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Thomas Friedman Says GOP Looking for Someone as 'Smart and Mellifluous' as Obama

Friedman told David Gregory on Meet the Press: "And I think Newt's rise is speaking to us. And what it says to me is, is that I think there's a lot of Republicans who are starved for a candidate ...

Jeremy Peters on the 'Dog-Whistle Politics,' Subliminal Crosses of the Religious Right

Reporter Jeremy Peters is seeing things: "The 2004 Bush-Cheney campaign used billboards with faint images of crosses. And at the Republican National Convention that year, the lecterns on stage ...

'Worst Piece' of NYT Climate Reporting Ever? Justin Gillis's Christmas Day Snow Job

An environmental scientist eviscerates Justin Gillis's front-page article on extreme weather events and global warming as "perhaps the worst piece of reporting I've ever seen in the Times on ...

'Tis the Season to Fight 'Gross Inequality' and Shrink Our Carbon Footprint

Merry Christmas? The Times' Christmas editorial wishes for "an end to the conditions that cause war: gross inequality, intolerance, the endless, destructive struggle over natural resources..."

Barstow's Reluctant Pentagon Vindication Buried on Christmas Day

David Barstow won a Pulitzer Prize for his 2008 investigation alleging the Pentagon breached ethics in its briefings of TV and radio military analysts. But a Pentagon report showing no wrongdoing ...

What's This 'Us' Business? Friedman Laments of Obama: 'He's Never Leveraged Us'

On Charlie Rose, a roundtable including Times Executive Editor Jill Abramson and columnist Tom Friedman lamented President Obama's inability to convince Americans of his liberal agenda. Abramson ...

'Free Housing' an Aspect of Soviet Union's 'Appealing' Past

The advantages of Soviet Communism: "Dobrokhotov said that many aspects of the past - a stronger education system, free housing - now seemed appealing to young Russians."

Steinhauer Isolates GOP's Conservative House Majority on NYT Front Page: 'Very Much Alone'

A hostile Steinhauer dramatizes the isolation of the conservative flank of the Republican Party: "After defiantly rejecting a Senate compromise to extend a payroll tax break and jobless pay, ...

Greta Van Susteren Whaps NY Times for Skipping MSNBC Coffee Talk With Obama

Fox News host Greta Van Susteren is still mad at The New York Times for underlining her husband John Coale's assistance to Herman Cain. On her GretaWire blog, she highlighted Jake Tapper's news ...

Art Critic Takes on 'Noxious Vibes Emanating' from the Ultra-Rich '1 Percent'

Taking on the "noxious" 1 percenters in the arts pages: "True, art-worldlings did at least adopt one thing from the Occupy Wall Street movement: a new identifying label for the source of ...
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