Comments on: Someone please call the Gray Lady a waaahmbulance! Update: It wasn’t “tightly controlled” in 1999

By: TimothyJ

TimothyJ — Sun, 25 May 2008 18:46:32 +0000

Thank you aikidoka, you hit the nail exactly centered on its head.

By: aikidoka

aikidoka — Sun, 25 May 2008 15:26:40 +0000

Seems to me this back and forth of who justifiably disses this or that news outlet misses the more serious point that the NYT threatened a candidate with (more) negative coverage if they didn’t get an invite, as if they’re absence meant the news wouldn’t get out and their threat was the appropriate way to deal with that.

By: Kevin71

Kevin71 — Sun, 25 May 2008 12:22:27 +0000

The New York Times is THE paper of intellectual dishonesty.

By: Gregor

Gregor — Sun, 25 May 2008 07:45:53 +0000

Because Fox News never ran a “Obama attended a madrassa” story?

e-pirate on May 24, 2008 at 12:53 PM

He did. Is there some reason you feel the story should be ignored? Should we ignore the story about McCain attending La Raza conventions too?

By: Health Care BS

Health Care BS — Sun, 25 May 2008 04:09:01 +0000

MCCAIN’S MEDICAL RECORDS & THE MEDIA…

Having spent the 1990s studiously ignoring Bill Clinton’s bizarre refusal to release his medical records, the “news” media have suddenly developed an abiding interest in the health history of at least one presidential candidateR…

By: meci

meci — Sat, 24 May 2008 22:50:11 +0000

The media organizations in the pool included ABC News, The Arizona Republic, Bloomberg, CBS News, CNN, Fox News, NBC News, Reuters and The Washington Post. Before the viewing, the campaign provided a look to The Associated Press.

It looks to me that you could say the only newspapers that were included could be described as McCains two hometown newspapers.

Sounds like the times reporters realize that their jobs are on the line. When the old gray fish wrap ’sorry I refuse to use the word lady to describe the NYT’ has to rely on AP or Reuters to cover the news> It will be much more difficult to distort the facts.

By: Django

Django — Sat, 24 May 2008 22:38:10 +0000

LOL…and look at the pic they include with the article…a 2002 shot of McCain with a big bandage across the bridge of his nose. You stay classy, NYT. They’re not a newspaper; they’re a dirty politics organization that publishes a newspaper.

By: Rosmerta

Rosmerta — Sat, 24 May 2008 22:19:19 +0000

“What do you mean I’m not invited to your soirée? …”
rockbend on May 24, 2008 at 2:09 PM

I’m impressed that you went out of your way to include the accent mark, rockbend.

Conservatives – we go the extra mile!

By: iam7545

iam7545 — Sat, 24 May 2008 21:57:30 +0000

The Old Grey Lady is in good company – Keith Olberman and Chris Shivering Legs Matthews were also excluded!

By: Del Dolemonte

Del Dolemonte — Sat, 24 May 2008 21:53:04 +0000

As I recall, the NYT gave Billy Jeff Clinton a pass for keeping his medical history a total secret. And later yawned when Jean-Claude Kerry refused to release his military records.

By: Kevin M

Kevin M — Sat, 24 May 2008 21:24:18 +0000

“When the Times ran the piece that accused McCain of having an affair with less evidence than it takes to get a story in the National Enquirer…”

I love the way Mr. Morrissey writes :)

By: Jaibones

Jaibones — Sat, 24 May 2008 21:14:04 +0000

Hilarious stuff. Let’s hope the campaign has the clarity of purpose and integrity to bar the Times from all campaign events and access throughout the election.

By: onlineanalyst

onlineanalyst — Sat, 24 May 2008 21:12:58 +0000

If memory serves, nothing was more tightly controlled than Kerry’s service records. America is still waiting for the unsanitized version.

By: oakpack

oakpack — Sat, 24 May 2008 21:12:11 +0000

I had to laugh when I saw that Mav dissed Gray Lady. I’m in the hope this has a domino affect with not only candidates, but already elected officials. If they can’t get a story straight, why use em?

By: Corky Boyd

Corky Boyd — Sat, 24 May 2008 20:21:36 +0000

How the media equation has changed! Five years ago no candidate in either pary could ignore the Times. Now McCain does. On the other side, the leadership of the Democrat party made a concerted effort to boycott Fox News to marginalize them. They failed, with both the leading Dem candidates requesting FoxNews interviews and getting them.

This is a punch in the gut to the Times. Their vaunted reputation has been badly damaged by self inflicted wounds. Good for McCain to let them know they can be marginalized. Wish Bush had done it too.

By: abinitioadinfinitum

abinitioadinfinitum — Sat, 24 May 2008 19:02:22 +0000

“waaahmbulance”
Great Headline Ed

Enjoy the waterslide down NYT!

Egfrow on May 24, 2008 at 1:11 PM

Heh, LOL

By: rockbend

rockbend — Sat, 24 May 2008 18:57:28 +0000

How can you tell?

By: Claypigeon

Claypigeon — Sat, 24 May 2008 18:57:13 +0000

trigon on May 24, 2008 at 2:43 PM

That and kick Helen Thomas out.

Squid Shark on May 24, 2008 at 2:44 PM

Hear, Hear… I think she, and her minion, are there not to report the news but rather create the next big anti-Bush, anti-America scandal. I think they are hard-core communist and socialist douchebags. I would consider Helen a traitor and an enemy of America. Sorry, just how I see it.

By: trigon

trigon — Sat, 24 May 2008 18:56:09 +0000

That and kick Helen Thomas out.

Squid Shark on May 24, 2008 at 2:44 PM

Helen Thomas is still alive?

By: Squid Shark

Squid Shark — Sat, 24 May 2008 18:44:56 +0000

trigon on May 24, 2008 at 2:43 PM

That and kick Helen Thomas out.

By: trigon

trigon — Sat, 24 May 2008 18:43:24 +0000

If, by some chance, McCain does get elected, I hope his first move is to revoke the NY Times’s White House Press Credentials. I hope his second move is to ignore the wailing.

By: Squid Shark

Squid Shark — Sat, 24 May 2008 18:37:30 +0000

e-pirate on May 24, 2008 at 12:39 PM

Yep, Fox news is crap, but it does not run hit pieces.

By: Pablo

Pablo — Sat, 24 May 2008 18:19:16 +0000

Because Fox News never ran a “Obama attended a madrassa” story? e-pirate on May 24, 2008 at 12:53 PM

IIRC, they reported that it was being pushed by the Clinton camp, which it was. Is there something unfair about this report? Is there something untrue about it? Is there some evidence of bias in it?

By: rockbend

rockbend — Sat, 24 May 2008 18:09:12 +0000

IMO – the NYT has the same problem with McCain, as McCain has with the Republican base:

“What do you mean I’m not invited to your soirée? Just because I poke you in the eye with a stick every chance I can, now I’m not invited???”

By: Limerick

Limerick — Sat, 24 May 2008 18:04:16 +0000

I love history. The hows, whys, and whats that got us here.
Time for history to write the final chapter for the New Yarns Today.