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Anti-Obama GOP Reduced to Rural Conservatives Who Watch Fox News
Posted By: Clay Waters
 10/16/2009 2:20:47 PM
Jackie Calmes finds the GOP dominated by a rump group of conservative Southerners who take orders from cable: "They are largely reduced to the party's base of mostly Southern and rural states and beholden both to the conservative activists there and to the cable television celebrities those activists follow."
Fearing "Raw, Fearsome" "Unchecked Fervor" at Conservative Campus Protest Against Obama
Posted By: Clay Waters
10/16/2009 12:31:22 PM
Barack Obama is visiting conservative college campus Texas A&M, leading the Times to suddenly start caring about a college not embarrassing itself by disrespecting the president -- a concern absent during eight years of campus protests of Bush administration figures.
Columnist Kristof Gets Off a Good One: Democrats vs. Quality Education
Posted By: Clay Waters
 10/15/2009 2:16:00 PM
Liberal columnist Nicholas Kristof takes on the teachers' unions, whose resistance to reform has resulted in "generations of disadvantaged children" being "cemented into an underclass by third-rate schools."
Dowd Dares You to Enter "The Gargoyled Gates of Cheneyville"
Posted By: Clay Waters
10/14/2009 3:22:40 PM
Cheney-obsessed columnist Maureen Dowd predicts Liz Cheney's website will "have all kinds of fun reading, like memos by Bush lawyers on enhanced interrogation. (Or, as it's more commonly known outside the gargoyled gates of Cheneyville, torture.)"
The Times Embraces Another Liberal Rally on the Hill: Illegal Immigration
Posted By: Clay Waters
10/14/2009 2:14:32 PM
Unlike the paper's sour coverage of the September 12 anti-spending rally, Ian Urbina's profile of Tuesday's rally for amnesty was stocked with nothing but positive vibes.
Surprise: Times Shows Respect to Pro-Life Demonstrators
Posted By: Clay Waters
10/13/2009 3:09:45 PM
Reporter Damien Cave's front-page story was notable for the respect he showed a particular group of aggressive political demonstrators that don't garner plaudits from the media -- pro-lifers. The Times even took the very unusual step of posting graphic photos of the aftermath of abortion on its web site.
NYT Highlights Race-Baiter Sharpton's Hit Against Limbaugh, While Hinting Host Is Racist
Posted By: Clay Waters
10/13/2009 4:31:52 PM
Oh the irony: Inflammatory race-baiter Al Sharpton says Rush Limbaugh is too "divisive" to own an NFL team, while columnist George Vecsey treats Limbaugh like an unworthy upstart and maybe a racist to boot. Is there a joke I'm missing?
Step Away from the Candy Dish
Posted By: Clay Waters
10/12/2009 3:57:21 PM
The paper's left-wing "Ethicist" columnist calls for a crackdown on candy jars in the office: "Snacking might be defended as a personal choice, but it's tough to stay cake-free amid a permanent exhibition of pastry....Your boss might see this as a matter of workplace health and safety and act to spare employees the perpetual seduction of cookies calling to them from a dozen desks."
Columnist Thomas Friedman's Patriotic Flourish
Posted By: Clay Waters
10/12/2009 3:19:04 PM
Columnist Thomas Friedman, writing a mock Nobel Prize speech for Obama, urges the president to hail the U.S. military as "the world's most important peacekeepers."
Also Part of the "Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy": The Masons?
Posted By: Clay Waters
 10/12/2009 2:23:59 PM
Columnist Maureen Dowd reads Dan Browns' new novel "The Lost Symbol" and uncovers the real conspiracy as well as "a father-son struggle for global domination, as though we didn't get enough of that with the Bushes."
Gay-Friendly Protest Coverage in Sharp Contrast to Sour Treatment of 9-12 Rally
Posted By: Clay Waters
10/12/2009 2:03:34 PM
The Times hypes the gay rights rally with optimistic crowd estimates and a positive tone quite unlike the paper's sour coverage of the much larger conservative rally of September 12. But how many "tens of thousands" of gay rights advocates actually showed up on the West Lawn yesterday?
John McCain Being a "Dangerous" "Bomb-Thrower" Against Obama Care
Posted By: Clay Waters
10/9/2009 1:42:17 PM
Biased health reporter Katharine Seelye goes after Sen. John McCain on a nytimes.com podcast for being a "bit of a bomb-thrower" for pushing...a liberal idea on importing cheap drugs from Canada that the Times has previously supported.
Times Watch Quotes of Note -- Influential Times Editor Calls Anti-Tax Protesters "Tea-Baggers"
Posted By: Clay Waters
10/9/2009 12:50:39 PM
Plus: If Only Life Were More Like a Ralph Nader Novel
Main Economics Writer Says High Taxes Are Necessary for Modern Society
Posted By: Clay Waters
10/8/2009 1:29:42 PM
High taxes are a societal imperative, says the Times' economics conscience, David Leonhardt: "And taxes are supposed to rise as a country grows richer."
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