N.Y. Times' McCain story looks shoddy (Dow Jones Commentary)

Dow Jones Marketwatch ^ | 02-21-2008 | Marketwatch.com

[cartoonistx]

[Lazamataz]

The New Joke Times is very assiduously attempting to remove the last remaining vestige of credibility that they lost 15 years ago.

[Long Island Pete]

Any odds on how soon McCain will be on Hannity and Colmes in the coming days?

[ElkGroveDan]

Dan liked it.

[phillyfanatic]

If John learns the lesson not to lie down with leftist dogs, he might still actually come around and defeat Obama. If he doesn’t, he will go down in flames like Dole. The NYSlimes is an evil agenda driven media outlet but nobody should be surprised. Especially John.

[colorado tanker]

McCain was no doubt worried that the speculation would hurt his chances of rallying evangelicals and other conservative Republican voters who have been cool or downright hostile to his campaign so far.

Maybe, but it's not timed properly to do that IMHO. The weekend before the election hit on Dubya with his DUI in 2000 would be the correct timing. But I guess New Republic was about to out the Slimes for holding the story.

[Just mythoughts]

So why did McCain need to hire the Clintons lawyer Bob Bennett? What did the NYTimes leave out of their story because there is so nothing there there? Is there more to come? Is the maverick loosing his mavericking and the NYTimes is sending a warning?

[riverdawg]

“... they were afraid another outlet had a McCain hit piece ready to go.”

Supposedly, the New Republic magazine was going to come out with a story about the NYT sitting on the McCain rumor. So, the New Republic was going to have to repeat the rumor to tell the story and, therefore the NYT decided to jump first.

[ozzymandus]

I really wonder why the NYT would run such an obvious crap story. It was debunked before the paper hit the stands, and even the RATS (with the usual exception of the retard olberman) were running from it. I really suspect some kind of trick, or else the NYT people are even stupider than I thought, and that would be hard to do.

[Uncle Hal]

Notice, almost without exception, the MSM endorses McCain in the primaries and now that the nomination is virtually locked up they come out with a hit piece on the guy. The NYT is a despicable rag.

[Yaelle]

McCain has been avoiding shows like Hannity and cuddling up to the NYT. One thing the conservative talk shows would not do is something like this, Senator. We conservatives either like you or not; we don’t fake it and stab you in the back.

[Long Island Pete]

McCain has been avoiding shows like Hannity and cuddling up to the NYT.

And now that the NYT has attacked, he needs some old friends.

[Republic of Texas]

It’s not about the facts, it’s about the news cycle. Silly.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

While the NYT straineth at a gnat in McCain’s eye, they swallowed the camel in Bill Clinton’s oval office in one bite.

[reasonmclucus]

He’s still a Republican as far as they are concerned and thus is on their enemies’ list. I thought they might wait a little longer to launch a Dan Rather type attack on him. They will likely look for other rumors to blow out of proportion as supermarket tabloids typically to about other types of celebrities.

[reasonmclucus]

The “Gray Lady” is senile and really should be moved to a place where someone can take care of her.

[Brilliant]

Remember the TANG!!!!

[TruthWillWin]

...whispers of unnamed sources...

Lucy Ramirez at it again a la Ra^ther?

[ElephantMan]

Shoddy journalism is right.

At 3000 words, this story is THREE TIMES the length of the average large market newspaper story...

More on this at my blog: Political Debabbler in an entry called "Old Grey *Ugly* Lady.

Matthew Reid
www.Rice2008.com

[E Rocc]

"You're kidding, right? They don't really love this guy now that he's no longer in their camp. If this is what they do to a RINO, imagine what'd they do to a conservative. "

I think they may think they are helping Huckabee (they aren't), who is their dream GOP candidate: a caricature of how they see Republicans.

-Eric