Category Archives: New York Times

Why JD Vance no longer calls Trump ‘America’s Hitler’

Posted on July 15, 2024 by oddmanout215

Sen. JD Vance, Donald Trump’s newly chosen running mate, wrote this on Facebook during the 2016 presidential campaign: I go back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical asshole like Nixon who wouldn’t be that bad (and might even … Continue reading →

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The media gets lost in the fog of war again

Posted on October 21, 2023 by oddmanout215

Swamp Rabbit and I were re-reading a New York Times story posted shortly after the October 17 Gaza hospital explosion that killed scores, or perhaps hundreds, of civilians. The question of who’s responsible for the explosion is still up in … Continue reading →

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Manchin again (the video version)

Posted on October 21, 2021 by oddmanout215

Swamp Rabbit was hungover and tired of my blogging choices. “How come you gotta do two posts in a row about Manchin? What about all them other creeps in the U.S. Senate?” So I told him for the tenth time: … Continue reading →

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To the moon with you, Bezos, and beyond!

Posted on June 17, 2021 by oddmanout215

I was reading about zillionaire Jeff Bezos, owner of Amazon, the world’s largest Internet company. He arguably became the richest person in history during the Covid-19 pandemic thanks to a huge upsurge in online sales. He owns Whole Foods. He … Continue reading →

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How about a moat? And toss in some alligators

Posted on October 3, 2019 by oddmanout215

Swamp Rabbit and I were drinking coffee from tin cups, listening to a Jimmie Rodgers album and reading a surreal story in Guardian UK: Donald Trump discussed shooting migrants in the legs to slow them down, after ordering advisers to … Continue reading →

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A referendum on Trumpism

Posted on November 6, 2018 by oddmanout215

Donald Trump’s unwitting accomplices in the media were at it again this weekend, helping spread the lie that Democrats may have tried to “hack” Georgia’s voter registration files. The accusation was made by Georgia’s Republican secretary of state, who also happens … Continue reading →

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From ostrich jacket to jailhouse jumpsuit

Posted on August 3, 2018 by oddmanout215

This is what happens when you have all the money in the world but no heart or imagination: Paul Manafort — President Trump’s former campaign chairman who’s currently on trial in Virginia on charges of money laundering, tax evasion and … Continue reading →

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They really don’t care — ALL of them

Posted on June 25, 2018 by oddmanout215

“I really don’t care, do u?” was the message scrawled on the cheap jacket Melania Trump wore on her way to visit a detainment facility – a jail, really — for kids who were separated from their parents by U.S. … Continue reading →

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Mass shootings don’t faze gun freaks

Posted on November 7, 2017 by oddmanout215

From a New York Times editorial published in 2015, soon after the mass shooting in San Bernardino, CA: …Certain kinds of weapons, like the slightly modified combat rifles used in California, and certain kinds of ammunition, must be outlawed for … Continue reading →

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Let’s rate news analysts on their track records

Posted on February 17, 2015 by oddmanout215

The New York Times recently issued a “Libya is falling apart” editorial. As Glenn Greenwald noted, The Times failed to mention it was an enthusiastic supporter of U.S. air strikes that helped topple Moammar Ghadafi and destabilize Libya to the … Continue reading →

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