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| Investors Business Daily Calls Out NYT over Obama-worship |
| 2008-07-23 |
| I've always loved IBD's op-ed page. They just plain don't take prisoners. Signs Of The Times If you doubt the media are in the tank for Obama, doubt no more. The refusal of the New York Times to print McCain's op-ed on Obama after an Obama piece was published has nothing to do with editorial judgment and everything to do with protecting the media's heartthrob. Times op-ed editor David Shipley, who served in the Clinton administration from 1995 to 1997, insists it was just a request for a rewrite, as is frequently done with other writers. But McCain isn't a freelance writer or NYT staffer. He's a candidate for president of the United States and ought to be able to express his views -- unedited and unfiltered. Shipley wanted McCain to define what he meant by victory and submit a timetable for achieving both victory and total withdrawal. He wanted McCain to write his editorial on Obama's terms. We suspect the Times was trying to protect Obama, at least during his trip, from reminders that he opposed the surge and the war and was wrong on both counts. Obama, whose foreign policy consists of talking to our enemies while bombing our allies, Reason #42,658 why I love IBD's op-eds. Even the WSJ doesn't have the cojones to be THIS blunt told the assembled veterans at the VFW Convention in Kansas City last year, "All our top military commanders recognize that there is no military solution in Iraq." But there was a military solution in Iraq in Gen. David Petraeus' brilliant anti-terrorism strategy that paved the way for Iraqi political and religious reconciliation. If things are heating up in Afghanistan, it's because al-Qaida and its jihadist brethren, having been defeated in Iraq, have fled there to make a last stand. Okay...in fairness, I'm keeping my fingers crossed on the Afghanistan part... The Times spiked McCain's op-ed, which will now receive wider circulation, because it reminds voters of Obama's dangerous and naive foreign policy that only starts with being wrong on Iraq and the surge. The judgment of both Obama and his sycophants at the Times is open to question. |
| Posted by:Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) |
| #1 A right proper fisking they've givin em. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2008-07-23 16:40 |