Posted on 07/22/2008 4:49:47 AM PDT by visitor
EDITORS' NOTE: The New York Times wouldn't print this oped from the GOP candidate.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Pfft. If it’s not blessed by the NYT, what good is it? (S)
The DNC Times couldn’t print it since it destroys their boy. Yeah, our troops are doing a fantastic job, no thanks to you. Hey Oblack, is the World a safer place w/o Saddamn??
Pray for W and Our Victorious Troops
I wonder if the NYT has figured out how extremely partisan they have made themselves appear by rejecting his op-ed piece and telling him they “hoped it would MIRROR Senator Obama’s” (caps mine)?
They do all the “mirror’ing” of Obama’s puff pieces as it is, why do they need McCain to “mirror” them as well?
It’s a rhetorical question.
exactly, if the times had just printed it 1 million moonbats would have ignored it, now millions will see it or hear about it...
More people are going to read it now than would have had the NYT not censored it. Good move guys! Censorship always works!! LOL
Sorry about this, but having read read BOTH articles, I can now see the NYT’s point. Obama’s op-ed, while obviously flawed and overfull of rationalisation for his changing viewpoints just never stoops to the level of “cheap hit piece,” as McCain’s so often does.
McCain is mentioned only twice in Obama’s piece, and only in the context that Obama disagrees with him. I couldn’t count the number of times Obama, his plans, views and past history were attacked in McCain’s “op-ed,” but it is certainly over ten. Consequently, McCain’s piece does not fare well in comparison to Obama’s.
Not printing McCain’s op-ed in favour of Obama’s would be a no-brainer for any competent editor.
The good news is, this has backfired on the NY Times anyway.
We need to hear both sides in an election as important as the Presidency of the US. Answering your opponent's ideas and stating that they're wrong and harmful to our country is as American as apple pie.
Yer too funny.
By the way, welcome to FR.
That is what I was thinking yesterday when Fox started talking about it...millions now know about this piece.
Kind of the same unintended consequences of the “not my baby Alex,” piece, thank God move on got clobbered over that disgusting POS to. Just goes to show you, sometimes its a bad thing to have more money than sense.
Seems to me everyone else who has read both op-eds, other than the NY Times and other idiot Obama supporters, disagrees with you.
Was thinking the same this morning on the way to work, this backfired, over Obama worship station MSNBC is reporting the story.
Just because you’re in the majority doesn’t mean you’re in the right, you know.
I’m certainly willing to respect anyone else’s opinion about it, even if they refuse to respect mine.
Calling me an Obambi supporter goes a little beyond the pale, however. I must admit that I am not all that comfortable with McCain’s policies, foreign OR domestic, but had I the choice (I’m Canadian and therefore can’t vote in the USA), I would certainly vote Republican and McCain - even if I needed a clothespin to do it.
Cheers.
Here is the problem kimosabe. By printing Obama's editorial that was critical of John McCaim's position, the NY Times gave free advertising to the Obama Campaign. By refusing to print the rebuttal by McCain, their gift of editorial page space to Obama becomes a de facto Campaign contribution.
The NY Times had no business printing an unedited editorial by one candidate in a presidential race specifically critical of another candidate and then refusing to give the same consideration to a candidate criticized in that editorial.
But then if the NY Times is not going to be investigated for treason, they are not going to be investigated for illegal campaign contributions, are they?
You forgot the “< /sarcasm >” tag at the end of your post.
You couldn’t count to ten?
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