John McCain gets a rejection letter.
In an e-mail to the McCain campaign, Opinion Page Editor David Shipley said he could not accept the piece as written, but would be “pleased, though, to look at another draft.”
“Let me suggest an approach,” he wrote Friday. “The Obama piece worked for me because it offered new information (it appeared before his speech); while Senator Obama discussed Senator McCain, he also went into detail about his own plans. It would be terrific to have an article from Senator McCain that mirrors Senator Obama’s piece.”
Shipley was, in fact, being quite polite, since what he probably should have said was “The Obama piece worked for me because it wasn’t a snot-covered tissue of lies.”
To make this point, [Obama] mangles the evidence. He makes it sound as if Prime Minister Maliki has endorsed the Obama timetable, when all he has said is that he would like a plan for the eventual withdrawal of U.S. troops at some unspecified point in the future.
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God, Fox Noise yesterday was having a shit-fit over this. They were trying to make it seem as if the NYT wanted McCain to write the same article as Obama and endorse time-limits instead of simply asking for details and specifics.
Assholes. They don’t HAVE details and specifics b/c they LIE. If they have to give detailed specific info, they can’t obfuscate.