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McCain Aide Schmidt Blasts New York Times on Conference Call and Gets Smacked Down
The Democratic Daily — ... Bill Keller, the newspaper’s executive editor, said in a statement of response: “The New York Times is committed to covering the candidates fully, fairly  and aggressively. It’s our job to ask hard questions, fact-check their statements and their advertising, examine their programs, positions, biographies and advisors. Candidates and their campaign operatives are not  always comfortable with that level of scrutiny, but it’s what our readers expect and deserve.” ...

McCain Camp: NY Slimes 150% In The Tank For Barry Insane - With List Of Bullshit Headlines & Video
Pat Dollard | Young Americans — McCain’s top campaign strategist, Steve Schmidt, basically said today that the New York Times is nothing more than an Obama propaganda machine. Of course, he isn’t saying anything most of us don’t already know, but it is encouraging to me to see the McCain Camp finally throwing some punches at the left-leaning mainstream media, and I hope they keep it up. This from Politico: a McCain campaign senior adviser, declared on a conference call with reporters Monday that The New York Times is “not … a ...

Fit to Print
The Corner on National Review Online — ... below, the McCain campaign has accused the New York Times of rank partisanship, and of failing to pay any attention to Obama s record and past associations. Hilariously, the Obama campaign has now come out in defense of the Times , arguing that in fact the paper has published numerous hard-hitting investigative stories about Obama. Among those on their list are: -In Law School, Obama Found Political Voice [New York Times, 1/28/07] -Charisma and a Search for Self In Obama's Hawaii Childhood [New York Times, 3/17/07] -After 2000 Loss, Obama Built Donor Network From Roots Up ...

Team McCain has an epiphany: The NYTimes is a left-wing rag!
Michelle Malkin — ... 9 On September 22nd, 2008 at 6:49 pm, vickisoup said: Did you read the list of the 42 pieces the Obama team cited as “evidence” of the NYT’s so-called, “fairness”? It’s hilarious. :lol: ...

Poking The Monkey
Newshoggers.com — ... a 1960s radical; and an Obama supporter’s over-the-top attack on Sarah Palin when — in each case — the truth would have been damaging enough. “Any time the Obama campaign is criticized at any level, the critics are immediately derided as liars,” Schmidt told reporters. But as he went on to list a series of stories he thought reporters should be writing about Obama and Biden, in almost every instance he got the details wrong. The McCain campaign specifically attacked the New York Times because: On Monday, the paper ...

McCain vs the New York Times
Patterico's Pontifications — ... on Ben Smith’s coverage of Steve Schmidt’s comments regarding the New York Times. I can’t match his humor so I’ll settle for a few extra thoughts. ...

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FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog — ... and allowed it to regain its focus on the nuts-and-bolts of electoral politics: raising money, organizing volunteers and registering voters. Under her direction, the party has hired an executive director and opened multiple offices during campaign seasons. Ventura County Republican Party | Committee Members | Chairman | Leslie Cornejo Tony Strickland Watch: Why Bother with Katie Teague and the California Association of Poltical Centrists? McCain aide: NYT not legit news source - Mike Allen - Politico.com Whatever The New York ...

McCain Campaign Guru: NY Times Isn’t ‘a Journalistic Organization’
Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines — ... attacks Sen. McCain, attacks Gov. [Sarah] Palin. It excuse Sen. Obama. … “Everything that is read in The New York Times that attacks this campaign should be evaluated by the American people from that perspective — that it is an organization that has made a decision to cast aside its journalistic integrity and tradition, to advocate for the defeat of one candidate — in this case, John McCain — and to advocate for the election of the other candidate, Barack Obama.” Read more McCain campaign conference call: ...

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McCain Campaign Guru: N.Y. Times Isn’t ‘a Journalistic Organization’
Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines — ... attacks Sen. McCain, attacks Gov. [Sarah] Palin. It excuse Sen. Obama. … “Everything that is read in The New York Times that attacks this campaign should be evaluated by the American people from that perspective — that it is an organization that has made a decision to cast aside its journalistic integrity and tradition, to advocate for the defeat of one candidate — in this case, John McCain — and to advocate for the election of the other candidate, Barack Obama.” Read more McCain campaign conference call: ...

Townhall.com Staff: What's Hot Tuesday
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog — What are the most popular stories around the web this morning? Townhall does the surfing so you don't have to. ABC News: McCain Gaffes Could Undercut Message on Economy, Foreign Affairs Philadelphia Inquirer: The Point: Disturbing Line Palin Tossed Off in Address CNN: 'I'll Never Stop Looking for Him,' Wife of Vanished ex-FBI Agent Says Slate: Is Obama Another Dukakis? Politico: McCain Aide: NYT Not Legit News Source Wall Street Journal: Stand-Ins, Naps Help Debate Preparation Time Magazine: How We Became the United States of France ...

The Media War is On and It Could Cost Us All Greatly
The Sundries Shack — ... Well, you can certainly throw that whole John McCain, Media Darling thing right out the window. After his campaign accused the MSM of being little more than tools of the Obama campaign, the New York Times promptly threw a temper tantrum in ...