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The New York Times goes "scrotal"

July 3, 2008 - If you have a Google alert set for "New York Times" and "scrotal" like we do, you probably noticed a very special e-mail in your inbox Thursday. It's like a little birthday gift to America from the Old Gray Lady. And, hey, sometimes you just need to use...

From The Room: It's Been A Lo-o-o-ong Campaign

April 29, 2008 - If the Presidential campaign seems unbelievably long to you, that's because it has been unbelievably long. To illustrate how long this thing has been going on, The New York Times pointed out yesterday...

From The Room: A Man Admits He's Wrong...in Print, Yet!

March 28, 2008 - Though women can be quick to point out when a man is wrong and it's become routine for The New York Times to print retractions and corrections, it's rare to hear a man admit he was wrong. Turn in your hymnal books to page E1 ("Weekend Arts") to...

From The Room: People Still Dying in Iraq

March 11, 2008 - Reprinted with permission from: AP, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Reuters Several more U.S. soldiers were killed in an Iraqi province last week during an attack by insurgents. Military officials announced that these casualties bring this month...

From The Room: Bill Kristol: Pinhead

February 25, 2008 - The New York Times has taken some flack for a story documenting that, despite his speeches against corruption in Washington, John McCain has not been careful to separate his relationships with lobbyist...

From The Room: Who McCain Should Screw

February 25, 2008 - Now that the Republican primaries are essentially over, the public can finally focus on something other than family values and the sanctity of marriage. Namely, the public can focus on McCain's well-crafted foreign policy and how it relates to him allegedly...

From The Room: Let Them Eat Doughnuts

February 25, 2008 - From the New York Times article "Donors Worried by Clinton Campaign Spending": "Nearly $100,000 went for party platters and groceries befo...

From The Room: Lumpy & Hucky

February 25, 2008 - Just when you thought the Republican primary was all but over, along comes The New York Times with a potential bombshell about possible indiscretions that may or may not have involved John McCain and a...

From The Room: The New York Times Launches Missile: Navy Vet McCain Takes Out Satellite Lobbyist

February 21, 2008 - While the Bush administration was shooting down a secret satellite that had "fallen" out of orbit, the New York Times was playing skeet with Senator John McCain, who, weeks earlier, had received their endorsement in the New York Republican Primary. The Times' story has the presum...

From The Room: Words, Words, Words...

February 20, 2008 - CANDIDATE ("HRC"): "It's the ideal inscribed on the base of the Statute of Liberty..." SENIOR STAFFER ("SS"): Ok she's finishing up. Get the water ready. LOCAL STAFFER ("LOCAL"): Ice? She like ice in it? INTERN: Ice? HRC: "So today we say with one voice -- give us the child...

From The Room: New Reasons Not to Blog

January 9, 2008 - Do you guys know what the TED Conferences are? TED stands for "Technology, Entertainment, and Design" and it's basically a giant annual love-in for uber dorks in Monterery, CA. They describe the shebang as a "group of remarkable people that gather to...

From The Room: Yikes! Bill Kristol Is in My House!

January 7, 2008 - Okay, it's not as if Bill Kristol is actually in my home and I'm being forced to offer him a drink and appear civilized, if not actually cordial, while recoiling at his snide, cocky, right wing pronouncements. But today, The New York Times has deposited his pomposity at...

From The Room: And Now a Note from Bill Kristol

January 3, 2008 - The year ended on two depressing notes: the assassination of Benazir Bhutto and the news that Bill Kristol has been hired as a columnist for the New York Times. These dark turns were like a one-two punch from God. I was barely able to breathe. And I don't...

From The Room: What Fresh Hell: New York Times Reporter Exposes Massive Steroid Use in the Animal Kingdom

December 28, 2007 - "In nature, it's not whether you win or lose, it's whether you win, and animals will do or ingest the most outrageous, dangerous, blechy things in their quest for victory." So reports Natalie Angier...

From The Room: Benazir Bhutto and the New York Post

December 28, 2007 - As some of you may or may not know, the worst thing that can possibly happen in a comedy news day is for the top story to be a goddamn tragedy. Nothing clenches up the humor anuses of your everyday public like realizing that they're about to laugh at...