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McCain Camp Compares Times Editorial Board to 'the Average Daily Kos Diarist'
Where the New York Times sees an editorial scolding, the McCain campaign sees an opportunity. At issue is an editorial, which appeared yesterday on the Times blog "The Board, " accusing the McCain campaign of "starting up the same sort of racially tinged attack on Mr. Obama that Republican operatives ran against Harold Ford." McCain spokesman Michael Goldfarb ...
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Again: Obama’s chief strategist accuses McCain of “injecting race into the election”
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... . New rule: If you’re insolent enough to try to rebut a bad-faith charge of racism from the left, you’re guilty of bad faith. These are the parameters, please note, of the Great National Conversation on Race that our savior wants us to have. Update: Speaking of the Times editorial, hot off the presses from Team McCain: If the shareholders of the New York Times ever wonder why the paper’s ad revenue is plummeting and its share price tanking, they need look no further than the hysterical reaction of the paper’s editors to any slight, real or imagined, against their preferred ...

NYT Calls McCain Ad Racist, McCain Camp Likens Editors to Kos Kids
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — ... Michael Goldfarb of the McCain campaign really tore into Times's editors over its blog post, reports The New York ...

McCain Spokesman: NYT Editorial Board Like 'the Average Daily Kos Diarist'
JammieWearingFoolHeh . Finally, they're getting around to firing up the base. That the Times made this allegation in a blog post rather than running it on the editorial page indicates that they either knew the charge was bogus or they didn't have the nerve to make their case in full view of the public. But in their new role as bloggers, the paper's editors seem to have all the intelligence and reason of the average Daily Kos diarist sitting at home in his mother's basement and ranting into the ether between games of dungeons and dragons . They also have about as much care for the facts--the ...

McCain’s blogger rips bloggers ’sitting in mother’s basement, ranting into the ether.’
Think Progress — ... — ripped into the Times, comparing the editors to “the average Daily Kos diarist” “ranting into the ether between games of dungeons and dragons”: ...

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