ElisabethBumiller

Obama Allies Attack Newt, Mitt to NYT Applause, But Bush's 2004 Attacks Were Wrong

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 18:09:00 +0000

Jeff Zeleny and Jim Rutenberg: "The jabs at Mr. Gingrich are one part gleeful mischief-making and one part serious due diligence....Their unrelenting attacks on Mr. Romney, which culminated in a humorous Web video of his evolution on a variety of issues, were viewed by many Republicans as a devastating success." A photo caption: "Democrats say that Mr. Gingrich's rocky tenure in the House should provide a particularly juicy target.

Clay Waters

Thursday's front-page campaign story by Jeff Zeleny and Jim Rutenberg prominently featured Obama campaign advisor David Axelrod frankly discussing how the party plans to influence the GOP primary by pitting Newt Gingrich (himself a "juicy target") against Mitt Romney: 'Democrats See 2-Horse Race, Adding Whip.' It's the kind of early White House attack the Times once disapproved of, at least when done by Republican President George W.

Jackie Calmes Twice Sees an Obama Goal of Budget 'Austerity'

admin — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:02:00 +0000

No wonder it's so hard to cut federal spending: A limited "spending freeze" of $250 billion over three years, out of a 2001 budget of $3.8 trillion, is twice trotted out as a radical "austerity" measure.

Clay Waters

Do Times reporters need a thesaurus to accompany their budget coverage?

Jackie Calmes and Robert Pear previewed President Obama's $3.8 trillion budget for fiscal year 2011 for Sunday's paper: "Obama Budget to Add to Programs, While Freezing Much Domestic Spending."

Times Trumpets Gitmo Prisoners Returning to Terror, But Excuses Obama

admin — Thu, 21 May 2009 18:02:00 +0000

The Times leads with a leaked report showing "1 in 7 detainees" released from Guantanamo Bay rejoined the jihad - but reporter Elisabeth Bumiller still exercised some pro-Obama spin.

Clay Waters

Elisabeth Bumiller nabbed Thursday's lead slot with a story based on a report leaked from the Department of Defense, which showed that around 15% of terror suspects transferred overseas from Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba had returned to violent activity, a figure that will probably make it evenharder for Obama to keep his campaign promise to close the prison: "1 in 7 Detainees Rejoined Jihad, Pentagon F

Now They Tell Us: John McCain a "War Hero," Barack Most Liberal Senator

admin — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 17:26:00 +0000

With Obama safely in the White House, McCain-hostile reporter Elisabeth Bumiller says the military preferred McCain to the "liberal" Obama.

Clay Waters

Now that Barack Obama is safely ensconced in the White House, Elisabeth Bumiller, who was a hostile reporter on the McCain campaign trail and is now covering the Pentagon, evidently feels free tobring upconservative points against Obama that she failed to raise back when it might have made a difference.

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

admin — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 13:28:00 +0000

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."

Clay Waters

The Times, which last month mocked Sarah Palin for getting taken in by a French prank...got taken in by a French prank, printing a letter Monday allegedly from Bertrand Delanoe, the Mayor of Paris, calling Caroline Kennedy's bid for a U.S. Senate seat as "appalling" and "not very democratic."

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

admin — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 19:20:00 +0000

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

Clay Waters

Elisabeth Bumiller, the Times' Bush-hostile White House reporter who is moving to the foreign policy desk to cover the Pentagon, buttered up Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Adm. Mike Mullen in a Tuesday article. Bumiller also recycled a liberal meme of Gen.

Did McCain Really "Tolerate Insults and Threats" of Obama?

admin — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 21:06:00 +0000

Reporter Elisabeth Bumiller also paints a distorted picture of John McCain's "devastated" reaction to Rep. John Lewis comparing him to segregationist George Wallace.

Clay Waters

As November 4 approaches, reporter Elisabeth Bumillerfound John McCain reverting to jokester form in "McCain Embraces His Lighter Side," from the McCain campaign in the candidate's home away from home, New Hampshire.

McCain's "Joe the Plumber" Flop; An NYT Photo Flop

admin — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 16:47:00 +0000

Reporter Elisabeth Bumiller lingered lovingly over a McCain campaign flub involving no-show Joe the Plumber, a story accompanied by a photo of McCain talking only to himself. Obama, by contrast, got a crowd shot.

Clay Waters

In her Friday filing from the McCain campaign, "In Ohio, McCain Is Everywhere Even if Joe the Plumber Isn't," Elisabeth Bumiller devoted severalcolorful paragraphs to a logistical flub. McCain called for Joe the Plumber (Joe Wurzelbacher) at a rally in Defiance, Ohio, only to find he wasn't there:

Ignoring Rashid Khalidi's Anti-Israeli Radicalism

admin — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 19:56:00 +0000

An Obama friend who the Times calls merely "critical of Israel" has actually defended attacks against armed Israelis.

Clay Waters

In its story Thursday on the McCain campaign calling for the Los Angeles Times to release a videotape of a dinner attended by Barack Obama honoring "Palestinian rights advocate" Rashid Khalidi, reporters Richard Perez-Pena and Elisabeth Bumiller soft-pedaled Khalidi's anti-Israeli radicalism.

Sprightly Obama, Slogging McCain

admin — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:40:00 +0000

Compare and contrast: "As he races across the country in the climax of a marathon campaign, Senator Barack Obama has honed a final message calling on America to 'turn the page'..." vs. "In these waning days of Senator John McCain's quest for the White House..."

Clay Waters

More double standards on the campaign trail? Check the lead of two parallel stories in Thursday's paper, one on the Obama campaign, the other on McCain.

The Obama story, reported by Peter Baker and Jeff Zeleny from Sunrise, Fla., has a sprightly, active-verb leadshowing Obama getting things done:

"Hostile," "Angry" Crowds Cheer on McCain-Palin

admin — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:06:00 +0000

Does this imply that Obama nation has nothing but lovely feelings for John McCain and Sarah Palin?

Clay Waters

Reporters Elisabeth Bumiller and Patrick Healy monitored a McCain rally in Wisconsin for more signs of GOP "anger" in Friday's "McCain Joins Attacks On Obama Over Radical." (At least the paper called the unrepentant domestic terrorist Bill Ayers a "radical.")The caption under a photo of McCain and Palin set the tone of the piece: "John McCain and Sarah Palin on Thursday in Waukesha, Wis.

"Conservative and All-White Crowds" Cheering Out-of-Touch McCain

admin — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 16:58:00 +0000

Elisabeth Bumiller doesn't try to hide her disdain for out of touch McCain: "Senator John McCain devoted most of two campaign appearances on Wednesday to lusty attacks on Senator Barack Obama and gave less attention, and offered very few specifics, to the growing economic woes of American voters."

Clay Waters

Elisabeth Bumiller reported Thursday from the McCain trail in Ohio and found "conservative and almost all-white crowds" greeting the Republican, in "McCain Excites Crowds With Criticism of Obama." Bumiller, perhaps the Times reporter most read more

Bumiller Joins Obama to Paint McCain as Bumbler: Colleague Cries "Cheap Shot"

admin — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 02:31:00 +0000

A Times reporter has her (and the Obama campaign's) assumption challenged on the idea that McCain is blind to America's economic woes: "When you listen to that sound-bite in its totality, isn't it a cheap shot to say that John McCain was bragging about how good the economy was to that crowd?"

Clay Waters

New York Times-MSNBC contributor John Harwood took his usual Tuesday afternoon slot on the cable network to interview Elisabeth Bumiller, the Times' lead reporter on the McCain campaign beat.

Gee, Why Do Conservatives Think Journalists Are Snooty Liberals?

admin — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 20:51:00 +0000

A Times reporter tells two people at a McCain rally: "You have to read the New York Times. Don't just listen to what Bill O'Reilly says."

Clay Waters

Jennifer Rubin of Commentary Magazine has a great on-the-ground report from Wednesday's McCain-Palin rally in Fairfax, Va., in which an anonymous Times reporter (who could be Elisabeth Bumiller) demonstrated why many Americans don't trust the paper. Rubin was inthe designated media area next to " a well-known New York Times reporter" trying to get some interviews with the pro-McCain crowd:

And This Year's Award for Bad Metaphor Goes to...

admin — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 20:40:00 +0000

John McCain, "the happy captive"?

Clay Waters

From a Wednesday afternoon post by reporter Elisabeth Bumiller, covering a McCain-Palin rally in Fairfax County, Va: