Posted on 07/21/2008 9:09:19 AM PDT by edzo4
NYT REJECTS MCCAIN'S EDITORIAL; SHOULD 'MIRROR' OBAMA Mon Jul 21 2008 12:00:25 ET
An editorial written by Republican presidential hopeful McCain has been rejected by the NEW YORK TIMES -- less than a week after the paper published an essay written by Obama, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.
The paper's decision to refuse McCain's direct rebuttal to Obama's 'My Plan for Iraq' has ignited explosive charges of media bias in top Republican circles.
'It would be terrific to have an article from Senator McCain that mirrors Senator Obama's piece,' NYT Op-Ed editor David Shipley explained in an email late Friday to McCain's staff. 'I'm not going to be able to accept this piece as currently written.'
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In McCain's submission to the TIMES, he writes of Obama: 'I am dismayed that he never talks about winning the war—only of ending it... if we don't win the war, our enemies will. A triumph for the terrorists would be a disaster for us. That is something I will not allow to happen as president.'
NYT's Shipley advised McCain to try again: 'I'd be pleased, though, to look at another draft.'
[Shipley served in the Clinton Administration from 1995 until 1997 as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Presidential Speechwriter.]
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A top McCain source claims the paper simply does not agree with the senator's Iraq policy, and wants him to change it, not "re-work the draft."
McCain writes in the rejected essay: 'Progress has been due primarily to an increase in the number of troops and a change in their strategy. I was an early advocate of the surge at a time when it had few supporters in Washington. Senator Barack Obama was an equally vocal opponent. 'I am not persuaded that 20,000 additional troops in Iraq is going to solve the sectarian violence there,' he said on January 10, 2007. 'In fact, I think it will do the reverse.'
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Shipley, who is on vacation this week, explained his decision not to run the editorial.
'The Obama piece worked for me because it offered new information (it appeared before his speech); while Senator Obama discussed Senator McCain, he also went into detail about his own plans.'
Shipley continues: 'It would be terrific to have an article from Senator McCain that mirrors Senator Obama's piece. To that end, the article would have to articulate, in concrete terms, how Senator McCain defines victory in Iraq.'
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That made me snort (laugh).
Well, I don’t share your high opinion of the cleverness of the McCain camp. The NY Slimes has not endorsed a Republican since fricken Eisenhower and acts as an arm of the DNC.
Closer to the truth. Fair and without bias. I think not.
As I understand this, the Times will only print an article by McCain if it agrees with Obama. It would also be nice if McCain endorsed Obama and withdrew from the race.
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The point wasn’t about the NYT and whothey endorse. It is that Mccain knew the story of his editorial being rejected versus Obama’s not would make a lot of news , working to get his actual editorial out , on a day that Obama is supposed to dominate
the news with his Messiac world tour this week.
Rush is blasting Little Barry today. Little Barry brags about how he opposed the mission and then goes over there and makes arrogant statements completely ignoring the plans of McCain and the Commander-in-Chief.
GOD’s making the media total crooks in peoples eyes.
This isn’t McCain’s loss, its the NYT’s that has lost the last shard of credibility.
The Obamination, like Dracula, cannot be “mirrored”!
Lockstep Communist scumbag filth.
The NYT has 'crossed the line' with their disgusting censorship and blatant, unconscionable bias on this one.
I expect bias from the NY Times, but this was unusually heavy handed. Events like this, all the network anchors going to Iraq with Obama, etc. reveal media bias more blatant than ever before. No honest person could fail to see it.
No that's not it. It's that they are in the tank for Obama.
They are no doubt in tank for Obama and every democrat, but that doesn’t necessarily mean this was an acceptable editorial.
The NY Times practices the “Fairness Doctrine,” which means a complete media blackout of anyone to the right of Stalin.
Good for Drudge!
Now maybe some business people who are opposed to managed news and self-censorship will start pulling their ads.
So, McCain is not even entitled to his own opinion?
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