Media Matters’ Simon Maloy catches Clay Waters making the claim, in a July 27 NewsBusters post and TimesWatch item, that the New York Times had dismissed the birthers as conspiracy theorists, but couldn’t bring themselves to do the same for the 9/11 Truthers, to whom the paper showed “respect,” citing a 2006 Times article in which the writer “not once … dismiss the 9-11 Truthers bizarre charge as a “conspiracy theory,” as the Times article on the birthers did. Waters somehow overlooked the word “conspiracy” in the headline of that truther article, or that its overall tone was hardly “respectful.”
UPDATE: Media Matters’ Jamison Foser catches MRC director of communications Seton Motley, in a July 28 NewsBusters post, responding to New York Times columnist Paul Krugman’s assertion that a new auto plant in Canada won’t result in additional costs to the government under its nationalized health care system by asserting, “Really? Adding workers brought in from outside Canada to the government rolls won’t increase government spending?” Yes, really, since nobody said anything about bringing in workers “from outside Canada.”