Somebody in the McCain Campaign Gets It

And goes on the record about it, too.

Steve Schmidt during a telephone conference call as noted by Byron York, yesterday:

.... 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 any standard a journalistic organization. It is a pro-Obama advocacy organization that every day attacks the McCain campaign, attacks Sen. McCain, attacks Gov. Palin, and excuses Sen. Obama. There is no level of public vetting with regard to Sen. Obama's record, his background, his past statements. There is no level of outrage directed at his deceitful ads. This is an organization that is completely, totally, 150 percent in the tank for the Democratic candidate, which is their prerogative to be, but let's not be dishonest and call it something other than what it is. Everything that is read in the New York Times that attacks this campaign should be evaluated by the American people from that perspective, that it is an organization that has made a decision to 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.

The bigger problem is that one could replace every reference to the Times with a reference to the Associated Press or ABC / CBS / NBC.

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Tue. 09/23/08 08:27:09 AM
Categorized as Media & Political.