As I understand it, all the cool kids at the White House (whose number, according to Ben Rhodes, is limited to President Obama and, well, Ben Rhodes) like to call the blinkered, myopic terminally self-righteous American foreign policy establishment “the Blob.” That said, if you’re up for some seriously blinkered self-righteous myopia, you ought to…
Tag: New York Times
Here’s a newsflash for you, NYT: Hillary Clinton is not so hot
In case you don’t feel like reading through 902 responses to the New York Times’s seriously rose-tinted endorsement of Hillary Clinton, well, here’s comment no. 903: “I would vote for Hillary over whoever the Republican nominee will be, but this "portrait” is seriously airbrushed. Hillary helped lie us into an entirely unnecessary and unsuccessful war…
EDITOR’S NOTE: Alan Vanneman regrets to admit that he has nothing intelligent or informed to say about the ISIS crisis. Instead, he will write about nail salons.
You read Sarah Maslin Nir’s two-part exposé of New York nail salons the New York Times. You read the “How I got the story” interview with Nir in the Times. You read the rebuttal by nail salon owner and former New York Times reporter Richard Bernstein. You read the NYT rebuttal to Bernstein’s rebuttal. And…
The subtle hypocrisy of the New York Times
The Aug. 24 edition of the New York Times carries an article by David E. Sanger and Michael R. Gordon headlined “Future Risks of an Iran Nuclear Deal” whose third paragraph reads as follows: “Even some of the most enthusiastic backers of the agreement, reached by six world powers with Iran, say they fear Mr….
Fuck you, New York Times
On Wednesday, May 27th, the New York Times, for which I have a paid digital subscription, ran an “opinion” piece by Republican hit person Peter Wehner, titled “Have Democrats Pulled Too Far Left?”, which rattles through a predictable series of semi-truths and falsehoods regarding domestic issues, politely and nicely dissected by Jonathan Chait here. Well,…
No tears for Brian Williams
Did you hear about former NBC nightly news host Brian Williams? Well, if you haven’t, he’s out, and all the complaints about an outrageous and hypocritical media firestorm can’t conceal the fact that the petard on which poor Brian self-hoisted and self-destructed was a cream-puff nightly news item about a non-event starring Brian himself! Did…
If I told you, I’d have to cancel your subscription
Nothing to see here, folks. Nothing to see. No, nothing at all. Let me see if I’ve got all my links straight here. Judicial Watch submitted a FOIA request to the CIA, and the results of that request are available here. Over at Politico, Dylan Byers digests the results here, learning that that New York…
Fear the underwear
In the latest very, very dangerous CIA-invented/exposed terrorist plot, we learn, in the very, very breathless words of the LA Times, that the underwear bomb at the heart of the matter “bears the forensic signature of feared Al Qaeda bomb maker Ibrahim Hassan Asiri,” also connected to the dreaded underwear bomb that resulted in second-degree…
Whole Iran Deal not a Big Deal, Experts Say
Yes, that whole Iran thing that everyone was so worried about, well, it’s not really a big deal, says NYTimer James Risen, in an article quoting both faceless and faced experts, politely stepping down all the sturm und drang that the Times has been peddling for the past year or so—quoting, of course, only the…
The New York Times has issues, even if you don’t
Over at Salon, Glenn Greenwald keeps his hair close-cropped, the better to avoid pulling it out in rage and frustration over the manifold lies and crimes of the U.S. government and its frequent mouthpiece, the New York Times. On April 4, the Times ran a breathless piece headlined “U.S. Sees Iran in Bids to Stir…