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Thread #101088   Message #2401153
Posted By: GUEST,Sawzaw
30-Jul-08 - 08:40 AM
Thread Name: BS: Popular Views on Obama
Subject: RE: BS: Popular Views on Obama
Jack:

You have not proven Jack. You are flinging the crap. If I am wrong prove it. I did not see anything to negates what I quoted. If you saw something, show it and explain how it negates.

Here is more for you to task me on:

Columbia Journallisim review
The tortured reasoning behind the Times' rejection of McCain's op-ed
By Lester Feder Tue 22 Jul 2008 05:01 PM


"McCain partisans have decried the Times's decision—and, if you read the two columns side by side, Shipley's justification does seem rather thin. The similarities between Shipley's words and an unsigned July 17th Times editorial denouncing McCain for not having "matched Mr. Obama's seriousness on Iraq" suggest that the rejection is an expression of its heightening exasperation with the presumptive GOP nominee—not an adherence to general principles of newsworthiness. Failing to be straightforward about this was a mistake. Instead of making a statement about its judgment of McCain's leadership—a judgment that it could defend on principle—the Times has only reinforced its reputation on the right as a biased liberal broadsheet."