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New York Times Again Wraps Todd Akin Around Paul Ryan and GOP's Pro-Life...

Is the New York Times trying to change the subject from the bad economy to social issues, for Obama's sake? On Thursday Michael Shear (pictured) and Jonathan Weisman did their best to tie...

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Weisman Cheers on Prospects of Ryan-Bashing Democrats in Congress for New...

So much for budget and Medicare reform. On Saturday, New York Times congressional correspondent Jonathan Weisman sounded pretty confident that Paul Ryan's budget plan would sink Republican prospects...

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New York Times Eager to Paint Mourdock Rape Comment as 'Dilemma' Making It...

New York Times reporters Jonathan Weisman and Michael Cooper both suggested Mitt Romney would be hurt by comments made by Indiana's Republican Senate candidate Richard Mourdock at a debate Tuesday...

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Oh, Now They Tell Us: NYT's Weisman Details Democrats' Embrace of Romney's...

Oh, now they tell us. As Republicans lick their political wounds, Democrats bask in the glory of winning what was suppose to be a highly contested election, and Washington is abuzz about the looming...

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Congressional Dysfunction? New York Times Blames C-Span Cameras, Gingrich and...

New York Times reporter Jonathan Weisman claimed to document the "Senate's Long Slide to Gridlock" on Sunday's front page, but his history was tilted toward blaming obstructionist Republicans, though...

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Nets, WashPost, NYT All Fail to Report Harry Reid Refused to Allow Senate...

Yesterday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell offered Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) a golden opportunity to prove just how popular President Obama's plan to avert the fiscal cliff is with...

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New York Times' Weisman Hits 'Far Right' Conservatives in Congress for...

New York Times reporter Jonathan Weisman threw around hostile labels in his Thursday piece on the ongoing tactical fight in Washington, pitting the "far right" against responsible "pragmatists" in the...

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NYT's Harwood: Obama Has Tax-Hiking 'Mandate,' Stubborn House GOP 'Out of...

On the front of Sunday's New York Times, reporters Jackie Calmes and Jonathan Weisman suggested President Obama has a "mandate" for tax hikes in the ongoing tactical battle in Congress over the...

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NYT's Weisman Doesn't Get Why House GOP Rejected Fantastic Fiscal Cliff Deal

New York Times reporter Jonathan Weisman strangely painted the fiscal cliff deal (which displeased conservatives with its tax increases and lack of spending cuts) as a fiscal dream come true for...

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NY Times Suggests Tea Party Sen. Ted Cruz Takes Confrontation to New Lows of...

Newly minted Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, a Tea Party politician, is "raising bipartisan hackles" and otherwise being a "bad boy" in the previously collegial U.S. Senate, opined political reporter Jonathan...

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New York Times Again Sees a Looming 'Era of Government Austerity' in a $3,500...

Over the weekend the New York Times painted the $85 billion in budget cuts that will start kicking in Friday – known in Washington-speak as sequestration -- in dramatic terms, falsely heralding a new...

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As Cuts Loom and Public Shrugs, NY Times Suddenly Spins Other Way on...

Spinning the sequester in the New York Times. After weeks of cringing over the supposedly damaging federal cuts due to take effect tomorrow (even as the public shrugs them off) Jonathan Weisman made...

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NYT's Weisman Wonders Why GOP Won't Just Capitulate After Obama Win: "What...

Betraying his impatience with the Republican Party's insistence that President Obama cut spending, New York Times political reporter Jonathan Weisman sounded shocked that the GOP wasn't simply...

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NY Times Calls Tiny Sequestration Cuts to 'Vital' Programs 'the Worst,'...

The original online headline to Wednesday's New York Times budget legislation story, "Finance Bill, Nearing Senate Passage, Would Protect Some Favored Programs," likely captured what reporters...

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NYT's Lead Story Foresees 'Egg-on-the-Face Moment' for Conservatives if Gun...

Wednesday's New York Times's lead story by Jennifer Steinhauer and Jonathan Weisman, "Threat To Block Debate On Guns Appears To Fade – Reid Sets Senate Vote – Some G.O.P. Senators Reject Filibuster,...

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NY Times, Not Taking Defeat of 'Gun Safety' Well, Faults 'Gun...

The New York Times led Thursday's edition with the Senate defeat of President Obama's gun control proposals in a series of procedural votes, including one on expanding background checks that Democrats...

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NY Times: Cantor Changing 'Uncompromising Conservatism to Something Kinder...

New York Times reporter Jonathan Weisman documented the failure of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor to remake the GOP's "uncompromising conservatism to something kinder and gentler" in "House Majority...

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Bitter NYT Laments 'Gift to Travelers,''People With Money' as GOP Stops...

The Democrats blinked in the sequester tussle -- by wide margins Congress passed, and the president promised to sign, legislation that would end the furloughs for Federal Aviation Administration...

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NYT Front-Page 'News': Federal Aid Recipients Replacing 'Prayers of Hope With...

After a long delay, the New York Times has finally located some sympathetic victims of the federal budget sequester and placed them on Monday's front page. Jonathan Weisman reported "Stories of...

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NYT's Peters 'Cleans Up' Jonathan Weisman's Original Report on Friday's IRS...

Clearly, the New York Times couldn't run with Jonathan Weisman's headline or opening sentence in the report he filed shortly after Friday's portion of Friday's testimony at a hearing of the House Ways...

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