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Torturous Reading: Self-Righteous Editors and "The Scary Caterpillar"

What? "To read the four newly released memos on prisoner interrogation written by George W. Bush's Justice Department is to take a journey into depravity. Their language is the precise ...

The Times Flatters Another Liberal Paper, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution

"In the 1950s and '60s, under Ralph McGill, The Atlanta Constitution infuriated conservative white readers with its liberal views, especially on segregation. Cynthia Tucker, the editorial page ...

Left-Wing Thugs in Latin America "Inspired" By Obama, Times Applauds

Bleech: "Leaders from the Western Hemisphere, inspired by a new American president, closed a two-day summit meeting proclaiming a new dawn for relations in the region..."

Charles Blow's Latest Conservative-Baiting

Blow defends a notorious Department of Homeland Security report tarring anyone active in conservative causes like abortion or immigration as potential extremists.

More Slimy Double Standards From Sportswriter Harvey Araton

For Araton, it's necessary for athletes and athletic commentators to speak out on public issues - unless it's for a cause that's not politically correct, like supporting teammates falsely accused ...

Big-Spending Obama's Not Liberal, Just "Pragmatic"

Reporter Richard Stevenson claims the big-spending, tax-raising president is actually committed "to the most basic conservative tenets: the power of markets as an engine of innovation and ...

Frank Rich's Inconvenient "Bigots" Against Gay Marriage

Frank Rich sees "the demise of America's anti-gay movement" and warns those "who have spread the poisons of bigotry and fear" by opposing gay marriage." Does that include President Obama and the ...

Times Leaves Off Rattner's Friendship With NYT Publisher

A story on a brewing controversy involving financier-turned-Obama-advisor Steven Rattner made no mention of his close friendship with Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr., although the paper ...

Times Reloads Bad Mexico Gun Numbers

The "90 percent" figure just won't die.

Specter One of a "Dwindling Band of Republican Moderates"

Haven't they dwindled away yet? The Times first used the phrase "dwindling band of Republican moderates" back in 1996.
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