Editors’ Blog - 2015
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07.30.15 | 2:08 pm
Welp

After taking Huckabee to task over “ovens” comment, Lindsey Graham says Iran deal is like the West’s capitulation to Germany at Munich.

07.31.15 | 9:12 am
Would You Believe …

A desperate Chris Christie rebrands himself as the protector of delayed commuters in epic bowl-swirl flip-flop.

07.31.15 | 11:23 am
Shocking

Shocking photos of that Orthodox fanatic stabbing Israeli celebrants at the Jerusalem Pride parade.

07.31.15 | 11:46 am
Highly Instructive

So it turns out Times editor Dean Baquet refused to publish the Clinton campaign’s pushback email about the egregiously botched “criminal referral” story the paper published. I’m not going to get on the outrage bandwagon over that. This is high stakes Kabuki on both sides. The Clinton campaign may actually be happy they refused to publish – a better story than having their letter published in the paper.

But … there’s still something highly instructive we can draw from this. It is a really good object lesson on how much more wildly the Times gets played by Republicans than it ever does by Democrats. Fox and the RNC wouldn’t be playing them like a fiddle at this point.

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07.31.15 | 12:12 pm
Satisfied

Critic who launched right-wing/RNC freakout over AP History standards says he’s satisfied with revisions/cave in.

07.31.15 | 4:15 pm
Post-Cecil, Shit Gets Real

Texas man injured after bullet ricochets off armadillo he was trying to shoot.

08.02.15 | 3:02 pm
Good Times At Stone Mountain

Despite calls for participants to refrain from using racial slurs at a rally on behalf of the Confederate flag at the Confederate memorial at Stone Mountain, Georgia (aka the Confederate Mount Rushmore), things apparently did not all go according to plan. While most of the roughly 800 participants professed to be focused on heritage not race, some got into heated arguments with a mixed-race crowd of protestors there to voice their opposition to the flag and the monument.

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08.03.15 | 9:30 am
GOP Rising Star Indicted

Texas’s Tea Party Attorney General, Ken Paxton, hit with securities fraud indictment.