McCain Campaign Manager Assaults Grey Lady

Mr. Tapper, I could have sworn that I saw the list of 40 Obama Times headlines since Jan 2007 that Bill Burton used to rebut the McCain camp’s assertion of unfair coverage here yeseterday. Did you remove it or was it another website?

Regardless, a simple archive listing of NYT headlines for McCain in Sept. 2008 ONLY (just this last month) reveals these:

McCain Seen as Less Likely To Bring Change, Poll Finds (9-18-2008)
In Spanish, McCain Criticizes Obama on Immigration (9-16-2008)
McCain Barbs Stirring Outcry As Distortions (9-13-2008)
McCain Calls for Limited U.S. Role in Schools (9-10-2008)
An Adviser Molds a Tighter, More Aggressive McCain Campaign (9-7-2008)
McCain Sounds His Theme As a Fight For Change (9-5-08)
Old Friends in the Media See a New Side of McCain (9-4-08)
McCain Set to Make Iraq Gains a Chief Theme of His Run (9-3-08)
BUSH SAYS McCAIN IS CHOICE TO LEAD IN TIME OF DANGER (9-3-08)
Palin Disclosures Spotlight McCain's Screening Process (9-2-08)
Response to Storm Shows Changes in McCain Campaign (9-1-08)
McCain Laboring To Hit Right Note On the Economy (9-17-08)
Study Disputes McCain Figures (9-17--08)
McCain Seen as Less Likely to Bring Change, Poll Finds (9-19-08)
Obama Attacks McCain in a Bid to Attract Hispanic Voters (9-19-08)
The New McCain: More Aggressive and Scripted on the Campaign Trail (9-19-08)
McCain Tries to Link Obama to Financial Crisis (9-20-08)
McCain's Camp Tests Fund-Raising Limits (9-20-08)
In Land of Captivity, Interest in McCain Is Mixed (9-20-08)
Obama Criticizes McCain on Social Security (9-21-2008)
Loan Titans Paid McCain Adviser Nearly $2 Million (9-22-08)

Of Mr. Burton's 40 Obama headlines since January-2007, these are the ones for just Sept. 2008, oh heck, let's throw in August, too:

Delicate Obama Path on Class and Race Preferences [New York Times, 8/3/08]
Big Donors, Too, Have Seats at Obama Fundraising Table [New York Times, 8/6/08]
Is Obama the End of Black Politics? [New York Times, 8/10/08]
Obama’s 2003 Stand on Abortion Draws New Criticism in 2008 [New York Times, 8/20/08]
Obama Aides Defend Bank’s Pay to Biden Son [New York Times, 8/25/08]
Once a Convention Outsider, Obama Navigated a Path to the Marquee [New York Times, 8/27/08]
Obama Looks to Lessons From Chicago in His National Education Plan [New York Times, 9/10/08]
Interesting differences in headline content and style, no? Please go ahead and read the stories, too. It's quite funny, actually.

BTW, let's compare Biden and Palin, too.
Last 3 months, total headline hits for Biden equal 19, here's a few:
Biden's Record on Race Is Scuffed by 3 Episodes
Campaign Says Biden Son Dropped Lobbying Clients
Biden Releases Tax Returns, In Part to Pressure Rivals
As a Matter of Faith, Biden Says Life Begins at Conception
Biden Opens New Phase With Attack On McCain
The Myth of Biden v. Bork
Jill Biden Heads Toward Life in the Spotlight
Tasks for Biden This Fall: Travel and Attack McCain
Biden Book Is a Hit
Obama Aides Defend Bank's Pay to Biden Son
Obama Chooses Biden as Running Mate
Obama Selects Biden, Adding Foreign Expertise To Ticket
Obama Chooses Biden as Running Mate
A Senate Stalwart Who Bounced Back
As Running Mate, Biden Offers Foreign Policy Heft but an Insider Image
Palin has a total of 59 (all starting at the end of August). Here's some of her headlines:
Palin Gets Women's Attention, Not Necessarily Their Support (August 31, 2008)
Palin's Teen Daughter Is Pregnant New G.O.P. Tumult (September 2, 2008)
Palin Daughter's Pregnancy Interrupts G.O.P. Convention Script (September 2,2008)
Palin Disclosures Spotlight McCain's Screening Process (September 2, 2008)
With Palin, Special Needs Get Spotlight (September 3, 2008)
Palin Start: Politics Not as Usual (September 3, 2008)
Easiest Task for Palin May Have Been Speech (September 4, 2008)
Ending a Conspicuous Silence, Palin Confidently Makes Her Own Case (September 4, 2008)
On Center Stage, Palin Electrifies Convention (September 4, 2008)
Sarah Palin's Speech: The Sparks Flew (September 5, 2008)
In Wasilla, Alaska, Friends of Palin Tune In to the Best Show in Town (September 5, 2008)
Alaska Lawmakers to Seek Subpoenas in Palin Inquiry (September 6, 2008)
In Palin's Worship and Politics, A Call to Follow the Will of God (September 6, 2008)
The Scrutiny of Sarah Palin (September 7, 2008)
Parents of Special-Needs Children Divided Over Palin's Promise to Help (September 7, 2008)
Readers See Bias in Us Weekly's Take on Sarah Palin (September 8, 2008)
Clinton Stumps for Obama, But With Little Fire at Palin (September 9, 2008)
Palin Aides Defend Billing State for Time at Home (September 10, 2008)
Squad of G.O.P. Aides Prepares Palin for Interviews (September 11, 2008)
Palin's Pipeline Is Years From Being a Reality (September 11, 2008)
In First Big Interview, Palin Says 'I'm Ready' for the Job (September 12, 2008)
Working Mother Questions 'Irrelevant,' Palin Says (September 13, 2008)
Alaska Lawmakers Vote To Subpoena Todd Palin (September 13, 2008)
Once Elected, Palin Hired Friends and Lashed Foes (September 14, 2008)
The Buzz About Palin Started Here (September 14, 2008)
Active Role for Palin's Husband in Alaska Government (September 14, 2008)
Palin Plans To Visit U.N. And Join Protest of Iran (September 18, 2008)
Palin Invitation Rescinded (September 19, 2008)
Palin Will Meet With Kissinger and Foreign Leaders (September 22, 2008)

@ryan: "Do I support the Monroe Doctrine? You mean the claimed US hegemony over the entire Western Hemisphere?"

That's the one. I suspect if you had been around in 1962, you would have been rooting for the Soviets at the blockade of Cuba.

Please, by all means, be sure that Barack Obama makes clear his displeasure with the Monroe Doctrine.

The McCain campaign simply does not want to be accountable or called out of the lies that fall so easily out of their mouths

9/11 • Iraq • Katrina • Financial Collapse

brought to you by Bush, Cheney, McCain and a cast of thousands of..... ...
REPUBLICANS + CONSERVATIVES

the hits keep on coming....

Mission Accomplished !

If you just woke up from a long sleep (like many years) and caught that one political party was ranting on and on about media bias, what would your conclusion be?

After McCain was the darling for so many years, now they are just another castoff from a one night stand.

After the media was used again and again by the administration on 9/11, Iraq, and many other policy decisions,
only now are they biased and pro Obama.

A nation of whiners indeed.

So the confirmed news story is that Davis and several other McCain staffers have been on the payroll to help de-regulate the mortgage industry for years, but the headline screams that the NY Times is biased. How long with the lazy media continue to ballyhoo the sizzle and largely ignore the steak?

Best part? Using a Sept 13, 2008 NYT report about Biden's son Hunter in the call as an example of why the NYT should report on Biden's son Hunter.

Davis and Schmidt are actually less intelligent than McCain and Palin!

And they say the gods don't have a sense of humor!

"you will see a nation tipping into decline I am deeply troubled to say"

keep working at it. You'll get your wish.

It could happen in less than 3 years if Jimmy Carter get his second term.

For your fantasy: 14% mortgage rates, 21% MM rates, 12% cpi, Iran hostage crisis....but we did get the Community Reinvestment Program established. You know, the birth of the program that is now threatening to bring down the world's financial system.

Conservatism is a word whos ideology has nothing to do with conservation.

If you disagree with this then I may be a hoot but you are a loon.

"Conservatism is not conservative as we can clearly see."

Leonard is a hoot

I would think that conservatism by definition of the word, would have as an objective the conservation of a system that functions in equilibrium, where the children and grandchildren share in prosperity as much as the parent.

Conservatism is not conservative as we can clearly see.

"Realize too, if 70% of our society is consumer spending, having higher taxes all around affects our ability to buy those consumables, right?"

hippiechucker actually sounds like an adult

Spin, Spin, Bluster, Outrage - deflect and intimidate.

This is what a McCain (or should I say Palin/McCain) administration would be like.

Could the voting public be so dumb as to do this to the country in these troubling times.

"I'm not inherently opposed to Capitalism,
while it's principal flaw is that it is a snake devouring its own tail, that is another issue."

Some flaw. Capitalism is the engine that has fueled lifestyles for billions that are equivalent to how princes lived a few decades ago.

But lots of smart guys just gotta trash it. they are so much smarter, you know

hippiechucker,

I am a realist in that I accept greed as a more efficient engine of commerce than altruism, and I'm not saying that I have an alternative to Capitalism.
It seems obvious now, at least to some of us, that taking away the limits to greed and allowing it to be checked by its own sense of altruism is as unrealistic as any idea that Marx had.

Prosperity during the Reagan years amounted then, as it has today, to making the people down the road pay while you claiming title to economic genius of the hour.

Somebody always has to clean up after the party.

McCain will try anything as his credibility has taken more hits this past week than a bong at a 70s college party.

Also, I don't think they denied it.

Hippiechucker,

I'm not inherently opposed to Capitalism,
while it's principal flaw is that it is a snake devouring its own tail, that is another issue.

My question was about Reaganomics, and while I know you will defend it to the death, it forced Bush 1 to raise taxes in spite of his campaign pledge.

Captalism can work well enough, but the idea that the richest are the fuel of that engine is the lie that we are now laying bare.

In the meantime, Jake, the only REAL story here is that McCain’s campaign manager Rick Davis was paid more than $30,000 a month for five years as president of an advocacy group set up by the mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to defend them against stricter regulations.

You, as a journalist, should not be distracted by the GOP's distractions.

Steve Schmidt attacked the NYT, but nowhere did he dispute the facts of their piece about Davis' ties to the mortgage giants.

Kill the messenger... If McCain had his way he'd kill the free press on day 1 of his presidency. America's own Putin.

Luckily he's going to lose the electoral vote pretty badly.

Ryan C,

Predatory lending took on a new face when it went after the people that did not need subprimes. Subprimes were pushed by the banks/mortgage companies (not Fannie or Freddie) because there was greater profit in them. Again, some people were also pushed into subprimes because they could not afford to purchase MULTIPLE homes for the purpose of flipping. They resorted to no doc loans while they thought they could get good ROI. That dried up because American jobs that paid well dried up.

They cannot have everyone else's cake and eat it, too! It is now time for the bottom up instead of the trickle down theory to get a shot.

Congress needs to take that 700B and distribute it to us masses. Consumers drive all businesses/markets. You can't take away what drives us and then expect to make profits.

This is not that hard, either, so I'm not sure why Paulson is acting like he doesn't get it. Maybe somebody's got something on him.

Obama/Biden 08!

Leonard Peltier,

"But the call was so rife with simple, often inexplicable misstatements of fact that it may have had the opposite effect: to deepen the perception, dangerous to McCain, that he and his aides have little regard for factual accuracy."

Sorry I missed it! Check out CNN's
"facts" every so often. The lean so far over backwards to paint the picture of objectiveness that they make up negative stuff about Obama in order to balance out the truth about McCain. Truly amazing to watch journalism go down the tubes for ratings.

Obama/Biden 08!
Ben Smith
Politico