Gaffes

Frank Rich's Latest Excruciating Extended Metaphor: 'Wall Street Would be the Bachelor, and America the Dwarf...'

Frank Rich's unleashes his latest painful cultural-political metaphor: "If this were a metaphor - if only! - Wall Street would be the bachelor, and America the dwarf, involuntarily chained to its ...

Zernike Claims Her Slanted Tea Party Book Was 'as Objective as Possible a Look'

Kate Zernike says she tried to be objective in "Boiling Mad," her book about the Tea Party: "I've just written this book that very consciously tried to come up through the middle...there was merit ...

Times 'New Media' Editor Suggests Print Subscribers Are Suckers

So much for those sharp, sophisticated Times readers. Editor Gerald Marzorati said at a new media conference that Times subscribers have no clue how much they're spending on the print edition: "We ...

Media Reporter Passes the Mike to Left-Wing Maddow to Defend Olbermann, Blast Fox News

Media reporter Brian Stelter devoted four paragraphs of his 10-paragraph story on Keith Olbermann's return from his suspension by MSNBC to quoting an on-air harangue of Fox News from Olbermann's ...

NY Times' Jackie Calmes Confidently Claims GOP Repeal of Obama-Care Would Cost Money

New York Times reporter Jackie Calmes pretends it's a certainty that Obama-care will actually save money: "Republicans also say they will try to deny money to put Mr. Obama's new health care law ...

Calmes Confidently Claims GOP Repeal of Obama-Care Would Cost Money

Reporter Jackie Calmes pretends it's a certainty that Obama-care will actually save money: "Republicans also say they will try to deny money to put Mr. Obama's new health care law into effect, ...

Morning After Voter Rejection of Obama-Care, Stolberg Claims Voters 'Don't Want' GOP to Stop It for Fear of 'Gridlock'

Sheryl Gay Stolberg: "One big question is whether Republicans will try to hack away at the bill by gumming up the works through the appropriations process and stopping [Obama-care's] provisions ...

'Obscure Texts By Long-Dead Writers'...Like Nobel-Prize Winning Economist Friedrich Hayek?

Tea Party reporter Kate Zernike on the Tea Party canon, including Friedrich Hayek, a Nobel Prize Winner in Economics in 1974 who died in 1992: "But when it comes to ideology, it has reached back ...

Frank Rich on the Racist 'Idiots' of the G.O.P.

Even more ill-humored than usual, the Times' Sunday columnist rails against Christine O'Donnell, Michael Steele and the rest of the "useful idiots" in a Republican Party that routinely demonizes ...

The New York Times Laments Disappearance of Moderate Republicans (Again, and Again)

The Times rehashes a lament that goes back at least 14 years: "The few remaining Republican centrists in the Senate were eagerly awaiting the arrival of Michael N. Castle of Delaware, a longtime ...
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