Posted on 09/22/2008 10:10:59 AM PDT by Petronski
The McCain Campaign and the Times [Byron York]
Top McCain campaign officials have just finished a conference call to unveil a new ad, called "Chicago Machine," which highlights ties between Barack Obama and Tony Rezko, William Daley, Emil Jones, and Rod Blagojevich. The ad, the officials say, will air nationally and "across the depth and breadth of the battleground states." Among other topics covered in the call, campaign officials Rick Davis and Steve Schmidt were asked about a story in the New York Times concerning Davis' role in an advocacy group that included Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Davis defended himself, while Schmidt discussed the Times:
Let me first say we are First Amendment absolutists on this campaign. The press and anybody who wishes to cover this race from a blogosphere perspective or from a media perspective is of course constitutionally protected with regard to writing whatever they want to write.
But let's be clear and be honest with each other about something fundamental to this race, which is this: Whatever the New York Times once was, it is today not by an standard a journalistic organization. It is a pro-Obama advocacy organization that every day attacks the McCain campaign, attacks Sen. McCain, attacks Gov. Palin, and excuses Sen. Obama. There is no level of public vetting with regard to Sen. Obama's record, his background, his past statements. There is no level of outrage directed at his deceitful ads. This is an organization that is completely, totally, 150 percent in the tank for the Democratic candidate, which is their prerogative to be, but let's not be dishonest and call it something other than what it is. Everything that is read in the New York Times that attacks this campaign should be evaluated by the American people from that perspective, that it is an organization that has made a decision to cast aside its journalistic integrity and tradition to advocate for the defeat of one candidate, in this case John McCain, and advocate for the election of the other candidate, Barack Obama.
Amen, Steve.
The media is not Main Stream in any fashion. I suggest they should either be referred to as the “media”, or the LM; “Liberal Media”.
Gunner
The media is not Main Stream in any fashion. I suggest they should either be referred to as the “media”, or the LM; “Liberal Media”.
Gunner
Yellow journalism at its finest...
Every word of what Schmidt said is true, and I’m glad he had the stones to lay it out.
He’s not picking Cuomo!
He’s fishing for Italians/Catholics in the NY/NJ area to force BHO to use some resources there.
He wasn’t going to pick Lieberman either; that was just to make his image look more centrist. He has to capture the middle to get the most votes.
Fear not. McCain is nuts but not that nuts.
He’s not picking Cuomo!
He’s fishing for Italians/Catholics in the NY/NJ area to force BHO to use some resources there.
He wasn’t going to pick Lieberman either; that was just to make his image look more centrist. He has to capture the middle to get the most votes.
Fear not. McCain is nuts but not that nuts.
Great! Now they need to slam the dems over the head with Obama’s links to the mortgage meltdown and the lobbyists!
The dems are out in force all over the internet posting this NYT crapola mentioned in this piece.
I have been shutting them down by posting the numbers from noquarter blog! Those that have time please help.
Here they are:
From noquarter:
“Let’s start with the numbers. Why is a first term Senator pulling down almost $300,000 a year from Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, AIG, Countrywide Financial, and Washington Mutual? He has not even completed his fourth year in the Senate and received a total of $1,093,329.00 from these eight companies and their employees. (all data from OpenSecrets.org). John McCain’s numbers, according to OpenSecrets.org for the period 1990-2008 (i.e., 18 years worth of data) only collected $549,584.00. In other words, Barack is receiving $273,582.25 (and 2008 is not over) per year while McCain raised a paltry $30,532.44.
Want another shocker? Barack Obama has received more from one source–Goldman Sachs $542,252.00–than McCain has from all of the companies combined. Who the hell is more beholden to lobbyists? And why does a junior Senator from Illinois rate this kind of dough?”
These numbers put it into perspective better than anything I have seen floating around. Remember....the numbers are for 18 YEARS FOR MCCAIN and OBAMA?...not even 4 years.
I suggest we make a list of every media outlet in the battleground states and start blogging this snipet in every comments section there is at these outlets!!
Will try to work on the links this afternoon and tonight and will post them later on FR if anyone is game.
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The Times has determined that they want to represent the views of a very narrow segment of the public. The corollaries to that include, they will only sell papers to a narrow segment, and (more importantly) their advertisers will only reach that narrow segment.
The Times’s readers love its bias, which they generally share. The advertisers are mostly not so political, and they vote with their feet away from the collapsing ABC circulation of the paper. This goes straight to the bottom line. The Times is trading at this moment for under a third of what it sold for five years ago, which is to say that during a growth period for the economy Pinch’s inept management squandered 2/3s of his stockholders’ value. In a truly public company, management would long since have been ousted. But through a structural dodge, Pinch can only be voted out by his own family.
Finance guys expect the Times Corp. to lose a third of its remaining value over the next twelve months. (look for the terms “target price” on financial websites — most of them are $4 or $5 lower a share than today’s trading price). In part, this is because of Pinch’s ongoing mismanagement, in part, it’s because the many many little Sulzberger trust funds drawing off capital from a money-losing enterprise make it unable to invest in growth. Inevitably, the decline will force the family’s hand and Pinch will lose his empire, and Rupert Murdoch or someone who runs a business like a business will wind up owning the Times — unless they can gull some Arab “Sovereign Wealth Fund” into giving them more OPM to play with, which is unlikely: those guys are “Arab,” not “stupid.”
Here’s a link to a NTY stock chart. Note that the scale is logarithmic, so it understates the slope of the decline under Pinch.
How do you think they’ll do under an Obama regime, where they’ll have to feed all those idle Sulzberger kids after paying a 45% corporate tax rate...?
d.o.l.
Criminal Number 18F
McCAin is an idiot for being surprised that the MSM are against him.
Ladies???
That was my understanding. Sorry.
In an Obama campaign this stuff will be standard operating procedure.
I think McCain, left to his own devices (B4 Schmidt), would have picked Lieberman. Somebody talked him out of it. McCain is still McCain apparently, and it’s not pretty. Straight talk like BOR is in a no spin zone. It’s been bad enough trying to get W to do the right thing in many areas. McCain’s worse, which is why he was rejected in 2000.
Glad to see PUMA’s here on FR. Welcome.
No I’m a PUMA for RINOs, like McCain.
You have a very limited vocabulary, don’t you? One would think your one word description of McCain would describe you to a tee.
Yippee.
Don’t get me wrong, I love the NYT’s being called out for what it is. I just have to laugh at the McCain camp taking offense when they’ve used the media to their advantage to attck Bush, Republicans and conservatives so many years.
But because the media is now attacking him, they are outraged.
If Palin wasn’t on this ticket... :sigh:
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