Front Page Report Slams Non-Profit Group in Veiled Effort to Undermine Republicans, Tea Party Activists

A non-profit group called "Americans for Job Security" comes in for some sharp criticism from the NYT, which is now in election mode. The idea here is to undermine Republican efforts that appear to be ascendant and to mischaracterize a Supreme Court ruling that expands First Amendment protections Non-profit advocacy groups that support private sector interests are operating by way of subterfuge and stealth to advance public policy measures that favor a select few, according to a front page pi...

Anonymous Source Used to Advance Anti-Tea Party Agenda in Manufactured Reports

Just make it up. That appears to be mindset at work in a front page story and subsequent business section report that takes aim at Tea Party activists who helped to shift public sentiment against President Obama's agenda and the Democratic Party. An anonymous source is used to advance the idea that Tea Party is synonymous with extremism... Somehow average Americans who pine for constitutional limited government and the ideals of the founding period are considered extreme and unhinged. Meanwhi...

Koch Brothers, Private Industry Vilified for Advancing Calif. Initiative Aimed Against Global Warming Act

They cover a lot of bases here but omit any discussion of the environmental movement's international dimensions. Polls shows that the public is evenly divided over a ballot initiative that would suspend California's global warming law until after unemployment falls. Here, the NYT seeks to swing public sentiment by questioning the motives of private donors who are linked in with the Tea Party. A California ballot initiative that could potentially unravel the anti energy policies Gov. Arnold Sc...

Glenn Beck, Tea Party Activists Uplift Civil Rights, Founding Ideals as NYT Spreads Misinformation

Contemporary civil rights organizations that support race conscious policies in contradiction to Martin Luther King's emphasis on equality and character get a free pass from the New York Times, which repeats and recycles unfounded accusations aimed against Tea Party participants and Glenn Beck of Fox News. In many respects, the small government activists who took part in Beck's "Restoring Honor" rally are more in step with MLK's convictions than their critics. It is the ideals of the founding pe...