New York Times Rejects McCain’s Op-Ed
They reject it only a week after printing Obama’s stance on Iraq. It’s becoming obvious to America that the media is in the tank for Obama.
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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Drudge has the op-ed at the link above for those that wish to read it.
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Posted by Jay on July 21, 2008 5:31 pm
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Maybe McCain’s editorial just sucked really bad. Who cares if Shipley denied it, he’s just doing his job. Clearly attacking Obama a week after he posted his own editorial wouldn’t even make sense on McCain’s part so I think Shipley did him a favor.
Read the email again. McCain, like Bush, offers no concrete solutions, just more airy-fairy Republican murk. Besides, none of you stable conservative types read the New York Times, at least you claim you don’t, so what do you care?
I wouldn’t use the NYT as toilet paper, let alone a serious newspaper to read. This really doesn’t surprise me. Only serious newspapers are truly balanced. And we all know that the NYT isn’t a “real” newspaper.
They should change their slogan to:
All the liberal news fit to print!
What’s so hard to understand about that? Have you ever submitted an op-ed piece? A decent-sized paper isn’t going to print the same old talking points just because someone wants some attention.
McCain’s position is exactly, word for word, the same as it was 18 months ago. Anybody who cares can recite from memory by now. Unless he plans on elaborating, there’s not a dime’s worth of news in his position.
THE FOURTH ESTATE IS STARTING TO RESEMBLE
THE THIRD REICH.
Like Joseph Goebbels, American main stream media has replaced objectivity, integrity, and free choice with one sided reporting, that reflects their bias for Barack Obama. The American Press used to be the last bastion of truth. When special interests got out of hand, the press came to the rescue and exposed them to the public. Now, the press is the special interest with their own agenda.
Put it in perspective: since when would a news agency NOT run an article written by one of two people running for president?
This is why news papers are losing circulation.
In the first place, this has nothing to do with the ACLU. The New York Times is a privately owned newspaper, which can publish what it wishes to publish. This is not a Constitutional or free speech issue in any way.
Second, the Times was right to reject McCain’s piece. It’s not news and it doesn’t meet the Times’ standards for several reasons, as Mr. Shipley of the Times cogently explained.