McCain to NY Times: "YOU KIDS GET OFF OF MY LAWN!"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

McCain and N.Y. Times continue a long-running bout

DEVLIN BARRETT | August 2, 2008 12:21 PM EST | AP

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/02/mccain-and-ny-times-conti_n_116532.html



WASHINGTON — It is a tradition at many kitchen tables to yell at the newspaper. At John McCain's kitchen table, it is becoming a tradition to yell at one paper in particular: The New York Times.

The latest dustup between the Republican presidential candidate and the "All the News that's fit to Print" big-name newspaper centered on the editorial board's back-to-back criticisms of McCain, one dispatch accusing him of taking the low road and another contending that he was playing politics with race.

The second editorial, which appeared on the Times Web site, said McCain's ads conjured up loaded racial images and raised the specter of O.J. Simpson.

"The presumptive Republican nominee has embarked on a bare-knuckled barrage of negative advertising aimed at belittling Mr. Obama," the editorial board wrote.

The response from the McCain campaign was equally cutting.

"If the shareholders of The New York Times ever wonder why the paper's ad revenue is plummeting and its share price tanking, they need look no further than the hysterical reaction of the paper's editors to any slight, real or imagined, against their preferred candidate," said McCain campaign spokesman Michael Goldfarb.

Goldfarb compared the editors to a blogger "sitting at home in his mother's basement and ranting into the ether between games of Dungeons & Dragons."

Times spokeswoman Catherine Mathis declined to comment on Friday.

[otohara]

1. Wow McCain Camp Insults Everybody

Bush II - no doubt about it.

[C_U_L8R]

2. Hey McCain.. here's some cheese and crackers

to go with your whine

[bluestateguy]

3. I look to the New York Times for leadership on issues

every morning with my Starbucks Frappachino.

[BlooInBloo]

4. ...

[powergirl]

5. Old Man Yells at Cloud

[donco6]

6. When was the last official game of D&D anyway? 1978? n/t

[Amerigo Vespucci]

8. McCain's got it BAD for the T.J. Hooker fans out there...they're in his elderly CROSSHAIRS.

:rofl:

[donco6]

9. Oh, OUCH. Did they swap toupees on Thursdays?

DAYumm.

And how did he get his nice cop hat squshed down on all that pouffy hair?

[Cha]

7. I guess I'll have to thank the NYT for calling mccain on his shit..

I'm not gonna read mccain's stupid response.

[tech3149]

10. My favorite line

"and people have gotten sick and tired of the excuse that all media is liberal."

Tell me something I don't know! Just because you say it, doesn't mean it's so.

[CitizenPatriot]

11. order me some ny times

I'm gonna order a subscription just to put my money where my mouth is, and hope that enough people do it that their subscription rates generate tons of ad revenue. Now that'd be a big FU to McAngry. I'll make sure to tell them WHY I am subscribing, since they are the only news outlet in the country with the balls enough to speak the truth for now.

[Hamlette]

12. he's a mean little SOB

he makes it all personal. No wonder the other Senators hate him.

[Skittles]

13. FUCKING ASSHOLES!!!!!!!!!!!!

the NYT ad revenue is plummeting and its share price tanking for the same reason ALL newspaper revenues are down: REPUKES FUCKED UP THE ECONOMY!!!!!!!!!! Most newspaper ad revenue comes from CAR SALE ADS - and we all know what has happened to CAR SALES