Hard to say. The Times recently got itself a lot of bad publicity for its massive exercise in nation shaming, aka the 1619 Project, wherein the Times nobly accepts the burden—the Gray Lady’s Burden, one might call it—of explaining to us yahoos just how benighted we are on the subject of race. But that was…
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The New York Times, more sinned against than sinning. Or not.
The New York Times has caught a lot of grief for its “1619 Project”, which claims to explain all of American history in terms of slavery. And much of it is justified. Damon Linker, writing in The Week, gives a reasonable overview: “The New York Times surrenders to the left on race”, Damon offers praise…
The irresistible charm of the outlier updated: New York Times Edition
It seems like only yesterday—because it was— that I was riffing on the tendency of the lamestream media (and everyone else) to generalize on the follies of our times not on the average but the extreme, to wit, an article in the Washington Post decrying the alleged abysmal performance of the Arlington County, Va. English…
Karl Lagerfeld: No Gay Nazis need apply
OK, Karl Lagerfeld was not a Nazi, but he was born in Germany sometime between 1933 and 1935. What was it like living in Nazi Germany under Hitler as a boy? Was his dad a Nazi? A soldier? Was his home bombed? Invaded by Soviet troops? And what about the gay thing? Apparently, he had…
I hate the New York Times! They make me agree with John Stossel!
I’m not a big fan of John Stossel, who hangs his hat, and his moustache, which was once the property of Harry Reems, at “Reason” magazine. John was once a hyperventilating talking head, à la Sixty Minutes, hyperventilating in the name of mainstream liberalism, until he saw the light à la Milton Friedman, and now…
Rod Rosenstein, a shande fur di goyim
As I’ve already noted, the New York Times has called upon Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to save “us” and himself by somehow leveraging his “sterling reputation” to make the Trump Administration’s ax murder/defenestration of now former FBI Director James Comey not look like the gaping wound in the body politic that it so obviously…
Dear New York Times: Rod Rosenstein will not save us
The New York Times writes a dreadfully earnest “open” letter1 to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein beseeching him, “[a]t this fraught moment”, in light of his “sterling reputation”—“including a 27-year career in the Justice Department under five administrations, and the distinction of being the longest-serving United States attorney in history”—yada, yada, yada to basically “save…
Donald Trump is FABULOUS!
That’s the word from the New York Times, determined to elbow David Ignatius out of the front of the line of the Donald Trump Suck-Up Brigade. “Covering the Trump White House can be exhilarating, maddening, exhausting — but never boring,” sigh starry-eyed Times’s White House Correspondents Mark Landler, Julie Hirschfeld Davis, Glenn Thrush, Maggie Haberman,…
The New York Times, furiously beating the drums of war
Did you see video of that big military parade in North Korea last week? Those huge missile carriers, designed to hold an ICBM capable of reaching the U.S.? Did it ever occur to you that those carriers might be empty, that the parade was a huge bluff, that the North Koreans have never tested an…
There’s a Tomahawk in your future, America! Lots of them!
When in doubt, blow shit up. That must be Donald Trump’s new motto these days, and why not? We all know the Donald lives for press, and he’s never gotten press since becoming president compared with the hysterical “today, he became a man” praise he’s receiving from our addle-pated mainstream media. The New York Times…