McCain blasts the NYTimes for it's latest hit job:
Calls America's Newspaper of Record "a pro-Obama advocacy organization"
Posted by: Jeff Emanuel
Monday, September 22, 2008
The latest New York Times hit job on the McCain campaign was met with the sternest rebuke yet of the segment of America McCain once called his "base."
On a conference call about the latest McCain ad, called "Chicago Machine" and featuring information on Barack Obama's ties to convicted felon Tony Rezko, William Daley, corrupt State Senate resignee (and former Obama mentor) Emil Jones (D), and constantly-under-investigation Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D), McCain campaign manager Rick Davis and strategist Steve Schmidt were asked about the NYT article, which attempted to link McCain to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac due to Davis having taken on communication work for the lending giants earlier this decade. (Interestingly enough, the "Newspaper of Record" apparently didn't find the information that Barack Obama has received the second-highest dollar amount of donations associated with Fannie and Freddie of any member of the U.S. Senate save for Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT), the chairman of the committee responsible for regulating the lenders to be news that was "fit to print").
Schmidt responded by taking aim at the New York Times and opening fire, saying:
>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 any 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.<
Strong words -- and very, very true ones, as anybody who has watched the Old Grey Lady descend into tabloid "journalism" when covering the Right, and into rah-rah cheerleader mode when covering Obama and his fellow far-left Democrats, has seen.
The Bush Derangement Syndrome, and schoolgirl crush on Obama, that has infected this country's Mainstream Media for a growing period has transformed the Times from a mostly-harmless left-leaning dead tree publication, to an anti-administration adrenaline junkie of a newspaper that lived for the thrill of pulling the cover back on classified government information -- preferably of the national security variety -- and informing the entire world about it, to, now, an effective surrogate for a candidate for President of the United States who appears to have done nothing to deserve the cheerleading but allow the Liberal intelligentsia a means of assuaging their White Guilt.
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Re the Heinz coupon--for a lark, you could take the coupon to a supermarket just to see the clerk's reaction.<g> |
