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Gay Pride, Meet 'Mad Pride'
Posted By: Tim Graham
5/13/2008 12:20:07 PM
Sufferers of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder try to decrease the stigma against so-called "madness" or "mental illness," with support from the Times Sunday Styles section
Who Let Evil Rove in the Newsroom?
Posted By: Tim Graham
5/13/2008 12:16:32 PM
The Times makes belated front-page news out of Bush strategist Karl Rove's advice offerings on Fox News and in Newsweek. He's no "thinking woman's sex symbol," as the Times described George Stephanopoulos when he joined ABC in 1993.
Guantanamo Bay Inmate Released, Becomes Terrorist: Still U.S. Fault?
Posted By: Clay Waters
5/9/2008 2:06:51 PM
Alissa Rubin on a man released from Guantanamo who became a suicide bomber: "As many as 36 former Guantánamo detainees have taken part in violent acts against Western targets after their release, a Defense Intelligence Agency report said. Their violent acts raise the question of whether the men should have been released, but also whether their detention radicalized them."
House Democrats Aim to "Rescue" Over Half a Million Homeowners
Posted By: Clay Waters
5/9/2008 1:02:58 PM
Those wonderful Democrats, battling both Bush and the foreclosure crisis: "Hoping to throw a rescue line to at least half a million families in danger of losing their homes..."
The "Credible" "Innocents" of Guantanamo Bay? Former Inmate Becomes Suicide Bomber
Posted By: Clay Waters
 5/8/2008 5:33:29 PM
While Nicholas Kristof fretted over the abuse of innocent prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, a colleague revealed that a released inmate was a bomber tied to suicide attacks in Mosul.
Still Calling it the Haditha "Massacre"
Posted By: Clay Waters
5/7/2008 3:41:53 PM
Manohla Dargis reviews a British filmmaker's dramatization of the "massacre" by Marines in the Iraqi town of Haditha.
Women Airbrushed from Summer Movie Screens, Whines Movie Critic
Posted By: Clay Waters
5/7/2008 10:37:41 AM
Manohla Dargis tries to make summer moviegoers feel guilty about the lack of women in films: "All you have to do is look at the movies themselves -- at the decorative blondes and brunettes smiling and simpering at the edge of the frame -- to see just how irrelevant we have become."
On Crucial Primary Day, the Times Definitely Tilts Toward Obama
Posted By: Clay Waters
5/6/2008 3:27:30 PM
Sarcastically criticizing Hillary, the Times unleashes its inner Republican: "She raises eyebrows and arms in exaggerated indignation. Students who take jobs they do not particularly want after graduation just to repay loans are 'indentured servants,' while Americans who took out mortgages they could not afford are victims of manipulation."
It's Still All Reagan's Fault
Posted By: Clay Waters
5/6/2008 2:40:25 PM
Eric Eckholm on two studies of the drug war: "More than two decades after President Ronald Reagan escalated the war on drugs, arrests for drug sales or, more often, drug possession are still rising."
Has Obama Really Overcome His Wright Problem? NYT Says Sure
Posted By: Clay Waters
5/6/2008 2:13:18 PM
But a new USA Today/Gallup poll found the opposite to be true: "One-third of likely voters say Obama's ties to Wright make them less likely to vote for him."
Surprising Figures Don't Stop NYT From Seeing "Recession"
Posted By: Clay Waters
5/5/2008 2:56:41 PM
Milder-than-expected job losses in April nonetheless spurred a lead story shouting the loss as "powerful evidence that the United States is almost certainly now ensnared in a recession."
Hillary's "Ruthlessness" Keeps Her Fighting Against St. Obama
Posted By: Clay Waters
5/5/2008 2:28:10 PM
To attack Hillary Clinton's "ruthlessness," the Times takes an unusual angle of painting the liberal-loathed Whitewater prosecutor Ken Starr as a victim.
GOP Again Challenging Dem Patriotism -- But Where's the Times' Evidence?
Posted By: Clay Waters
5/5/2008 8:46:34 PM
Robin Toner's still whining about Michael Dukakis: "[In 1988] the Republicans used the symbols of nationhood (notably, whether schoolchildren should be required to recite the Pledge of Allegiance) to bludgeon the Democrats, challenge their patriotism and utterly redefine their nominee, Gov. Michael S. Dukakis of Massachusetts."
Times Watch Quotes of Note -- Bush Years "One Long, Dumb, Dirty Joke"
Posted By: Clay Waters
5/3/2008 11:23:41 AM
Plus Racist Hillary Voters and John "Two Americas" Edwards Takes a Bow
News Flash: Artsy Indianapolis Liberals Still Like Obama
Posted By: Clay Waters
5/2/2008 3:34:06 PM
Monica Davey pitted "artsy" Indianapolis folks vs. "less cosmopolitan" hicks who don't want to vote for a black.
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