When Biases Collide

NRO ^ | 7 June 2015 | Kevin Williamson

[Rummyfan]

Sometimes, you really have to give the New York Times credit for the sheer amount of reportorial labor it undertakes.

This is not one of those times.

A couple of Times reporters spent Friday morning basking in praise for their “nice scoop” — the less-than-remarkable public knowledge that Marco Rubio was written four traffic tickets over the course of two decades — but, as Brent Scher of the Washington Free Beacon pointed out, neither of the reporters in the byline — Alan Rappeport and Steve Eder — nor the researcher also credited by the Times for the piece — Kitty Bennett — ever accessed the traffic records in question. But somebody did: American Bridge, a left-wing activist group, had pulled the records just before the Times piece appeared, and the Times employed some cagey language, with the relevant sentence beginning: “According to a search of the Miami-Dade and Duval County court dockets. . . . ” A search? Yes. Whose search? A piece of the news that apparently is not fit to print.

That the New York Times’s political desk is thick with lazy partisans who take their cues — and in some cases, their research — from Democratic interest groups is not a secret, though the Times really ought to have, if not the honesty and the institutional self-respect, then at least the sense of self-preservation (these things do come to light) to disclose that it is being fed opposition research and choosing to publish it as though it were news. Senator Rubio’s having received a traffic citation approximately once every five years is no less newsworthy because the documentation was gathered by a Democratic activist group.

[freedumb2003]

4 tickets! This is some big time scandal stuff!!!!

"Tom Seaver - he once borrow Chico's soap and no give it back"

[Rummyfan]

LOL!

[Mr Ramsbotham]

Four tickets? Time for RICO to kick in.

[Leaning Right]

This is only a preview of things to come. And make no mistake about it, this sort of thing WILL have an impact.

Like so many others, I noticed similar attacks back in 2008 and 2012. The Times, Yahoo!, etc., etc., kept running small, snide negative stories about GOP candidates.

One little cut is no big deal...but thousands of cuts add up.

[Carl Vehse]

"4 tickets! This is some big time scandal stuff!!!!"

And two of those were dismissed. That's two traffic tickets in 18 years.

Versus Satan's daughter, who steals oxygen and exhales treason with every breath.

[GOPJ]

... New York Times’s political desk is thick with lazy partisans who take their cues — and in some cases, their research — from Democratic interest groups...

Effing trolls rewrite high level dem press releases. A pox on the New York Times ... liars, lowlifes, posers...

[GOPJ]

New York Times 'editors' are handed stories from Democrat operatives... then they sit at their desk and 'soul search' weighing the source - and that it WILL help democrats - vs the 'quality of the story'.

Take a guess which way they jump...

These high paid scammers need to drop the pretense of 'soul searching' - cause it's bullsh*t.

The New York Times and many other formerly respectable papers should fire editors. Cut out the middle man -

have the DNC assign stories directly...

"Editors" have become a costly level of corruption - - they don't fool anyone ... The DNC runs the desk... why have editors?

None of us fall for the lies anymore - which is why newspapers - opps I mean PRNewswires for Dems - are going our of business. Trust is the ONLY product they sell...and they've blown that.

[Don Corleone]

"Fake but Accurate" comes to mind.

[Leaning Right]

I have a number of liberal acquaintances who complain that the MSM is too far right. Yep, you read that correctly, and I kid you not.

Their complaint is that the MSM does not highlight enough of Obama’s “accomplishments” while hiding too many GOP “failures”. I have heard that complaint quite a few times.

It would be like someone insisting that 1+1=5000. All I can do is shake my head and walk away.

[GOPJ]

I have a number of liberal acquaintances who complain that the MSM is too far right.

That was originally a troll meme... put out to make suck ups in the MSM feel better about themselves. Dem Handlers know how to take care of their charges.... Guess your friends picked up on it.

Many newspapers do NOT have one staff person who's conservative... NOT ONE in the Newsroom. Did you know that Leaning Right?

Your friends are easily influenced. Gullible might be the better term... Every handler's dream person...

[Leaning Right]

That was originally a troll meme... put out to make suck ups in the MSM feel better about themselves

Interesting. I never thought about it that way.

Your friends are easily influenced.

Not friends, acquaintances. I get to choose my friends. Acquaintances (co-workers and neighbors) I'm pretty much stuck with. But you're right, they are easily influenced, almost child-like politically.

[GOPJ]

Have they told you they don’t like to argue about politics because there’s ‘nothing they can do’...

[Leaning Right]

Oh no, my liberal acquaintances love to argue about politics. but it's always via loaded questions, like "Why do Republicans hate so much?"

But I learned my lesson back in the 1980's. I got in a discussion with a liberal co-worker about Ronald Reagan. I can accept that he didn't care for Reagan. But he said some very crude and vulgar things about the man. I darn near lost my temper and hit him. What a career-ender that would have been!

So I no longer engage in any political discussions with any of them. I either change the topic to sports, or walk away.

[GOPJ]

If the people you work with ‘love to talk about politics’ it’s probably because they outnumber you... You’re in my prayers Leaning Right...

Tell them about Drudge - and hope for the best. People on that side - liberals - can live their whole lives and never be exposed to conservative writers... or serious conservative thought. We on the other hand live within a liberal cultural bubble - magazines, TV, Newspapers, movies ... etc.