McCain Op-Ed and the New York Times
Posted by Deborah Kay Corey at 2:11 PM
Uh oh, It looks like the New York Times is not being so fair to McCain. Drudge alleges that they turned down an op ed by McCain right after running one for Obama.
Tsk, tsk New York Times...it's hard to say if the TImes was really being that bad or if the Drudge report just doesn't like Obama. Here is what the McCain campaign said:
A top McCain source claims the paper simply does not agree with the senator's Iraq policy, and wants him to change it, not "re-work the draft."
McCain writes in the rejected essay: 'Progress has been due primarily to an increase in the number of troops and a change in their strategy. I was an early advocate of the surge at a time when it had few supporters in Washington. Senator Barack Obama was an equally vocal opponent. 'I am not persuaded that 20,000 additional troops in Iraq is going to solve the sectarian violence there,' he said on January 10, 2007. 'In fact, I think it will do the reverse.'
Uh oh, It looks like the New York Times is not being so fair to McCain. Drudge alleges that they turned down an op ed by McCain right after running one for Obama.
Tsk, tsk New York Times...it's hard to say if the TImes was really being that bad or if the Drudge report just doesn't like Obama. Here is what the McCain campaign said:
A top McCain source claims the paper simply does not agree with the senator's Iraq policy, and wants him to change it, not "re-work the draft."McCain writes in the rejected essay: 'Progress has been due primarily to an increase in the number of troops and a change in their strategy. I was an early advocate of the surge at a time when it had few supporters in Washington. Senator Barack Obama was an equally vocal opponent. 'I am not persuaded that 20,000 additional troops in Iraq is going to solve the sectarian violence there,' he said on January 10, 2007. 'In fact, I think it will do the reverse.'