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Well, it be nice if McCain actually did tell us how we will know when we've won and how he's going to get there, even if the Times seems to ask for too much detail.
But McCain didn't bother to even discuss it with the NYT; they immediately sent it off to Drudge, which suggests that raising a stink about "media bias" was the whole point of the exercise in the first place.
No admirer of the New York Times here, but what are editors for if not to edit? Our president, beloved and trusted by a whopping 28% of his subjects, may be above the law, but no senator is beyond the editorial review of a newspaper worth its potential as fish-wrap. Besides, didn't they say something like "glad to publish it if the suggestions are heeded"?
We all know what the New York Times is about, so why should we be surprised? But be very careful. Demanding equal time for John McCain sounds to me like the "fairness doctrine".
Wrapping a dead fish in the NYTs does a diservice to the fish.
An organization that has long ago lost any semblance of credibility does not have to worry about actions like this affecting their reputation. Everyone knows it's in the garbage tank. How many more subscribers do they have to lose before the message sinks in. Message to hollywoodog, I'm trying to figure out what President Bush's favorability has to do with this issue. I think you just gave yourself away.
Yes, let's have a detailed strategic plan with all troop deployments, operational details and contingencies for the next four years. And if you deviate one iota, you will be guilty of lying to the American people; i.e., the New York Times. And, while we're at it, how about giving us the names of all undercover American agents in unfriendly countries and the itineraries for all nuclear missile subs and launch codes for their missiles. After all, the "people" have a right to know.
My short position in NYT stock is one of my best investments this year! Pinch Schultzberger (sp?) has made me money through his ineptitude and lack of journalistic integrity.
Apparently FDR never wrote an op-ed. How did FDR get away without giving the specific time-table for getting our combat troops out of harms way? He should have at least let the enemy know just what our troop levels in Europe and the Pacific were expected to be and exactly how and when we would achieve victory.
After all, if McCain is being asked to tell the enemy all these details, FDR should have been asked to tell the Times too.
If I recall correctly, the NY Times also rejected seven op-ed pieces by President Clinton. And several by Hillary Clinton. But I don't recall the WT becoming overly exercised by those rejections.
That being said, if McCain had not canceled his weekly national press conference today, he could have very easily addressed the issues he set forth in his op-ed. Undoubtedly with his usual clarity.
Of course, he might also have been asked about why he obfuscated about the "surge" timeline and the so-called "Anbar Awakening." Or if he still supports a missile defense system in the non-existent country of Czechoslovakia. And so many more uncomfortable questions.
And in spite of having canceled his weekly press conference, his staff will more than likely be complaining tomorrow that Obama gets an unfair amount of press coverage.
The NYT continues on a death spiral as it celebrates its far left agenda. It prints information that aids the enemies of America in the war on terrorists and now leans so far to the left, it is going to fall flat. Its reputation as a solid voice of news and opinion of our republic has left the room. May its sales continue to drop to the level of its balanced reporting of the news.
Somehow the liberal media in this country feel that the first amendment is a superright and they are the stewards. If this was true, it has been corrupted by the NY Times. This is the first time I have heard of a media outlet denying first amendment rights to an individual because an editor wishes to dictate policy. "The most effectual engines for [pacifying a nation] are the public papers... [A despotic] government always [keeps] a kind of standing army of newswriters who, without any regard to truth or to what should be like truth, [invent] and put into the papers whatever might serve the ministers." - Thomas Jefferson.
There are JERKS and then there are REAL JERKS, which is what Shipley is. He would be most welcome on the staff of any socialist PIG media enterprise anywhere in the world, especially so since his newspaper is dedicated to the party line, not the truth.
The Noo Yawk Times has become nothing more, or less than a worthless yellow rag, It essentially is a feeble replacement for the Communist Daily Worker which at least admitted what it stood for. The NYT's editorial staff and its propagandist writers fit the mold(mould?) of sick leftist thought you find in most communist gutter efforts.
As New York's communist newspaper steadily drops readership, and as more and more people realize that they are not only being lied to, but propagandized by a bunch of anti-American socialist pigs, it won't be all that much longer before it finally fails, to which I would say, good riddance to bad rubbish.
In my opinion, it isn't even good for wrapping spoiled fish.
The Great Tribulation will begin this fall. The warnings are out!
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