1

Disgusting.

On the WaPo poll, btw, that news will fade soon enough.

2 While it's good to see a Republican standing up for himself in the press I don't think McCain can really win this fight. The Times can print anything it wants and since it is still considered a highly reputable journalistic organization it will get greeted with the presumption of credibility by most people. I would think that with the smears on Palin, Petraeus/betray-Us etc. ad nauseum, the public - not the NYT's regular readership in NYC and LA - wouldn't believe a word of this. The Times is losing readership faster than credibility. Murdoch will buy it and gut it within 3 years.

3 The McCain Campaign needs to get Republicans picketing infront of the Headquarters of these news organizations Demanding that they stop lying and poppoing for the Obama Campaign.  Get a bunch of people out in front ther daily and have them scream shout and demonstrate.

4 "Never argue with a man who buys his ink by the barrel …" -- Ben Franklin

5 It's Time to get in their face...just Like Obama tells his pod people to do.

6

Can I have bark soup instead of sawdust soup?

7 You can have sawdust soup and you'll like it!

8 If you find and replace McCain with Obama, as well as "times" with "post" and put this out, it would be front page news on every other daily, and newscast.

9

The NYT could point out the 100K+ that Obama took from Fred and Fanny.

Naw, then the Obama Brownshirts might come for them.

10

So,

The NYT's  is a community?

11 I keep seeing McCain as Homer Stokes saying "Is you is or is you ain't my constituency" as they throw lettuce at him.    Even though Obama! is obviously Homer Stokes, he's for the little man, has the broom of change and if the fine Reverend Wright and his congregation aren't pretty much just the KKK all switched around, I've been seriously misled about that organization (the KKK).

12

More of this, please, Senator McCain. All of us Concerned Christians over here on the right want, nay, need someone to start standing up to the leftards at the MSM, if only to reduce our blood pressure when we hear their lying bullshit.

Next thing to get in their face about; how the Dems blocked efforts to stop the current credit crisis. Internet ads every two hours. Drive it home, don't let up. Name names, show faces, show who works for whom. Take no prisoners.

The idiots in the Democrat party are doing their dead level best to bring our country to its' knees just in time for this election so they can impose their twisted version of socialism on us.

Stand up and fight, Senator McCain!

 

13 FYI and OT

Malkin is discussing the Winner Axelrod connection on Fox News in the next few minutes.

14 McCain should let this one slip during the televised debates.  Even the Times won't be able to pretend it didn't happen.

15 Sad, sad. If Chad is right, we've already lost. The MSM isn't stupid, they won't tell an outrageous lie if they don't have to when a well-measured one will do. They won't say "McCain ate one of his own children" when lies like this suffice. I wonder if people will ever know how pure deceit was peddled as news.

16 oh, and Veeshir, at least paste plain text when you troll.  It's a little obvious when you paste your democrat racism in sans serif.

You bigots in the democrat party are doing a bang up job alienating the nation away from Mr. Obama.  Thank you.

17 Tree bark and sawdust soup?

Dude, get thee to a reeducation camp, forthwith!

That's not tree bark and sawdust soup.  That's the finest cut of "Hope Steak" and and a steaming hearty bowl of "Change Stew".

18

Just fucking wow.

found through insty.

19 ot, but Michelle Malkin is on right now with Megyn Kelly talking up the Winner story.

20 Maybe I read through the story too fast, but is anyone actually quoted saying Davis received income, or are they relying on anonymous sources.  I also missed any reference to pay statements or tax forms.

21

In the name of fair and balance, they throw away the oportunity though slub.

"how little we know about the internet."

Who's this "We" dickhead?  Is the net an less honest that the National Enquirer who has gotten a lot of traction in the last month?

Oh, but nevermind that.

22 This is when I become convinced that the bar for libel and slander is set too high.  Sadly, this probably isn't actionable because the NY Times can weasel out with "well he's an equity holder so we thought" and "we asked people who knew and they totes said that he did so there!"  That would be enough to get over the malicious disregard for truth standard.

I am so so so sick of this election.  So sick.  I'm actually horrified to think about how much worse it's going to get in the next few weeks.

23 The drumbeat of Obamatrons...........

24

Yes slub,

The obama camp has said that He's still recieving pay, he's just not working for them actively anymore, insinuating a sort of golden parachute sorta thing.

I don't have a cite, but it was actually covered (extensively) last night by colmes last night.

Supposedly a third party consultant is worse than rains and whatsisface.

25

Obviously I am paraphrasing a bit.

Are you? That's seems to strike about the right tone for a typical New York Times adver-torial  news story.

 

26

Those guys at Freddie Mac are stupider than I thought.  15 grand a month, and Davis hasn't seen a paycheck from there since 2006?  LOL no wonder they went tits up.

If you're gonna try to bribe somebody you really ought to figure out if they even see the money.

27

Can't comment at hotair, never bothered setting anything up so.

On the cambell brown thing.

"I can’t tell if she’s serious or just having fun with the campaign by slyly turning their bad-faith accusations of sexism (in her opinion) around on them."

Both.  classic passive agressive twat, playing "you're right I'm wrong, but by you being right let me show how you are wrong."

The answer is both.

28 Left off the best part of McCain's statement:

We celebrate their contribution to the political fabric of America. But while the Huffington Post is utterly transparent, the New York Times obscures its true intentions -- to undermine the candidacy of John McCain and boost the candidacy of Barack Obama -- under the cloak of objective journalism.

The New York Times is trying to fill an ideological niche. It is a business decision, and one made under economic duress, as the New York Times is a failing business. But the paper's reporting on Senator McCain, his campaign, and his staff should be clearly understood by the American people for what it is: a partisan assault aimed at promoting that paper’s preferred candidate, Barack Obama.

The NYT clearly is a failing business and good on McCain for hitting them with that truth.

But ultimately it will be the debates that sway public opinion.  While it would be nice if the MSM actually took an interest in Obama's Fannie/Freddie connections and cash, McCain can leave him stammering like Porky Pig when he bitch slaps him with it in an unfiltered, nationally televised forum.

There's a lot of time left in the game and most people are only peripherally interested in the election (if they're interested at all...).  I like to think the McCain camp will start hitting them hard after the debates during the stretch run to Nov. 4.  Obama's got to keep raising cash, so let's hope the results of recent polls leads to complacency on the part of Obama's donors.

29 "Never argue with a man who buys his ink by the barrel …" -- Ben Franklin

Except now everyone's got barrels and barrels of ink. Might as well use them.

30 Any retractions, if they are forthcoming, will be issued sometime after McCain's death. But the higher probability is that the Public Editor ... NYT will go out of business before then. FIFY

31 NO SOUP FOR YOU!

32 Actually, the best you'll get from the NYT Public Editor is that the study is true but misleading.  It falsely insinuates that Davis got paid, but really only reports that his firm got paid, which Camp McCain does not dispute.

33 The MSM isn't stupid

That's where ya lost me.

34 By picking a fight with the Times McCain isn't going to win over any of the hardcore Obamatons.  What he does do, if he does this right, is mobilize the base and sway uncommitteds who do have a sense that the media is in the tank for Obambi.

35 Well if it was really a lie, then file a libel suit. Truth is the only defense, and unless the Times can prove their claims they are liable for the libel.

36

ot, but Michelle Malkin is on right now with Megyn Kelly talking ....

You lost me at "talking."

37

This is red meat for the base, but more importantly John McCain has never failed to defend his country, our country, from her enemies, and right now at the top of that list is the NYT and the Obama campaign.

If we want the truth out there the only way is to donate $$ for ads because our democrat media has demonstrated that not only will they not reveal the truth about Obama, but they are more than willing to lie about McCain/Palin.

No matter how much Joe Biden lowers the bar for the intellectual requirements for VP, the media is too bent over Sarah Palin's outsider status to allow her to remain. She must be destroyed.

I agree with alexthechick, I am sick of this election, and don't want to see how much lower the democrats/media can go. It looks remarkably like a deathmatch, and I cannot bear to watch.

One consolation is that on our side is an old warrior not afraid of battle scars.

Now if he can just get his hands on Al Qaeda's weather machine and bring down all their helocopters... 

38 Well if it was really a lie, then file a libel suit. Truth is the only defense, and unless the Times can prove their claims they are liable for the libel.

Never happen.  Rick Davis is a public figure, so this story is just slippery enough to fall under the 'fair comment' clause.

39 There is no such thing as a "fair comment" clause. The standard for a public figure, established by NYT v. Sullivan, is "actual malice," also defined as "knowledge of falsehood" or "reckless disregard for the truth." You definitely have reckless disregard here, as lobbyists must disclose their client lists by law. I think Davis should sue the effers, just for the fun of it.

40

I think MCcain & company have done good so far to refute the claims of that bird cage liner for a newspaper. But, I think we just need to get them to move on to framing the discourse, instead of reacting to it. 

As far as the public getting it, did you hear FOX playing an excerpt from a McCain gathering (believe in Scranton, Pa where McCain was at an Irish American gathering) where a woman from the crowd was addressing the shameful coverage of the media and how sick they (we) all are of it? It was refreshing. Heard it yesterday, but I believe it occurred Monday.

I just heard the promo, O'Reilly is going to have a piece on the Jawa story!

41

They are flipping the message on McCain.  Classic Axelrod and Winners strategy.  Whatever McCain says about Obama comes back on him, but oh so much easier since the press has axelrods hand up their asses.

McCain should get ready to fight harder. 

His attacks are just too light weight and do not tie Obama up with the whole Freddie and Fannie mess tight enough.

42 Until these republicans start suing these papers, I don't think they will bother telling the truth.  They are entitled to bias, not libel.

Yeah, it's a high standard, but the press has gotten further and further bent. I think some of these cases would gain high damages.  And more, they would damage reputations.  People believe court cases.  They believe Scotter Libby outed Plame.  If the NYT lost a libel suit, it would change the media world.

43

The Press is beyond just liberal bias, they are practically declaring Dictatorship status.

 

Obama would never have been nominated, even in the Democrat Party which is full of loons, much less up in the polls for the general at this point if not for a corrupt Press.  Him making his own Pres. seals and own Gold Dollars declaring himself POTUS already is freaky.

44 Maybe the people at the New York Times out to read the New York Times.

Here's a story from the New York Times on September 30, 1999:

"Fannie Mae, the nation's biggest underwriter of home mortgages, has been under increasing pressure from the Clinton Administration to expand mortgage loans among low and moderate income people and felt pressure from stock holders to maintain its phenomenal growth in profits.

"In addition, banks, thrift institutions and mortgage companies have been pressing Fannie Mae to help them make more loans to so-called subprime borrowers. These borrowers whose incomes, credit ratings and savings are not good enough to qualify for conventional loans, can only get loans from finance companies that charge much higher interest rates -- anywhere from three to four percentage points higher than conventional loans.

...

"In moving, even tentatively, into this new area of lending, Fannie Mae is taking on significantly more risk, which may not pose any difficulties during flush economic times. But the government-subsidized corporation may run into trouble in an economic downturn, prompting a government rescue similar to that of the savings and loan industry in the 1980's." 

45 meant "ought to read"

46 From your fingers to God's eyes, J.J.  Man, if ya wanna talk about a liberal meltdown, that would do it.  The esteemed and iconic NYT in the hands of that stinky Fox fella.  That would be priceless.

47

McCain should take out a full page ad with this rebuttal and dare the Times to print it.  Then they should do a TV ad, blasting them and run it on YouTube and once in NYC.

"Get in their face", so saith the Magical Negro.

48

Mentioning the Malice thing.

Absense of Malice, while a rather boring movie, is awesome because it points out exactly how mechanical the newsroom is when it comes to stories.  Also, if you are into this kinda thing, you can see that the stories progression from a business corruption to a sex scandal, to abortion, is not that different from Billy Jeff's situation.

49

blatant 2nd ammendment pander.

Obama hiers "ray shockey" whoever that is, I guess he played for the washington redskins, says both mccain and obama will protect "our" guns, and then follows in with outsourcing and same old same old attack.

It's a radio ad, I might look for it later, or maybe not, my bet is not.

50 There is no such thing as a "fair comment" clause. The standard for a public figure, established by NYT v. Sullivan, is "actual malice," also defined as "knowledge of falsehood" or "reckless disregard for the truth." You definitely have reckless disregard here, as lobbyists must disclose their client lists by law. I think Davis should sue the effers, just for the fun of it.

Problem is, there's just enough truth in the story to make proving actual malice close to impossible in this case.  NYT v. Sullivan didn't entirely remove the defense of fair comment, just made it much harder for the news organization to use.  And you can bet the Times would lean on it pretty heavily here.

51

This story, or "sack of lies", is running front page, above the fold in today's Times.

They are proud of their subterfuge, and stand by their reporting.

52 Related News Flash! Team Obama has added two new symbols to their official "O" logo to reflect these realities.

See the new logo here.

53 Ha. I think it's clever anyway.

54 Posted by: Wickedpinto at September 24, 2008 10:30 AM (ul7te) Campbell Brown is a rabid bitch. I'm going to have my son watch video clips of her to teach him to stay the hell away from that kind of c*nt. I just heard the gun ad on the radio too...Laura Ingraham show? Sweet Jesus, Obama actually still believes Ingraham listeners are going to vote for him? I heard a 100% dishonest (filthy lie) Obama ad yesterday morning accusing McCain of being against stem cell research. It has a mother of a little kid with diabetes, sob story, have to support Obama to cure my little moppet. McCain supports stem cell research, and was one of the few GOP senators to do so. The thing he doesn't support is therapeutic cloning, or creating embryos just to muck them up. breathtaking lie in that ad.

55 Want a laugh, if you're not from Connecticut you can't e-mail the drunken rapist Chris Dodd through his senate website.

56

Wickedpinto, the lying sack of gun-grabbing turds in question is Ray Schoenke (I think it's spelled), from the AHSA false flag operation. They're running radio spots every morning on Mike & Mike on ESPN Radio (in Greater Cleveland, anyway). Obama's internal polls must show significant vulnerability on guns.

At that point we will all be struggling under the yoke of Obama's mandatory universal volunteer service and living off tree bark and saw dust soup so we won't really care.

Like hell.

III

57

Don't eat Soylent Bark®! Soylent Bark® is poplar! (And the taste varies from person to person for some strange reason.)

58

"according to two people with direct knowledge of the arrangement"

Well, there you go.  Two people who are in a position to know.  No wonder journalists think they need a shield law.  You wouldn't want to risk losing a source like that.

59

Dude said he played for the Washington Redskins after he says the gun thing he says "now mccain who promised a clean campaign." blah blah "now I've taken a lot of shots in my time." Blah blah.  "more of the same." Blah "paid for by Obama for America."

And I heard it during Dennis miller.

I have enough anger after waking up, for having to have woken up, that I don't like blatant political shows.

60 This is red meat for the base, but more importantly John McCain has never failed to defend his country, our country, from her enemies, and right now at the top of that list is the NYT and the Obama campaign. If we want the truth out there the only way is to donate $$ for ads because our democrat media has demonstrated that not only will they not reveal the truth about Obama, but they are more than willing to lie about McCain/Palin. Posted by: HRPKathy at September 24, 2008 10:45 AM (WqFVw) Yep. The McCain team has made some great ads. I also like the work of this 527 group: http://www.ourcountrydeservesbetter.com/

61 33 The MSM isn't stupid That's where ya lost me. My point is that they have managed to obscure or distort all sorts of facts in this campaign, despite their failing business model. Unless you're one of the small slice of the electorate that takes the time to research matters beyond the sound bite/headline world, you would believe McCain is a doddering fool. The smears about Palin seem to be sticking. Even Leno, last night, was making jokes about Palin's Bridge to Nowhere. Yet, as we all know, she really did kill it. It's not her boondoggle, nevertheless the meme is out there and will stick exactly like "Bush lied, people died" sticks to this day among the majority of the people. The MSM could really go overboard and photoshop a picture of McCain taking a briefcase full of cash from Dick Fuld. But they really aren't that stupid. That is my point. And like the paper in Citizen Kane, fabulously wealthy liberals will continue to finance the MSM as their avocation, if it can't make a profit. Hollywood continues to make box office failures that denigrate America, losing money. Are they stupid? Not really. They won't make Hate America pictures exclusively. But they make so much cash they can afford to finance their propaganda. Some like to call the MSM the dinosaur media. Well, even a dying dinosaur can do a hell of a lot of damage. Let's hope something promising develops in the next week or two. Otherwise, get ready for Carter 2.0.

62 Shill, perhaps you should re-read my comment.

63

Obama's still running an ad in PA about a Corning plant that closed which s blatantly false and Corning has asked them to take it down.  I have honestly never seen so much blatant lying out of a campaign in my life. 

Here is what I would like to see the McCain campaign do:  start having press conferences.  Every day.  And with every reporter they recognize, have a list ready: 

"Yes, Elizabeth from the New York Times.  I see your newspaper has now run 27 negative stories about me and my running mate and my campaign manager, and none about Barack Obama's.  I see your newspaper has yet to report that Barack Obama and Joe Biden voted twice to fund the Bridge to Nowhere.  I see that your paper has yet to officially retract the false Page 1 story saying that Gov. Palin was a member of the American Independence Party. 

Do you have a question that relates to the actual issues in this campaign and my actual plans to address them as president?"

"Hi, David Gregory of NBC.  I see that your wife, Beth Wilkinson, was recently fired as general counsel of Fannie Mae.  What is your question?"

64

From the NYFishwrap:

PUBLIC EDITORTo reach Clark Hoyt, who represents the readers, e-mail public@nytimes.comor call (212) 556-7652.

I say we inundate the fuckers with complaints.  They may never retract but we can at least try to annoy the piss out of them.

 

65 Rockmom, I wish you had McCain's private phone number. This onslaught of deceit is unprecedented in my memory, although maybe we were told as many lies in the past... we were just unable to verify things as easily without the web. Larry Summers was on NPR blathering about McCain's deficient economic policy... and NPR never bothered to tell you he is one of Obama's advisors. NPR... National Propaganda Radio.

66

I love that they called the NYT out on this so bluntly. This is the kind of Straight Talk^(tm) that'll help sustain the base's Palinmania through stupid shit like calling for firing Chris Cox and hiring Andrew Cuomo.

BTW, another smart move by Team McCain and the RNC was that they've started sending out fundraising emails under Sarah Palin's name.

After getting back from the trip to the bunk prompted by seeing "From: Sarah Palin" in my inbox last night, I may indeed write 'em a check.

67

Rock Mom,

I lived through the closing of the Wisconsin Steel Mill.

Obama KEEPS SAYING "mills" but the "Mills" are in Indiana, Wisconsin Steel was the only Raw Steel Mill in south Chicago.

There was a US steel routing warehouse that took advantage of the railyards, prior to my hometown becoming something other than an Ice Farm feeding the refrigerated cars, necessary to ship the butchered livestock to other places.

ALL of the Indy mills are open, Wisconsin steel is gone, just a few steel framed warehouses.

Was it the mills and the economy? or was it illinois that closed "the steel mills" which is only one mill?

68 At that point we will all be struggling under the yoke of Obama's mandatory universal volunteer service and living off tree bark and saw dust soup so we won't really care.

Tree bark soup, is it? Why, in my day, I would have thought myself lucky to have gotten tree-bark soup. Back during the Carter Administration, I had to eat goulash made with bird droppings and chunks of my own vomit. That's how bad the economy was back then. Not like nowadays. You kids don't know how good you have it.

69

And a great idea on the calling the reporters out before they can play gotcha.

Thats brilliant.

70

Lawsuit, lawsuit, lawsuit.  NYT is available in all 50 states.  Find a sympathetic venue (preferably in Arizona), sue for $7500 million, get the judge to put 10% of that into escrow.  File another lawsuit over tomorrow's headlines.

71 McCain can't win the fight against the NYT lies.

If McCain wins the election, he wins the fight against the NYT.

What was the point of uncovering the Obama attempt to viral attack Palin on YouTube if by winning the truth factor, you do not win the fight against the Winner lies?

Don't lend to the NYT what it no longer possesses. That's like bailing out failing banks with no recourse for reimbursement.

Reputation is not a GIVEN entity as it morphs each day, each year, each era. As simplistic as it may sound, Hannity's announcement that 2008 is the year traditional journalism died bears weight. That realization deserves promotion from those who demand the substance of truth beyond the propaganda that all sides produce for survival.

72 Maybe the NYT could set up Vicki Iseman and Freddie Mac on a nice date.

73 And what's the deal with the thumbsucking defeatism anyway? For 7 years people on blogs have raged that Bush never fights the MSM. Now you've got a candidate who will, and you want to wring your hands and say there's no point?

74 <I don't think McCain can really win this fight>
With all due respect, I'm very tired of being told that calling the MSM on their bias is a losing proposition for conservatives. Granted, if we fight we may lose, but if we don't fight we are guaranteed to lose.

Treating the MSM as though they are unbiased reporters is a fools game that all conservatives would be well advised to stop playing--now.

<The Times can print anything it wants>
The Times will print anything it wants whether McCain calls them out on their bias or not.

75 rockmom "Here is what I would like to see the McCain campaign do:  start having press conferences.  Every day.  And with every reporter they recognize, have a list ready:"

BRAVA!

My sentiments exactly. Yours is easily applied advice for McCain and for Palin or any candidate who is being abused by media lies.

Press Conferences need not observe any traditions that negate the entire purpose that a conservative candidate would have by addressing the media. 

My suggestion is more radical, not likely to occur any time soon, but likely to become a practice given the difficulty to stay on message with the media actively pursuing viral lies.  Conservatives could have their own studio, cameras, technology and do all of their own editing of their own press conference. If the conservative is getting the cold shoulder from the media or media lies across the board, even a poorly attended press conference would be better than submitting to further abuse to the rabid bullies. Grant media press agents no access to conference entry if carrying any technological device. Candidates should copyright press conferences in order to retain author's integrity within the news. It's all propaganda, anyway. But the candidate has every right to his own message and his own record not being destroyed by lies. Tit for tat.

76 Schmidt, or Davis, or whoever is in charge of the McCain campaign needs to put some teeth into this, otherwise it's just mindless bellyaching that everyone is going to simply write off. For example, during press conferences, McCain needs to say stuff like "I will now take a question from the NY Times Obama advocate. Go ahead, what is your question, sir?"

Either that or just ban the NY Times reporters outright from all events. The point is, they need to actually do something, not just sit there and whine and complain.

77

This is the link to the PBS Palin poll.

http://www.pbs.org/now/polls/poll-435.html

 

78 Posted by: funky chicken at September 24, 2008 11:56 AM

+1

Is this thread merely a temperature gauge for today's poll data?

79 OregonMuse "I will now take a question from the NY Times Obama advocate. Go ahead, what is your question, sir?"

Either that or just ban the NY Times reporters outright from all events.

+1

80 veeshir, if I got your just wrong, I apologize.  Not trying to half ass it, but I just took a double dose of moron.

81 just=post

shit

82

Don't lend to the NYT what it no longer possesses. That's like bailing out failing banks with no recourse for reimbursement.
 

The only problem with that is that I haven't seen any evidence that the influence of the Times has fallen with it's subscribership. To wit- My understanding is that the news networks use the Times as their template. Ever wonder why the three majors will run the same stories, even on slow news days, when they are supposed to be competitors? Because they get get their cues from the Times. Local newspapers do the same thing as well as running Times stories verbatim.

In other words even if the Times subscribership drops to three, ABC, CBS and NBC will still get their marching orders there.

Sue them, call them out but don't ignore them.

83 McCain should invite PJ Media (participants throughout the USA) and other local reputable Conservative Bloggers to press conferences in cities on tour, and remove the NYT from the invitation guest list. The NYT no longer practices good journalism and is so corrupt as to be incapable of covering with any clarity of record this momentous era we are in now.

84 captkidney

Absolutely, "Sue them, call them out"--

I agree with your concern to not "ignore" the beast. But I think putting the beast in its place needs to occur.

I think however that removing them from a party is giving them the negative attention that they so deserve. Their absence would not be getting "ignored" so much as it would be getting insulted. They just have to get their info 2nd hand. And THAT is an insult. I do see your point. Absolutely do not "ignore" the NYT, but don't play their game by their rules if its YOUR CAMPAIGN.

^{(How do we get the damned italics button to de-italicize, anyway?)}

85 I'm Barack Obama and I approve this article.

86 I just reread the article and saw this

<blockquote>Mr. Davis was hired as a consultant, not a lobbyist, the officials said. Davis & Manafort in recent years has filed federal lobbying reports for a number of companies but not Freddie Mac or Fannie Mae.</blockquote>

I do not remember that phrase from before because one of the major complaints that the McCain campaign was that Mr. Davis has not been a registered lobbyist since 2005.  How can I compare this to the first published article?

87

NYT Reporter:  Sen. McCain...two reliable sources close to the situation have informed NYT that you sacrificed two small, polynesian children on a black alter to Satan. 

When did you first discover that you were a racist, satan worshipping, child killer?

How many hobos has Sarah Palin killed or captured for your evil sacrifices?

88

Hey, anybody heard the one about the Pollack, the Jewish Banker, and the stupid blonde?

Is this thing on?

89 Posted by: a yorkshireman at September 24, 2008 11:42 AM (FO+YO)

True dat, yorkshireman, and I laughed aloud when I read it.  These young whippersnappers don't remember how bad it was under Carter.

I am almost willing to vote for Obama for precisely that reason:  it's about time this generation got a lesson in how the world looks when you've got a really awful president. 

If Obama wins, the GOP will recapture both houses in 2010, and have the presidency back for sixteen years beginning in 2012.  In 2028, the Dems will put up another complete empty suit, calling whichever GOP prez is in office the "worst president in history™."

These kids here will then be saying, "Whoa.  You don't remember how bad it was under Obama."

Rinse.  Repeat.

90 This is a good reminder of Twain's statement that it's unwise to get in a fight with a man who buys his ink by the barrel.

91 Sure would be nice if someone would bring an action against the NYT. This story creates the impression that Mr. McCain is in bed with those responsible for these Freddie/Fanny failures. Conversely, I can think of well over a hundred thousand reasons to think this of Mr. Obama.

Whether Mr. Davis received monies directly or indirectly from the Freddie/Fanny crowd can be established as a matter of fact. I would like this fact established in a court of law and I'd like to know it before the election.

92                     living off tree bark and saw dust soup

Paraphrasing Monty Python (a more reputable news source than the NYT):

"I remember rubbing pebbles in my hair for breakfast, and being thankful for it!"

93

I really hate myself for admitting this.

 

Talk left, formerly a lefty newssite.  Is still a left LEANING newssite, but they are MUCH more rational than the NYT.

Inviting PJM, and Talk left, and others like talk left, creating a banalce of chairs would be a very good idea.

94 Tree bark soup, is it? Why, in my day, I would have thought myself lucky to have gotten tree-bark soup. Back during the Carter Administration, I had to eat goulash made with bird droppings and chunks of my own vomit. That's how bad the economy was back then. Not like nowadays. You kids don't know how good you have it.

Posted by: a yorkshireman at September 24, 2008 11:42 AM (FO+YO)

LUXURY!  Sitting in our 'ole in the road, we used to dream of eating goulash made with bird droppings and chunks of our own vomit.

95 McCain should kick the Slimes and ABC off the straight talk express.

96

Oh and completely O/T

Did anyone else notice on CSI: Miami that the Sunglasses of Justice now have the ability to teleport Horatio Caine?

97 Re: Ray Shoenke of American Hunters and Shooters and their endorsing Obama. That org is a front for anti-gun right groups. They are fake, fake, fake. here's the NRA's fact sheet. http://tinyurl.com/3wcqze

98 WP - Talk Left is left leaning but they're up front about it.  That's not a bad idea, actually, play PJM and TalkLeft off each other and that could produce some interesting questions and answers.

I would like this fact established in a court of law and I'd like to know it before the election.

While that's fantastic, there's almost no way to get a court to move that fast.  Hell, if an action were filed today, by the time service is completed and the initial 12b6 motions filed, it's already post-election.  The court system is not exactly the best avenue for speedy answers. 

99

I don't think any anchors should be present in the press room, and I don't think there should be any permanent press passes.

the passes should be authorized based on individuals, not as in political acceptability , but rather based on the reporter submitting their own request and accepting their own background check.

then it's not about NETWORK/newspaper equality, it is FIFS ambition, as long as they, the press passer, meets the background checks.

That means better political coverage, cuz you have to be right there to be the First in, which would improve the coverage, because they have to actually pay atention.

100 @90

I do remember how bad it was under Carter.  I also remember that despite that it took us 14 years to recapture congress and we are still dealing with Carter's judicial appointments.

I also remember that the Dems thought that they would be able to retake congress in 2002 and 2004 given the low popularity of George Bush and they didn't.

Forgive me if I don't subscribe to the vote for Obama so we can have a Republican congress theory.

101
"This is a good reminder of Twain's statement that it's unwise to get in a fight with a man who buys his ink by the barrel."

True, picking a fight is a bad idea. But if the ink-stained wretch picks a fight with you, you have to hit back.

102 > we will all be struggling under the yoke of Obama's mandatory universal volunteer service and living off tree bark and saw dust soup Mmmmm, sawdust soup....

103 #87 WOW.  Looks like the Slimes has edited its online story.  But the article ran on Page 1 above the fold without the correction.  They got what they wanted.

104

NYT Reporter: 

Sen. McCain...according to two sources close to the situation, you dropped napalm on Hanoi and killed millions of innocent school children who just wanted to sing songs about their glorious leader, Ho Chi Min.

Did you bomb these children because you hate happy children?

Do you love the smell of Napalm in the morning?

 

105

according to two people with direct knowledge of the arrangement.

I wanted to ask...is one of the two people Frank Raines?

106 The other is Jim Johnson.

107 John McCain: So you're the NY Times.
NYT: What's that mean to you McCain?
McCain: I've heard about you.
NYT: What have you heard, McCain?
McCain: I've heard you're a low-down Yankee liar.
NYT: Prove it.
McCain: "blam"

108

The other is Jim Johnson.

I knew there was a reason I never trusted the cowboys!!

109

MikeH seems to favor a Jacksonian Whitehouse.

Can't say I disagree.  High time people be punished for treason, and the rose guarden is the PERFECT place.

110 One thing a lawsuit would do is allow for discovery. If the Times refuses to "out" their sources, I believe that is evidence of guilt and would hurt the Times and help the plaintiff. If the Times outs it's sources, all the better. We'll know who lied, either the sources or the NYT.

111

and a lawsuit is "news."

No way the media can ignore it without dropping another card of bias.

112 I wonder if the NYT  would report on the lawsuit?

113 it is still considered a highly reputable journalistic organization it will get greeted with the presumption of credibility by most people.

I disagree... I don't think it has the reputation it once did... I think intelligent people see it for what it is... however what we may be seeing is a much smaller demographic of actual intelligent people... maybe like 47%

ok maybe polling sux...

114 Pavel wants us to vote for Obama, and doesn't want anybody to fight the MSM. And it's his deep conservative Christian concern, and his at least $130,000 a year salary that informs those opinions.

115

There's something to be said for the new McCain ads to start including an aside or two about the NYT.

#63 Rockmom has the right idea.

In each ad, quote the NYT, then add one of these qualifiers:

"The NYT: 27 negative ads about Sen. McCain, zero about Sen. Obama. Is the NYT really nbiased news source?"

"The NYT: Still no mention that 2 of Sen. Obama’s advisors left Fannie Mae, one with a $26million bonus, while your neighbors are losing their homes."

"The NYT: Still no mention that Sen,. McCain supported S190 that might have prevented the current sup-prime crisis and your nrighbors might still have their homes"

"The NYT: Still no mention that Barack Obama and Joe Biden voted twice to fund the Bridge to Nowhere."

116

McCain should make an ad that shows all the times Obama or someone in his campaign has called John McCain a liar or a racist. I bet there's so many clips available they can cherry pick the best ones.

Then close with "Is Barack Obama ready to lead?"

117

Hey Arb!!!

I remember you!  You tend to be valid, I tend to be snarky.

118 Or crazy, all depends on how you read it.

119

HawaiiLwyr (#95):

 

Chunks of your own vomit? At least you could vomit!

We used to get drafted into LBJ's Army before we were old enough to wipe our own snot, get up at oh-dark-hundred, 2 hours before we hit the sack, illegally cross the border into Cambodia where we slaughtered children and old women before cutting off their ears and sometimes even their naughty bits, before calling in napalm strikes on  their villages to destroy the evidence.

The we would forced-march for 397 straight hours back to the barracks, where our Loot would wait till we collapsed on our bunks, then he would frag us with our own grenades, blowing our guts out so we couldn't even vomit if we wanted to! Then he would roll a couple of willy-petes in there too, so anyone who did manage to vomit would find the vomitus burnt to a crisp along with his organs!

But will these kids today believe it?

—John Kerry

 

120 The link in 18 is dynamite. Also, Google rezko and lester crown, the guy who is the boss of the Chicago "board" that produced the "study."

121 Sure is nice to see the McCain camp torched down to a smoldering heap of ashes. Fucking liars. McCain/Palin supporters are delusional whiners. Your ass kicking is well deserved.

122

Facts matter. Rick Davis's name is the first one listed on the lobby firm door. To suggest $15 grand a month goes "to the firm, not Mr. Davis" is an insult to your intelligence - unless you enjoy being lied to.

BTW, Davis is McSame's campaign manager - not some low level nobody. Is we learning yet?

123 Posted by: chad at September 24, 2008 01:10 PM (lNQg

All good points; so much for my theory.

I've been trying very hard to figure out if there is some upside to Obama winning because it's such a depressing thought, and I am now completely out of ideas.

Way to screw up the rest of my day, chad   Damn facts always gettin' in the way.

124 > The New York Times has gone on record essentially claiming that McCain combines the worst social and economic policy features of Adolph Hitler, Pol Pot, and Stalin combined with the personality of Caligula You forgot to include "the musical talents of Nero"...

125 > Murdoch will buy it and gut it within 3 years. Can't be done. Stock price doesn't matter. All the OTC stock is NON VOTING. Only the family owners have any say in the papers' business. In other words, if you own any NYT stock, you're a moron. "Here, have some money! Do whatever you want to with it! I don't care if I never see it again!! HA HA HA HA!!!" -- actual quote from NYT stock owner, recently qualifying for residence in Arkham Asylum.

126 @pavel

I keep looking for the upside too.  At least with McCain I could say he would be tough in the war on terror and of course he chose Palin as his running mate, but Obama doesn't even leave those options open. 

I suppose I can be thankful he won't personally come to my house and participate in an anal gang rape but that's all I can think of.

127 Sure is nice to see the McCain camp torched down to a smoldering heap of ashes.

What else happened in your dream?

128

Obama Forms Committee to Explore Anal Gang-Rape

^{Names Axelrod to lead probe}

Promises "only RethugliKKKan bloggers will be targets," but that "all participants will be treated with dignity. All will receive a reach-around, and those under the poverty line will get a kiss."

 

129 OT. Did you see that Megan Kelly (Fox) did a segment on Rusty's piece this morning with Michelle Malkin? 

130 Davis got $35,000 a month for being a lobbyist to Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae from 2000 to 2005. He received nearly $2 million as president of the lobbying coalition, the Homeownership Alliance which he ran from his office from 2000 to 2005.

In 2005 the FMs shut down HA and Davis then asked for and his company secretly began receiving $15,000 a month from Freddie Mac for “consulting” work until last month when the Bush administration nationalized both FMs. Davis did virtually no work for Freddie over the last 3 years, he was paid for his access to McCain.

Of course Davis hasn't personally cashed in yet. All 177 lobbyists on McCain's staff are working for the day when they can.

131 LOL doc_benway.

All true about McCain, chad - he's not much better than Bush on a lot of things, but at least he won't back down from terrorists and other bad guys. 

And Sarah is my darling.

132 I've come on board late in the campaign to support Mccain/Palin. This gives him a first hand view why so many people opposed Mccain/Feingold.

133

At that point we will all be struggling under the yoke of Obama's mandatory universal volunteer service and living off tree bark and saw dust soup so we won't really care

Oh c'mon, it worked so well in the 70's in Cambodia. Don't knock it comrade!!!

134 Hey, is the NYT really all that much worse than the good ol' AP?

I say this after reading two days in a row of "news" stories on Yahoo about Sarah Palin's meetings with foreign leaders in New York.... written by some incredibly snarky little shrew named Sara Kugler of the Associated Press. How Yahoo can call her scribblings "news stories" rather than "rants," "screeds," or just plain "sewage" is beyond me. Above my pay grade.

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