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The Gray Lady feels the agony of political defeat — in her reputation and in her wallet. After taking a beating almost as brutal as Hillary Clinton’s, the New York Times on Friday made an extraordinary appeal to its readers to stand by her...

WASHINGTON — The burst of job growth in January gives President Obama a fresh — but tricky — opportunity to revise the grim economic narrative of his presidency while offering Mitt Romney a choice: embrace a new optimism or campaign against a sinking economy even as it shows signs of turning around. The Labor Department reported on Friday that the unemployment rate had fallen all the way back to the level of President Obama’s first full month in office, to 8.3 percent, from a high of 10 percent in late 2009. Yet unemployment also remains higher than it has been...

HERE’S a story I’d like to read — and I’ll bet you would too. One of America’s leading companies, a world-famous brand, has hit a rough patch. Its revenues and profits are declining, its debt rating has been downgraded, and a leading Wall Street house has advised investors to dump their shares. With sales of its core product falling, the company is raising the price and investing heavily in new technology that is slow to pay off. A major outside shareholder has been agitating to end the stock structure that has allowed one storied and powerful family to run the...

Gray Lady Down Trust: The so-called mainstream media in general and The New York Times in particular are waging a relentless campaign undermining the war on terror. The Fourth Estate is beginning to look like a Fifth Column. It's hard to imagine a major American newspaper in 1942 announcing before the Battle of Midway that we had broken the Imperial Japanese code or before D-Day that the Allies had a machine that let us read the Nazis' highest-level transmissions. Yet in the war on terror, that's exactly the kind of information that papers like the Times and The Washington Post,...

Today (25 September) the NY Times ran an editorial, “The Hard Bigotry of No Expectations.” It excoriates the Bush Administration for two principle “failures,” the bad response to Hurricane Katrina and the defective Iraq Constitution. Instead, the Times demonstrated that its entire staff is incompetent. Regarding Katrina, the Times opines, “Four years after 9/11, Katrina showed the world that performance standards for the Department of Homeland Security were so low that it was not required to create real plans to respond to real disasters.” Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/25/opinion/25sun1.html The Times has dozens of its reporters and editors working on various aspects of...

White House deputy chief of staff Karl Rove doesn't like the liberal New York Times, and he's certainly justified. Moreover, when Rove met up with two Times editors during the heated 2004 campaign, he was not the least bit reluctant to tell the Times what he thought of its blatantly obvious bias in favor of John Kerry and his party. Rove has lots of good reasons to despise the Times. Among other things, the Gray Lady had run a shamefully slanted and misleading piece by White House reporter Elisabeth Bumiller, "A Democratic Rallying Cry: Vote Bush out of Rove's Office,"...

The New York Times, owner of the Boston Globe, has not provided an impartial view of gay marriage that is required in “balanced journalism,” according to the paper’s new ombudsman, Daniel Okrent, who wrote last Sunday. Agreeing with the opinion of J. Edward Pawlick in his book, “Libel by New York Times,” Okrent said that the “news” in the paper on homosexuality amounts to “cheerleading.” Although the Publisher, Arthur O. Sulzberger Jr. was mentioned in the story, along with the fact that the paper changed its course when he became Chairman and took control in the late 1990s, the ombudsman...

WASHINGTON – The New York Times, which yesterday buried the story about a former national security adviser caught shoving highly classified documents in his pants, today suggested in a news story the scandal of the missing documents might hurt his chances of becoming secretary of state. Sandy Berger, national security adviser during the Clinton administration, is facing a Justice Department investigation for rifling through files in the National Archives in preparation for the 911 Commission hearings. He admits taking papers home and now has no explanation as to where several are. The Times story explained that prosecutions for pilfering classified...

The Bush-Cheney re-election campaign has dismissed rumors about a possible new running mate as Beltway blather, but the denials haven't stopped conspiracy theorists. "The newest theory - advanced privately by prominent Democrats, including members of Congress - holds that Mr. Cheney recently dismissed his personal doctor so that he could see a new one, who will conveniently tell him in August that his heart problems make him unfit to run with Mr. Bush," the old gossips at the New York Times "reported" today. Strangely enough, Howell Raines and the other disgraced ex-Timesmen didn't have enough creativity to use that sort...

Perception verses reality – it's a point that needs to be made until the cows come home. Did you know that on Tuesday of this week Hamid Karzai, the president of Afghanistan, addressed a joint session of Congress? Did you know that not one word of that address, nor even any mention that the event even occurred, appeared in the following day's national edition of the New York Times? Aide from a photograph of President Bush and Mr. Karzai on its front page, and a caption mentioning that the two had a news conference in the Rose Garden, the June...