DoubleStandards

Double Standards on Mortgage Defaulters

Times reporter David Streitfeld covers mortgage defaulters on varying ends of the income spectrum, but only lectures "the rich" ones on the "civic good."

Conservative Rep. Darrell Issa, a 'Nuisance' and a 'Pest'

Political personality reporter Mark Leibovich on Rep. Darrell Issa: "Every Congress seems to produce a designated pest, adept at drawing attention to nuisance issues (and his nuisance self) while ...

Democrats and Double Standards in the NYT: 'Respected Voice' Robert Byrd vs. 'Foe of Integration' Strom Thurmond

According to the New York Times, Democrat senator and former Klan member Robert Byrd was a "Respected Voice of the Senate." Yet Republican Sen. Jesse Helms had a "hard-edged conservatism that ...

After Blaming Katrina on Bush, the Times Shifts Blame from Obama to Gov. Jindal of Louisiana

After nonstop blaming of President Bush's response to Hurricane Katrina, the BP oil spill is pitting a Democratic president against Republican governor Bobby Jindal - and conveniently awakened the ...

Democrats and Double Standards: 'Respected Voice' Robert Byrd vs. 'Foe of Integration' Strom Thurmond

Democrat senator and former Klan member Robert Byrd was a "Respected Voice of the Senate." Republican senator Jesse Helms had a "hard-edged conservatism that opposed civil rights, gay rights, ...

Once Again, 'Many Peaceful' = 'Some Violent' When It Comes to Leftist Protesters

Shops are vandalized and police cars torched in Toronto, but reporter Ian Austen defends the overall peacefulness of the left-wing mob over the headline "Police in Toronto Criticized for Treatment ...

Times Watch Quotes of Note - Times Takes 'Far Right' Angle on G.O.P. Senate Candidate from Nevada

Among her detractors and her supporters [Angle] is known as a far-right conservative and a thorn in the side of both parties, routinely voting no on almost everything that came before the ...

Times Takes 'Far Right' Angle on G.O.P. Senate Candidate from Nevada

Plus: A Classic Campaign Gaffe by Fiorina - But Silence on Dem Calling Whitman a Nazi

Bush's 'Unforgivable Sin' Sounds a Bit Like Obama's Suggestion to Hit the Beach

"George W. Bush could have called the country to a grand, important new undertaking in which everyone sacrificed personal or regional advantage for the common good. The fact that he only told us ...

G.O.P. Meg Whitman's Old Shove More Newsworthy Than Dem. Congressman's Videotaped Assault

Balance? Eight paragraphs for the widely seen clip of Democratic Rep. Bob Etheridge attacking two young filmmakers; 27 paragraphs and prominent placement for an allegation from 2007 about ...
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