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Name That Party: New York Times Edition

Posted by Mike Bates on Thursday, March 17, 2011 6:49:10 PM

The New York Times's Web site on Tuesday reported, "Former  City Council Leader Avoids Prison for Tax Evasion."  Andrew J. Stein  didn't pay taxes on $1 million in income in 2008.  His punishment: Three  years' probation and 500 hours of community service.

Possibly Stein's cause was helped by Geraldo Rivera asking the judge for  leniency.  Or maybe the judge was impressed by Stein's cooperation;  the story notes that he "also agreed to pay taxes for the years 2003  to 2008."  Whatta guy!

The New York Times did omit at least one salient fact:  Stein  is a Democrat.

Oops.  Maybe next time.          



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Name That Party: Domestic Assault Edition

Posted by Mike Bates on Sunday, March 07, 2010 4:26:30 PM
The New York Times's City Room blog included a Friday piece on the orphaned Web site of Hiram Monserrate, a former state senator who is again running for office.  From "When Not to Accept Comments:"
Now, as many will remember, the former Queens legislator was tossed out of the State Senate in February after he was convicted of assaulting his female companion. His vacant seat will be filled in a special election on March 16 — an election in which, improbably, the disgraced Mr. Monserrate is also a candidate, on the newly formed and hopefully (or is it cynically?) named Yes We Can! line. (This proves, definitively, that you can usually find more than enough New Yorkers to take part in any crazy idea you have.)

Candidate Monserrate (Yes We Can, Queens) doesn’t have a Web site for this campaign. But a few disgruntled residents found his old site and left some less-than-friendly messages.

Conveniently left unmentioned is the party to which Monserrate claimed allegiance as recently as last month.  As reported in The New York Times on February 9, 2010:

The State Senate on Tuesday expelled a senator convicted of domestic assault, the first time in nearly a century that the Legislature has forced a member from office.

The Senate voted 53-to-8 to immediately oust the senator, Hiram Monserrate, a Queens Democrat convicted last fall of a misdemeanor for dragging his companion down the hallway of his apartment building.

Amazing, isn't it, how quickly party affiliation is overlooked when the perp is a Democrat?  And yet, as documented repeatedly on NewsBusters, quite predictable.        
 

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New York Times Corrects the Record on 'a Gay Man'

Posted by Mike Bates on Tuesday, January 12, 2010 4:31:27 PM
In this age of political correctness, using appropriate language can be challenging, even for those with the best PC intentions.  So it was last week at the New York Times, which clarified an earlier article (h/t Regret the Error) :
An appraisal on Dec. 31 about David Levine, the caricaturist for The New York Review of Books who died on Dec. 29, may have left the incorrect impression that the Russian writer Aleksandr Pushkin, the subject of one of Mr. Levine’s drawings, was homosexual. The description of Pushkin as “a gay man” was a reference to his demeanor, not his sexual orientation.

No doubt some nitpickers will think the correction should have ended:  Not that there would have been anything wrong if he were a homosexual.

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The New York Times Eulogizes an 'Eminent Politician'

Posted by Mike Bates on Sunday, December 27, 2009 1:07:36 PM
How does someone qualify for description as an "eminent politician" by the New York Times?  Being very, very liberal seems to help.

Today on its Web site, the newspaper reports "Percy Sutton, Eminent Politician, Dies at 89."  Mr. Sutton maintained a long list of liberal bona fides.  In a book last year he was quoted:

"I like the fact that my family was a family of protesters. I like the fact that some of them were Communists."

He also spoke of his satisfaction of "being in jail with Stokely Carmichael and other revolutionaries."  In the December 14, 1972 issue of Jet Magazine (page 32), Sutton acknowledged it would be nice to be mayor, but "I don't think that New Yorkers are ready for a person with my liberal views and for someone with the color of my skin."

The New York Times covers some of lawyer Sutton's more notorious associations: He represented Malcolm X and later his daughter when she was accused of hiring a man to kill Louis Farrakhan.  Sutton helped pay some of the slander damages owed by Al Sharpton in the Tawana Brawley case.  When Mike Tyson left prison and came back to Harlem, Sutton was there to welcome him.

The newspaper advises readers that Sutton "displayed fierce intelligence and exquisite polish in becoming one of the nation’s most prominent black political and business leaders."  He invariably applied that "fierce intelligence" to very liberal causes.  No wonder the mainstream media view him as eminent.     

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