THE PLANK JULY 21, 2008
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Is Drudge's much-ballyhooed crush on Obama coming to an end? Probably not, but it is interesting that the Drudge Report is the outlet "breaking" the news that the NYT op-ed page turned down a McCain submission responding to Obama's Iraq op-ed from last week. Drudge even goes so far as to print the entire McCain piece "in its submitted form."
My guess is this story about alleged liberal bias at the NYT is too much for even an Obamophile/McCainophobe like Drudge to resist. Which is why the McCain campaign presumably gave it to him. The real question, though, is: could this be the start of a McCain-Drudge rapprochement?
Update: Of course, the Drudge link Unlike McCain, many seniors depend on Internet... suggests things haven't changed that much.
--Jason Zengerle
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The New Republic doesn't think the New York Times has a liberal bias. That's a shame, because the New York Times itself says that, yes, it does indeed have a liberal bias, and it's quite obvious.But then again, realizing the obvious ain't exactly amongst
- Anonymous
July 21, 2008 at 3:21pm
Just read that item on Drudge- good for the NYT! There may be hope for journalism yet.
They stood to blathering inanities like "victory or nothing" and demanded substance rather than cowering into the old equivalency dodge so they won't be called names by Rush Limbaugh. Letting such meaninglessness slide would have been ridiculous. Make your case McCain, stop hiding behind name calling.
If the Republicans can't even define EXACTLY what they mean by victory after six years, and exactly how Obama is not for victory by their own definition of what that means, then they deserve to be dinged in the editorial page for saying nothing, at minimum.
Such intellectual flabbiness - couch in inflammatory rhetoric - perfectly encapsulates their whole mindset. Wave around a bloody American flag and hope no one notices how your thinking lacks in anything resembling substance. The NYT is right solely journalistic grounds. McCain can buy an ad if he wants to sell that soap, the editorial page is not the place for that (ideally).
- Wandreycer1
July 21, 2008 at 3:22pm