By now you may have heard about the ruckus in the House of Representatives about two weeks ago over funding for the Israeli anti-missile “Iron Dome” program, which eventually passed, after protests from the Democrats’ “progressive” (sometimes) wing disrupted House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s attempt to slip $1 billion in funding for the Dome into an…
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The New York Times, searching for metaphors in the Suez Canal
In the past few days, the New York Times has run three articles—In Suez Canal, Stuck Ship Is a Warning About Excessive Globalization by Peter S. Goodman, Why the World’s Container Ships Grew So Big by Nirja Chokshi, and The Stuck Container Ship on the Suez Canal Was a Metaphor by Marc Levinson—all claiming that…
New York Times, Pentagon Shrill and Pentagon Shill
A recent editorial in the Times, The Fighter Jet That’s Too Pricey to Fail The F-35 is a boondoggle. Yet we’re stuck with it., strikes a welcome chord with me, since I just ran a similar piece, The F-35 Flying Turkey, Fiercely Flapping Its Wings, last week. Yet, as the second sentence of the subhead…
Thinking is not prohibited at the New York Times; but it is frowned upon. Strongly. Very strongly.
Actually, I’m cutting the Times, and the screamin’ wokies who make up its staff, an enormous amount of slack because it’s fairer to say that thinking is forbidden at the Times, rather than my kinder, gentler take. Latest victim of the “no think” movement at the Times is Donald McNeil Jr., booted for daring to…
Woke and Broke: The New York Times wants to destroy the city’s public school system
In today’s editorial, “Reopen Schools, and Reform Them”, the pathetically “correct” New York Times argues that “Scrapping the high-stakes admission tests for New York’s specialized public high schools is long overdue. They severely disadvantage talented Black and Latino students.” A more accurate head would be “Reopen schools, and then destroy middle class support for them,”…
Fake news! Fake news hot off the press from the New York Times! Supplied to you courtesy of Elliot Ackerman
When is a war not a war? In his recent column for the Gray Lady, bearing the highly dubious title “The Afghan War Is Over. Did Anyone Notice?”, Mr. Ackerman, described by the Times as one of the paper’s “contributing opinion writers”, explains it all for you: Afghanistan in 2009 is not Afghanistan in 2020….
Does the New York Times Understand How the Right to Free Speech Works?
Well, not to keep you in suspense, but the answer is no. Greg Bensinger, a member of the New York Times editorial board hitherto unknown to me, has blossomed forth with an opinion piece, “Does Zuckerberg Understand How the Right to Free Speech Works?”, which, alas, only demonstrates, all too conclusively,1 that it is Mr….
New socialist strategy at the New York Times: We will BORE you! To death!
That seems to be the plan at the “Business” section, no less, of the New York Times, or perhaps it should be the New Woke Times. “What Bernie Sanders Gets Right About the Media” is the latest and greatest from former BuzzFeed dude and now NYT “Media Equation” dude Ben Smith, who loudly champions everybody’s…
How often did the New York Times make an ass of itself in televising its selection process for determining which presidential candidate to endorse in 2020? Let me count the ways.
Well, I would if I had like an infinity calculator, but I don’t so I’ll just have to guess. The American Conservative’s Daniel Larison justly pummels them for at least a dozen good reasons, including their ridiculous, though “typical”, exaggeration of instability in the Middle East, “with a nuclear arms race looking more when than…
The New York Times gets bitchy
Oy vey. Perhaps this blog should simply be titled “O the Times”, because it seems that that’s all I write about. Anyway, I was reading, with no little schadenfreude (which Word can spell—how “continental” is that!), “Giuliani Divorce: It’s Ugly, It’s Operatic. What Did You Expect?’, since Rudy is easily my least favorite former New…