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Making Excuses for Obama's "Bind" in Closing Guantanamo Bay

Reporter Scott Shane makes excuses for President Obama's failure to fulfill his campaign pledge of closing the military prison at Guantanamo Bay: "To understand how hard it is proving for ...

Print Edition Ignores Rep. Grayson's GOP Bashing, Holocaust Reference

The Times moralized over Rep. Joe Wilson's "disrespectful" outburst ("You lie!") during Obama's health care address to Congress. But when a Democrat said the GOP's health care plan was for ...

NYT's Treatment of Muslim Cartoons Remains Hostile, Hypocritical

James Barron looks with suspicion at the group hosting a Danish cartoonist whose life was threatened for a caricature mocking Muhammad: "People who have been at odds with Muslims."

Friedman's Hypocrisy on "Far Right" Dangerously Delegitimizing Obama

Columnist Thomas Friedman warns that "criticism from the far right has begun tipping over into delegitimation and creating the same kind of climate here that existed in Israel on the eve of the ...

NYT: Modest Lefty Pittsburgh Protest Comparable to Huge Conservative Protest in D.C.

A reader could assume the Sept. 12 conservative protest in DC and the anarchist protest in Pittsburgh were of the same magnitude, as both described the crowd as in "thousands." Headline from the ...

Modest Lefty Pittsburgh Protest Comparable to Huge Conservative Protest in D.C.?

Coverage of the leftists and anarchists protesting the Group of 20 meeting in Pittsburgh downplayed the violence in a headline implying peace ruled, and boasted of a crowd size of up to 4,000. Yet ...

"Hawkish" Liz Cheney "Taunting" Obama With "Cable-Ready Ferocity"

Like parents, like daughter: "Like her father, Ms. Cheney speaks in understated, almost academic cadences, head veering down into her notes. She also shares his willingness to pummel President ...

Hoyt Admits Times Slow on ACORN, But Not First Conservative Media Story It's Ignored

The paper's public editor criticized the Times for its lack of coverage of the juicy ACORN imbroglio, an omission that has prodded the paper into creating a new semi-position to monitor opinion ...

Carl Hulse Has No Patience for Conservatives Pushing ACORN Scandal

Congressional reporter Carl Hulse sounded impatient with a Republican senator's move to ban the left-wing housing group ACORN from receiving any Interior Department spending: "Not satisfied with ...

Times Bureau Chief Sniffs at ACORN, Glenn Beck

Washington bureau chief Dean Baquet sniffs at ACORN and Glenn Beck, and suggests Obama-related scandals aren't big news: "For Glenn Beck to devote 45 minutes of his show to ACORN and Van Jones ...
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