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New York Times' Peters Singles Out GOP Ads (Willie Horton, Swift Boat Vets) as 'Dirty Politics'

Times media reporter Jeremy Peters: "Independent groups have long been the attack dogs and provocateurs of modern politics. The ads they produce -- about a convict on furlough named Willie ...
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NYT's Parker Sees No Damaging 'Bumps in the Road' for Obama Campaign, Merely Romney 'Talking Points'

New York Times reporter Ashley Parker saw no gaffe or political damage for Barack Obama, merely "talking points" for an attacking Mitt Romney, after the president referred to events in the Middle ...

NYTimes, a Journalistic Enterprise, Is Ambivalent About the Free Expression Rights of Others

Times journalist Somini Sengupta is ambivalent about that whole free expression thing, at least when it comes to other people's speech: "One of the challenges of the digital age, as the YouTube ...
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Romney Can't Win on Taxes in NYTimes: 'Responds to Pressure,' Overpayment Contradicts 'His Own Past Assertions'

On taxes, Mitt Romney just can't win: "But forgoing the full deductions available to him put him at odds with his own past assertions that he had never paid more taxes than he owed and his ...
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New York Times Buries Two Controversial Obama Statements, Plays Up Romney Campaign Woes on Front Page

Again the Times focused on the political damage fostered by Mitt Romney's (accurate) statement at a fundraiser that 47 percent of Americans do not pay income taxes, yet buried two ...
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Oversensitive NYTimes Editor Laments Success of GOP 'Deceit and Ridicule' of Successful Stimulus

Former New York Times reporter turned editor David Firestone says the stimulus actually worked and you would think so too if not for those meddling Republicans: "Republicans learned a lesson from ...
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NYT Uses Romney Tape to Gush Over Lefty Mother Jones Mag, Which Has 'Thrived' and 'Is Respected'

The Times gushes over left-wing mag Mother Jones after its anti-Romney hit video: "Through all the political pressures and the challenges facing the magazine industry, Mother Jones thrived. It ...
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New York Times Again Embraces Occupy Wall Street Propaganda...in a Theatre Review

Every edition of the Times provides more evidence how deeply the leftism of Occupy Wall Street has seeped into its collective consciousness. This time there was an arbitrary reference to one ...

Defending Obama, NYTimes' Richard Oppel Turns Tables on Romney, Laments 'Redistribution' to 'Very Rich'

Richard Oppel Jr., refusing to concede anything to Mitt Romney, fiercely defends Obama and, using a liberal trope, laments the alleged redistribution of income to the "very rich": "What is ...

NYT's Barbaro on Doom and 'Gloom' in Romney Camp, 'Entering McCain-Palin Ticket Territory'

Michael Barbaro: "Mitt Romney's traveling press secretary walked to the back of the candidate’s plane midflight on Tuesday and teasingly asked a pair of journalists in an exit row if they ...
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