http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/newyorktimes/ en-us Thu, 9 Oct 2008 21:55:26 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2101733/posts THE LITTLE ACORN THAT COULD CHANGE AN ELECTION The Democratic machine politicians in Obama’s adopted home town of Chicago virtually codified that party’s injunction to its ward-heelers to get out the vote by any and every means necessary, to vote early and often. Amazingly, even the dead were known to vote in the Windy City. Now, the shamelessly corrupt organization, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, ACORN, is taking the Chicago model national. From tiny acorns the mighty oaks do grow and this shadowy ACORN has been growing new voters mightily, and suspiciously. Its office in Nevada was... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2101733/posts#comment Thu, 9 Oct 2008 21:55:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2101646/posts WASHINGTON, October 8, 2008—Accuracy in Media announced today the launch of its new website, Boycott The New York Times (http://BoycottNYT.com). AIM, which has monitored The New York Times for nearly 40 years, is encouraging news consumers to boycott the most powerful media voice in America to protest its persistent leftist bias. “The Times has, over the course of decades, blatantly distorted the news to advance an ideological agenda,” notes Don Feder, the editor of the Boycott The New York Times website. “The Times’ persistent bias is reflected in its double standard in coverage of liberals and conservatives, its misreporting of... Accuracy in Media http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2101646/posts#comment Thu, 9 Oct 2008 20:17:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2101640/posts WASHINGTON, October 8, 2008—Accuracy in Media announced today the launch of its new website, Boycott The New York Times (http://BoycottNYT.com). AIM, which has monitored The New York Times for nearly 40 years, is encouraging news consumers to boycott the most powerful media voice in America to protest its persistent leftist bias. “The Times has, over the course of decades, blatantly distorted the news to advance an ideological agenda,” notes Don Feder, the editor of the Boycott The New York Times website. “The Times’ persistent bias is reflected in its double standard in coverage of liberals and conservatives, its misreporting of... Accuracy in Media http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2101640/posts#comment Thu, 9 Oct 2008 20:12:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2097972/posts Still, there is a choice to be made, and it is an easy one. Senator John McCain of Arizona..... NYT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2097972/posts#comment Sun, 5 Oct 2008 15:00:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2097388/posts Didn't think it would come, but here it is. Of course it says nothing about how Obama's far left wing Marxist philosophy matches Ayres's, just without all the bombs. The New York Times thinks terrorists can be turned back into harmless, lovable little puppies if you give them enough time. At a tumultuous meeting of anti-Vietnam War militants at the Chicago Coliseum in 1969, Bill Ayers helped found the radical Weathermen, launching a campaign of bombings that would target the Pentagon and United States Capitol. Twenty-six years later, at a lunchtime meeting about school reform in a Chicago skyscraper, Barack... The Patriot Room http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2097388/posts#comment Sat, 4 Oct 2008 14:42:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2097139/posts In a move that could help increase home ownership rates among minorities and low-income consumers, the Fannie Mae Corporation is easing the credit requirements on loans that it will purchase from banks and other lenders. The action, which will begin as a pilot program involving 24 banks in 15 markets -- including the New York metropolitan region -- will encourage those banks to extend home mortgages to individuals whose credit is generally not good enough to qualify for conventional loans. Fannie Mae officials say they hope to make it a nationwide program by next spring. Fannie Mae, the nation's biggest... New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2097139/posts#comment Sat, 4 Oct 2008 02:03:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2097111/posts At a tumultuous meeting of anti-Vietnam War militants at the Chicago Coliseum in 1969, Bill Ayers helped found the radical Weathermen, launching a campaign of bombings that would target the Pentagon and United States Capitol. Twenty-six years later, at a lunchtime meeting about school reform in a Chicago skyscraper, Obama met Mr. Ayers, by then an education professor. Their paths have crossed sporadically since then, at a coffee Ayers hosted for Obama’s first run for office, on the schools project and a charitable board, and in casual encounters as Hyde Park neighbors. Their relationship has become a touchstone for Obama’s... nyt http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2097111/posts#comment Sat, 4 Oct 2008 00:46:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2096933/posts The Monster Returns By John H. Cochrane Like a monster from an old horror movie, the Treasury plan keeps coming back from the dead. Yes, we are in a financial crisis that needs urgent, determined, and clear-eyed help from the government. But this plan is fundamentally flawed. It won’t even work if we leave aside its horrendous cost and long-lasting damage to the financial system. The additions and sweeteners in the Senate version, and those on the table in the house, make it even less likely to work. A workable plan has to be based on fundamentally different principles: recapitalizing... New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2096933/posts#comment Fri, 3 Oct 2008 20:24:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2095760/posts Well, I guess the McCain campaign really did get tough on the New York Times. Yesterday, leftist columnist Maureen Dowd was told she was no longer welcome on McCain's campaign plane and had to go home with her tail between her legs. Tim McNulty of the Pittsburgh Post Gazette reports that Mo's parting shot was a charge that because of this incident McCain is somehow against the First Amendment like she imagines Dick Cheney is. Rather amusingly, she was dumped in the middle of Pennsylvania, too. After an August 30 rally in Washington, PA, she was told she could not... publiusforum.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2095760/posts#comment Thu, 2 Oct 2008 14:44:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2094806/posts A month after Gov. Sarah Palin joined Senator John McCain’s ticket to a burst of excitement and anticipation among Republicans, she heads into a critical debate facing challenges from conservatives about her credentials, signs that her popularity is slipping and evidence that Republicans are worried about how much help she will be for Mr. McCain in November.... "I think she has pretty thoroughly — and probably irretrievably — proven that she is not up to the job of being president of the United States," David Frum, a former speechwriter for President Bush who is now a conservative columnist, said in... New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2094806/posts#comment Wed, 1 Oct 2008 13:45:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2093733/posts After nearly eight years of voting in virtual lock step with President Bush on everything from tax cuts to torture, House Republicans decided on Monday to break ranks on the survival of the nation’s financial system. The rejected bailout bill that was on the floor after a weekend of hard negotiating was objectionable in many ways, but it was a Republican-generated bill and was improved from the administration’s original version. Sixty percent of House Democrats voted for the bill, enough to easily pass the measure if the Republicans had not decided to put on their display of pique and disarray.... New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2093733/posts#comment Tue, 30 Sep 2008 05:37:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2091574/posts Source link. When is a train wreck not a train wreck? Well, in the case of Gov. Sarah Palin’s interview with Katie Couric on CBS, when Ms. Palin’s staunchest defenders are looking at it. Take Free Republic, which calls itself “the premier online gathering place for independent, grass-roots conservatism on the Web.” It has some of the most passionate right-wing bloggers out there. If the comments on this thread, from Friday morning, are any indication, the “Freepers” of Freerepublic.com had a completely different take than many other people who watched the interview. We’ve deleted some of the comments in the... The New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2091574/posts#comment Sat, 27 Sep 2008 04:09:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2090835/posts Senator John McCain had intended to ride back into Washington on Thursday as a leader who had put aside presidential politics to help broker a solution to the financial crisis. Instead he found himself in the midst of a remarkable partisan showdown, lacking a clear public message for how to bring it to an end. At the bipartisan White House meeting that Mr. McCain had called for a day earlier, he sat silently for more than 40 minutes, more observer than leader, and then offered only a vague sense of where he stood, said people in the meeting.... NYT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2090835/posts#comment Fri, 26 Sep 2008 04:32:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2090332/posts “Welcome to the murky world of modern racism, where most of the open animus has been replaced by a shadowy bias that is difficult to measure.” – Charles M. Blow, in The New York Times Our unelected press elites, the ones who shape the opinions and convictions of millions, cannot conceive of Obama losing this election purely because of his far left politics. In the editorial echo chambers of our biggest newspapers and news networks, the “murky world of modern racism” is a forgone conclusion. It must be the ominous specter of racism, after all, reasonable and intelligent people vote... The New Media Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2090332/posts#comment Thu, 25 Sep 2008 17:34:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2089513/posts Nationalization has its consequences. Just note the rhetoric coming from some prominent voices on the left. The government's foray into offering services normally provided by the private sector by bailing out aging mortgage giants gives it the power to implement "green" building requirements, according to New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman. He suggested Sept. 23 that any construction financed by government-funded mortgages should be certified "green" according to the standards of the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System. "If we're going to be in the mortgage business as a government, then every government-funded mortgage -... NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2089513/posts#comment Wed, 24 Sep 2008 18:49:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2089438/posts So now Republicans are what, white militia snipers hiding in the woods shooting at the black guy and then lobbing in the grenades? When did it become a hate crime to suggest that Obama has hideously bad judgment when it comes to his friends and advisors? The New York Times squeals racism, but the ads do not even arguably show a hint of it. The Patriot Room http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2089438/posts#comment Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:28:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2089415/posts Today the New York Times launched its latest attack on this campaign in its capacity as an Obama advocacy organization. Let us be clear about what this story alleges: The New York Times charges that McCain-Palin 2008 campaign manager Rick Davis was paid by Freddie Mac until last month, contrary to previous reporting, as well as statements by this campaign and by Mr. Davis himself. In fact, the allegation is demonstrably false. As has been previously reported, Mr. Davis separated from his consulting firm, Davis Manafort, in 2006. As has been previously reported, Mr. Davis has seen no income from... McCain / Palin website http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2089415/posts#comment Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:01:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2089242/posts "I don't believe that the Times is pulling for Barack Obama." Jack Shafer, Slate, 9-23-08 There's actually much to agree with in Jack Shafer's column today regarding McCain senior adviser Steve Schmidt's criticism of the New York Times. For example, I'd note this observation by him: "The press corps does adore Barack Obama. They like his story. They like writing about him. They like the way he gives speeches. They like the way he makes them feel. And they don't mind cutting him slack whenever he acts like a regular politician—which he is." But Shafer, Slate's resident media critic, also... NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2089242/posts#comment Wed, 24 Sep 2008 13:21:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2088958/posts Excerpt - WASHINGTON — One of the giant mortgage companies at the heart of the credit crisis paid $15,000 a month from the end of 2005 through last month to a firm owned by Senator John McCain’s campaign manager, according to two people with direct knowledge of the arrangement. The disclosure undercuts a statement by Mr. McCain on Sunday night that the campaign manager, Rick Davis, had had no involvement with the company for the last several years. ~ snip ~ The New York Times (excerpt) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2088958/posts#comment Wed, 24 Sep 2008 01:06:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2087921/posts NYT editor responds to McCain camp broadside Michael Calderone: NY Times executive editor Bill Keller responded, in an e-mail to Politico, to Steve Schmidt's contention that the paper is pulling for Obama, and that "it is today not by any standard a journalistic organization." "The New York Times is committed to covering the candidates fully, fairly and aggressively. It's our job to ask hard questions, fact-check their statements and their advertising, examine their programs, positions, biographies and advisors. Candidates and their campaign operatives are not always comfortable with that level of scrutiny, but it's what our readers expect and deserve." The Politico http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2087921/posts#comment Mon, 22 Sep 2008 20:23:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2087785/posts The McCain Campaign and the Times   [Byron York] Top McCain campaign officials have just finished a conference call to unveil a new ad, called "Chicago Machine," which highlights ties between Barack Obama and Tony Rezko, William Daley, Emil Jones, and Rod Blagojevich.  The ad, the officials say, will air nationally and "across the depth and breadth of the battleground states." Among other topics covered in the call, campaign officials Rick Davis and Steve Schmidt were asked about a story in the New York Times concerning Davis' role in an advocacy group that included Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.  Davis defended... National Review Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2087785/posts#comment Mon, 22 Sep 2008 17:10:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2087769/posts Steve Schmidt, a McCain campaign senior adviser, declared on a conference call with reporters Monday that The New York Times “is not a journalistic organization.” “Whatever The New York Times once was, it is today not by any standard a journalistic organization,” Schmidt said. “It is a pro-Obama advocacy organization that every day impugns the McCain campaign, attacks Senator McCain, attacks Governor [Sarah Palin]. It excuse Senator Obama. … “Everything that is read in The New York Times that attacks this campaign should be evaluated by the American people from that perspective – that it is an organization that has... Politico http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2087769/posts#comment Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:53:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2085194/posts I think Obama may still have been 12 yeas old and still in his beer-and-blow years at that time, so there is no record of his position. The New York Times from September 11, 2003. The Bush administration today recommended the most significant regulatory overhaul in the housing finance industry since the savings and loan crisis a decade ago. . . . The plan is an acknowledgment by the administration that oversight of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac -- which together have issued more than $1.5 trillion in outstanding debt -- is broken. A report by outside investigators in July... The Patriot Room http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2085194/posts#comment Thu, 18 Sep 2008 17:33:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2084996/posts If the McCain/Palin ticket wins in November, the Gray Lady shouldn’t deck the halls with holly for the holiday season. No, sir, she should pad them to protect her writers who, fa-la-la bonkers over a world gone “out of joint,” will take every opportunity to resoundingly knock their noggins, hoping the next mad, wild-eyed bonk will somehow “set it right.” How can I be so sure about all this? Well, just look at how McCain’s “Palin surge” has already sent the Gray Lady’s writers into a pre-psychotic state — and not just the liberals, but resident moderate Thomas Friedman. In... The New Media Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2084996/posts#comment Thu, 18 Sep 2008 13:34:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2084247/posts As the seventh anniversary of the jihadist murder of nearly 3,000 American civilians passed last week, it is useful to recall an article that the Hyde Park Herald published on September 19, 2001 – written by a young Illinois state senator named Barack Obama. Even all these years later, it is revealing of the mindset of the man who would be leader of the free world. Obama starts out well enough, saying: “We need to step up security at our airports. We must reexamine the effectiveness of our intelligence networks. And we must be resolute in identifying the perpetrators of... Cross Action News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2084247/posts#comment Wed, 17 Sep 2008 13:53:23 GMT