Posted on 07/21/2008 9:09:19 AM PDT by edzo4
NYT REJECTS MCCAIN'S EDITORIAL; SHOULD 'MIRROR' OBAMA Mon Jul 21 2008 12:00:25 ET
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.'
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In McCain's submission to the TIMES, he writes of Obama: 'I am dismayed that he never talks about winning the war—only of ending it... if we don't win the war, our enemies will. A triumph for the terrorists would be a disaster for us. That is something I will not allow to happen as president.'
NYT's Shipley advised McCain to try again: 'I'd be pleased, though, to look at another draft.'
[Shipley served in the Clinton Administration from 1995 until 1997 as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Presidential Speechwriter.]
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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."
McCain writes in the rejected essay: 'Progress has been due primarily to an increase in the number of troops and a change in their strategy. I was an early advocate of the surge at a time when it had few supporters in Washington. Senator Barack Obama was an equally vocal opponent. 'I am not persuaded that 20,000 additional troops in Iraq is going to solve the sectarian violence there,' he said on January 10, 2007. 'In fact, I think it will do the reverse.'
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Shipley, who is on vacation this week, explained his decision not to run the editorial.
'The Obama piece worked for me because it offered new information (it appeared before his speech); while Senator Obama discussed Senator McCain, he also went into detail about his own plans.'
Shipley continues: 'It would be terrific to have an article from Senator McCain that mirrors Senator Obama's piece. To that end, the article would have to articulate, in concrete terms, how Senator McCain defines victory in Iraq.'
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This is modern day totalitarian tactics since the new Messiah now controls the message and the media. Mccain has to go on the attack turn rigth and tear this fraud apart. Hildabeast’s numbers went up once she went after the militant Muslim Hussien . RIP HIM - there is so much material to use on this “community activist dope”.
As someone said above, by refusing to publish this the NYT has done more to ensure people will read it. Sometimes, I suppose, your worst enemies can be your best friend.
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“NYT REJECTS MCCAIN’S EDITORIAL; SHOULD ‘MIRROR’ OBAMA”
So all of a sudden the lefty media that McCain thought loved him SO much has turned on him?
Gee. What a shame.
Haha who was Davie trying to convince when he married Wolfe?
Talk about your very Odd Couple.
“How idiotic can McPain get till he realizes that FACT?”
He’ll figure it out the day after he loses.
English Translation: "It would be terrific if McCain would stop contradicting Obama the Messiah."
Sounds like his definition of Victory -- something the Liberal Democrat editor for the NY times said McCain needed to explain.
Obama used his editorial to attack McCain and Bush.
This election will be a referendum on the media-industrial complex.
The public has already voted with its wallets, however, as seen in the catastrophic decline of the alphabet news audience (20% in barely a year) and the continuing cycle of layoffs and cutbacks in the dead tree branch.
Obama could pull it out for them, but it is not the foregone conclusion his media shills claim it to be. In any case, an Obama win would only slow, not arrest, the decline. If he loses, if the most media-favored candidate in history cannot defeat the divided GOP and its 72 year old candidate, it will be a blazing asteroid in the media heavens and the harbinger of imminent extinction. In 10 years, they will have no outlet for their skills but pornography and even that will be on the internet.
My first inclination was to think the New York Times blew it. Then I looked at what was written here, and I have another opinion now.NYT's Shipley advised McCain to try again: 'I'd be pleased, though, to look at another draft.'While I agree with McCain's thoughts on Obama, this wasn't an exercise to critique your opponent. It was a time to lay out your own plan.
If the Obama article had some personal remarks about McCain in it, the NYT would be open to some pointed criticism for playing by two sets of rules. I'm not sure that was the case though..
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i know the editorial has been posted here and on drudge, but here is a link to mccain’s editorial posted on FOX
http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/07/21/the-mccain-op-ed-the-new-york-times-wouldnt-publish/
He’ll figure it out the day after he loses.
Honestly? I don't think he will.
That's what is so scary about this guy.
HE'S DENSE!
Look at how he is handling illegal immigration. “The people SPOKE”, LOUDLY and the bill didn’t go through. In his own state they are up in arms AGAINST illegal immigration. So what does the imbecile do? Says he'll build a fence and then meets with “La Raca” which means “the race”. It's a RADICAL HIPSPANIC group and plays words games to “trust him” and that he'll make IMMIGRATION REFORM a “top priority”. He still doesn't get that or if he does, he doesn't care what his base WANTS. Lou Dobbs interview with Rosanna Pulido Talking about John Mc Cain (The Founding Father of the Amnesty bill) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bltpx32MPOw CNN American Morning http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bB2p4NBVpqk He still wants to give them AMNESTY.
The Obama piece was wholy unsubstantive, and it would surprise me if someone who read it would try to defend the NY Times as if they had a rational basis for their decision.
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