Another Alternative Media Triumph!
By Mitch Berg
How that the NYTimes has endorsed and slimed JMac within precisely a month (note to Brian Maloney – everyone predicted this), it’s time to sort out exactly what they were thinking.
Ed notes the Times’ response to the disintegration of their story:
John McCain then holds a very polite and rather subdued press conference to deny all of the Times’ unsubstantiated gossip. How does the New York Times report this? With unbelievable hysteria:
Later in the day, one of Mr. McCain’s senior advisers leveled harsh criticism at The New York Times in what appeared to be a deliberate campaign strategy to wage a war with the newspaper. Mr. McCain is deeply distrusted by conservatives on a number of issues, not least because of his rapport with the news media, but he could find common ground with them in attacking a newspaper that many conservatives revile as a left-wing publication.“It was something that you would see in the National Enquirer, not in The New York Times,” said Steve Schmidt, a former counselor to Vice President Dick Cheney who is now a top campaign adviser to Mr. McCain.
Oh,please! First, the Times published a scurrilous and poorly-sourced story that even gossip rags would have rejected, and they have the nerve to accuse McCain of declaring war? Has Bill Keller lost his mind?
Keller hasn’t lost his mind. He’s just started running the Times like a leftyblog!
- Big accusations, proof be damned
- When busted – slime the accusers. Invent “vast conspiracies”, allege motivations not in evidence (“waging war”?), or just plain name-calling (participating in the left’s ongoing effort to turn “swiftboat” into a pejorative, even thought the Swift Boat Veterans ate Kerry’s lunch)
On the bright side, all you Times subscribers – you can now switch to the Huffpo. It’s cheaper.
