Category Archives: NYT

Vader’s Book Club

Posted on February 4, 2017 by Max West

The NYT is now allowing sports reporters to write ominous warning-columns about Darth Vader (“Steve Bannon’s Book Club”): On the day after Christmas, I was walking through Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport when I caught sight of a slightly rumpled man … Continue reading →

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NYT: 1/30/17

Posted on January 30, 2017 by Max West

Throughout the Left, the ‘American-Flag-as-Islamic-Headscarf’ thing is really taking off as a meme:

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NYT: 1/27/17

Posted on January 27, 2017 by Max West

I need to savor the moment. In the time I have left on this earth, I suppose it will never get better than this.

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NYT – 1/25/17

Posted on January 25, 2017 by Max West

On a historic day when Trump initiates the construction of a Border Wall (the ‘bad’ red highlighting below), the NYT is non-stop anti-Trump rhetoric above the fold, coupled with their never-ending, strange obsession of caring more for the well-being of … Continue reading →

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NYT: 1/17/17

Posted on January 17, 2017 by Max West

You can’t make up such levels of hagiography. Yes, that’s John ‘Lewith’ holding hands with him to the left, with Rev Al on the right, looking over Zero’s shoulder to make sure the cameras catch him. The Struggle Continues!

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Zero Hour

Posted on January 16, 2017 by Max West

With Zero having less than a week left in office, the MSM (CNN specials! NYT profiles!) are in overdrive trying to permanently orient him as being some kind of ‘great’ President… or something. (“Obama’s Secret to Surviving the White House … Continue reading →

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NYT on “Post-Truth” Era – Pt. 418

Posted on January 15, 2017 by Max West

Writing in the NYT (where else), Adam Kirsch (ahem) pushes the left’s sexy ‘post-truth’ meme into the literary realm (“Lie to Me: Fiction in the Post-Truth Era”): American novelists have long complained about the ability of real life to outstrip … Continue reading →

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The Paranoid Style in American Politics – NYT Edition

Posted on January 12, 2017 by Max West

Collectively, this trifecta of strategically placed NYT stories serves to reinforce a narrative the publication wants to push: The “Explosive but Unverified Dossier” headline is itself a marvel to behold, with two rather starkly dissonant adjectives (especially for the ‘high … Continue reading →

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The NYT’s Collective Trauma

Posted on January 12, 2017 by Max West

There’s a Gray Matter column in the Gray Lady, from a few weeks ago, titled “Are Americans Experiencing Collective Trauma?” What ever could he be talking about? It’s written by one Neil Gross (ahem), a professor of sociology at Colby … Continue reading →

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The Acceleration of Identity Liberalism

Posted on January 10, 2017 by Max West

Rod Dreher’s piece on “The Left’s Identity Politics Poison” provides some examples of how Identity Politics is causing the Left to ‘eat their own’, so to speak. He points to “The Left’s Toxic Identity Obsession”, a JAPCAT article in Commentary … Continue reading →

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