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BoycottNYT: The New York Times Smears Cindy McCain
Accuracy in Media ^ | October 21, 2008 | Boycott The New York Times

Posted on 10/21/2008 10:57:35 AM PDT by AIM Freeper

WASHINGTON, October 21, 2008—As The New York Times increasingly comes under fire for an October 18 story that delved into Cindy McCain’s personal life, a prominent critic of the paper is calling for a boycott of what he terms “America’s newspaper of wretched.” Don Feder, the editor of the Boycott The New York Times website http://boycottnyt.com, says the lengths that The Times went to in order to “trash” Mrs. McCain is further proof of a relentless pro-Obama bias at the newspaper.

“How low will The New York Times go to trash John McCain and his wife Cindy? Think the bellies of snakes – lower than which you cannot go,” writes Feder in an article posted October 20 at BoycottNYT.com. He adds, “We will wait in vain for The Times to unleash its investigative pit bulls on the personal lives of Barack and Michelle Obama.”

Noting that the story focused on Cindy McCain’s previously reported, past addiction to painkillers, Feder takes The Times to task for neglecting to probe certain aspects of Barack Obama’s drug use, such as “1. Who supplied Obama with drugs when he was an addict? 2. What substances did he use besides cocaine? 3. When did his addiction end?”

Writing about a recent editorial in which The Times accuses the McCain campaign of “entering the dark territory of racism and xenophobia,” – but offering no evidence to support the charge – Feder says McCain could legitimately have made an issue of Obama’s 19-year association with anti-American demagogue Jeremiah Wright, “but has thus far refrained from doing so, for fear of inciting racial passions.”

Feder declares, “As the campaign winds down to the last two weeks, The Times becomes increasingly reckless in its charges and biased in its reporting.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
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1 posted on 10/21/2008 10:57:36 AM PDT by AIM Freeper
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To: AIM Freeper

My username says it all.

I will also boycott “caveman insurance” and all other businesses that contributed to left causes.


2 posted on 10/21/2008 10:59:23 AM PDT by boycott
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To: AIM Freeper
Hold on. The New York Times has been the premier liberal shill for many decades.

Why would someone stop reading it now, when it's no different than before? Anyone reading that cr@p is a self-described idiot.

3 posted on 10/21/2008 11:00:05 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Concerning Larry Sinclair: It is strange when you can be thankful for having a pervert on your side.)
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To: AIM Freeper

Already done.
I havn’t bought that rag in years.


4 posted on 10/21/2008 11:00:22 AM PDT by mapmaker77
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To: AIM Freeper

.........what about the many who have boycotted that NYT rag for decades already? I guess if we ever visited their website we could boycott that, too, eh?


5 posted on 10/21/2008 11:00:54 AM PDT by CaliforniaCon
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To: AIM Freeper

I’m ahead of the curve, I’ve been boycotting them my whole life. Well, unless a few words are posted here.


6 posted on 10/21/2008 11:02:59 AM PDT by SoDak (Anything but obama)
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To: AIM Freeper
"BoycottNYT"

Been doin' so for 34 years and countin'...:-)

7 posted on 10/21/2008 11:05:29 AM PDT by EnigmaticAnomaly ("Democrats: Seeking an easy life at someone else's expense for 150 years")
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To: AIM Freeper

I’d like to find out IF Obama did indeed stop using drugs.


8 posted on 10/21/2008 11:05:56 AM PDT by growingpains
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To: AIM Freeper

all the news not fit to print, wrap fish, line parrot cages with.....


9 posted on 10/21/2008 11:07:17 AM PDT by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: AIM Freeper

I’ve been boycotting the NY Slimes and the LA Slimes for years.


10 posted on 10/21/2008 11:07:57 AM PDT by Bobkk47
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To: AIM Freeper

Not just the NYTimes, but every newspaper or media outlet which distorts McCain, and worships Obama.

Cancel the paper or magazine.

Get a list of all advertisers to that paper or TV station or network, and make it a point of writing or calling those advertisers and tell them you will NEVER EVER give them your business as long as they advertise in an anti-JudeoChristian publication.

Cancelling the paper feels good, but does little to sway an editor or publisher.

I’ve been in newsrooms, and reporters all gather around and laugh whenever someone calls in and threatens to cancel.... because they know that most of those people will eventually return.

Pro-Obama newspapers are often the only newspaper in town, and they know it.

Get mad. Get serious, and make your convictions stick.


11 posted on 10/21/2008 11:09:10 AM PDT by Edit35 (.)
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To: All

Somebody will give the Times or Post the Ayers treatment one of these days.

It’s inevitable.


12 posted on 10/21/2008 11:09:38 AM PDT by rbmillerjr ("There is a PoliticalSurge coming")
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To: AIM Freeper

Sorry. Can’t boycot them. I have never subscribed.


13 posted on 10/21/2008 11:10:22 AM PDT by Jemian (Powell = RACIST)
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To: AIM Freeper

I’ll do better than that. I won’t even GLANCE at the NYT when I’m at Starbucks or the grocery store.


14 posted on 10/21/2008 11:10:22 AM PDT by ChocChipCookie (Homeschool like your kids' lives depend on it.)
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To: AIM Freeper

For me, boycotting the NYT is like a non-taxpayer getting a tax break. We’re going into negative numbers here, and pretty soon I’m going to start having anything I’ve read from them in the past surgically removed.


15 posted on 10/21/2008 11:11:44 AM PDT by SlowBoat407 (Obama will give us enough hope to hang ourselves.)
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To: AIM Freeper
Asking Freepers to boycott the NYT is like asking Muslims and Jews to quit eating pork....its a done thing.
16 posted on 10/21/2008 11:12:58 AM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: AIM Freeper

May the God of Moses strike the NYT with Lightning and burn it down.


17 posted on 10/21/2008 11:17:52 AM PDT by Bringbackthedraft (If we can reverse the ticket, we'd have a winner! PALIN/MCCAIN)
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To: AIM Freeper

They say never pick a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel - that was yesterday’s views - Look what Jesse Jackson did with his gangster boycotts. A concerted effort will produce results.

NYT have always been a Leftist newspaper. They hire very good Leftist writers, win awards, and appeal to the “Can Not Park A Bicycle Straight Intelligentsia”.

We should also launch, (Stop calling them Liberals- They are Living Room Leftist). America was founded buy Liberals(They created the Right to be left alone by government).


18 posted on 10/21/2008 11:18:57 AM PDT by EdArt (free to be)
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To: AIM Freeper

I heard Hannity ask the questions Feder asks in this article. Who was Obama’s drug connection? (Ayers and his gang?) When did he really stop the drugs, if ever? (Sometimes he looks pretty loopy lately—maybe the urgent trip to Hawaii is for an emergency jiffy rehab?)

Why don’t we hear about what clinic he went to to get straight? Or if he attended NA meetings in Chitown?

Did he ever deal drugs? How did he pay tuition at expensive schools, when he asserts he was a “poor” student?

These questions deserve answers. Before the election.


19 posted on 10/21/2008 11:21:03 AM PDT by Palladin (Obama on Ayers: "He's just a guy in my neighborhood." LIAR!!!)
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To: AIM Freeper

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE5DF133EF933A2575AC0A965958260

Gay Journalists Leading a Revolution


20 posted on 10/21/2008 11:21:15 AM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life ;o)
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To: AIM Freeper

Notifying this website of a New York Times boycott is like asking a vegetarian website to boycott bacon-wrapped veal.


21 posted on 10/21/2008 11:21:49 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: CaliforniaCon

That’s an excellent question! Yes, you can boycott their website — they make money from online advertisements, as well as print ads and subscriptions. You can also take it a step further and boycott the Times’ advertisers; we’ll have a list of their top advertisers up at BoycottNYT.com in the coming weeks.


22 posted on 10/21/2008 11:22:04 AM PDT by AIM Freeper
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To: EdArt

Living Room Leftists!! Great appellation for the Obamas and Ayerses and their close pals.


23 posted on 10/21/2008 11:22:45 AM PDT by Palladin (Obama on Ayers: "He's just a guy in my neighborhood." LIAR!!!)
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To: ConservativeMind

It was a treat to be able to call and tell the operator that I was cancelling my subscription (Sunday only) because the way they treated Cindy McCain was unacceptable...


24 posted on 10/21/2008 11:22:50 AM PDT by Loyolas Mattman ("Oh, God Love Ya'...Stand Up for Chuck!!!" - Joe Biden)
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To: AIM Freeper
I can't imagine why the Times would print this blasphemous article.  Millions of bloggers & forum readers will be driven to their site to read the article. It just doesn't make sense that they'd want to clog their bandwidth.
25 posted on 10/21/2008 11:24:41 AM PDT by HawaiianGecko (48, one in the box and one in the bush.)
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To: AIM Freeper

Been doing that for decades now.


26 posted on 10/21/2008 11:25:16 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: AIM Freeper

I can’t boycott the Slimes any more than I do already.

Progressive, GEICO, U Phoenix Online, any Time-Warner product, Oprah, and CostCo similarly make the list.


27 posted on 10/21/2008 11:25:27 AM PDT by MeanWestTexan (A Jew voting for Obama is like a chicken voting for Col. Sanders.)
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To: AIM Freeper

How about Obammas admitted illicit cocaine use. Is the cocaine use what causes the stuttering/stammering. He’s got to get help.


28 posted on 10/21/2008 11:34:41 AM PDT by showme_the_Glory (ILLEGAL: prohibited by law. ALIEN: Owing political allegiance to another country or government)
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To: AIM Freeper

Does this mean the gloves are off with Michelle my Belle? Let the smearing began.


29 posted on 10/21/2008 11:35:27 AM PDT by shiva
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To: shiva
yah! i just know we could find all kinds of racist, vile, nasty things about michelle and they would not be smears! nyt sucks. i thought they were on death watch any way because no one reads them?
30 posted on 10/21/2008 12:22:56 PM PDT by CanadianMusherinMI (Mrs. Musher here!)
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To: AIM Freeper

I’ll ignore the NY Times even more!


31 posted on 10/21/2008 12:29:30 PM PDT by Reaganesque
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To: AIM Freeper
How can you boycott a paper that doesn't have any readers? Or any investors?


32 posted on 10/21/2008 12:41:12 PM PDT by StAnDeliver (Schadenfreude!)
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To: AIM Freeper

Umm, I’m pretty sure nearly every Freeper already boycotts the NY Times.


33 posted on 10/21/2008 12:50:06 PM PDT by St. Louis Conservative
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To: AIM Freeper

34 posted on 10/21/2008 1:11:21 PM PDT by GalaxieFiveHundred
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