2/5/13, "The Unconventional Ted Cruz," National Review, Andrew Stiles
"Like DeMint, Cruz has already become a favorite target of the establishment press. The New York Times penned an editorial on January 20 urging Republican leaders to “marginalize lawmakers like Mr. Cruz,” which began: “Ted Cruz, the newly elected Tea Party senator from Texas, embodies the rigidity the public grew to loathe in Congress’s last term.”
The mainstream press was particularly incensed by last week’s Hagel hearing, where Cruz pressed Hagel to explain remarks he made in a 2009 appearance on Al Jazeera. The senator’s staff had rolled a big-screen television into the hearing room to play clips of the appearance, in which Hagel concurred with a number of controversial statements from Al Jazeera viewers — that the United States is “the world’s bully,” and that Israel has been (referring to a specific past event) complicit in a “sickening slaughter."...
Cruz was derided for his “bogus attack” on Hagel, for “hectoring” the nominee, for turning the hearing “into a clown show,” and even for channeling the spirit of Joe McCarthy.
For conservatives, that may be one of the surest signs that Cruz is doing something right." via Mark Levin twitter
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Cruz to GOP: "Stop reading the NY Times."
1/26/13, "Sen. Cruz to House GOP: Stop reading The New York Times," Washington Times, Seth McLaughlin
"Texas Sen. Ted Cruz has some advice for fellow Republicans in the House: Stop reading The New York Times.
Sparking applause from the crowd gathered at the National Review Institute’s summit, Mr. Cruz said he is confident that the nation is “on the verge of a rebirth of conservatism” and that the first step in that direction is for members of House GOP to cancel their subscription to the Old Gray Lady....
Since arriving in Washington, Mr. Cruz, a graduate of Harvard Law School, has not kept his head down."...
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Rove runs to NY Times with inside story about his new group
which among other things targets sitting Republican Iowa congressman Steve King:
2/2/13, "Top Donors to Republicans Seek More Say in Senate Races" NY Times, Jeff Zeleny
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him as "long the party’s tactical mastermind:" (4th parag. fr. end)
9/16/10, NY Times Editorial, "The Tea Party's Snarl."
"For both parties and certainly the broad swath of independent voters, defeating this new crop of Tea Party nominees has become imperative to avoid the sense of national embarrassment from each divisive and offensive utterance, each wacky policy proposal....
In both cases, the Republican establishment did everything possible to avoid having the party be represented by these two, lest the link to the Tea Party become evident. Karl Rove, long the party’s tactical mastermind, dismissed Ms. O’Donnell as “nutty.”"...
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Others notice NY Times loves Karl Rove:
Political types tend to get suspicious when those on one side of the
spectrum suddenly start complimenting their supposed worst enemies....Yet in the past few weeks, the White
House and even The New York Times have done exactly that—heaping praise
on their longtime nemesis, Karl Rove, and his protégé, Ed Gillespie."...
Boehner runs to NY Times right after Obama's re-election with inside story that he's given GOP House members "bitter medicine" that they must do what Obama wants:
11/10/12, “Boehner Tells House G.O.P. to Fall in Line,” NY Times, by Jonathan Weisman and Jennifer Steinhauer
“On a conference call with House Republicans a day after the party’s electoral battering last week, Speaker John A. Boehner
dished out some bitter medicine,
and for the first time in the 112th Congress, most members took their dose."...
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Less than 4 weeks later Boehner again gives NY Times inside details of discussions among allegedly beaten, dispirited House GOP. NY Times gushes that Boehner is "sage counsel," and "titular head of the Republican Party." They give him front page, top left corner with his name in the headline.
12/6/12, "BOEHNER GAINS STRONG BACKING OF HOUSE GOP....EMPOWERED FOR TALKS.....Election Result and Polls Point to Unity for Fractious Group," NY Times, Steinhauer
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Clout Diminished, Tea Party Turns to Narrower Issues," NY Times, Trip Gabriel
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Joel Pollak responds to the Times article:
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