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NYTimes' Shane Laments How 'Four Pallid Sentences' Root of GOP Attacks on Rice Handling of Benghazi

Times intelligence reporter Scott Shane sounds unhappy with GOP criticism of UN ambassador Susan Rice's false statements about the terrorist attacks in Benghazi, arguging that "...the four pallid ...
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NYT's Nagourney Credits California's Economic Recovery to Tax Hikes He Helped Push

New York Times story from California-based Adam Nagourney strongly suggested that tax hikes promoted by Gov. Jerry Brown (and Nagourney himself) were paying off in economic resurgence in the ...
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New York Times Columnists Battle Over Susan Rice and Benghazi

Thomas Friedman dismissed the controversy over Susan Rice's false Benghazi statements as a "flap," but fellow Times columnist Maureen Dowd took them seriously: "Why did Rice say on ABC News’s ...
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NYTimes: 'No Place in a Democracy' for Anti-Tax 'Purists' Like Grover Norquist

New York Times columnist Frank Bruni doesn't seem to like anti-tax activist Grover Norquist: "Someday someone will write a dark history -- a farce, really -- of how he managed to bring nearly ...
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Did Gorbachev Really 'Refuse to Shoot to Preserve His Costly Empire'? 18 Killed in Lithuania, Latvia

Former Times executive editor Max Frankel: "Finally, when Mikhail Gorbachev refused to shoot to preserve his costly empire, the curtain collapsed altogether and dragged down the Soviet center ...
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New York Times: 'There Is a Good Chance New York City Will Sink Beneath the Sea'

The Statue of Liberty under water on the front of the New York Times' Sunday Review: "Whether in 50 or 100 or 200 years, there is a good chance New York City will sink beneath the sea." Why? You ...
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Congressional Dysfunction? New York Times Blames C-Span Cameras, Gingrich and Santorum

Ina front-page story, reporter Jonathan Weisman seems to pine for the days of Democratic congressional barons making rules behind closed doors: "The advent of C-Span 2, which put cameras in the ...
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NYTimes Blames Jailed Filmmaker for Criticizing Muhammad: 'After Fueling Deadly Protests, No Regret'

The New York Times versus free expression on Monday's front page: "Fuming for two months in a jail cell here, Nakoula Basseley Nakoula has had plenty of time to reconsider the wisdom of making ...
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On Front Page, NYT's Mark Landler Shields 'Stand-in...Bystander' Susan Rice From Benghazi Blame

So why did the Obama administration put her forward in the first place? On Sunday's front page Times reporter Mark Landler defends UN Ambassador Susan Rice, under fire for false statements on ...

Hard-Left Sunday at the NYT: 'Phony Hero' Gen. David Petraeus; 'Dried Seaweed' as Snack Food

From pushing dried seaweed as a snack food to calling General David Petraeus "A Phony Hero for a Phony War," the New York Times Sunday Review section continues its lurch to the left under editor ...
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