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The Gray Lady by Michael Ramirez

The New York Times’ ombudsman strongly criticized the newspaper’s insinuation this week that White House hopeful John McCain had a tryst with a female lobbyist 31 years his junior, nearly 10 years ago.

“The newspaper found itself in the uncomfortable position of being the story as much as publishing the story, in large part because, although it raised one of the most toxic subjects in politics — sex — it offered readers no proof that McCain and (Vicki) Iseman had a romance,” public editor Clark Hoyte wrote in the Times’ online edition.

Clark Hoyt, the New York Times’ Public Editor’s critique is here: What That McCain Article Didn’t Say.

Another low for the MSM and the New York Times. How many subscribers and advertisers did they lose in this debacle?

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The Gray Lady by Michael Ramirez

The New York Times attempt to smear John McCain was a “thin” story and has been widely discredited. The Washington Post today has attempted to revive a lobbyist-business corruption angle of the story but EVEN that is in dispute.

The story is dead.

The BIGGEST LOSER = The New York Times

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*****UPDATE*****

Rudy Giuliani called on The New York Times to allow the campaign to purchase a full page ad at the same discounted rate they provided MoveOn.Org for their “abominable” ad attacking General Petraeus.

Listen here: http://blip.tv/file/377008

News item: TIMES GIVES LEFTIES A HEFTY DISCOUNT FOR ‘BETRAY US’ AD

The New York Times dramatically slashed its normal rates for a full-page advertisement for MoveOn.org’s ad questioning the integrity of Gen. David Petraeus, the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq.

Headlined “Cooking the Books for the White House,” the ad which ran in Monday’s Times says Petraeus is “a military man constantly at war with the facts” and concluded - even before he testified before Congress - that “General Petraeus is likely to become General Betray Us.”

According to Abbe Serphos, director of public relations for the Times, “the open rate for an ad of that size and type is $181,692.”

A spokesman for MoveOn.org confirmed to The Post that the liberal activist group had paid only $65,000 for the ad - a reduction of more than $116,000 from the stated rate.

Left Wing Fringe Rag may be TOO mild of a term.

Remember the ad:

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