NY Times Edits Tea Party Article After White House Complains
September 20, 2010 by Andrew
Filed under Government
September 20, 2010
The Raw Story
By Ron Brynaert
The Bush administration spent years feuding with The New York Times but the Grey Lady hardly ever backed down.
Most would agree that the media’s honeymoon with the Obama administration appears to be over, but the relationship isn’t as contentious as under Bush.
Perhaps one reason why President Obama seems to get more satisfaction is that he never referred to any Times reporters as “major league assholes.”
“The White House is pushing back hard against a New York Times report that the president’s political team is considering a national ad campaign that would cast the GOP as taken over by tea party extremists,” Mike Allen and Andy Barr report for Politico.
One unnamed White House official claims the story was “100 percent inaccurate,” but “Times Washington bureau chief Dean Baquet counters that the ‘piece is accurate.’”
As Politico notes, the Times article’s headline was changed to “Obama Aides Weigh Bid to Tie the GOP to the Tea Party.”
However, Allen and Barr add, “Those changes were not enough to satisfy the White House, according to sources.”
Over the last year, the New York Times has become increasingly more critical of Obama, calling him out for breaking campaign promises and criticizing his administration’s handling of crises ranging from the BP oil spill to controversial war on terror arrests.
Last year, the Obama administration appeared to take a back-handed swipe at the Times for its Israeli, Palestinian coverage, according to the American Thinker.
ut for some conservatives, the Times isn’t as tough on Obama as it should be.
Say Anything criticized the paper for giving Obama a pass on allegedly “bowing” to foreign leaders. The blog mentions that former President Clinton once drew heat, but ignores the factthat President George W. Bush and many other presidents did, too.
