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Euro-Philic NYT Paints 'Isolated' Britain As 'Big Loser' in Battle Over EU Accord

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 20:15:00 +0000

Despite the wrecked economies of Europe, there's little euro-skepticism among Times reporters: "The big loser in Brussels was Britain...[British PM David] Cameron was perceived as having made a poor gamble in opposing the push by Mrs. Merkel and President Nicolas Sarkozy of France, embittering relations and possibly damaging his standing at home."

Clay Waters

British Prime Minister David Cameron was embraced by conservatives and euro-skeptics after rejecting a European Union agreement aimed at stabilizing the troubled economic union.

NYT's Hostility Toward French President Sarkozy Unabated

admin — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 17:07:00 +0000

French President Sarkozy hassling the poor Socialist Party with his "obsession" with balanced budgets and deficit reduction: "The Socialists...have some sensible arguments, but as often in politics, a simple idea often trumps a complicated one. The Socialists recognize the need for fiscal discipline."

Clay Waters

The Times maintained its strange hostility toward center-right French president Nicolas Sarkozy in Steven Erlanger Tuesday's story from Paris, 'Sarkozy Seen as Baiting Socialists With Budget Role.'

For Second Day in Row, Times Blames Right-Leaning French President for Soccer Team's Travails

admin — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 17:31:00 +0000

The Times aims another penalty kick right at Nicolas Sarkozy: "Fadela Amara, the junior minister for the racially charged suburbs who was born to Algerian parents, warned on Tuesday that the reaction to the team's loss had become racially charged....She criticized Mr. Sarkozy's handling of a debate on 'national identity'..."

Clay Waters

For the second day in a row, French President Nicolas Sarkozy shared the blame for France's surprising loss in the opening round of soccer's World Cup - in a story in the Times' news section.

Jere Longman's Wednesday front-page story transmitted rants from Socialist Party opponents of the right-leaning, Bush-supporting Sarkozy, accusing him of being "President Bling Bling" and promoting a national "selfishness" that seeped into the players' psyches.

Towering Hypocrisy: Times Calls Swiss Intolerant for Minaret Ban

admin — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:09:00 +0000

A Swiss vote banning new construction of minarets (the prayer towers for Muslim mosques) has "undermined the country's reputation for religious tolerance." Will the Times ever tackle the lack of churches in Islam's holy cities of Mecca and Medina?

Clay Waters

Nick Cumming-Bruce and Steven Erlanger reported from Geneva Monday on the surprise decision by Swiss voters to ban the construction of minarets, the prayer towers for Muslim mosques. "In Bastion of Tolerance, Swiss Reject Construction of Minarets on Mosques." The text box read: "A referendum drawn up by the far right finds wide support."

Free-Market Radical From Czech Republic "Embarrasses" EU Again

admin — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:14:00 +0000

Once again, the Times chides a Czech Republic leader's infuriating embrace of free-market principles.

Clay Waters

Those socialist European Union countries sure are sensitive, as are the Times reporters who support them. Steven Erlanger and Stephen Castle reported Thursday from Paris (with help from Dan Bilefsky) on comments by Czech Republic Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek, current president of the 27-nation European Union, claiming that Barack Obama's "stimulus package" was "a way to hell" that would undermine the global financial market.

"Lethal Tricks" by Both Hamas and Israel?

admin — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:55:00 +0000

The Times demonstrates its usual obsession with moral equivalency in the Middle East: "Gaza War Is Full of Traps and Trickery By Both Hamas and Israel."

Clay Waters

More of the Times' Middle East moral equivalency - a ludicrious attempt tobalance the terrorism committed by Hamas with the countermeasures undertaken by Israel - was on display Sunday's off-lead story from Jerusalem by former Jerusalem Bureau Chief Steven Erlanger.

"Grumpy," Gaffe-Prone McCain vs. Obama's "Tone Poems" in Berlin

admin — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:19:00 +0000

"On Thursday evening in a glittering Berlin, cheered by as many as 200,000 people, Mr. Obama delivered a tone poem to American and European ideals and shared history. In contrast, just before he spoke, Mr. McCain, was sitting in Schmidt's Sausage Haus und Restaurant in Columbus, Ohio, having a bratwurst, and saying grumpily that he would prefer to speak to Germans when he is president, not before."

Clay Waters

Even against a backdrop of adulatory media coverage, a story by Steven Erlanger stands out for the starkness of its contrast between presidential candidates Barack Obama, who delivered a "tone poem" of a speech in Berlin, versus a "grumpy" John McCain stuck eating a bratwurst in a German restaurant in Ohio.

Steven Erlanger's Latest Whitewash of Hamas

admin — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 18:41:00 +0000

Erlanger: The anti-Israeli terrorist Hamas is "in its way, pragmatic," the Palestinian terrorist leader Yasir Arafat was a "charismatic man," and Israel and the U.S. are responsible for the Palestinian civil war.

Clay Waters

Times Jerusalem bureau chief Steven Erlanger has long been notorious for his pro-Palestinian reporting, and his Sunday magazine profile of Gaza's Khaled Abu Hilal, who went from the "mainstream" Palestinian group Fatah to the overtly anti-Israeli terrorist group Hamas, certainly fit the pattern.

Moral Equivalency Between Israel, Palestinian Terrorists

admin — Tue, 22 May 2007 16:39:00 +0000

Israel killed four terrorists, while Palestinians killed an Israeli citizen. But it's all the same for Times' headline writers.

Clay Waters

Business as usual in the Middle East yesterday, as Israel killed four terrorists, while Palestinians killed an Israeli citizen. Yet the headline to the Tuesday story by Taghreed El-Kohdary and Steven Erlanger treated the incidents as if they were morally equivalent acts - "Israel and Palestinian Militants Carry Out Deadly Attacks."

"The Latest Indignity" for Iraqis...a Wall to Protect Them

admin — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 17:25:00 +0000

They were happier under Saddam? "But the Adhamiya wall...has fast become a metaphor for the cumulative resentment that Iraqis feel about the violence and disruption of daily life that have brought so much misery to the country since the American invasion in 2003."

Clay Waters

New Times reporter Alissa Rubin issues another ideological piece from Baghdad, "Frustration Unites Sunni and Shiite in Opposition to Baghdad Wall."

The "Capture" of an Israeli Soldier by Hamas?

admin — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 13:54:00 +0000

Was Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit "kidnapped" or merely "captured"?

Clay Waters

Pro-Palestinian reporter Steven Erlanger "captures" the paper's anti-Israel tone well in Monday's story, "Hamas Reports Progress On Freeing Israeli Soldier."

Left-Wing Israeli "Peace" Group Knows Just Who to Call

admin — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 18:23:00 +0000

Steven Erlanger gets the first look at a report from what he calls an "Israeli advocacy group" that advocates Israelis move out of "occupied territories" - and gets the lead story as well.

Clay Waters

Tuesday's Times leads with a story handed to it by a left-wing anti-Israeli settler group by resident pro-Palestinian reporter Steven Erlanger, "IsraeliMap Says West Bank Post Sit On Arab Land - A New Obstacle To Peace - One-third of Jewish Area Is on Private Property, Organization Says."

Steven Erlanger: Israel Doesn't Care About Lebanese Civilians

admin — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 15:00:00 +0000

The Jerusalem bureau chief's hostility toward Israel comes through at a conference in Jerusalem.

Clay Waters

The Israeli news portal YNET (hat tip: National Review's Media Blog) reports that at a media conference Monday in Jerusalem, Bureau Chief Steven Erlanger criticized Israel's lack of "proportionality" in its counterattack against Hezbollah after that Lebanon-based terrorist group crossed into Israel and killed and kidnapped Israeli soldiers.