I’d reject this for publication if I ran a newspaper also. It’s pedantic, written at a 8th grade level and since there is no equal time provision requiring the NYT to print a response, it should at least be interesting and say something of value.

It’s coming from a rival presidential candidate. That in itself should qualify for “interesting” and “something of value”, even if it were badly written, because it reflects back upon the candidate. After all, I read Obama’s op-ed as lame, and yet that didn’t stop the NYT from embarrassing the good Senator from Illinois by printing it anyway.

Conservative commentator Ben Stein (a regular NYT contributor) just agreed this is not an unusual request from the editors.

But the substance of the request does sound unusual Obama-esque in “shaping the battlespace”:

It would be terrific to have an article from Senator McCain that mirrors Senator Obama’s piece. To that end, the article would have to articulate, in concrete terms, how Senator McCain defines victory in Iraq. It would also have to lay out a clear plan for achieving victory — with troops levels, timetables and measures for compelling the Iraqis to cooperate. And it would need to describe the senator’s Afghanistan strategy, spelling out how it meshes with his Iraq plan.

“Compelling Iraqis to cooperate”?! Iraqis have been bleeding and dying to move things forward. “Timetables”?! Sounds straight out of the Obama-mindset. And how on earth has Senator Obama laid out a “plan for achieving victory defeat” in “concrete terms”?

Mark Levin’s website asks: “How to get your op-ed in the NYT”

and answers back

Label it ‘U.S Government: Top Secret’”

The NYT has published over seven of McCain’s OpEd pieces. They said they would publish this one with a rewrite. Conservative commentator Ben Stein (a regular NYT contributor) just agreed this is not an unusual request from the editors.

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Iraq borders Iran, Turkey, Syria, Jordan, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, and has a small coastline on the Persian Gulf . To get to Pakistan, you’d need to go through Iran from the West border to the east, about 1300 km travel.

But, by all means, comment even if you are unaware of the lay of the land.

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However I wouldn’t hold my breath waiting for some fluorescent lightbulb bright media to ask him about that. They are as clueless as he is.

Is a goal for good tech writers, but I guess it doesn’t fit the NYT and other snobbish liberals who don’t bother to read anything other than Obama’s talking points. This was an editorial rebuttal, so he can say anything he wants, in any way he wants to. Of course, its better that it wasn’t published, since it shows how in the tank the liberal media is.

I wonder when the media, and the anti-war crowd will figure out that Obama has asked for a surge in Afghanistan. Also, when will the media ask him why he didn’t stop in Pakistan if he thought that the problems in Afghanistan were so serious, or was he afraid to do that because he previously suggested we should invade Pakistan to get OBL?

You’re right Other Ed. If McCain had wanted to reach Democrat voters he should have lowered his sights to at least 6th grade level.

Clear as a bell it is that the NYTimes and fellow Obama “news” organizations are in the tank for their savior.

What a shame they have discarded their constitutionally protected role of informing the American voter for the role of propping up an inexperienced, ill-informed Chicago political hack.

I challenge those who say the “Fairness Doctrine” be applied to Talk Radio apply the same standard to the “mainstream” print and broadcast media.

A shitty editorial deserves a shitty destination.

…and since there is no equal time provision requiring the NYT to print a response, it should at least be interesting and say something of value.

Naw… but elect BHO and watch how fast the DNC three branches of power try to resurrect (and uphold) the Fairness Doctrine. The NYTs only has this freedom to reject opposing viewpoints because the GOP stood up against the DNC and their cries for “equal time”. Ironic, don’t you think Mr. Ed?

There’s nothing particularly “8th grade” about the two lifted/pasted paragraphs you chose to read, and pronounce judment on it’s entirety. Nice going… Truly fair and open minded of you. Whatsamatter… need some soaring rhetoric that makes everyone feel good but says nothing? And considering that the average reading level of the US is right about 8th grade, I’d say some direct language to the masses is appropriate.

So if you’d like to parse language and sentence structure… your’s is too long, punctuated incorrectly, and fragmented.

Fit, INRE your ” “Look everybody, we’re getting kicked out because we won!” That is not a definition of victory, but it is a result of victory. The day they are weaned from US aid (and not fall to jihad elements, but keep their elected govt intact) is most definitely a victory for both Iraq, and for OIF. Tho you are being satirical, it is nothing short of an exhibition of success.

That said, though, the NYT is under no obligation to act as a conduit for McCain press releases. After all, “Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.”