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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 ...

Another Nudge Toward Health Care Rationing: Questioning "Costly Valve for the Frail"

The next big thing in heart surgery are replacement valves, which can be implanted without open-heart surgery. But instead of evaluating this as a straightforward boon to humanity, the Times ...

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."

Times Health-Care "Refresher" Just Same Old Liberal Talking Points

David Herszenhorn accepts dubious liberal premises about how the cost of U.S. health care is "rising way too fast" and talks in soothing terms of "reductions to slow Medicare spending" (don't call ...

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 ...

Times Discovers Abortion Part of Health Care Fight After All

Surprise: After dismissing conservative concern over possible taxpayer-funded abortions under Obama-care as a "peripheral" issue or even a "myth," the Times runs a front-page story headlined ...

Obama's "Diplomatic Coup" in Russia Over Iran's Nukes?

Yeah Obama! (And don't mention the betrayal of Poland and the Czech Republic over the cancelling of an antimissile system.)

Former NYT Editor Howell Raines Comes Out As "Liberal to Radical"

Raines' tribute to former Times colleague William Safire includes this self-description: "It always amused me that this conservative Eastern elitist was a deep-dyed populist when it came to ...

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 ...
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