Drudge reports:
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.'
...NYT's Shipley advised McCain to try again: 'I'd be pleased, though, to look at another draft.'
...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."
What a difference 6 months makes!
The New York Times endorsed John McCain during the primary season. The paper also endorsed Hillary Clinton.
The sense of possibility, of a generational shift, rouses Mr. Obama’s audiences and not just through rhetorical flourishes. He shows voters that he understands how much they hunger for a break with the Bush years, for leadership and vision and true bipartisanship. We hunger for that, too. But we need more specifics to go with his amorphous promise of a new governing majority, a clearer sense of how he would govern.
The potential upside of a great Obama presidency is enticing, but this country faces huge problems, and will no doubt be facing more that we can’t foresee. The next president needs to start immediately on challenges that will require concrete solutions, resolve, and the ability to make government work. Mrs. Clinton is more qualified, right now, to be president.
Apparently, those reservations are gone. Obama has magically become more qualified, "right now," to be president.
McCain doesn't even have the right stuff to write a piece for the editorial page.
It's no surprise that the Times has flopped into Obama's corner.
It's no surprise that the Times is so unfair and so unbalanced that it won't print McCain's column.
It's just another glaring instance of media bias, but that makes it no less disgraceful.
The fact is the New York Times is a propaganda rag. That's OK, Freedom to Spew.
What's not OK is to pretend that the New York Times is the country's paper of record. It's not. It's an active arm of the Obama campaign.
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More, from ABC News.
2 comments:
Well said, Mary. I am an independent voter who has been hungering for fair, unbiased reporting so I can have a clear understanding of the differences between these two candidates. I am so turned off by the media bias that I'm leaning towards voting for John McCain because I refuse to have opinion rather than hard news try to sway me to voting the way the media wants me to vote.
When it comes to the bias in the media, it really has reached remarkable heights.
The credibility of these journalists is shot.
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