Florida is a place of big dreams and big guffaws. Democrats (Gary Hart) and Republicans (Rush Limbaugh) have both drowned in scandal here..."

Times Fronts Allegations of NYPD Discrimination from Unlabeled Hard-Left CCR

The Times runs a front page story alleging racial discrimination by the NYPD with research solely from an unlabeled hard-left Center for Constitutional Rights, who represents defendants at ...

Gail Collins Praises Margaret Sanger as Birth-Control Savior, Ignores Her Racism and Support for Eugenics

Editor-turned-columnist Gail Collins has a long history of adoring Sanger: "For the Lower East Side there are so many potential subjects that it might be better to commandeer an entire city park ...
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