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McCain Campaign Manager Steve Schmidt On New York Times Bias (video)

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McCain Campaign Manager Steve Schmidt On New York Times Bias

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McCain Manager Steve Schmidt Smacksdown The NY Times As Obamabots
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McCain honcho Steve Schmidt: The New York Times is a “pro-Obama advocacy organization”
Hot Air » Top Picks — McCain honcho Steve Schmidt: The New York Times is a “pro-Obama advocacy organization”; Update: Audio added posted at 1:39 pm on September 22, 2008 by Allahpundit Send to a Friend | printer-friendly The occasion, ostensibly, is this story in the morning edition accusing campaign manager Rick Davis of being a paid shill for Fannie/Freddie, but the same is true for Times-bashing as it is for any of life’s finest pleasures: You never really need a reason to do it. Let me first say we are First Amendment absolutists on this campaign. The press and anybody who wishes to cover this race from a blogosphere perspective or from a media ...

Steve Schmidt vs. the New York Timesblog
Ace of Spades HQ — Steve Schmidt vs. the New York Timesblog Calling out America's most prominent nutroots blog-on-paper:

John McCain Watch: Steve Schmidt Goes “Nuclear” on New York Times
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog — McCain Campaign Manager Steve Schmidt On New York Times Bias The impetus of this blow-up was the NYT-Rick Davis piece about his lobbying activities. But, the blow-up was inevitable. The fact is the New York Times, NBC News, Newsweek and others have become pro-Obama mouthpieces - ” ...

Audio: McCain Campaign Staffer Says New York Times Is Pro-Obama
Say Anything — More of this please: Let me first say we are First Amendment absolutists on this campaign. The press and anybody who wishes to cover this race from a blogosphere perspective or from a media perspective is of course constitutionally protected with regard to writing whatever they want to write. But let’s be clear and be honest with each other about something fundamental to this race, which is this: Whatever the New York Times once was, it is today not by an standard a journalistic organization. It is a pro-Obama advocacy organization that every day attacks the McCain ...

Top McCain adviser Steve Schmidt slams the New York Times
RedState: Conservative News and Community — (the story from a different angle) The New York Times reports today that McCain campaign manager Rick Davis pulled in $30,000/month from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac for five years. He ran an advocacy group which "current and former officials say" was created to "defend them against stricter regulations." The writers, David Kirkpatrick and Charles Duhigg, accuse Davis of nothing illegal or unethical; rather, they're sitting little bits of muddy insinuation perhaps to see something stick somewhere. John McCain's chief strategist Steve Schmidt will hear none of that [nonsense]. His statement on a conference call this AM: ...

McCain strategist Steve Schmidt Slams the NYT
Rathergate.com — The New York Times reports today that McCain campaign manager Rick Davis pulled in $30,000/month from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac for five years. He ran an advocacy group which “current and former officials say” was created to “defend them against stricter regulations.” The writers, David Kirkpatrick and Charles Duhigg, accuse Davis of nothing illegal or unethical; rather, they’re sitting little bits of muddy insinuation perhaps to see something stick somewhere. John McCain’s chief strategist Steve Schmidt will hear none of that crap. His statement on a conference call this AM: Let me first say we are First Amendment absolutists on this campaign. The press and ...

McCain campaign manager Steve Schmidt on the New York Times
Stop The ACLU — Glad to hear them say it. I hope McCain realizes he’s not the media darling anymore, and he never will be again — so he can stop catering to them now. Transcript: Let me - let me also add, on the, um, specific question of the New York Times. Um, to speak directly to this point. Um, let me first say, we are first amendment absolutists on this campaign, and that the press, and anybody who wishes to cover this race, from a blogosphere perspective or a media perspective, you know of course is constitutionally protected with regard to writing whatever they wanna, whatever they wanna write. But let’s be clear and be honest with each other about something fundamental to this ...

John McCain Watch: Steve Schmidt Goes “Nuclear” on New York Times - The Light Bulb Goes On
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog — McCain Campaign Manager Steve Schmidt On New York Times Bias The Epiphany for the McCain campaign: The New York Times is a left-wing RAG. Flap first mentioned the beginning of the light bulb going on this morning. Now, the epiphany spreads to the left-wing ...

McCain Senior Adviser Accuses NYT of Being Obama's Advocate
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — In some of the strongest criticism of the media yet during this campaign, John McCain's senior adviser Steve Schmidt on Monday blasted the New York Times for being an advocate for Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama. In a scathing attack, Schmidt said the Times had "cast aside its journalistic integrity and tradition to advocate for the defeat of one candidate, in this case John McCain, and advocate for the election of the other candidate, Barack Obama." During a press conference call, after CNN's Dana Bash asked campaign manager Rick Davis about a Times article accusing him of getting paid for doing advocacy work that ...