The New York Times Makes A Big Mistake And Attacks Biden’s DNC Speech
President Biden’s DNC speech has been met with nearly universal praise, except by The New York Times, which chose to put a negative spin on it.
President Biden’s DNC speech has been met with nearly universal praise, except by The New York Times, which chose to put a negative spin on it.
Aaron Sorkin is floating the idea that President Joe Biden step aside and be replaced by retiring Republican Sen. Mitt Romney.
The New York Times and corporate media ignored Trump’s unfit lunacy at the Republican convention to instead focus on the manufactured Biden drama.
The New York Times has been campaigning relentlessly to get Biden off of the Democratic ticket since the presidential debate, but they have failed, so now the paper is moving the goalposts.
Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi called out the New York Times for misrepresenting what she said about President Biden, “I don’t know what’s happened in New York Times that they make up news.”
Sen. Bernie Sanders called out The New York Times for catering to the thoughts and feelings of billionaires while ignoring the American people.
The White House pushed back forcefully on a New York Times report that President Biden is considering dropping out.
For the first time in history, the Dow Jones Industrial Average hit 40,000. It happened under Joe Biden, and some of the biggest corporate media outlets are ignoring it.
Texts introduced as evidence at Trump’s criminal trial show Maggie Haberman acting as Trump’s stenographer and media puppet.
The New York Times is upset and complaining because Colin Jost made a joke about them needing Wordle to survive financially.
President Biden has responded to The New York Times complaining about not getting an interview with him by giving Howard Stern an exclusive interview.
Republican primary voters are hardcore Fox News watchers and Trump supporters, but new research finds that Republicans who don’t watch Fox support Trump less.
The latest New York Times poll is so messed up that Stephen Colbert had a field day trashing it.
President Joe Biden demonstrated that he is the stronger general election candidate, but The New York Times is praising Trump.
New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger said on Monday that the newspaper will continue to attack President Joe Biden for his age.
The New York Times is wondering why the age issue is hurting Biden more as they relentless attack the President’s age.
The New York Times played into Trump’s narrative by trying to both sides the 1/6 attack, but reader backlash made them change their headline.
September’s stunningly good jobs report sounds great, but the New York Times initially chose to present it as bad for investors, focusing on Wall Street rather than Main Street.
The judge tossed Trump’s lawsuit against The New York Times over stories about his tax returns and the former president was ordered to pay the legal fees of The Times and the sued reporters.
A new series of New York Times/Sienna College polls showing Democrats leading in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Arizona, and tied in Nevada were framed as bad news for Democrats.
An embarrassingly groveling Kevin McCarthy denied a report that he said that he was done with Trump after 1/6.
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow and Lawrence O’Donnell have a great theory that The New York Times is using Trump as an unnamed source.
We need large organizations that bring people and their power together to insist that people matter and deserve a voice in shaping the world in which we live—in short, in recognizing people’s equality.
On the whole, as a culture, we don’t speak much of the nation’s failure to extend democracy and civil rights to workers, tending to prioritize the rights of private property and capital
Donald Trump has shown a willingness to defend almost anyone who is willing to defend him. When it comes to the Capitol insurrectionists, he went as far as saying that rather than attacking the police officers, they were hugging and kissing them. Matt Gaetz, though, presents a new challenge. Few are more sycophantic towards Trump….
When Donald Trump was president, the lawmakers most willing to by sycophantic to him became Republican starts. People like Jim Jordan, Paul Gosar and Louie Gohmert earned notoriety by sticking close to Trump. But no one represented this phenomenon better than Florida congressman Matt Gaetz. Gaetz, who threatened Michael Cohen before a hearing, was paid…
Biden made many promises. First and foremost were those of leading us out of the pandemic and improving the lives of Americans. He is doing that by choosing to see the plight of Americans rather than negotiating with a mean and greedy blindness.
There was a large contrast between the two legal teams during the Trump impeachment trial. The Democratic House Managers were well prepared and effective. The Trump lawyers were seemingly unprepared and drew laughter and derision from Conservatives and Liberals alike. The former president’s legal team can claim it “won” the case. Their efforts, though, did…
In mid-January, only 10 Republican congresspeople were willing to vote to impeach Donald Trump. All of them have taken heat from their parties. Many have been censured by their state GOP’s. Illinois Rep. Adam Kinzinger not only voted to impeach Trump, he’s been a consistent critic of the former president since the November election. In…
In the aftermath of the violent assault on the nation’s Capitol, all I heard on the cable news shows was how well-educated Senators Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley are. Cruz attended Princeton University and graduated from Harvard Law School. Hawley earned his undergraduate degree from Stanford University before completing his law degree at Yale. Brian…
Donald Trump has been unhinged his entire presidency. Since the lost the presidency in November, though, he has become even more unhinged. And all his crazy behavior and comments came to a head last week when a mob of his supporters stormed the Capitol. And there will be consequences for his actions. First, the Democratic…
Haaland and Buttigieg, as just two examples from Biden’s Cabinet choices, aren’t looking for apologies necessarily; when they speak, they are diagnosing what holds us all back so we can move beyond these past and persistent repressions to give full life, to create an optimal society and economy, for all Americans.
In the early evening of last November 5, two days after the election when mail-in votes were in the process of being counted and the tide seemed to be turning in Joe Biden’s favor, Donald Trump took to the airwaves to throw a tantrum, baselessly wah-wah-ing about election fraud like an infant upset simply because…
When he first signed up to be Donald Trump’s Vice President, Mike Pence had somewhat of a spine. When the Access Hollywood tape came out, the former Indiana Governor reportedly gave serious thought to leaving the campaign. He infuriated his wife by choosing not to. At this point, Pence is all in with the Trump…
When the New York Times bombshell Donald Trump tax story broke on Sunday night, the President reacted in the way everyone would expect him to. He lashed out at the “fake news” report and claimed that he paid a lot in taxes. The reality is, however, that the Times has copies of the documents and…
There are a number of different ways Joe Biden could defeat Donald Trump in the 2020 election. The most two likely scenarios, however, include the Democratic hopeful winning in Florida or in Pennsylvania. According to a number of different national polls, Biden is up in both states. Florida is tricky, though, and Democrats have been…
Trump’s tax returns have finally surfaced, and they show that he is facing hundreds of millions of dollars in debt and avoiding paying taxes.
Republicans continue to block legislation to provide relief to tens of millions of Americans as well as the state and local governments that provide services and employment to them. Their hand-wringing, it seems, is rooted in the worry that providing relief, such as extending enhanced unemployment benefits, will eliminate any incentive, or coercion, for people…
The New York Times has called for all members of Congress to be tested for Coronavirus following the positive diagnosis of Republican Representative Louie Gohmert. In an editorial entitled “Congress, Test Thyself“, the Times cited Gohmert critically and urged the lawmakers to institute a testing regime in the Capitol. “Elected officials have a particular responsibility both to model responsible…
John Lewis made one final appeal to the American people on Thursday in the form of an op-ed written before he passed away. The column was published on the day of his funeral. The New York Times published the piece, entitled “Together, You Can Redeem the Soul of Our Nation” on the very day the Civil Rights…
The Lincoln Project republicans came out in full force last December, declaring in a New York Times op-ed their mission of defeating both Trump this November as well as Trumpism, meaning they are seeking to erase the republican majority in the senate. This majority, in their view, has enabled Trump and promises similarly damaging leadership….
Barack Obama is reportedly not happy with Donald Trump for using the terms “kung flu” and “China virus” to refer to Covid-19. The former president made the comments at a fundraiser. Obama criticized Trump’s use of the racially charged terms on Thursday. He was raising money for former Vice President Joe Biden’s presidential campaign. “I…
When a reporter asked Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at a news conference last Tuesday what he thought about Donald Trump’s threat to use armed forces to suppress the mass protests occurring in the wake of the police murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor and in response to unceasing state violence against African Americans,…
I was out driving in Chicago the other day, and as I stopped for a red light near the corner of Lawrence Avenue and Pulaski Road, I found myself idling in front of the Admiral Theater. It’s a strip club. Above the entryway to the “gentleman’s” club, I noticed chiseled in stone a quote from…
“It’s like suddenly they realized we are here contributing,” Nancy Silva told The New York Times. Silva, a 43-old undocumented immigrant who has been picking fruit on American farms for most of her life while constantly evading immigration authorities, made this statement in response to the federal government deeming her and other farmworkers “essential employees.” …
Ronald Reagan notoriously once asked, “Where would this country be without this great land of ours?” As ridiculous as Reagan sounded asking that question, the question has taken on a renewed seriousness given Donald Trump’s assault on the American land itself and thus, by extension, we Americans who depend on a safe and well-managed environment…
The Trump campaign announced that they are suing The New York Times for libel over an opinion piece that discussed a Trump deal with Russia for election help.
Arguing to center LGBTQ people in contemporary discussions about, and activism for, civil rights, certainly risks igniting an inflammatory comparative oppressions debate about which groups are most marginalized and under assault in U.S. society. Racism is alive and well in America. Voter suppression efforts, particularly against African Americans, are just the tip of the iceberg…
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When asked about his approach to education in last Thursday’s Democratic primary debate, Pete Buttigieg’s response boiled down the difference between his approach and Donald Trump’s to its most basic element. “Step one,” he said, would be to “appoint a secretary of education who actually believes in public education.” Buttigieg’s pithy statement put sharply into…
The New York Times has deemed Rachel Maddow too opinionated and is refusing to let their reporters go on her MSNBC show.
The best chance of shifting America’s popular mind might be to focus on these campaign promises, keeping the conversation on what Trump has done. Has he worked for the American people? Or is he working for Trump and lining his own pockets?
Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson was on MSNBC to discuss the bombshell New York Times expose on the different checks Donald Trump used to reimburse Michael Cohen for hush-money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels. The Times reported that there were 11 checks in total paid to Cohen, and these prove that Trump…
When Matthew Whitaker assumed the role of acting attorney general in November 2018 after Attorney General Jeff Sessions was fired, it was part of a nefarious scheme by Donald Trump to subvert the Justice Department’s chain of command. Whitaker, an outsider, told friends at the time that his purpose for taking the job was “to…
President Donald Trump said on Friday said he would refuse to “tone down” his rhetoric despite the arrest earlier in the day of one of his supporters who was charged with mailing pipe bombs to prominent Democrats and critics of the president. The following tweet was posted by ABC News reporter Cecilia Vega on Friday…
Fox News host Chris Wallace slammed President Donald Trump on Friday for demanding that U.S. Department of Justice prosecute the person who wrote the anonymous New York Times editorial. Fox News’ Chris Wallace slams Trump for his ‘disturbing’ demand to prosecute NY Times op-ed writer https://t.co/JRQV2cmlLk — Raw Story (@RawStory) September 7, 2018 Earlier during…
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President Trump was on Twitter early Sunday attacking one of his favorite targets, the “failing” New York Times. He called Richard Nixon’s White House Counsel John Dean “a rat” and said “I have nothing to hide.” He also called the Mueller probe “McCarthyism at its WORST” and said the special counsel was investigating the wrong…
Former CIA Director John Brennan hit back at President Donald Trump in a scathing New York Times opinion piece after the president revoked his security clearance on Wednesday. “In an op-ed, former CIA Director Brennan says President Trump revoked his security clearance to “scare into silence” critics” In an op-ed, former CIA Director Brennan says…
The craziness that comes out of the Trump administration every day is almost too much to keep track of. And his Twitter account still hasn’t been shut down, which should have happened a long time ago in the interests of national security. For example, Trump has been trying to make Middle East and Syrian…
Today, John Dowd, one of several attorneys working on Mr. Trump’s legal team has resigned as was speculated by many. With reports of Trump’s disaffection with his legal team coupled with reports of his taking advice from more non-traditional individuals such as Fox News personality, Judge Jean Pirro. Fox news opinion personalities have urged Trump…
The book sold more than a million copies in just four days.
“As a former prosecutor, I can tell you that this just screams out consciousness of guilt. All these actions the president’s taking to try to protect himself from the investigation.”
With very little for this president to hang his hat on after a year of occupying the White House, it’s no surprise that Trump resorts to telling blatant falsehoods to get him through the day.
Now he is actually glorying in telling the American people that he intentionally tried to deceive them to smuggle unpopular legislation harmful to the American people through Congress.
The administration can whine all they want, but this president has poured gasoline on America’s racial divisions.
Sessions was so upset by the lashing Trump gave him that he sent a letter of resignation to the White House and called the Oval Office episode “the most humiliating experience in decades of public life.”
Not only is Trump clearly unwilling and unable to do his own job, but he lashes out journalists for doing theirs.
“If he would have recused himself before the job, I would have said, ‘Thanks, Jeff, but I’m not going to take you.’ It’s extremely unfair — and that’s a mild word — to the president.”
Donald Trump Jr. was told in an email that the damaging info on Hillary Clinton that he sought during his meeting with a Kremlin-linked lawyer “was part of a Russian government effort to aid his father’s candidacy.”
Notes attributed to then FBI Director James Comey show that President Trump asked him to stop investigating General Mike Flynn the day after Flynn was fired.
Manafort claimed he was an unpaid member of the Trump campaign – if you don’t count the millions he received from Trump-affiliated businesses after stepping down.
“If the people of our great country could only see how viciously and inaccurately my administration is covered by certain media!”
Officials in the Obama administration preserved intelligence related to Russia’s connections to the Trump campaign.
Instead of driving the newspaper out of business with his attacks, President Trump has caused subscriptions to go wild every time he tweets about the paper, which means that his attacks have the opposite effect from what the President intended.
“I’d be careful about using the word ‘lie.’ ‘Lie’ implies much more than just saying something that’s false. It implies a deliberate intent to mislead.”
Trump routinely made vague proposals to limit basic elements of press and internet freedom. His intent and disregard for the constitutional free press principle are clear.
Trump’s plan calls for huge tax credits: billions of dollars in checks written to private companies that invest in ‘approved’ projects which they would end up owning.
The saga of the on again, off again, on again, Trump meeting with The New York Times took a compelling turn as the Times reported that Trump initially canceled the meeting after his Chief of Staff Reince Priebus lied to him because he feared that Trump was in way over his head.
The news media really has a very simple job; report the truth even if it is reporting the truth that a presidential candidate is a liar.
Trump’s economic plan will confer vast monetary gains on the very wealthiest Americans while leaving Trump’s electoral base further behind.
Three new tweets from the president-elect show why Donald Trump is a failed president waiting to happen.
Our values, national identity and enduring power of the Constitution, even democracy itself are in question; it is a frightening aberration.
The New York Times treated Donald Trump like a punk by mocking his lawsuit threat with a fiery and highly factual response.
“If somebody actually did that … any reasonable woman would have come forward and said something at the time.”
Trump’s first response to the Times before publishing the story wasn’t denial – it was to take legal action to make sure the information wasn’t reported.
Rising Democratic enthusiasm comes at a time when many voters across the country are already casting their ballots.
Buried in the CNN poll is a potential tax disaster for Donald Trump.
Trump has benefited financially from raping, pillaging and bankrupting other businesses and suppliers as well as ripping off taxpayers and government
On CNN’s Reliable Sources, New York Times reporter Susanne Craig offered up a firm no comment when she was asked if the newspaper has more Trump tax documents, which is bad news for Donald Trump.
Reporting that doesn’t accurately reflect the huge honesty gap between the candidates misleads readers, giving them a distorted picture that favors the biggest liar.”
Claiming a woman can be held accountable for a man’s indiscretions, and that they are “not off limits” in a campaign is beyond irresponsible.
With 85 days to go until the presidential election, Republican nominee Donald Trump and his campaign aren’t running for president. Instead, they are mounting a protest movement urging people to cancel their subscriptions to the New York Times.
“In private, Mr. Trump’s mood is often sullen and erratic, his associates say. He veers from barking at members of his staff to grumbling about how he was better off following his own instincts during the primaries.”
Republicans don’t care about shunning racism, preserving democracy and religious freedom or avoiding nuclear war because they support Trump.
“Flat-out ‘not thinking about’ whether his efforts to hurt Clinton could aid Trump is an absurd and outrageous win-at-all-costs strategy.”
The former Secretary of State leads the billionaire buffoon by six points, even as she remains in an increasingly heated primary campaign against Bernie Sanders.
In a shameful display, MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough did his best to defend Donald Trump’s history of sexism, sexual harassment and misogyny that was uncovered by The New York Times.
Top Bernie Sanders strategist Tad Devine went on MSNBC and shot down a New York Times report that he exposed as nothing more than an attempt to kill the Sanders presidential campaign.
The most bizarre mystery of modern political history is why any American supports Donald Trump: what kind of idiots are those people?