New York Times - "A Partisan Paper of Record "
USS Neverdock — McCain takes on the New York Times.

Horrible!... Latest NY Times McCain Hit Piece Is Entirely False
Gateway Pundit — The only thing accurate in the latest New York Times hit piece on the McCain-Palin Camp is the name of McCain's campaign manager- Rick Davis. At least they got his name right. The McCain-Palin Camp responded to the latest smear: Today the New York Times launched its latest attack on this campaign in its capacity as an Obama advocacy organization. Let us be clear about what this story alleges: The New York Times charges that McCain-Palin 2008 campaign manager Rick Davis was paid by ...

The Early Word: The Freddie Chronicles
The Caucus — ... And the response from the McCain campaign: Jill Hazelbaker, a spokeswoman for the McCain campaign, did not dispute the payments to Mr. Davis’s firm. But she said that Mr. Davis had stopped taking a salary from the firm by the end of 2006 and that his work did not affect Mr. McCain. “Senator McCain’s positions on policy matters are based upon what he believes to be in the public interest,” Ms. Hazelbaker said in a written statement. McCain campaign blogger Michael Goldfarb also chimes in with a response this morning . On the Economy As the Los Angeles Times notes, the ...

McCain camp attacks Times, doesn't deny report
Ben Smith's Blog — The Mccain camp has a 698-word statement out in response to today's story that Rick Davis's firm, Davis Manafort, was paid a consulting fee of $15,000 a month starting in 2005, and ending last month. The statement from McCain aide Michael Goldfarb begins: Today the New York Times launched its latest attack on this campaign in its capacity as an Obama advocacy organization. Let us be clear about what this story alleges: The New York Times charges that McCain-Palin 2008 campaign manager Rick Davis was paid by Freddie Mac until last month, contrary to previous ...

Buying on Layaway
Talking Points Memo — ... that McCain campaign manager Rick Davis's firm was on the Freddie Mac payroll until last month when the government took over Freddie and forced it to stop paying money to lobbyists and insiders like Rick Davis. Now, Davis is part owner of Davis Manafort, the firm in question. But the McCain campaign is insisting that Davis hasn't drawn any compensation from the firm since 2006. So, the question is, is that true. McCain campaign house blogger Michael Goldfarb says this is demonstrably false. And it may well be false. But the only evidence seems to be Davis's and the ...

McCain vs. New York Times
Dean's World — The McCain campaign is in all-out war with the New York Times. When it comes to anything remotely political, this paper is neither professional nor trustworthy. They’re the poster child for media bias. I think conservatives are entirely correct about that. I commend the McCain camp for not sucking up to them, and for going after them directly when they make up garbage. ...

McCain Goes Nuclear on the Times
Power Line — ... that the McCain campaign called out the New York Times in a press conference, denying the Times' legitimacy as a news organization and calling it what it is: a partisan arm of the Obama campaign. Today, McCain's team amplified on that theme on its web site, in response to today's attack on McCain by the Times. Strong words, truly spoken : Today the New York Times launched its latest attack on this campaign in its capacity as an Obama advocacy organization. Let us be clear about what this story alleges: The New York Times charges that McCain-Palin 2008 campaign manager Rick ...

Taking Advantage of the Overnight Thread - John McCain and the New York Times (chad)
Ace of Spades HQ — ... close ties to Mr. McCain, the Republican presidential nominee, who by 2006 was widely expected to run again for the White House. Mr. Davis took a leave from Davis & Manafortfor the presidential campaign, but as a partner and equity-holder continues to benefit from its income. No one at Davis & Manafort other than Mr. Davis was involved in efforts on Freddie Mac’s behalf, the people familiar with the arrangement said. The McCain campaign responded this morning by essentially calling the NY Times a bunch of stinking liars : Today the New York Times launched its latest ...

McCain Campaign Manager Pulls a Palin - Ducks Out on Reporters
Taylor Marsh — ... Oops. Scandal watch begins, as the McCain camp issues a verbose non-denial denial over The New York Times nailing McCain’s campaign manager, Rick Davis, to Freddie Mac. You know, as they actually do their jobs. Meanwhile, Davis pulls a Palin, skipping out on the press. ...

New York Times Smears McCain Adviser For Toxic Paper Ties
A Blog For All — ... claims that John McCain's campaign manager, Rick Davis, has received money from Freddie Mac until last month. Here's the lede: One of the giant mortgage companies at the heart of the credit crisis paid $15,000 a month from the end of 2005 through last month to a firm owned by Senator John McCain’s campaign manager, according to two people with direct knowledge of the arrangement. The McCain campaign responded quite vigorously, claiming that the Times is nothing more than an Obama shill . In fact, the allegation is demonstrably false. As has been previously reported, Mr. ...

Tony Blankley blasts mainstream media’s pro-Obama slant
Sister Toldjah — ... On that same note, the McCain campaign’s Michael Goldfarb is letting the NYT have it for yet another biased-against-McCain hit piece ...

Michael Goldfarb and the Truth
Balloon Juice — ... Are like oil and water. In the opening graph of another screed at John McCain’s official campaign blog, Goldfarb states the following: ...

Quote of the Day
Weekly Standard Blog — "Our nation has a long and proud tradition of news organizations that are ideological and partisan in nature, the Huffington Post and the New York Times being two such publications." --- The McCain Report

The New York Times Plays D&D
pandagon.net - we are the public option — by Jesse Taylor John McCain’s campaign blogger counters a New York Times story by forcefully rebutting another story that doesn’t exist. Likewise, Tony Blankley goes on the attack against the pro-Obama media by lamenting the lack of coverage for things that didn’t happen.  When the going narrative about your campaign and supporters is that you’ll lie at the drop of a hat, it helps if you don’t seek to disprove that by lying before anyone’s ever even thought of putting on a hat which they ...

Wednesday Notes
RedState: Conservative News and Community — ... You have got to read this. It is stunning. I think the McCain camp was right to go after the New York Times. The Times is clearly fabricating the news. And not only is the Times fabricating the news, but it is also leaving out key facts favorable to McCain. ...

Wednesday Thoughts
RedState: Conservative News and Community — ... You have got to read this. It is stunning. I think the McCain camp was right to go after the New York Times. The Times is clearly fabricating the news. And not only is the Times fabricating the news, but it is also leaving out key facts favorable to McCain. ...

The Latest Example of Bias Propaganda from the New York Times
Wizbang — ... as an idealistic, post-race, post-partisan, well-spoken and honest young man with the wisdom and courage befitting a great national leader is a confection spun by a willing conspiracy of Obama, his publicist (David Axelrod) and most of the senior editors, producers and reporters of the national media. Perhaps that is why the National Journal's respected correspondent Stuart Taylor wrote, "The media can no longer be trusted to provide accurate and fair campaign reporting and analysis." Michael Goldfarb describes the latest example of the worst of the media with a NYT story ...

McCain Swinging Back….Again
Flopping Aces — ... It’s war now….I figured the McCain camp would hit the NYT’s once and then leave it alone but Michael Goldfarb from the campaign has come out swinging again today, and he doesn’t hold back: ...

McCain Camp Calls NYT an ‘Obama Advocacy Organization’
News — ... firm” in 2006 and has since then “received no income from it,” adding that the campaign manager “has not been a registered lobbyist” since the year the payments began and has never lobbied for Freddie Mac or Fannie Mae. “Though these facts are a matter of public record, the New York Times, in what can only be explained as a willful disregard of the truth, failed to research this story or present any semblance of a fairminded treatment of the facts closely at hand,” Goldfarb said in a lengthy rebuttal published on McCain’s website . The spokesman called the article a “partisan ...

Calling them out
Silent Running — This item by Michael Goldfarb, posted at the Official McCain Website really doesn’t say anything that people on the right side of the blogosphere haven’t been saying for years - that the New York Times has a blatantly left leaning ideological bias, and they are equally blatant about denying they are anything but objective journalists. Usually with hilarious results. Calling a paper that’s in the tank for Obama a paper that’s in the tank for Obama. With examples. Refreshing. Read the whole thing - including the reminder that McCain was trying to do something to avert the ...

Jesse Lee: 41 Days Out (Rick Davis Day): "He was John McCain's campaign manager and it was felt you couldn't say no."
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... "At the center of the problem were the lobbyists, politicians, and bureaucrats who succeeded in persuading Congress and the administration to ignore the festering problems at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac." Sadly, no! It's all the boogeyman New York Times' fault! So out went yet another McCain campaign screed (this time with a special shout-out to HuffPo). Without spending too much time debunking, the Politico headline, ...

McCain campaign struggles with new Davis controversy
Political Animal — ... that the information McCain gave voters about his campaign's ties to Freddie Mac was false. Today, McCain campaign spokesperson/blogger Michael Goldfarb published a 700-word response to the news, and by any reasonable measure, the statement is a complete mess. In the very first sentence, Goldfarb says the reports charge that Davis "was paid by Freddie Mac until last month," which Goldfarb insists is false. Actually, the reports charge that Davis' lobbying firm was the one paid until last month, which is true. Indeed, it's almost as if Goldfarb didn't read the article he was ...

McCain Camp Responds to NYT Davis Story
Real Clear Politics - TIME.com — ... that Rick Davis' firm received $15,000 a month for several years from Freddie Mac. McCain campaign blogger Michael Goldfarb fires back in a nearly 700-word statement : Today the New York Times launched its latest attack on this campaign in its capacity as an Obama advocacy organization. Let us be clear about what this story alleges: The New York Times charges that McCain-Palin 2008 campaign manager Rick Davis was paid by Freddie Mac until last month, contrary to previous reporting, as well as statements by this campaign and by Mr. Davis himself. In fact, the allegation is ...

Davis skips Christian Science Monitor lunch
Michael Calderone's Blog — ... In trademark fashion, the McCain campaign fired back by calling out the "partisan paper of record," and again saying The Times is pulling for Obama. ...

It’s Always The Media’s Fault
Comments from Left Field — At least, that’s how Michael Goldfarb is calling it on his latest call for the WHAMBULANCE based off of a NYT story that details McCain campaign manger Rick Davis’ role as owner of a consulting firm for the now infamous Fannie and Freddie entities. As is becoming rather common from the McCain campaign, this is more blather than anything else, as detailed by Steve Benen: Today, McCain campaign spokesperson/blogger Michael Goldfarb published a 700-word response to the news, and by any ...

Obama to Replace Biden
Confederate Yankee — Obama to Replace Biden Obama/Sulzberger '08 : Though these facts are a matter of public record, the New York Times , in what can only be explained as a willful disregard of the truth, failed to research this story or present any semblance of a fairminded treatment of the facts closely at hand. The paper did manage to report one interesting but irrelevant fact: Mr. Davis did participate in a roundtable discussion on the political scene with...Paul Begala. Again, let us be clear: The New York Times -- in the absence of any supporting evidence -- has insinuated some kind of ...

Whoops, the Times does it again
RedState: Conservative News and Community — ... Obama's paper of record, the New York Times is out with another advocacy piece for Obama. Once again the Times regurgitates unsupported allegations insinuating -- but not proving -- some sort of improper conduct by the McCain campaign. The so-called newspaper charges that McCain-Palin 2008 campaign manager Rick Davis was paid by Freddie Mac until last month, contrary to previous reporting, as well as statements by the McCain campaign and by Mr. Davis himself. Michael Goldfarb demolishes the anonymous smears published by the Times and supported by the ...

McCain’s Cronies: Trouble In Paradise For Rick Davis? Conflict Or Gag Order?
Firedoglake — ... Since the McCain campaign official statement denies that Davis was "lobbying," perhaps McCain can explain why Freddie Mac agreed to monthly payments of $15,000 per invoice ...

NY Times Becoming Ungrounded From Fact
Stones Cry Out — ... In what can only be viewed as an abandonment of fact for the purpose of Obama advocacy, the New York Times is reporting falsehoods about McCain campaign manager Rick Davis.  The denial from the McCain campaign is pretty categorical. ...

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 the form of this article accusing his campaign manager of being a tool of Fannie Mae. The problem is, as the McCain campaign points out, much of the article is not true. In fact, the allegation is demonstrably false. As has been previously reported, Mr. Davis separated from ...

Questions Linger on McCain Campaign Manager Tied To Freddie Mac
TPMMuckraker — ... For instance, could Davis' agreement with Davis-Manafort allow for his share of profits to simply be deferred until he rejoins the firm? Nothing that the McCain camp has said on the subject -- including this lengthy response to the Times story from the campaign's in-house blogger -- has ruled that possibility out. ...

McCain did WHAT? Is he out of his mind?!?!
culturekitchen - fresh dissent served daily — ... I have never seen a more out of control candidate than John McCain nor a more out of control presidential campaign like the one his advisors and campaign managers are waging. That's saying something after having to witness the train wreck that was the Hillary Clinton primary campaign. Does anybody remember the psychotic rantings of Hillary Clinton's surrogates, starting with Lainy Davis? That they compared to nothing coming out of the McCain campaign this week, with their attacks at the New York Times, their hiding of Sarah Palin and the litany of ...

Weds. evening links
Maggie's Farm — ...  Photo from Michael Yon's Death in the Corn, Part 3. Send him a few bucks. Charter schools, After Milwaukee From the NYT, 1999: In a move that could help increase home ownership rates among minorities and low-income consumers, the Fannie Mae Corporation is easing the credit requirements on loans that it will purchase from banks and other lenders. The Man Who Never Was. Powerline The McCain campaign hits the NYT hard. Rightly so. A must-see ad for the Catholic vote, ...

FDL Exclusive: Rick Davis still director at Davis Manafort
Majikthise — The McCain campaign claimed that campaign manager Rick Davis had "separated" from his lobby shop, Davis Manafort, in 2006. Not true. Read the full story with screen shots at Campaign Silo. ...

Silo Catches McCain Lying: Rick Davis is Still a Director at Davis Manafort
Firedoglake — The McCain campaign claims that campaign manager Rick Davis separated from his lobbying firm, Davis Manafort, in 2006: ...

links for 2008-09-25
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog — ... Sarah Palin Watch: The Press Whines (tags: Sarah Palin Campbell Brown) A Partisan Paper of Record Today the New York Times launched its latest attack on this campaign in its capacity as an ...

Davis Still an Officer at Lobbying Firm, Docs Show
TPMMuckraker — ... As the magazine notes, that information suggests that in recent days, the campaign "appear[s] to have overstated the extent to which Davis had severed his relationship with his lobbying firm." A statement posted on the McCain campaign website by a spokesman Wednesday morning -- in response to reports that Davis's firm was being paid by the home-loan giant Freddie Mac as recently as this month -- asserted that Davis "separated from his consulting firm, Davis Manafort, in 2006." And a campaign spokeswoman wrote in an email to Newsweek Tuesday that Davis "left" the firm ...

Who is the bigger issue, Rick Davis or Jim Johnson?
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... from Fannie Mae connections into this year arose, prompting the McCain campaign to issue a sharp rejoinder : Today the New York Times launched its latest attack on this campaign in its capacity as an Obama advocacy organization. Let us be clear about what this story alleges: The New York Times charges that McCain-Palin 2008 campaign manager Rick Davis was paid by Freddie Mac until last month, contrary to previous reporting, as well as statements by this campaign and by Mr. Davis himself. In fact, the allegation is demonstrably false. As has been previously reported, Mr. Davis ...

Stump The Veep
RedState: Conservative News and Community — ... , but instead Couric presents the story as if the only issue is Rick Davis (the McCain camp's full and formal response on the Davis story is here). Which is pretty much the argument in a nutshell for ...

POLITICS: Stump The Veep
Baseball Crank — ... with a question about money paid by Freddie Mac to the former employer of McCain campaign strategist Rick Davis, in which he may arguably still have some financial interest. This might be a reasonable line of inquiry if she explained why this matters, i.e., McCain's much more extensive bill of particulars against Obama himself on this issue, but instead Couric presents the story as if the only issue is Rick Davis. (Video of McCain taking on Obama on this is below the fold; the McCain camp's full and formal response on the Davis story is here). Which is pretty much ...

9/25: McCain Calls Time-Out
Blogometer — ... reported that the lobbying firm owned by McCain's campaign manager Rick Davis was receiving $15,000 monthly payments from Freddie Mac as recently as last month. McCain blogger Michael Goldfarb wrote a 700-word response attacking The New York Times and asserting that Davis "has seen no income from [his lobbying company] Davis Manafort since 2006." Liberal bloggers are arguing that Goldfarb's response is inadequate, pointing out that it doesn't deny the central revelation of the ...

McCain’s Still Lying About Rick Davis And His Lobbyist Activities
Crooks and Liars — ... meetings with foreign heads of state and Rick Davis’ continuing ties to Freddie Mac. Luckily, unlike John McCain, we here in the blogosphere are capable of juggling more than one ball in the air.  Lindsay Beyerstein has done some basic investigation (remember when the mainstream media practiced journalism?) and found that the McCain campaign, is just not being honest:  The McCain campaign claims that campaign manager Rick Davis separated from his lobbying firm, Davis Manafort, in 2006: In fact, ...

Today's NY Times Palin Smear Piece... Based On COMPLETE LIE
Gateway Pundit — ... Owens discovered this and also reported that these rumors began at an obscure liberal blog written by a man in LA after Sarah Palin was chosen as the Republican VP candidate. Are you really surprised? You'd think with all of the liberal reporters shipped into Wasilla the NY Times would know this by now. Evidently not. Or, maybe they just don't care? At least the McCain-Palin campaign know what to expect from the Old Gray Lady's "willful disregard of the truth." By the way... Joe Biden met with ...

More of the Same: NYT Does a Hatchet Job on McCain Campaign
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — The New York Times is going the way of MSNBC. I suspect they're going to find that appealing to the Angry Left is not a successful business model. Rather than investigate the campaign donations paid out to Senators Dodd, Clinton, and specifically, Barack Obama, by Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac, the NYT focused instead on McCain aide Rick Davis's employment by the consulting firm, Davis & Manafort. The McCain campaign's response was quick and direct: the allegation is demonstrably false. As has been previously ...

Rick Davis, Yet Again
Obsidian Wings — ... adviser said the entire flap could have been avoided if the campaign had resisted attacking Barack Obama for his ties to two former Fannie Mae executives, which prompted the media to take a second look at Davis. "It was stupid," the adviser said. "A serious miscalculation and an amateurish move." Still, this adviser said, McCain's faith in his campaign manager remains unswerving." Josh Marshall has more on 3eDC. Remember the McCain campaign's response to the last round of Davis stories? "As has been previously reported, Mr. ...

Rick Davis, Yet Again
Political Animal — ... . Remember the McCain campaign's response to the last round of Davis stories? "As has been previously reported, Mr. Davis separated from his consulting firm, Davis Manafort, in 2006. As has been previously reported, Mr. Davis has seen no income from Davis Manafort since 2006. Zero. Mr. Davis has received no salary or compensation since 2006. Mr. Davis has received no profit or partner distributions from that firm on any basis -- weekly, bi-weekly, monthly, bi-monthly, quarterly, semi-annual or annual -- since 2006. Again, zero." I suppose it's possible that his salary, which ...

"Hardly Ever Wrong"
TPMCafe — Sarah Palin in Colorado yesterday: I was reading my copy of today's New York Times and I was interested to read about Barack's friends from Chicago....Turns out one of Barack's earliest supporters is a man who, according to the New York Times, and they are hardly ever wrong, was a domestic terrorist and part of a group that quote launched a campaign of bombings that would target the Pentagon and US Capitol. Wow. As Gov. Palin would say, Wow. You betcha she's off message. The paper that's hardly ever wrong was accused two weeks ago of being "an Obama advocacy organization" that perpetrated "a partisan attack falsely ...

Is NYT tougher on Obama?
Michael Calderone's Blog — Public editor Clark Hoyt -- after giving a nice plug to Politico's crossword story -- looks at the McCain campaign's recent criticism of an  investigative piece on Rick Davis' ties to Freddie Mac. Hoyt does't buy their argument, "conclud[ing] that the campaign misstated what The Times reported and did not deny what the paper did say." As for whether the Times plays favorites, political editor Dick Stevenson said that he's "aware of the perception that we’re too focused on McCain and not enough on Obama." But, according to Stevenson, the Times did a number of a investigative pieces on Obama early on, when ...