July 21, 2008

The bias gets even more blatant

Ray Robison
The Drudge Report and Fox News are reporting today that the New York Times has denied an opinion piece from Senator John McCain after publishing Senator Barack Obama's op-ed last week. The Drudge link provides the background and full text of the op-ed article which The New York Times turned down.

This comes as no surprise to media monitors who predicted that the liberal media would provide cover for Obama during his fact-finding tour of Iraq. It is clear that The New York Times does not want to allow McCain to take a swing at the Democratic nominee while he is vulnerable. His high profile tour gives McCain the perfect opportunity to put a punctuation mark next to the erroneous judgment of Barack Obama who called the surge a failure up until a few days ago.

One year and two weeks ago The New York Times declared the Iraq War lost and demanded troops be withdrawn immediately. Just days ago it stated that it cannot define what a victory is so we can not have victory in Iraq:

And it was distressing to hear Mr. McCain still talking about "winning" the war in Iraq and adopting the tedious tactic of accusing Mr. Obama of "giving up" when he talks about a careful withdrawal of troops.

We have no idea what winning means to Mr. McCain.

Fringe leftist liberals have long used this argument. They say there is no definition for victory in Iraq, thus we can not have victory, and therefore we cannot win. It doesn't matter how many times the Bush Administration or John McCain defines victory -- usually along the lines of a secure, democratic Iraqi that is a partner against terrorism -- fringe leftists can't hear it. This "nah, nah, nah, nah....we can't hear you" game is a tiresome one coming from leftist activists. Coming from a standard of American media, it is distressing. How low can they sink?

This low. According to the new reporting, The New York Times responded to the McCain campaign with:

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.' [emphasis added]

So the Times can't find a definition from John McCain on what victory in Iraq means? Maybe they should just look at McCain's website

The best way to secure long-term peace and security is to establish a stable, prosperous, and democratic state in Iraq that poses no threat to its neighbors and contributes to the defeat of terrorists. When Iraqi forces can safeguard their own country, American troops can return home.

Of course playing the "nah, nana, nah, nah...we can't hear you" game does a lot more to protect Obama doesn't it?

Comments

Well I think the left is so full of themselves that they will openly deny McCain any moments. The hubris is profound. They feel that this election is a entitlement, in fact, a coronation.
McCain needs to grow a pair because the MSM is going to rip him apart while providing Obama any cover he needs. Obama will get a pass on anything.
Weak minded trolls who lurk in dark places..

Not since Walter Kronkite turned the tide against the Vietnam conflict with his Tet Offensive reporting has there been such outright untruths and bias shown by the media. The NYT will soon find that dishonesty is usually rewarded with loss, in this case, the loss if credibility and ultimately, the loss of readers. Good-bye NYT once you lose readers and advertisers, you lose your paper.


The media thinks they're doing Obama a favor by protecting him from the daily criticisms, but they're only setting him up for a disaster in the future. Obama has never been challenged. He eased into the Senate and was never challenged in the Primaries. Does anyone honestly believe that Hillary Clinton was a tough opponent? Obama would be better off taking his hits on Iraq now. It could be old news by November.

Well, McCain gets his comeuppance! Pandering to liberals get you close to the finish line. Being a democrat gets you a push to the finish line. Then the crooks at the polling stations let the illegals in to vote for those dems. And McCain wants to grant them citizenship as a reward for voting dem!

McCain, you idiot! You want to be president yet you can't figure just who your supporters could be. Remember,John, mavericks eventually are broken and come to heel. McCain, you've been a heel to republicans, now let the libs break you!

Well, McCain gets his comeuppance! Pandering to liberals get you close to the finish line. Being a democrat gets you a push to the finish line. Then the crooks at the polling stations let the illegals in to vote for those dems. And McCain wants to grant them citizenship as a reward for voting dem!

McCain, you idiot! You want to be president yet you can't figure just who your supporters could be. Remember,John, mavericks eventually are broken and come to heel. McCain, you've been a heel to republicans, now let the libs break you!

Hmmm:

What if...

Chunks of the speech started making their way into all of the NYT blogs with the header: 'Read what the NYT is censoring'...

Censored, but not forgotten.

The Editor thinks he's some smart guy by stealing Henry Kissinger's famous line about a student's failing paper: 'Not good enough - do it again, better', but at least he does McCain the 'favor' of telling him what they found wrong. "Where's your damn timetable? Where's you apology? Where's your concession that you were wrong"? Just a little helpful advice from friends.

Would liked to have seen the Obama editorial before the NYT re-wright. (Why did they take out the Obama closing "just saying, I don't mean nothing by it"?)

BTW: The definition of winning is what the US is doing, with the essential help of McCain's surge and the Iraq people. Defeating Al Q., killing hostile Baathists, helping Iraq build a viable military so it can defend itself, having eliminated a hostile national security threat, and secured the US a superior strategic position.

Just to be helpful, shouldn't they have demanded that Obama define defeat?
The definition of losing? Withdrawl from the battlefield that allows the enemy to consolidate its fighting position, disrupt the elected government of Iraq, and execute a genocide campaign.

My definition of a loser? Obama, content to let genocide happen.

The difference between the W Kronkite era and
now is the internet and its blogs,AM radio and
Fox news. You can stick a Fork in the old media.

NYT always leading the way. This must be the manifestation exemplar of the progressives' much beloved "Fairness Doctrine."

THE OLD GRAY B*TCH: CENSORSHIP AT THE NEW YORK TIMES

JULY 22, 2008

GENE LALOR

Posted on Tuesday, July 22, 2008 2:08:15 AM by Gene Lalor

THE OLD GRAY B*TCH: CENSORSHIP AT THE NEW YORK TIMES

Published July 22nd, 2008

The New York Times, which last week printed an op-ed piece by Senator Obama on the Iraq War, has rejected an article on the same subject by Senator John McCain. Says editorial page editor, David Shipley, "It would be terrific to have an article from Sen. McCain that mirrors Sen. Obama's piece." (http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/07/mccain-oped-not.html)

As our Black brethren might say, "Say what???"

Since the "paper of record," "the old, gray lady," has now become a senile, old, corrupt, censorial b*tch determined to dictate rather than report and editorially comment upon the news, we hereby proudly re-print in its entirety that piece written by John McCain:

(For McCain's op-ed, please see http://genelalor.com/)

If you agree that the piece by McCain should have been printed as a fair counterbalance to Obama's opinions, please consider writing a letter of protest to the NYT at http://www.nytimes.com/, email address: ASKTHETIMES@NYTIMES.COM, street address: NYT, ONE CITY HALL, NEW YORK, N.Y. 10007.

It's time the Times learns that all the news that fits doesn't fit anymore.


(Excerpt) Read more at genelalor.com ...

McCain DESERVES this treatment. He kissed tail at the NYT for years, to the detriment of conservative progress.

Now, if only the NYT would mirror an objective news organization, now that would be "terrific", don't you think, Mr.Shipley, you pathetic hack? The good news is, like most elitists, you all are unable to control yourselves and your desires, hence, as your intentions become even more transparent, you are pushing the gray lady and your radical leftist agenda to its final demise. May the NYT soon RIP. P.S. McCain staffers would be wise to pay heed to Mr. Terner's blog, before it's too late.

The big problem is that people need a grand or so to buy a computer, then the patience to learn how it works, then they've got to know which web sites to go to.

It's easier to turn on the TV for free or read a newspaper for 50 cents or buy a magazine subscription for $25.00.

And since the web is in it's early adolescence, it can't afford to advertise on the MSM.

If conservative blogs could market themselves, there would be more hope for rational thought.

But the good sites are really just good people who have to hold their hand out for a twenty every so often and it takes a lot of twenties to buy 30 seconds on CSI, House, Leno,...etc.

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