{"id":2102,"date":"2008-07-21T12:59:23","date_gmt":"2008-07-21T16:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=2102"},"modified":"2008-07-21T13:51:32","modified_gmt":"2008-07-21T17:51:32","slug":"ny-times-red-pencils-mccains-opinion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=2102","title":{"rendered":"NY Times red pencils McCain’s opinion"},"content":{"rendered":"

I read it first at Little Green Footballs<\/a> and then clicked over to Drudge<\/a> to read the whole thing, and it’s pretty startling. It seems that the New York Times is now rejecting people’s opinions based on style issues. Obama’s opinion piece a few weeks ago in the Times is apparently the style guide.<\/p>\n

‘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.’<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Let me ask this question of the NYT’s editors…how do you think you can get away with presenting one politician’s opinion and then dictating to another what his rebuttal will be?<\/p>\n

NYT’s Shipley advised McCain to try again: ‘I’d be pleased, though, to look at another draft.’<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’d be damned if I ever gave the New York Times anything that’d be beneficial to their traffic or their circulation, if I were John McCain – but he probably will.<\/p>\n

The Times says they want “new information” to publish. Well, how about this line from McCain’s piece;<\/p>\n

Now Senator Obama has been forced to acknowledge that \u201cour troops have performed brilliantly in lowering the level of violence.\u201d But he still denies that any political progress has resulted.<\/p>\n

Perhaps he is unaware that the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad has recently certified that, as one news article put it, \u201cIraq has met all but three of 18 original benchmarks set by Congress last year to measure security, political and economic progress.\u201d Even more heartening has been progress that\u2019s not measured by the benchmarks. More than 90,000 Iraqis, many of them Sunnis who once fought against the government, have signed up as Sons of Iraq to fight against the terrorists. Nor do they measure Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki\u2019s new-found willingness to crack down on Shiite extremists in Basra and Sadr City\u2014actions that have done much to dispel suspicions of sectarianism.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It must all be new information because Obama doesn’t know it – or the American public doesn’t know it and Obama is lying to them.<\/p>\n

Of course the Times doesn’t want to have to publish this, it makes them look bad…but not as bad as they look because of this rejection notice. I guess they figured that McCain wouldn’t tell the rest of the planet about the New York Times trying to deceive the American public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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