Gaffes

Times Again Reveals Its Political Stripes in Israel Coverage

NYT Executive Editor Bill Keller warned last week that the use of terms like "right-wing" when reporting on Israel could indicate a slanted report. So why does the phrase keep cropping up on its ...

Don't Trust Your Life to the Times

If Mark Twain were alive, he might have expanded his cautionary witticism: "Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint."

Just Getting By on the Upper West Side

Everyone is hurting: "Instead of a long weekend at Canyon Ranch, maybe a day at the Cornelia Day Resort will do the trick."

Robert Pear Revs Up the Wayback Machine

Pear calls Lilly Ledbetter the Democratic "answer" to Joe the Plumber - but she preceded him in the campaign spotlight by several months.

The Times Falls for French Prank After Mocking Palin for Similar Gaffe

The Times, which last month mocked Sarah Palin for getting taken in by a French prank....got taken in by a French prank, publishing a phony letter from the "Mayor of Paris."

Bumiller Breaks out the Thesaurus: Shinseki "Vilified" and "Reviled" by Bushies

Elisabeth Bumiller, the paper's Bush-hostile White House reporter, keeps it going as she moves to the foreign policy desk covering the Pentagon.

Liberal Snob Egan Angry at "No Good" Joe the Plumber's Book Deal

Timothy Egan: "Joe, a k a Samuel J. Wurzelbacher, was no good as a citizen, having failed to pay his full share of taxes, no good as a plumber, not being fully credentialed, and not even any good ...

Thomas Friedman's Sudden Obama-Based Optimism on Iraq

What gall: The Times' columnist sees Obama and the Democrats benefiting from an improving situation in Iraq - but fails to mention their staunch opposition to the troop surge that made the ...

Not a Parody: "Turkeys Were Being Executed in the Background"

Does the Times' editorial board know where Thankgiving dinner comes from? Its hysterical reaction to a clip of Sarah Palin at a turkey pardon suggests not.

McCain's "Fundamentals of the Economy" Flub: A Revisionist View

Today the Times points to John McCain's statement as a gaffe that "fundamentally altered the dynamic of the race." But one Times writer characterized the resulting criticism as a "cheap shot."
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