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Times Ignores Sen. Reid's Patriot Act Hypocrisy, Embraces the Act in Obama Era

admin — Fri, 27 May 2011 14:48:00 +0000

The Times has certainly become more comfortable with the Patriot Act since the Bush administration: "Patriot Act Battle Could Hinder Investigators." But a 2005 story on extending a Patriot Act provision allowing searches of library records likened librarians to freedom-fighting American colonial rebels.

Clay Waters

New York Times legal reporter Charlie Savage's two stories on libertarian Sen. Rand Paul holding up extending sections of the Patriot Act ignored the huge hypocrisy of the act's newest vocal defender, Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. The paper also demonstrated a new-found comfort on the part of the Times for the act, which it excoriated during the Bush years.

Network Double Standard: Obama's TSA Gropers vs. Bush's NSA Eavesdroppers

Mon, 22 Nov 2010 19:34:00 +0000

Rich Noyes

While the broadcast networks have generally empathized with the distress of airline passengers over the TSA's new and intrusive airport searches, they have not - thus far, at least - gone so far as to impugn the Obama administration as launching a war against Americans' civil liberties.

"Civil Libertarians" NYT's New Euphemism for Liberals

admin — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:45:00 +0000

Legal reporter Charles Savage breaks it out several times in a story to describe opposition to provisins of the Patriot Act. Savage uncovered no "liberal" opponents but did locate "fierce opposition from Senate conservatives."

Clay Waters

Legal reporter Charlie Savage's Sunday report, "Battle Looms Over the Patriot Act - Government's Power to Seize Records and Eavesdrop Are at Issue," begged the question: How does the Times distinguish a "civil libertarian" from a plain old liberal activist?

Times Uses Librarian Obit to Bash "Insidious Portion" of Patriot Act

admin — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 18:44:00 +0000

Plus: The Times calls a single group "ultraconservative" 15 times but has only used the term "ultraliberal" to describe any liberal group once.

Clay Waters

The American Library Association's Judith Krug is dead of cancer at 69. She is best known for Banned Books Week, which made her a hero among a certain kind of liberal who enjoy preening as resolute defenders of free speech. Douglas Martin wrote the obituary, includingKrug's fights with socialconservatives, but at least provided some balancing views:

Critic Works "Extreme" Patriot Act Criticism Into Review of Oppenheimer Doc

admin — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:03:00 +0000

TV critic Mike Hale: "And the more extreme features of the Patriot Act may come to mind when witnessing some of the tactics used in the campaign to smear [J. Robert] Oppenheimer and remove him...from an active role in decisions about atomic strategy."

Clay Waters

On Monday, Times television critic Mike Hale reviewed "The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer," a PBS documentary onthe enigmatic father of the hydrogen bomb that aired Monday night. But Hale read more into the story than was shown on the screen, finding a liberal parable for our times:

"Public Lives" of Liberals - Times Adores a George Soros Activist

admin — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 16:59:00 +0000

The Times uses its "Public Lives" profile to praise a George Soros liberal.

Clay Waters

Once again, the http://www.timeswatch.org/twarticles/2005/20050805.asp " target="_self">Times http://www.timeswatch.org/twarticles/2005/20050805.asp ">uses one of its "soft" features, the Friday "Public Lives" profile, to push a liberal agenda without having to bother with a conservative rebuttal.

Montana's Daily-Kos Democrat As A "Prairie Pragmatist"

admin — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 15:14:00 +0000

Timothy Egan: "...the senator-elect from Montana truly is your grandfather's Democrat - a pro-gun, anti-big-business prairie pragmatist whose life is defined by the treeless patch of hard Montana dirt that has been in the family since 1916."

Clay Waters

Now that the Democrats hold the majority in the Senate, the New York Times is painting the new Senators firmly into the political middle. Reporter Timothy Eganprofiled Sen.-Elect JonTester, one of the hard-left Daily Kos Democrats, in a story headlined "Fresh Off the Farm in Montana, a Senator-to-Be."

Notable Quotables - 11/06/2006

kristine.lawrence — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 14:22:55 +0000

Vol. Nineteen; No. 23

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Victory Lap: Puffballs for Pelosi...

Lesley Stahl: “With just 16 days to the election....Nancy Pelosi, who already made history once when she became Minority Leader, thinks she’s about to do it again.”
Rep. Nancy Pelosi: “First of all, you have to understand, breaking the — here we call it ‘the marble ceiling.’ This makes glass look like nothing. This is a marble ceiling.”