Liberal Media Bias? What Bias?

[The New Guy]

thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/21/the-times-and-the-mccain-op-ed/

editor david shipley said:

I’m not going to be able to accept this piece as currently written. I’d be pleased, though, to look at another draft. Let me suggest an approach.
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.
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.

the requirement is that mccain's piece MIRROR obama's? pulheeeze.

they want mccain to define victory in iraq? obama didn't do that in his piece because obama DOESN"T WANT VICTORY IN IRAQ! he wants to pull out, essentially surrendering. mccain got it right when he said someone's gonna win this thing, us or the enemy. it's not going to be a draw.

[anonymousperson]

I'm absolutely furious. Furious.

PRAY our side wins. I know he's not "right" with us on the illegal issue, but, this kind of stuff makes me so pissed.

[The Big Dog]

The paper is within their rights on what they want to accept, yes. However to refuse the putative nominee of one party after publishing the other putative nominee... and making conditions that the former must accept conditions that, in essence, might make him appear to agree with the latter's opinions?

That is neither objective nor is it fair. For the the Times to insist that they are somehow an objective source after this fiasco, is the height of nose in the air stupidity. People who are that stuck on their elitism shouldn't be allowed to breed.

The Times should, I believe, publish a banner headline every day on page one between now and the election saying "We Carry Obama's Water", with a slug line of "And We'd Kiss His Ass in Macy's Window If He'd Let Us". At least that way the reading public would know clearly that they are biased.

[The New Guy]

the NYtimes is a joke. has been for the last 20 years.

i'd love to see the "back and forth" they did before publishing obama's piece.

[The Big Dog]

Jul 22, 2008 19:49:58 GMT -5 The New Guy said:

the NYtimes is a joke. has been for the last 20 years.

i'd love to see the "back and forth" they did before publishing obama's piece.

It was probably more like "in & out", in A Clockwork Orange sense, than "back & forth".