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Once More, NYTimes Dubiously Defends Obama's 'You Didn't Build That' as 'Taken Out of Context'

There they go again. New York Times reporter Jackie Calmes said speakers at the Democratic convention "sought to counter a Republican convention theme, based on an Obama quote taken out of ...
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Ominous Liberal Signs From the Paper's New Public Editor Margaret Sullivan

Will the New York Times' new Public Editor spend her term criticizing the paper from the left? Less than a week after starting, Margaret Sullivan has already hailed the political wisdom of ...
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NYTimes Op-ed Suggests Vote-Suppressing GOP Would Have Stopped Frederick Douglass From Voting

A New York Times op-ed captures the partisan blindness of the paper on voter ID: "Today’s Republican Party seems deeply concerned with rooting out voter fraud of the kind Douglass practiced. ...
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Trip Gabriel Makes Mountain Out of a Molehill Over Latest Dem Attack on Paul Ryan in NYTimes

New York Times campaign reporter Trip Gabriel lays out a rocky mountain trail for Paul Ryan: "But his assertion in a radio interview that he once ran 'a two-hour and 50-something' marathon, a ...

NYT's 'Fact Check' Instead Uncovers 'Startling Truth' From Bill Clinton Against Romney

A supposed New York Times fact-checking article on the Democratic convention speeches Wednesday night actually gave Bill Clinton credit for revealing a "startling truth" in his speech: "One of the ...
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NYTimes Provides No Fact-Checking of Bill Clinton's Claims During 'Poignant Evening'

Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, citadels of political civility? The New York Times: "In the 45-minute speech, Mr. Clinton paid tribute to a spirit of bipartisan political cooperation that he ...
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Nagourney in NYTimes: 'Wednesday Evening, Rep. Barney Frank...Was One of the Prime-Time Speakers.' He Never Spoke

While gushing over the prevelance of gay issues at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, reporter Adam Nagourney claimed: "And on Wednesday evening, Representative Barney Frank, a ...
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Bill Clinton, 'Global Philanthropist on a Journey to Cure the World’s Ills', Gushes New York Times' Front Page

Amy Chozick goes overboard in praise of Bill Clinton's personal touch: "He likes to use the Zulu greeting sawubona ('I see you') when he is traveling in parts of southern Africa, and he often ...
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Democrats' Keynote Speaker Julian Castro Spared GOP-Style Fact-Checking by New York Times

Democratic convention keynote speaker Julian Castro not only had a full story devoted to his speech (coverage denied Republican keynote speaker Chris Christie) but he was spared the fact-checking ...
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With Critical Valerie Jarrett Profile, New York Times Still Covers President Obama's Left Flank

But Obama's not a liberal? Times reporter Jo Becker: "Ms. Jarrett often serves as a counterweight to the more centrist Clinton veterans in the administration...It is not so much that she is Mr. ...
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