Posted on 09/30/2008 11:34:20 AM PDT by pissant
The New York Times and John McCain really don't seem to like each other all that well and it appears the disagreement may have spilled over into a campaign plane ban for Times columnist Maureen Dowd. McCain Campaign chief Steve Schmidt scalded the New York Times just last week in a conference call where he ripped the paper and screamed bias.
"Whatever the New York Times once was, it is today not by any standard a journalistic organization. It is a pro-Obama advocacy organization," Schmidt said. "This is an organization that is completely, totally, 150 percent in the tank for the Democratic candidate."
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Now a nugget buried deep in a Washington Post column from media critic Howard Kurtz has this, "Outside, on a summerlike evening, Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs held forth for the likes of NBC’s Chuck Todd and New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd, who was wearing an Elvis T-shirt. (The company may have been more pleasant than that of McCain aides, who have barred Dowd from the candidate’s plane….)"
So is she off? The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has this from Dowd, "I had had a great relationship with John McCain for 16 years, through columns he liked and didn't like. So at first I thought it was a mistake and doublechecked with the press office. They said I was banned from both planes for 'the foreseeable future.' Then [McCain spokeswoman] Nicole Wallace was gloating about it to reporters on the Palin plane."
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one of my favorite FR rules.
Yep!
This is going to be a great thread. CZJ pics without having to read a MoDo column!
You really just wanted to post CZJ pics but needed a Dowd thread as cover, didn’t you?
Maybe they just couldn’t keep the liquor cart stocked....
Maureen, thanks for flying Air McCain- and Buh Byee!
The Night Dowd was Banned from the Plane.
with my apologies to “Gigi”
I’d rather see a picture of MoDo being pushed out of the campaign plane (at FL330), but that’ll do.
Greatest rule EVER.
I guess the “affair” story right after he got the nomination didn’t convince him, some people are a little slow on the uptake.
She looks good enough to eat.
Is it just tradition, or is there some reason?
NY Times lied about McCain affair...why should he trust them in any way....
“Republican front-runner Mr. John McCain flatly denied published insinuations yesterday that he had an affair eight years ago with a lobbyist as allegations of sex and influence peddling sullied the race for the White House.
“It’s not true,” Mr. McCain said yesterday in Toledo, Ohio, after The New York Times published a lengthy story...”
Ah...what took McCain so long?
Were they inflight when they kick her off the plane?
This is funny. Now Dowd will be in a frenzy to get even with McCain and all Republicans from here to doomsday. I can’t wait for her and her poison pen to get cranked up. Talk about vindictive - we ain’t seen nothin’ yet.
I think I like yours better of the 2 on this thread so far...
It probably had nothing to do with her writing, but with the fact that she smells like cat poop, keeps used tissues in her sleeve and her teeth often fall into the food on the press buffet.
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