Gaffes
8/17/2010 2:25 PM ET
Saturday's Good Morning America on ABC devoted a full report to former Vice President Dan Quayle's son Ben's run for Congress in Arizona, focusing primarily on perceived gaffes by both him and his ...
8/10/2010 12:15 PM ET
Krugman has an announcement for his credulous Times readers: Constantly (and embarrassingly) calling a serious conservative politician a "flimflam" man is not an ad hominem attack; accurately ...
8/6/2010 2:29 PM ET
The economist turned left-wing talking points parrot shows his way with an incisive insult by mocking conservative Republican budget-whiz Rep. Paul Ryan as a "flimflam man" whose work is "drenched ...
7/29/2010 4:24 PM ET
The Times and the Washington Post don't seem to agree on the import of the leak of classified information on the war in Afghanistan.
7/21/2010 2:44 PM ET
An obituary for an alarmist climatologist refers to Erlich, author of the hysterical, now-discredited tome "The Population Bomb," as a population expert. In his 1968 book Ehrlich called for the ...
7/19/2010 3:03 PM ET
Frank Rich put his original "sadomasochist" attack on "The Passion of the Christ" in someone else's mouth, and kept this box office prediction stuffed down the memory hole: "Indeed, it's hard to ...
7/19/2010 1:52 PM ET
Matt Bai passes along a discredited liberal myth from March: "The question of racism in the amorphous Tea Party movement is, of course, a serious one, since so much of the Republican Party seems ...
6/30/2010 1:31 PM ET
"Death By Gadget." Times columnists Nicholas Kristof and Maureen Dowd embrace different variations of cell phone fear.
6/24/2010 1:31 PM ET
The Times aims another penalty kick right at Nicolas Sarkozy: "Fadela Amara, the junior minister for the racially charged suburbs who was born to Algerian parents, warned on Tuesday that the ...
6/23/2010 1:14 PM ET
French socialists blame right-of-center president Nicolas Sarkozy for the team's World Cup failure, and Jere Longman appears to take them seriously: "Some opposition politicians said the players' ...
