CNN

Hmmm, no vetting process eh? kind of sounds familiar. Listen, I'm pretty sure every media outlet (including NY Times) is biased. That bias isn't for dems or repubs, that bias is for RATINGSSSS. All the media cares about is ratings and money. Who ever has the most drama swirling around them (PALIN) is going to get the most coverage and EVERYONE knows that.

For someone who is this tough and strong war hero.... His camp sure does pout and whine quite a bit. How are you going to be tough over seas, when you pout and cry at home.

It would be different if it WAS NOT THE TRUTH. If the Aide got 2 million over 5 years, then it's fair game to talk about it. If it was Obama's 10 feet of extra yard space he got, It's GROUNDBREAKING.

McCain is a joke.

Can anyone recall the Obama campaign (and not supporters, but his campaign)ever calling an attack from the media unfair? I am not sure anymore...does any one remember?

Yeah and what does McCain call FOX NEWS???? They are 150% in the tank for John McCain!.

you have to still realize the newspapers have their alliances, hence the reasons for the endorsements from newspapers..

in my home town The Tribune has backed on candidate and the Sun Times backed the other...

its a fact of life John, get over it..

It's getting pretty hot in the kitchen. I don't see Mr. McCain complaining about the bias from Fox News!!!

I agree. The NY Times has lost their position as a nonpartisan newspaper of record. Putin doesn't get the favorable coverage from his newspapers the way Obama does...and he controls them! CNN is beginning to be just as bad...if you don't believe me, look at the current headlines on their home page. There is no excuse for the media's failure to properly vet Biden's credit card and banking ties as well as Obama's ties to shady Chicago politics. The double-standard that is applied to McCain's misleading ads vs. Obama's misleading ads is deplorable. The "Rush Limbaugh Immigration Ad" is single-handedly the most underhanded lie this entire election year.

Mccain Doesnt Like The Truth Being Told About Himself And Palin! He Lies About Everyone And Them Expects Everyone To Praise Him! . . . . He You Keep Lying About Others Them They Will Tell The Truth About You Mccain! The Truth Is More Damaging Than Lies!

Enough of the Lies, lies, and more lies. As long as the real issues were being ignored and reporting was in McCains favor, then the paper was OK. The lies have run it's course. America is no longer interested in being entertained with the antics of the McCain/Palin ticket. Real issues need to be addressed and that ticket does not know how to target the voter where they are except with mud.ies, and slander. Unfrotunately for the McCain/Palin ticket it would not know the truth if it bit them on the nose.

Press is scewered because in rare moments they favor accuracy over balance?

How many times can this campaign whine about the press. I didn't hear them skewer the press when Palin's face was plastered over every magazine.

I'm sorry but it's no contest. McCAin can't keep the facts straight on the economy at the worst economic crisis since since the Great Depression. His entire career he has been for DEregulation, now he's the cheerleader of regulation. Criticizes Obama on taking campaign contributions from Freddie and Fannie, meanwhile he's got the skeleton of the Keating scandal falling out of his closet.

In interviews he and his VP have talked of getting us embroiled in wars on four different fronts–I mean, c'mon, the world is not our playground to run like some schoolyard bully. Judgement lacks intelligence.

His campaign slogan is Country First but he chooses someone who is unfit to run the country as his no. 2.

Goes too far in his attack ads that he would tie his opponent, a father, of being some type of pervert that wants to teach kids sex.

I mean at this point NOT criticizing these BAD decisions would be favoritism for McCain, which I'm sure he would have no problem with.

McCain and his campaign doing what they do best deflecting..put the sight of the American people on something other than mcCain's inability to have any programs, just attack.
The NYT is a good target...but you know my mother always used to say that the truth hurts...so McCain campaign..stop whinning because the trusth and the proof of your lies and deciet is what is hurting you..be honorable...
Obama was vetted during the primaries, and if I remember correctly the NYT cames out in support of Hillary. All they are doing now is reporting the news , and what is going on...but you McCain and your campaign just do not want to see the truth.

The Founding Fathers must be turning over in their graves at reporters and media organizations. Where are all the good reporters? Where is the other side of the argument? What makes someone an expert, so they can spew their personal opinion on TV and call it unbiased?

McCain may be upset about the New York Times, but at least the CNN Ticker hasn't selected the most unattractive photo of him to accompany his articles. Unlike the one posted with the advisory that Michelle Obama is campaigning in Wisconsin.

Come on CNN everyone who has seen her knows that this picture is an outrage. Are you really so into the McCain camp that you would stoop this low.

Yeah - and FOX News is so objective.

Get over it, grow up, and stop whining, McCain/Palin. If you can't take the heat [or live with your own misleading ads] then get out of the kitchen.

Pround old white woman for Obama.

Forget the temper tantrums from McCain. Is it true or not? The rants tell me that it is.

Does the McCain campaign even read the New York Times? Or have they just missed the editorials criticizing Obama?

By the way, the idea of John McCain criticizing another candidate for running a campaign of intimidation makes me laugh.

O LORD, SAY IT AIN'T SO !!!!!

THE NEW YORK TIME MUST REALLY BE WORRIED

ABOUT A PACK OF SLUGS TAKING A RUSH AT THEM.

I will be soooooooooo glad when this election is over with. I cannot
understand people who know exactly what has happened to our country in the last eight years would even think of putting McCain in the White House. Let alone the moose hunter with him! IT'S TIME TO WAKE UP AMERICA – LOOK AT WHAT'S GOING ON WITH OUR ECONOMY, OUR RELATIONS WITH OTHER COUNTRIES, THE WEALTHIER GETTING RICHER – GIVE ME A BREAK – IT DEFINITELY IS TIME TO WAKE UP AND SMELL THE COFFEE OR HELLO TO WORSE TIMES AHEAD...........................WE MUST MAKE MAJOR CHANGES NOW OR REALLY SUFFER DOWN THE ROAD....OBAMA/BIDEN, OBAMA/BIDEN – WILL MAKE THE DIFFERENCE.........NO QUESTION.

To paraphrase Miss Congeniality, I've got a news flash for Mr. McCain: The NY Times speaks the truth, and the repubs need to stop crying about it. Where were their demands for fairness and accountability during the dark years of Karl Rove and his machine spreading vicious untruths and deceptions during the past two elections??

Maybe they should just go to Fox if they want news coverage that sympathizes with their position, because the rest of the media is on the side of truth. Why else would they call it mainstream?

McBush is simply whining again because a major newspaper has the nerve to like what Obama has to say about pulling this country out of the hole the republicans have put us into. Anyone who speaks out against him is unpatriotic and wrong. McBush thinks he's the only qualified person in this race because he's a war hero and has been a senator for 26 years. That just doesn't justify anything! Quit whining, John and accept the fact that you are going to lose this election because YOU are the reason you will lose!

Steve Schmidt has no business at all talking negatively about media and smear campaigns... none whatsoever. Steve Schmidt used smear and inuendo quite effectively while working for Karl Rove in 2000 as one of the principal parties involved in asking South Carolinians whether it would change their vote if they knew John McCain had "fathered an African American baby out of wedlock" Remember, that was when John McCain's adopted daughter (from India actually) found out herself about this by searching her own name online because her parents didn't want her to find out about Steve Schmidt's campaign of smear and lies about their family.

The shocking thing (and the reason why I am not supporting John McCain now like I did in 2000) is that John McCain hired Steve Schmidt and has him on his campaign payroll in a senior capacity this year. How can John McCain sell out his own daughter by hiring and paying the guy who basically called her illegitimate in the national spotlight and dragged the McCain family through the mud? What message does John McCain hiring and paying that guy send to his own daughter?

We know John McCain will hang his wife out to dry (as he did his 1st wife by playing around and then filing for a marriage license with Cindy while he was still married to his 1st wife) but I never thought he'd sell out his own daughter....If John McCain will sell out his own daughter, who won't he sell out?

Talk about crying the Potomac! I'm starting to hear from some Republicans that Factcheck is in the "tank for Obama" too. From what I've read in such sources as the NY Times, Post, CNN, and other so-called "liberal" media, they are just as critical of Obama as with McCain, only McCain continues to defend his lies as actual facts and thus gets more scrutiny from the press (sans Fox News). The problem with them is people no longer need to depend on the MSM. There are enough non-partisan fact-checking sources to substantiate or refute claims made by BOTH parties. And believe me Obama has stretched the truth (ie, SS) but not nearly to the same degree as McCain has. Tucker Bounds is the new Bagdad Bob!

OH please Anyone who calls palin/mccain and their campaign out on their lies misleading statements is in the tank for obama mccain camp its called keeping them HONEST does the palin/mccain campaign even know what the word HONEST HONESTY MEANS well from what i have seen out of that campaign i dont even think they know how to spell that word let alone know its meaning!

I could not agree more. McCain/Palin is just a joke. They look like a dirty old man with a trophy wife. But anywho, as Americans we have a responsibility to vote, vote for what we believe in and that's change. Let me put it to you like this, if you love paying high gas prices, paying higher groceries, paying higher healthcare, higher tuitition, then vote McCain/Palin ticket. I for one, do not like/love paying higher for none of the above. Everything has nearly tripled in the last 3 years, come on!!

Desperation.

McCain's campaign staff is doing nothing but whining these days.

WOW!!!

Steve Schmidt-talk about a campaign of intimidation of critics! You Republicans are all over it, overtly, covertly, insidiously, or in-your-face. As Lee Atwater taught you all well, and as he taught Karl Rove who begat the current crop of senior advisers (plus the nearly two-dozen "former" lobbyists for Big Oil, Fannie Mae, etc.), just put the lies out there. Make up another one before there is even any time to consider or respond to the first one.

Republicans, you are a gang of whiners, only worse. You actively seek to deny the truth to the American people.

In short, you are in the tank for the dark side; we can see it in Palin-McCain campaigners' eyes more clearly every day.

Two words...

Eat it.

The person who is responsible for complete lawbreaking, verifiable lies, and has insulted anyone with an IQ over 80 by picking Palin, is complaining that people are actually calling him and his party out on

Spare me the bull outrage you cynical lying looser. See you again in 4 yrs.

Peace.

And what about the McCain/Palin bias at the Fox News Network??????
Sean Hannity and Bill O'reilly are such dunces. They insult Obama at every turn and they think Palin is the smartest woman in history! They actually make stuff up about all of them.

Bad Press-Sorry McCain but remember:
You can try to put lipstick on a pig but.....

Are you kidding me? If the stories were not true then thats one thing but to complain for the free-press pointing out your flaws; talk about ridiculous...

[“There is no question that there is a fierce campaign of intimidation directed at any critic of Obama’s” by his campaign.]

Wait, isn't this exactly what the McCain campaign is doing by holding this conversation?

When can this people stop whining . We hear them complaining all the time. So Schmidit it is okay for you people to attack Obama with all the lies and smears. You really think that MCcain and Palin should not be blamed at all .In that case you should only watch Fox.

Cry babies Cry babies- I am soooo tired of the McCain campaign crying and whining!! I have only two outlets to hear accurate news MSNBC and Air America radio- every other news channel and most papers are "in the tank" with Conservatives- so I am sick of the Repugs whining about this. You NEVER hear Obama attacking or accusing any news organization for their slant on things- and even went on the RIGHTY network of FOX to talk to Bill O'Reilly.
The news media historically leans to the right being that the major corps running them are in the RIGHTY's pockets... so John McCain and his campaign of whiners can shove it!!
For once we have somewhat of a campaign where they try to cover all angles. all though I think CNN has cowered to the RIGHT's whining- I do think they try to do more "fact checks" for both sides.
At the end of the day Journalists have freedom of the press and freedom of speech- as long as John McCain doesn't become President hopefully we will Preserve those rights! Clearly the Repugs have always been in favor of Freedom of Speech so long as you say what they want you to!!!!

Obama/Biden 08 NO MORE WHINING!! NO MORE REPUBLICANS IN THE WHITE HOUSE!!!

Steve Schmidt, a grad of the Herr Karl Josef GoebbelsRove School of Propaganda! You will do well at Fox News after you lose the election, pal!

Sen. McCain and his campaign need to focus on the issues and offer solutions. Chris Matthews hit it right on the head... Sen. McCain and his convention... didn't say the word 'Republican"... didn't say "George Bush's name once"... and completely running from the any accountablity from their party.

Sen. McCain is running a failed campaign with no real definition or substance. They avoid the real issues. They continued "distraction" and "blame" the other guy, the other party, or the media... anything other than realizing the truth.

To be a Republican is Shameful...

What a load of bull. A great American newspaper calls out McCain for all his failed policy stands and mudslinging/smearing campaign tactics so the paper is pro-Obama???? What a bunch of hippocrites!! What a bunch of WHINERS!!
What about Fox News? Now there's a "news" operation TRULY "in the tank" for McCain/Palin/Bush. Sean Hannity? Come on... you can't be more partisan, maybe with the exception of Rush Limbaugh.
The media needs to bring back THE KEATING FIVE. There's a story that's going unreported. Remember that bailout fiasco? And who was in the middle of it all? John McCain. Why is the media so timid about this story? It goes to McCain's supposed "judgment."
McCain should stop bringing up the tenuous Obama-Resko ties, and start trying to explain his indefensible stands on real issues. His pro-deregulation policies are DIRECTLY responsible for this mess we're in. Wake up America!!! The race should not be this close.

Please tell me Steven Schmidt is joking. Mr. Schmidt, disciple of the infamous Lee Atwater and equally infamous Karl Rove, has the temerity to try to bully the NY Times into no longer telling the truth about McCain and Palin, while whining that Sen. Obama's campaign is engaging in a “campaign of intimidation” directed at his critics.

What would be almost hysterically funny, if it weren't so frightening, is his accusation the there is "no vetting" performed by the NY Times when it comes to its coverage of Sen. Obama. No vetting? Why does that phrase sound so familiar? Oh yes, of course! It's because it was the virtual absence of vetting by McCain's people that insulted the nation's intelligence by giving us, potentially a heartbeat from the Presidency, a person whose qualifications are absurdly non-existent.

There is indeed "symmetry" in coverage of the candidates. Unfortunately, the McCain-Palin are so convinced of their own misrepresentations and falsifications that they are unable to recognize the truth when they are confronted with it. It just so happens that virtually every objective observer of the two campaigns' claims has concluded that there is no symmetry whatsoever regarding the source of the distortions and – yes – the lies..

Mr. Schmidt, you can't keep lying and expect not to be called on it.. Again and again and again and again and again. As long as it takes. Until the lies stop.

Mr. McCain's claims to fame are his three-plus decades old experience in Vietnam, and his alleged integrity. The first has long since become irrelevant (if it ever was), and the latter has ceased to exist (if it ever did).

The paper that has been reduced to a rag is The Wall St Journal. This is of course since Murdoch acquired it. Thank God for the NY Times. We in NY have very few places left from which to gather real honest news. You wanna talk about being in the tank? I've got one word for you FOX!

Boo Hoo, the Times doesn't like me, how dare they I'm a POW!!

Where is the sense of humor you're always telling Barack to have?
Nice to see your translator Lieberman is back on the scene. Now your mis-statements can be correct the same day.

Whiny & cheesey ... McCain doesn't seem to notice that Fact Check has corrected twice as many ads for lies as Obama's.

The "straight-talk express" has become a manure spreader. McCain even denies that Palin, as mayor, made rape victims pay for their own rape-kits .. and there is ample written data from 2000 to prove it!

McCain/Palin and all his ilk can not stand the light of day or anyone who tells the truth ... too low to step on and too slimy to kick ..

When Cheney's pal is running your ads – you know your ads will be packs of lies ... 'fess up, Mr. McCain!!!

Foaming at the mouth, ranting and raving does not look very Presidential.

This is a simple attempt to divert attention away from all the lies in the McCain ads and speeches. Accuse someone else of doing it too; therefore, OK for McCain to lie in his ads about Obama. Somehow i don't think the type of honor and integrity we want in a President.

The McCain camp would have a shorter list if the just listed the news organizations who WEREN'T sitting around the Obamiah all starry-eyed. Heck, Keith Oberman's desk is probably covered with I Heart Obama drawings.

Yes, unfortunately this election will also be remembered as the year the media finally stopped reporting the news.

Fortunately there are still those of us smarter than a doorstop who see the media's obvious slant and won't be fooled by it.

Matt Damon said that a Palin presidency would be like a Disney movie. Well, an Obama presidency would be like another movie...Jacka–

I'm not intimidated. I still believe that Obama is a racist, socialist, who will hand theis country over to special interests and foreign influence.

God Bless America!!

Thank God for John McCain!!!

Would you like some cheese with that whine?

All dictators have the unflinching support of the media.

They become dictators precisely because no one dares to challenge, question or criticize them.

Obama banned criticism at the start.

THAT is what is scary.

It is amazing that CNN runs this as a story about what the McCain campaign has to say - WITHOUT reporting on what the McCain campaign was complaining about: namely that the New York Times correctly and accurately reported that McCain's campaign manager Rick Davis was paid TWO MILLION DOLLARS over a period of years by Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac, to lobby against the very sort of regulations that might have prevented the sub-prime mortgage crisis!

The NYT is so biased they may as well hire Keith Oberman as the editor.

OPOMPOUS can’t win. If you look at the AOL straw poll (where McCain is winning every state) and match it against the electoral map and you give Obama every state where he got more than 39 percent of the vote, even then he still looses by a landslide.

The Dems picked the wrong candidate.

Wait, there are people who still think the NYTimes have credibility? Surely these ignorant fools must be employees of the discredited paper...

Sorry McCain, but you lose all credibility when you...

(1) make "country first" your campaign slogan and then put politics (i.e., securing the Republican base) first by choosing a grossly underqualified running mate

(2) call yourself an agent of change after voting with George W. 90% of the time

(3) promise a campaign of ideas and straight talk, and then smear Obama with blatent lies in your ads (even Karl Rove said so)

When you have nothing in your own record or platform to defend, go on the offensive. Blame the media "elites", and do everything you can to make the electorate afraid of the other guy. Won't work this time.

Obama/Biden '08

Obama seeks to be the supreme leader- no one is allowed to criticize him and no one calls him to task for all of HIS lies and HIS misleading ads, and HIS personal attacks.

People- be careful what you wish for. The Dictator may come as the prince of peace.

The media needs to start some unbiased coverage of these campaigns. They did the same thing to HRC until Obama was able to steal the nomination from her.

Obama got more cake than I did! Waaaah!!!!!!

cant stand the truth can you mccain the newyork times is one of the few media org that at least tries to get it right why dont you cry about FIX NEWS do they get right ALL MEDIA AND LISTEN CNN HAVE GOT TO TELL THE TRUTH OR YOU ARE JUST ANOTHER TABLOID WHAT HAPPENED IN TRUTH IN REPORTING SAD

McCain you are a sham of the man you once said you were.

You are a lying and dishonest man who has resorted to name calling and playing the "don't vote for the colored guy" card. What disgusts me more are the emails and postings your rabid and foaming-at-the-mouth followers put up on the web saying that if HIllary is to have a chance in 2012 its time to vote no on OBama.

You dunderheads! You clods! You selfish and uncaring slime. To sell the opportunity to change the direction of the Republican agenda as a way of propping Hillary is as low as I have ever seen it. Talk to me about the issues otherwise you have no place seeking the office of most powerful person in the United States. You, Palin, and your thousands of followers may not have a problem with telling the untruth, the whole untruth, and nothing but the untruth.

My feeling is that if McCain and his bimbo win, the cultural and social shock will pull the American fabric apart indefinitely. America was once the land of the beautiful....now it feels more and more like the home of the depraved.

The Republican party needs to just die already! You had your time with the Reagon Democrats and you've failed. Democrats need their turn to show they should have been in charge ALL ALONG!!!

I am a DEMOCRAT and I know this is TRUE, any Democrat that says different is not telling the truth. Just like we knoe FOX is mainly Republican but I dont even think they go as far as some has for Obama this year.

IF YOU WANT A CUBA ................GO FOR IT .......LAZY PEOPLE WHO SIT ON THEIR BUTTS AND GET WIC AND FOODSTAMPS AND WANT FREE INSURANCE .............NEXT THEY WILL TELL YOU HOW MANY CHILDREN YOU CAN HAVE ......THEN THEY WILL BE ABORTING FEMALE FETUES..............SO THEY CAN HAVE SONS .........OPPS ONLY ONE SON ..............

When they cannot prove their allegations they hide under "lack of leadership" one size fits all blanket.

It seems like many of my republican friends are trying to invoke the "Fairness Doctrine" in their arguments that media should have to play fair and give equal time. A quick check of history shows that the law was revoked by that great great symbol of democracy – Ronald Reagan. It was revoked precisely because a vast majority of media in this country is owned by very wealthy, very conservative old white guys. It worked great too, getting a couple of Bushes "elected". Working well for them still today, with the media afraid of giving John McCain the slapdown he really deserves for being so sleazy and inconsistent. This election would be a blow out for Obama if the doctrine were still in place. Imagine Fox having to give equal time! That would be fun!

So this guy and his boss, Karl Rove, used lies, smears, and deception to get Bush elected twice and now that some in the media have started to call them on the bs they are now all upset. Try running an honorable campaign.

Graham was close... He shouldn't have said we're a nation of whiners; he should have said we're a *party* of whiners. McCain has gone from someone I could have supported to someone who makes me nauseaous.

why does McCain hate the truth–everyone is listening and watching.
He is making a fool of himself . The media need to keep going after the truth . If McCain can't take the heat–get the hell out .

Sure, the NY Times criticizes McCain and Palin for making lies and misleading statements. I like the false indignation Camp McCain is putting on for size. It doesn't fit very well, does it. Must be why they keep squealing to the media.

I hope all the news media wakes up to what is happening to this country and moves for the CHANGE WE NEED.

When the New Yorker published the "Satire" of Barack and Michelle in Muslim garb the rethug had no complaints. Now a real newspaper is printing real news and all of a sudden, they have a problem. Get a grip and give the American people a break. Remember McCain said he will not play referree when all the news spilled out about Rev. Wright? Now he wants Senator Obama to play referee with every media outlet that says something negative but true about him and his sidekick, Scoobie doo.

Somethimes the truth and reality are biased.......

Picking a fight with the NY Times now? Is this seriously how they are going to run this campaign? How does this answer questions that are still out there and is Stephen Colbert right about facts having a well known liberal bias? These morons will do anything except answer the very legitamte questions out there. They have nothing to account for the journalistic integrity or lack there of offered by Fox News on their behalf. The sooner these guys are held accountable by all members of the news media the better but that's not going to happen is it. The NY Times is far from perfect but the problems pointed out by the aide from McCain's camp have everything to do with answering questions people want answers to and should receive answers to. This is just another distraction with the hope that folks will lazily agree and forget the important questions that people should be asking when deciding on who should lead your country. The scary thing is that it works on some people.

The media has lost all credibility after the way they cover for Obama and trash any one who dares to criticize him.

WHAT has Obama done? What does he propose to do?

Nothing.

Criticism is Obama's means to an end.

Yet he manages not to deny any of the FACTs in the NYT article, that he has taken $2 million for lobbying against mortgage industry regulation ...

Now hear this all you McCainiacs – We the People are taking back our country!

OBAMA/BIDEN 2008!!!!!

Waaaah! Waaaah! Baby needs bottle!

I am so sick of the McCain camp attacking the media as a ploy to distract from their untruthful ads and behavior. The McCain camp seems to think they should not be taken to task in any form by the media otherwise they are in the tank for Obama. You never hear of the McCain camp speaking out against Rush Limbaugh and Fox news because they are firmly for him. McCain needs to run his campaign honestly which has now become a great challenge for him and stop the media blame game

Sounds like Steve-o is like everybody else from W.'s adminstration. Fighting for a McCain admin. job because he'll otherwise be on the streets looking in. Let me guess Steve. If John was president he'd have the editor fired. This sounds borderline immature. Grow up already. And I think Hillary explained her absence herself. Unlike Palin who seems to need her opinions given to her.

Go – Bama

Maybe if he and the rest of the Republicans would quit lying for 5 minutes and actually allow the campaigns and media to focus on issues before the election he wouldn't be getting taken to task by the media.

Of course then he would have nothing of substance to talk about since he apparently doesn't have solutions for the issues affecting all us non-elitists out in the real world.

To Mccain campaign surprise, Palin was not actually enough to motivate the republican base and they have now resorted to attacking the NYT. This is nothing but a desparate attempt by a dying campaign at motivating the base.

I just hope that all media will stand up against this kind of brazen intimidation of the press by the mccain campaign.

My 6 yo whines less than these guys!

Schmidt is picking on the Times, because the Republicans treat any trashing of the Times as a rallying cry, it's as simple as that.

Sorry McCain, it's not going to work this time.

Ummmm.... but most of the deceptive advertising has come from you McCain. Nobody is crying that Fox News doesn't call you out on it. This is the game you chose to play. Stop crying just because you're losing.

Obama is nothing but a pretty liar who incites vitriol in his followers and creates the illusion of far more support than he actually has.

If people WANTED Obama, he would now hold a 20 point lead in all polls and all states.

Re-write this story and replace the "New York Times" with "Fox News" and "McCain" with "Obama".

Oh, like no other newspaper/news media supports only Republicans?

Did the owners of the New York Times have a fund raiser for Obama? The Belo family who owns Dallas Morning News/Channel 8 (ABC local network station) held a fundraiser for John McCain and they are always endorsing Republican candidates. So why are Republicans whining about the Times?

I'm sure there are unbiased media out there somewhere, if there is one, let me know.

this is a republican ploy to say that the newspaper is leaning towards obama in hopes that the paper would ease up in its criticism of mcain/palin even if those criticisms are the truth. the republican strategists forget that the new york times is looked upon with so much high regard to resort to this and that it is the medias duty to inform the people of the candidates who may soon be holding the combination of our nuclear arsenals. Anything less would be a tragic.

Obama Baby, you are a good public speaker, but you are also the most liberal candidate that is the product of Chicago Southside Political Machine which has a long and rich history of political corruption of the first magnitude. You are indeed a child of that system and I don"t want you anywhere near the Oval Office...have a nice day.

McCain aught to take some responsibility on who's running his campaign.

What if the media were "in the tank" for McCain?
I'm sure that would be fine with Obama supporters.

I AM SO SICKENED BY THIS THAT I WANT THE REPUBLICANS TO STEAL THIS ELECTION ...........I CAN MOVE ................

It's funny that this critique is coming from Schmidt, the man that is destroying John McCain's credibility with lies and sleaze.
I'd fire the guy if I were McCain.
If the NYT is calling them out on all of these lies, it is Schmidt's fault for placing them on the front line of this election in the first place.

Sounds like the last words of a drowning man. Drowning in his own sleaze and lies.

Get over it!! Thanks to the NYT for printing the truth. Please, Please
Please keep us informed.

the Republican nominee for vice president, often talks about her experience running Wasilla, population approximately 7,000, and that has prompted close scrutiny of her record there. Wasilla's practice of charging victims for their rape exams while she was mayor has gotten wide circulation on the Internet and in the mainstream media.

OBAMA 08!

Oh, cry me a river, Faux News apologists. The New York Times is still an excellent news organization. Its editorial page may be favoring Obama but the reporting is first rate, much like the WSJ (editorial page the other side, of course.)

The sad truth is that McCain, having nearly lost his soul in his captivity years ago, is now forced to sell it to the scum of GOP electioneering (Rove, Davis, Schmidt) in order to have any hope of being elected. As a result, the lies are cascading like an overflowing sewage treatment plant.

Maybe, just maybe, if the the McCain Campaign ran a clean upstanding, and HONORABLE campaign, then there would nothing to complain about regarding the press.

It is simply pathetic for the McCain people to start crying oul now!!!

I read that NYT article about the vetting process just like the McCain campaign did. It came out WEEKS ago... and only NOW are they complaining?

The McCain campaign admitted that she had only met Sen. McCain once, talked to him on the phone once, and then he decided she was the right person for the ticket.

You can't conceivably say that Palin was picked for her experience or foreign policy credentials. There are any of a number of republican governors who fit the bill better than she does. You can't reject that because you know it's true. She was picked at the last minute because if McCain had picked Romney or Lieberman, he would have sealed his fate. Instead, he picked Palin for one reason: "I'm picking someone who can swing the HIllary votes my direction."

Anyone who was a Hillary supporter and now claims to support John McCain wasn't really a Hillary supporter at all. His policies are completely at odds with what Hillary wanted to do with this country. You supported her, so why not support Barack Obama, who will work with Hillary to get many of her ideas implemented? You think a Republican president can work with a Democratic Congress to do that? Think again. President Bush has vetoed more from Congress in the last two years than he did in the previous six combined.

Obama controls and pulls the strings of a thug army that agitates for him and that incites hatred and division.

But though very vocal and active- that army is still just a small extremist left wing fringe element.

That is why Obama barely breaks the 50% mark. By now, the democratic candidate should be way out ahead. Especially one, like Obama, that receives so much help from a biased media.

AND THE DEMS SAY MR PALIN IS DOING HIS DAUGHTERS ...........THATS THE KIND OF LEADERS I WANT ..........THOSE ARE CHILDREN...........NOT YOUR PLACE TO WIN VOTES ............

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By election day the McCain camp should all be ready for the funny farm. Since when did campaigns become so violent? Oh, I forget, it started with Newt back in the 1990s, and was perfected by Rush.

Hopefully all that crowd will fade away soon and we can get back to friendly campaigns and elections. The election of a Democrat for president should quiet things down a little I would hope.

Cindy Lou talks in platitudes because she is just as plastic as the words that come out of her mouth. It's not her fault, she's been rich her whole life and doesn't have a clue when it comes to worrying about bills, and such.

So what does she do, she runs to Africa and takes photos with babies and we're supposed to think she get it. She doesn't, and neither does John.

Obama/Biden 08

Smoke and mirrors folks, or the best defense is a good offense, or scream foul if things aren't going your way. Whatever, it's worked in the past but we're a little wiser this time around.

At least we can always rely on FOX News to provide a fair and balanced perspective

So every time a news organization exposes Mccain/Palins lies or deceptions they are accused of being biased? hmm it looks to me that the media is dong their job and informing the people something McCain and Palin are obviously against. Maybe they (McCain/Palin) should try speak the truth and stop dodging questions, like Palin did on almost every single question in her ABC interview. Thank God for the media exposing the candidates so we the people can make an educated decision on who we want our president to be.

What does Schmidt no about truth?

This is standard Conservative playbook. They do this every election since Barry Goldwater: The press is against us!

Why is the press against them? Because editors are contaminated with Liberalism, and Liberals will distort the truth to win. Why are Liberals that way? Character defects, mostly. In some cases, though, Liberal editors condemn Conservatives because they know Conservatives are good, and Liberals can't stand good people.

Other bullet points in the standard Conservative agenda (no matter who the candidates are):
We have strong character; Liberals have weak character.
We are not Washington insiders; Liberals are Washington insiders.
We do not believe government can solve problems; Liberals want government to intrude in our lives.
We are strong; Liberals are weak.
We will intimidate dictators with the strength of our character; Liberals will back down from dictators.
Character is all that matters; issues do not matter.
Taxes are all that matters; deficits and declining paychecks to not matter.

How many times, O America, will we fall for this hogwash?

You can fool some of the people all of the time. You can fool all of the people some of the time. Can they fool us with this crap yet again?

Whatever?????????
What do you all think about Sarah charging people in her town for a rape kit....how sick is that????????????

By election day the McCain camp should all be ready for the funny farm. Since when did campaigns become so violent? Oh, I forget, it started with Newt back in the 1990s, and was perfected by Rush.

Hopefully all that crowd will fade away soon and we can get back to friendly campaigns and elections. The election of a Democrat for president should quiet things down a little I would hope.

Why does John McCain even care what the NYT says when he is 151% in the tank of Fox News?

This election is not as close as the media wants us think. I would love if they can tell us when they are taking these Polls how mwnt of the voters are Rep vs Dem. Obama in a landslide and after Friday debate this election is over. I agree with some of the earlier cooments about race, we've made alot of progress but racism is still rampant, and you will see clearly in this upcoming election transparent it is.

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's hometown required women to pay for their own rape examinations while she was mayor, a practice her police chief fought to keep as late as 2000.

======shame on Media for not going after paLien======

Don't Anita's comment about the site of the Palin rally in Florida and, just as importantly, the pictures of the Palin rally compared to the Obama rally in Charlotte still visible on the Political Ticker tell the story? Is there a way to "fact check" the numbers?

It is time that Senator McCain learned to stop attacking his critics and start making positive arguments that people can believe in. This is the Senator who refused to be interviewed by Larry King because he didn't like the way Campbell Brown treated one of his staff when all Campell wanted to do was to get at the truth.

Mcsenile and his campaign are full of lying whiners. they lie, deceive and manipulate the truth like silly putty. They make up false allegations and cry about them when they are proven a lie.

All of a sudden mccain is for regulation, but his record proves he not.

McCain displayed a sudden interest in the SEC last week when he demanded that Chairman Chris Cox be fired. When his campaign was asked if the senator had ever criticized the current commission's performance before, they failed to respond.

They didn't respond because they had nothing to say. Mccain was having a temper tantrum and wanted somebody to pay. It's pathetic.

All For Obama

HEY THE DEMS ARE GOING TO BRING BACK THE DRAFT ..........YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.....................THEN WE WONT HAVE PEOPLE JOINING JUST TO GET OUR MONEY AND THINK THEY GET TO SIT ON THEIR BUTTS...........

Enough of the "Woe is me" from Schmidt and his Bush/Rove/McCain nonsense! You guys can dish it, but you sure can't take it. Cry me freaking river.

If these Republican Socialists don't like being called out for their hypocritical lies & rhetoric, the novel idea would be to stop telling them and diverting from the issues.

BTW Schmidt, the NYT endorsed your candidate in the primaries before McCain/Palin lost credibility.

Maybe common sense will return in the privacy of the voting booth.

Obama has no plan.

So we can't accuse anyone in the media of being in the tank for Obama, but yet refer to Fox News as "Faux News" and the "GOP news network"? How does that make any sense?

The real surprise is that Obama is not sweeping the polls- as much positive coverage and support he is receiving from the media.

Obama would have NO votes if he were running on his own merits and track record.

All he does is criticize others... he offers no viable solutions of his own.

Obama is running on anti- republican sentiment and capitalizing on the fears of Americans.

Yes, Im thinking that the lady that was on The Rachel Maddow show was right, She said that : the mccain campaign was angry all the time. I knew it! They are grasping for straws, that are barely there. These people cry more than My newborn!

So what if they are in the tank for Obama/Biden..

John McCain did not put country first, just as he didn't put his first wife first. He cheated on her with Cindy and left his kids.

John chose a trophy wife, just as he chose a trophy VP, and as some other blogger said, he will have a trophy presidency.

Americans should think about themselves and not the greedy 1%.

Obama/Biden 08

John McCain will go down in history as having "managed" one of the worse campaigns America has ever seen. He will also go down in history as one of the worse candidates to ever run for president.

Steve Schmidt, and what about Fox 'News' ??

Mccain and his campaign once again are complaining about the media these guy are mad everytime they call them on therer Lies. The mccain campaign is mad that they called out Mccains Campaign managers as a lobbyist for Mannie Mae Mccain is a liar that is why he is down in the poll because American don't trust him

I find this comment from McCain's camp very interesting as it is okay with them when FOX and Rush Lambart slams Obama and give all the prases in the world to McCain and Palin. You seem to be good at dishing it out but you cannot take it. The McCain campaign reminds me of the school yard bully that is happy when he beats up everyone and they are afraid of him but as soon as someone come on the scene that is willing to fight back, he called foul.

To Dan the Democrat:

Man, I sure hope your post is sarcasm, because that BS you're spouting is ridiculous!

By the way, Kevin Leo, McCain might have Fox News "in his back pocket", but Obama has every other news organization in his.... especially NY Times and MSNBC.

Oh gosh the NYT has been a liberal rag for years like their sister the Huffington rag. They are both like the Enquirer with half truth and big huge letters with their ads. I am still waiting to hear Sen. Obamas plan after this bailout with all those advisors by his side. I guess I will have to wait for Friday when McCain asks him in the debate. He can't vote Present then.

NO MORE CARS! NO MORE HOUSES! NO MORE PRIVATE FAMILY JETS!

If McCain cannot handle the NY Times, how is he going to handle Putin, Chavez et al?

Obama went on O'Reilly for goodness sakes. Grow some McCain - they endorsed you in the primary for crying out loud.

Their internals must be tanking.

McCain is trying to get Obama off message again. The New York Times is a fair paper for both candidates. The good thing is that it's journilist tells the truth. We all know the McCain camp is spreading lies and Mrs. Palin is only reading speeches they put in front of her without any inquiry as to whether she is telling the truth or not. Her speeches get more and more generic.

How can the media be in the tank? They are just reporting facts. If you don't do anything wrong, why should you worry about what the NY Times is reporting. McCain says things that he can't back up. That is his problem.

I'm sick of all this "Skewer"ing. Come up with some more diverse vocabulary, CNN

That's right, John, dismiss every critic as being 'in the tank' for Obama. Pretty soon you will look around and realize that everyone is 'in the tank' for Obama, ha ha!

mccain mccain mccain attack attack attack lies lies lies lies lies lies lies thats al mccain does

Why doesn't John McCain and his sleazy campaign really shake things up and tell the truth and take a little personal responsibility for a change?

Was John McCain ever an honorable man. I can't remember anymore.

You can put lipstick on the truth, but it's still the truth.

Two words......FOX NEWS.

This media organization has bashed the Democrats since it's inception. Good for the NYTimes.

I wonder how the McCain campaign feels about Fox News?

Sounds like someone is blaiming the messenger

OUTRAGE IS THAT THE MEDIA IS IN IT FOR RATINGS AND THEY HAVE ALREADYDECIDED YOUR NEXT 4 YEARS.............

What should the NYT do, make up bad things to report about Obama just to keep the tally even with McCain? You already have your base energized with your female Cheney (subpoenas are just paper) candidate, you don't need to use the 'liberal media' are against us rally cry too.

My Republican husband can't even defend himself anymore with me. I think he is going to abstain from voting – unless I can convince him to vote Obama. It would be a stretch, but might be possible if Obama announces some Republicans he would consider for cabinet positions prior to the election.

History shows that in times of National crisis, people are vulnerable to the lies and promises of the DO-nothing but promise everything demagogues.

Look at Europe in the 1930s and you will see clearly the direction Americans are taking. Obama is counting on fear in order to gain votes that he has done nothing to merit.

I guess the gullible will fall for any line as long as the liar is pointing the finger at the people currently in power.

If McShame had done his home work well by properly vetting Sarah Palin, his campaign would not be in this confrontational mess. Rather, Charles Gibson and the press have done a better job vetting Palin than McCain. This is a poor judgement by McCain and his is not fit to be a president. They ain't seen nothing yet!

Obama'08

1- OJ gets convicted.
2- Rangel resigns. 3- Obama loses in landslide.

Yep – agree with you totally. Obama is never written in a bad light. they never look into his voting 'present' too many times, his lack of foreign policy (had to go on a world tour this year to prove he had experience). its just unbelievable.

I truly beleive that if Clinton was running for president she would be way ahead in the polls now. obama is an empty suit and we dont want him as president. – ever

Why don't you also post a link to the NYTimes article which the McCain team was complaining about? It's an article which reports that McCain's campaign manager was paid $30,000 per month by Fannie Mae as a lobbyist, trading in on his ties to McCain!

IF YOU WANT FACTS AND NOT BIASE OPIONS GO TO FOX NEWS. GOOD OR BAD THEY TELLIT THE WAY IT IS.

THEY ARE REPORTERS, WHO ARE NOT TRYING TO FORCE TH THEIR OPIONS AND VIEWS.WHILE DELETING THE FACTS.
CNN IS GOING DOWN THE BLACK HOLE OF DECEIT WITH BO AND HIS CRONIES.

I am so tired of Obama telling us what we need or What Washington is suppose to do or what we want from our politicians. WE KNOW WHAT WASHINGTON IS SUPPOSE TO DO. He is not saying what HE is going to do about it. Wasn't he in the Senate? Didn't he see this coming with all the mortage companies? GOD what if he actually gets in?????

I'm an independent but I'm voting Republician - AND JOHN MCCAIN IS NOT GEORGE BUSH!!!! DA!!

Sorry everyone! I forgot we were talking about the times. I was still hung over from the WSJ calling him unpresidential. I wonder if he can say conservative media. I will cover up the truth of the conservative media by attacking the liberal media. No one will know that I called out by the guys that usually support me if I attach the guys who usually support the opponent.

MAJORITY RULES ANTHE DEMS ARE THE MAJORITY...........THATS WHERE YOUR MONEY WENT

Excuses Excuses Excuses. Excuses aren't going to change the poll numbers Johnny boy. Why is McLame so concerned about Sen. Obama's rockstar appearance. Doesn't he has his own on his ticket? The New York Times has every reason to cover Sen. Obama more. He's the one coming up with real plans and all you do is copy them. If this were school, you will get an "F" for cheating. Come up with your own ideas.

OBAMA/BIDEN 08

They seem to forget that the NYT endorsed McCain in the primary elections - but of course that does not fit their victimhood narrative. Keep whining, losers!

Everyone: Vote Obama! I'm sick of this profit thing some people have going on. Why shouldn't I also be entitled to everything a millionaire has. Obama has promised it to me. The rest of you all will be paying 50% taxes but at least your health care will stink as much as mine does. So take that pipe and smoke it.

Of Course the NEW YORK SLIMES is in the Tank for NOBAMA. 85 % of the Media are LOL... But, the Media don't decide who the President is.................WE, THE PEOPLE DO !

uh, and fox news is so unbias....

give us a break mccain, the complaints are barely veiled these days...if it isn't to your liking, then someone is to blame...gee i wonder what kind of president he'll make???

obama '08

I love how the fox in the hen house is crying "FOWL". The entire media have failed to report on any of the negative ads by McCain and you never hear them mention the KEATING 5, or adultery with Cindy while still married, or the adviser who was paid every month by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac because of his influence with McCain fighting any regulation! The American people are slowly waking up to the Republican facist tactics. We want all our rights back, including elections that aren't fixed by Dibold or the courts.

two words- FOX NEWS

Check out the NY Times article yesterday about the "dumbing down" of the VP debate. Seems the barracuda can't swim with the big fish!

This has been the most one-sided, distorted, unfair election process in memory. Since Hillary's nomination was hijacked by media outlets like the NY Times, CNN, MSNBC and celebrity types like Oprah and The View while Obama was promoted as the 2nd coming – I just hope McCain wins – if nothing else then to even the score.

(accidentally omitted three words in my post. sorry.)

Is the editorial board of The Times Left-leaning? You can definitely argue that it is, but at the same time it should be acknowledged that The Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal, also highly respected publications, do tend to be more Right-leaning. None of this is news.

It is funny though to see some McCain/GOP loyalists crying about The New York Times and it's editorial/columnist criticism when the highly conservative Wall Street Journal has also seen fit to criticize Senator McCain's 'unpresidential' comments regarding out current economic state.

DEMS TYING UP SENATE FLOOR AGAIN.............NO SOLUTIONS

WE DON'T BACK SUBPEONA DODGING WAR MONGERS TO HEAD OUR COUNTRY!!

WE WANT OBAMA!!!

When you have lobbyists running your campaign and a newspaper reports on that fact, it's not the media's fault. Campaign in a tailspin? The lies your campaign is telling aren't working? Got a running mate who's less qualified than my cat for the job? What do you do? BLAME THE MEDIA. Sorry folks, it won't work this time.

I didn't hear the McCain camp complaining about the NY Times when it endorsed him during the Republican Primary.

There is an old axiom about lawyers where when you have the facts on your side, argue the facts. When you have the law on your side, argue the law. When you have neither the facts nor the law on your side pound your fists on the table and talk real loud. McCain has nothing to fall back on and so like lawyers who have neither the facts, nor the law on their side, he must resort to pounding his fists on the table and complaining about how unfair everything is.

I'm gonna double down on the cry me a river thing.

So if you tell the truth you are in Obama's camp? On brother.

WHY DOES CNN NOT LAT US POST OUR COMMENTS.............TO CLOSE TO ELECTION TIME.............

Yeah..CRY ME A RIVER...
THATS ALL YOU GOT mcshame BLAMING PEOPLE

I call this the pansy theory of politics...

If you call a man a pansy, he will start acting more manly to try and prove that he is not what you called him.

McCain calls the media biased and liberal so that the media will start treating him more favorably to prove him wrong.

CNN has fallen for it, hopefully other news organizations will see it coming and stay the course with their hard reports on both sides.

Why wouldn't they be "in the tank" for Obama?
No surprise here.

OOOhhh does the widdle republicans need their binky? (I am sure Dipstick will be happy to provide one for Lipstick as he appears to always checking her "resume" in publica).

Yep the republican Nazi's are ranting now!.

And they laughed at Hillary when she said Bill was a target of the far right.

Seems when your ticket is both unstable and unable, it becomes a left wing conspiracy.

And the NY Times is sexist too.

McCain and his cronies dont like anyone or any news organization that is willing to speak the TRUTH. It is time all MSM's call McCheat and McPuppet out on their LIES..................

We just spent 8 years being lied to.............Just say NO to 4 more

WHERE ARE PALINS TAX RETURNS???

WHY ISNT PALIN DOING IMPROMPTU INTERVIEWS???

WHY HAS MCCAIN STOPPED TALKING COMFORTABLY TO THE PRESS???

LIES, DECEIT and "GREASE MY PALMS"

JUST SAY NO TO MCCHEAT/MCPUPPET

The New York Times actually endorsed McCain in the Republican primary (and Hillary in the Democratic primary). So to suggest that they are somehow automatically in the tank for Obama is silly. They endorsed McCain because they felt he had the best combination of experience and judgment among the field of Republican candidates. But that was before his campaign was taken over by Steve Schmidt and the rest of the sleazy operatives from Bush '04, and before it began debasing our whole civic discourse through its mendacious negativity. The New York Times is deservedly the nation's preeminent newspaper, and will remain so.

Its his own campaigns lies and flaws that the New York Times points out- IS THAT ALL THE MCCAIN campaign has left?? become cry babies...

You bad New York Times– shame on you for pointing out the fact that McCain doesn't know where Spain is nor does he know that they're a member of NATO! What kind of a foreign expert does that make him?

He was in the war and yet he and Sarah's first reaction to anything is FIGHT BACK... Let's not try to be peace makers let's be war mongers!

What a MORON!

White Mother for Obama!! September 22nd, 2008 1:24 pm ET
Free press… and I thought the NY TIMES endorsed Obama long ago. So what is the big deal?

Get over it Republicans McSame and Piling

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NY Times .. endorsed Mc Cain & Hillary!!!! .. they never endorsed Obama

The NYTimes is bad because it unveils yet another McCain- Corrupt Govt. connection? 2 MILLION bucks to McCain's campaign manager for lobbying against regulations on F.Mae, F. Mac. See today's headlines. Yet another old boys club debacle. And McCain is now campaigning on Obama's call for change? What a joke.

kevin leo: I was just about to say the same thing. If you are going to blast a newspaper over their "integrity: then he needs to blast Faux News also. There is no doubt of what type of organization they are running over there. I guess because Fox Noise is in the tank for Mccain they can be left alone. However, notice that Barack has not ONCE whined about mess like that. This man is an idiot and frankly, I am BEYOND tired of seeing him let alone hearing him!

Sounds like more crybaby lies from McLiar & "Daily Scandal Palin". Look, I did some significant research this weekend on both candidates and I've figured out two reasons you'd vote for McCain.

1.) You're rich, making $250k per year and want the McBush tax breaks

2.) You're an idiot and either don't know how to research, or choose not to.

Everyone else falls into categories of either supporting Obama, or supporting an Independent candidate. The majority of people in the country are atleast smart enough to read. So I would expect McCain's numbers to continue to drop as people exercise this ability.

HELP BELEAGUERED HOMEOWNERS AND UNEMPLOYEED

WITH 700 BILLION TAX DOLLARS!

throw the wall street thieves into prison and make them work for the rest of their lives for their despicable practices, and

throw their cronies in washington out of power into prison in november!

Based on this small article it doesnt look like the guy said the Times was wrong about anything it said. He's just upset that he thinks it hasnt gone after Obama enough. Who knows maybe its true. But it doesnt mean the paper should back off reporting of McCain.

Steve Schmidt, does not realize that when a newspaper tells the truth it is not being for the other person. This time the lies that the Karl Rove machine puts out will not be stood. As Americans we need to know the truth, and as a daily reader of the New York Times, I find it a very truthful paper. This newspaper nor anyother news organization should be afraid of the Rove. machine. I remember several media persons who have had their job threaten, for telling the truth. We as citzens are now demanding that we be told the truth.

Is the editorial board of The Times Left-leaning? You can definitely argue that it is, but at the same time it should be acknowledged that The Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal, also highly respected publications, do tend to be more Right-leaning. None of this is news.

It is funny though to see some McCain/GOP loyalists crying about The New York Times and it's editorial/columnist criticism when the highly conservative has also seen fit to criticize Senator McCain's 'unpresidential' comments regarding out current economic state.

Good strategy. Make the media out to be the bad guy. It has nothing to do with the B.S. that McSame and his goons are trying to push. Tucker Bounds is a complete idiot, or about as equally incompetent as Caribou Barbie.

Just say NO to Bush 44.

GO Obama/Biden!!!

Standard Republican methodology: If you don't like the message, shoot the messenger.

It is funny how quick CNN runs this story but they won't run one on how the VP Debate is being "dumbed down" for Sarah Palin. Check out yesterday's NY Times for the details. Seems she is not a seasoned debator...

well its an outrage that Palin supports rape, incest and teen sex. dont blame the media for pointing out the truth.

Give the NYT a break, covering the lies and the distortions put out by the McCain campaign of late is probably a full time job. Senator Obama is smarter, more empathetic and more in touch with the problems facing the American people (not to mention the economy). Hopefully, the American people will be smart enough to figure that out this time. Anyway, no need to worry, as McCain supporters are probably not reading the New York Times (or anything at all for that matter).

In all my decades of voting democratic, I have never before seen the likes of this.

The media is campaigning FOR Obama. No one mentions that Obama has no experience, no track record of achievement and NO PLAN whatsoever.

It is enough that Obama attack his opponents. That is viewed as a viable alternative plan of action.

Sad day for Amerika.

Remember Lily Ledbetter! Vote Obama/Biden

It is the media's job to be the watchdog of political gamesmanship.
If a campaign lies and distorts the truth, then the media needs to call them on it, no matter what party is doing the distorting. The NYT has called Obama on distortions, as well as Hillary and other politicians.
While the paper may be left-leaning, it is generally a source of truthful information about what campaigns are doing.

The McCain campaign has based its entire platform on bashing Obama, stealing his ideas, and throwing tantrums. They are now getting called on it, by the NYT. Everyone has smelled a skunk from the direction of the Republican campaign for months. All the NYT is doing is pointing out the skunk. With any luck at all, the skunk will be roadkill in early November.

NEWS FLASH: That is the job of the media, to expose the truth. If McCain didn't vet Sarah Palin thoroughly, the media will, especially if she is ignoring them.

Sarah Palin, what are you hiding, why are you afraid to face the media, you know it cannot continue like this, CANNOT SNUB YOUR WAY OUT TO ELECTION!

FOX NEWS.

any comment?!

These people will stop at nothing to blame Obama for every down fall of the republican party. Maybe if they stop at the lies and try to be truthful with the American public maybe so many of there own wouldn't criticize them.

Whine, whine, whine, whine, whine.... the McCain camp, or should i say McLame camp is campaign full of whiners.

Ok I'm sick! According to AP poll 1/3 of white dems will not vote for Barack because of race.

This is America? What happened to people being judged by the content of their character as opposed to their color? Oh yeah those were just words from some "dreaming preacher from Atlanta" What was he thinking?

Well, I ask real americans to please put aside race and vote for Obama. It is the best solution for what's wrong with America. Your kids and my kids will Thank You

Everyone knows this $700 billion welfare check to CEO's the republicans want to steal from us is to get you through Nov 4th McCain it will do nothing for the problems you and your crooks help create in this country.

Well McSame is using the tactic of discrediting the media so that he can win. May be he should ask the FIRST DUDE to help him muzzle the press and media like HE HAS done in good OLD ALASKA.

Trying to make America into a "nation of whiners", McCain?

This is the same Schmidt that was Cheney's spokesman? That sure does lend some credibility to his argument.

In case that was above some of you guys. That was sarcasm.

Why is this election so close? The worst economy,worst President, worst Congress and worst candidates in history. Obama is as big a liar as McCain. Obama is too green to be POTUS. Obama ignored half the base of the democratic party. The reverse racist want to think it is because he is black. I would vote for a blackman, just not this blackman. Colin Powell is a blackman I could feel comfortable with as POTUS. He is a proven leader. Obama is not. I know, from past history, anytime the government does anything for me it cost me more in the long run. If Obama cuts taxes in one place he will raise them in another. His so call tax breaks, will mean a national sales tax of some type, mark my words. We are in big trouble no matter who wins, I just want someone with some experience. Obama is too slow to react to emergencies. He seems to wait for the polls to tell him what to think.

What's the difference between George Bush and Sarah Palin?

Lipstick.

Hey, McCain, you've got your own NETWORK – FOX News. So even IF this paper is biased against you (which it isn't, except to the extent that REALITY is biased against you and your lies), then what have you got to whine about? Shut down FOX News and then maybe your bellyaching about biases will have some creedence. Until then, the non-Republican world has to play catch-up just to balance out FOX's lies and propaganda.

The media didn't do its job with the run-up to the Iraq war and should be considered an accomplice to that costly debacle. They're trying to redeem themselves now by asking the tough questions that the people who still care about this country are demanding them to ask. That's not liberal bias, it's moral responsibility.

No one is on a mission to "destroy" Sarah Palin, but if by telling the truth about her record, the myth created by McCain is destroyed, so be it. The press had better not cower one iota on this issue of telling the truth, just because it happens to be an inconvenient indictment of the GOP and the disastrous course they've put this country on for the past 8 years.

I don't hear Obama saying anything about Fox network, which is 1,000% ultra right wing, neo-con, pro-corporate-socialism, anti-obama. Yet Obama had the guts to face the biggest BS-er of the Fox i.e. Bill O'Reilly.

Show you are half a man that Obama is, and stop whining.

Maybe if the McCain campaign did not put out ads that have known bold face lies about Obama, and he provided solutions to problems instead of comparing Paris Hilton to Obama, then he would get more media credibility.

Just drop the drama and vote for Obama !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Crybabies. I can't recall the Republican's ever whining this much. My God. They're pathetic.

So, what would the gentleman call Fox? No doubt they are "unbiased coverage".

Would love to see CNN open up a comment section on Palin and the rape kits... See the front page of CNN.

That's right, John: turn on your "base," as you used to call the press. Now that you don't like what they say, they have no journalistic standards. How come you weren't saying things like that at the National Press Club when they were giving you donuts. "Oooh, sprinkles!"

An independent press is vital to our democracy. Quit trying to shut it down.

It's hard to express outrage about Obama's ads because what he says is true. The republicans just choose not to hear it. I'd like to hear McCain and Palin start talking about how they are going to fix this country instead of making of point of attacking the Democratic ticket

Is Shmidt the same guy who gave Bush's second term?

If yes, then I don't belive him.
NO MORE REPUBLICANS.
NO MORE REPUBLICANS.
NO MORE REPUBLICANS.
NO MORE REPUBLICANS.

I wonder what Schmidt thinks about Fox Lies being a mouthpiece of the GOP and Bush administration?? They are the furthest thing from fair and balanced. Schmidt is a typical McCain whiny cry baby.

Yea, like Fox News isn't in the tank for McCain..give me a break and quit the whining. Schmidt is just mad because they are behind now and everytime they complain, it seems like the media caves in. Hopefully, not this time!

WHINING AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.....These two McCain/Palin are gifted liars and game trickery of the same old politics McCain has been a part of for the LAST 26 + years in the Senate.

McCain, Palin and camp are WINERS and DRAMA EVERYDAY!!!!!!.

Low down, nasty and shameless attack ads for the last few weeks until someone tell the truth or don't say GREAT things about McCain or Palin. STOP WITH THE WHINING AND DRY THOSE TEARS UP.

BACK TO THE SERIOUS ISSUES.................

All the News That's Fit to Make Up – Jayson Blair

And the beat goes on.

The Obama campaign e-mails it supporters and incites them to agitate for Obama and to spread lies about his opponents.
As a democrat I am appalled by the tactics employed by Obama throughout this campaign.

AGREED! Completely. When I have to fact check a paper like them and I find them lying and hiding truth to favor a candidate, they are nothing but a propaganda paper.

It started really bad during the Primary. They LIED and took sides against Hillary and improperly attacked her for what Obama himself was doing.

All studies show, Obama receives the most coverage, incredibly high favorable coverage, as much as 86 percent. compared to 50 percent for others, but still NEW YORK TIMES CONTINUES their lies.

A recent study showed it was Obama who is running the sleazy lying ad campaign, even as recent as ltwo weeks ago with 77 percent, but what does the NEW YORK TIMES CLAIM?

We are seeing their preferred puppetry AGAIN, like in 2000 when they pushed Bush.

Will the American people wise up?

Amen Sue.

The McCain campaign, seeing that the bloom is off of the Palin rose and that Obama is pulling ahead again is going to try to look like the victims.

Hey Steve Schmidt–here are some ideas for your campaign: tell the truth, tell us what your candidate is going to do to fix the mess his friends put us in, let Palin come out by herself and be interviewed, and show some humility. How about attacking "fair and balanced" Fox News for kissing up to your guy?

McCain has nothing. He has been wrong on most issues. All he has is his desperation to be President.

It's too bad for this unfair and unbalanced approach to the election, as a moderate I saw this election as a slam dunk for the Democrats but somehow in the midst of all the "mega" hype, I am convinced the more I see and hear of Obama the less attractive he seems and I now believe the media over-attention is going to hurt more than ever...

Funny, When being interviewed by a woman MSNBC anchor, he told her that he knows shes a supporter of Obama yet she has her brother working in McCain's campaign
Then later the 200 year old man admitted that it was a cheap shot.

The big, bad, angry Left is out to get poor, defenseless Senator McCain and his poor, victimized Republican party. The monsters! I'll bet they'd beat up a hobo for fun too. Why can't respectable news institutions like FOX News stand up little old John McCain and sweet little Sarah Palin and stop this Liberal onslaught from NYT and CNN! After all, it's ageism to say anything bad about McCain, and blatantly sexist to criticize Palin's experience. Those Liberal thugs must pay for their backwards thinking and hatred of minorities!

Note: Sarcasm is lost on so many Americans...

Bring on the DEBATES...

Stop complaining and whining Mr. Schmidt! What are you afraid of in closeting Palin from talking to media and the public. Perhaps the media coverage will be fair once they know how much Palin knows and what she stands for when she talks to them without notes given by some one else.

I am so tired of the He said/He said ads. Lets get on with the debates – see the candidates side by side with no teleprompters, no video editors and no rehearsed speeches. Both campaigns are very guilty of using statistics and parsing/taking out of context what the other has said. ENOUGH!!!!!

Can either of the candidates simply say what they are going to do without carping about what the other candidate will not do.

What does Schmidt have to say about the Wall Street Journal and its editorial board that thinks McCain is un-presidential ?

McCain pumping your fists and stomping your feet may work on the school yard, it does not work on the international stage (as Pres. Bush has found out after eight years of drifting)

The McCain campaign has become a campaign of whiners and copycats. Shame on McCain for selling out so cheaply.

Obama is ahead now in the polls because NOW, the National Organization of Women has endorsed Obama/Biden. Because there is no woman on the Democrat ticket. We feel there are too many women in high office already, and anyway, women really are not equipped to be giving orders to anybody other than children at a school or daycare.

Come on. You all know this is true. I bet if there was a negative New York Times article on Obama there would be outrage in these comments.
It is like this country is under some strange hypnosis. What a bunch of sheep.

Insert the brainless McKain Klan's comments on how unbiased Fox News is. Ha!

This is such a joke...

Oh please. The most blatantly disgusting example of being in the tank for anyone is Fox News and the Republicans. How come nobody puts an end to that disgrace? Please McCain. You make me sick.

Isn't it hard when you can't deal with reality. Skewer the messenger!

McCain cries when Obama gets all the media attention and cries when his campaign gets it all. You can't have it both ways Johnny.

Schmidt....what a baby!!!

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How DARE they investigate and report on the news.

The NERVE of some journalists.
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Schmidt, your campaign is lying and stopping to new lows every day. Fair coverage does NOT mean accusing Obama of having equally dishonorable tactics.

Ha! Republicans attacking a campaign for using intimidation.

Remember, "We have to fight them there so they won't fight us here!"

"One car, one house, one spouse." Obama-Biden

McCain and his camp can handle criticism as good as a spoiled brat... if it's not "positive" (aka free advertising) they fall to the floor kicking and screaming!

Obama had his fair share of criticism... and he debunked and spoke out against them rather than whine.

Do this Schmidt guy... how does one reach 150%?

How many gaffe's did McCain have last week? 6??

How does McCain's "de-regulation" impact his new "oversight" agenda?

Some journalistic media and websites heavily support McCain... I fail to see this guys "point"

Wasn't McCain complaining about lack of attention/celebrity?

Speak to Fox News too.

Oh! I see! The WSJ is a fine work of journalistic integrity as all as it agrees with McCain, but when it disagrees with McCain; it becomes an instrument of intimidation by the Obama campaign. Wake up McCain camp. It is not good tactically or strategically to attach your own team. The WSJ has been and still is a politically conservative publication since Jesus was a corporal in the war on poverty. If I were you I would not piss Rupert Murdock off. We just may not call your name or sign the check.

I think the Repugs are paranoid, they think someone's always out to get them!!! Get real, Schmidt!

--–NY TIMES IS THE BEST NEWSPAPER IN HISTORY I-------IF YOU TRY TO DENY THAT YOU ARE AS STUPID AS BUSH----

Let me get this straight: the NY Times is not "journalistic" for denouncing McCain's lies and "un-presidential" campaign? Why stop at the NY Times? Every major newspaper should be picking up on McCain's lies and smears.

So, would you people for McCain like the Times to be like Fox news, just FOR McCain only ???? come on, give me a break...so fer, everything I have read on all subjects in blogs, only convinces me that my independent vote should rightly go to Obama..
Thanks, but, NO thanks to McCain -Palin

Notice the McCain campaign is actually defending his philosophy "ready, fire, aim" Not only does McCain approach economic crisis this way, he will also be poised to press "THE BUTTON" and launch nuclear war without thinking.

THIS IS DANGEROUS AMERICA. MCCAIN IS A DANGEROUS MAN!

Period end of story for America as we know it and our children. Not fear mongering just reporting the facts!

Save yourselves Vote OBAMA

THIS is what happened....
Today, the Arizona Republican's presidential campaign went to war with the Grey Lady. Asked to respond to an article that brought to light the fact that McCain campaign manager Rick Davis had earned nearly $2 million in lobbying fees from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (based, almost primarily, on his access to McCain) at the same time that he was attacking Barack Obama for his own ties to those very institutions, aides to McCain went off.

again... HOW DARE THE TIMES ACTUALLY "REPORT" ?

This "standard a journalistic organization" is supposed to maintain, I do not hear the GOP, Senator McCain, or Mr. Schmidt crying about the "UNfair and UNbalanced" reporting of the FoxNews! The New York Times is NOT obligated to tow the GOP party line.... They are allowed to be free thinkers.... Kind of like when CNN reports news from all angles....! Hummmm. What a concept. Maybe the McCain campaign moto is something like "If they're not for us they must be against us!"

As for the so-called "mission to destroy" Sarah Palin, if telling the truth is a mission to destroy, Mr. Schmidt needs to get a life. I realize he is the attack dog here, but let's make some sense when we attack. Maybe even find a real issue to attack on!!!

You bet most of the media is in the tank , their thrashing around in it they revel in it , proof most of cnn posted commentary by Roland Martin , David Gergin, and even the programming Larry
King is famous for his Obama bias , he interrupts his guests consistently on the air when they come to the defence of McCain or make a legitimete case of pointing McCains record on the issues, blatent bias , obama can do no wrong , why don't they do a report on earmarks and Obama and Biden's record as fact , BIG wasteful spenders some of the worst on record a perfect example McCains record on wasteful earmarks ZERO he got none. why don't you report on that , Joe Biden and what he received for Oyster cultivation, talk about abuse, he has no room to talk that money could have gone to tax payers instead of the much deserving Oyster cultivation...

Maritza

What about George Will, who yesterday said that McCain was not presedential and that the country had gotten a glimpse of his personality and it was frightening? Liberal bias? Or about the WSJ slams on McCain and his campaign? Sorry, Schmidt–it won't fly.

The New York Times has the unarguable reputation of being Americas' version of 'PRAVDA'..

Election arithmetic:

$1 trllion Iraq War + $700 billion Wall Street bailout + $80 billion Iraq treasury surplus + (McCain 8 houses + 13 cars) + (Obama 1 car, 1 house, 1 spouse) + (McCain 26 years in Congress) = Obama victory.

Once again the McCain camp tries to muzzle freedom on the press by exclaiming outrage that media reorts the truth and not McCain sleeze and lies.

"Thanks but no Thanks to the McCain-Palin ticket"

McCain has a temper and always seems angry...all his advisors seem angry...this is not what the american people need or want.

We need and want a President that shows calm restraint but resolve and that has only been Barack Obama throughout this campaign.

Stay on the issues McCain. No distractions.

i wouldn't line my bird cage with this rag. they are going down because only the left kool-aid drinkers read it. bye bye NYT. totally in the can for barry.

Republicans can't handle the truth.

Truth be told!

I am so sorry that when the newspapers print the truth, that the McCain committee is "hurt" by it.

The problem is, the newspapers are finding out the things we need to know. If McCain would quit calling people names, flip-floppig, and told a little truth here and there, maybe, just maybe he might get some good press.

WHINNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNY CHANKY OLD MAN.

SPARE US THE WHINNING..........

OBAMA – BIDEN 08

Here is another good issue to tackle. Did you know that America is the only leading Nation that double taxes its citizens overseas? That right? except for the Oil industry (they are tax Free) but us normal people who work overseas has to pay both the local country tax and again the US tax. Even UK, Hong Kong, Japan, Russia, China doesnt do that. Who is going to fix that.

All this faux outrage from Karl Rove's protege. He can't take it when a media outlet FINALLY practices some journalism in regards to Palin.
What a joke. Get a real job.

What about the NY Post and Washington Times? They are in the tank for JM and Fido

Fair's fair. Youve got Fox News, Glenn Beck, Rush, etc....

Get a pair.

Of course a McCain aide would try to make that case. He doesn't want any of the media digging up the facts about McCain and Palin. This is their way of trying to intimidate the media. They've done it to NBC, CNN, the Times and others. The only organization they haven't called out is FOX news because they are there attack machine against Obama and employ people like Karl Rove and Sean Hannity, harcore radical conservatives. I've seen plenty of articles in the NYT attacking Obama. They are just selective readers.

Additionally, the only people these babies are not mad at is FAUX news. FAUX news has always been "In the tank for ANY Republican's presidential bid." They are as reputable as the National Enquirer.

Just like the Republicans. They're going to have their conservative media (Fox) smear Obama with all the lies and half truths they can but when it's done to them all of a sudden the "liberal media" is in Obama's pocket. Republicans: you can't have it both ways so either quit it or quit complaining.

Wah, wah...so much crying from the McCain campaign. They did the same thing when Obama's trip abroad was getting a lot of coverage. As if there aren't heavily-biased articles coming out every day against Obama. Yet we don't see David Plouffe whining like this. To me, this looks like an attempt to bully the press into favorable McCain coverage. What about the negative WSJ article about McCain's response to the economic crisis? Guess that would be too much of a stretch to attack, since WSJ is known to be conservatively-biased.

I just gave $50 to Obama because I am sick of this economy. In November Obama gets my vote. I know John McCain has no idea what to do, because he said the economy was strong when it is not. Now we have to pay so much money to get the banks out of trouble. So, why are we still spending all this money in Iraq? If McCain wins this election, he will keep spending billions every month in Iraq? I don’t think McCain cares how much the war cost, because McCain and his rich friends will keep eating. They are getting their money now (today) in this bailout. While, the rest of us have to wait to see who gets elected. I have friends who say they can’t see themselves voting for Obama, even though they like him. They say they will vote for McCain even though they don’t like him or Palin. They are just Republicans voting the party line. Still, here we all seem to agree on one thing. If Obama don’t win, the rest of us will get nothing, but more taxes. Then, when we lose our jobs, and can’t pay for our homes. They will take them and sell them to someone else, for half the price. It is happening every day, right here, right now, before the election. Obama needs our vote, and our money to win in November. Let’s support him now, before it is too late. As for the Republican, I tell them to vote Obama or Bob Barr if they truly want their party back.

That tank's getting crowded.

I notice that Mr. Schmidt does not deny any of the items reported by the Times. Typical republican response: shoot the messager.

We saw this movie already during the RNC. Trying to intimidate the media when they don't like the FACTS reported.

Camp McCain loves it when the applaud McCain, but squeal like kids when they condemn McCain on various issues.

Camp Obama doesn't comment one way or the other on articles and commentary about their candidate.

Imagine the outrage if Saturday Night Live has accused Obama of having sex with his daughters like Saturday Night Live accuses Todd Palin of having sex with his daughters!
Saturday Night Live would have been torn apart by the media and accused of extreme racism, but since it was Palin, we are all told to remember that SNL is a comedy show.
I do not accept double standards and I did not hear the Obama campaign condemn the irresponsible actions of Saturday Night Live. To make jokes about someone is one thing, to insenuate incest is another thing and unaccceptable.

so ny times is backing obama as is msnbc.

fox, hannity, rush et al back mccain

where's the problem ?

the liberal media should be held to the same standard as hannity – in other words the lowest possible standard !

ha ha

150% ... I'm glad the McCain campaign isn't prone to exagerration.

This has to be one of the all time worst campaigns ever run!

Both campaigns have been good at getting out falsehoods about the other. But, this one about the New York Times is truthfully on the button.

Oh, get over it Republican. People are starting to see through how pathetic McBush and his Bridge to No Where VP Palin are.

Obama/Biden '08

Fair = Obama Biased?

Fox = Fair and balaced?

When the truth hurts, buy the media and sell the lies.

It won't work this time, the GOP has used the same fear, uncertainty, and doubt campaign too many times.

Time for change.

What a bunch of cry babies! McCain has absolutely no plans, programs, or policies to lead this country. So when the news media covers this, their only response is that they are not being "fair"?

These whinning skills will come in real handy when you are dealing with foreign affairs. Gosh, if we had just complained that Saddam Hussien was not being "fair", maybe we could have just avoided the whole Iraq war all together!

Why is it important that he was a former Bush advisor? I'll tell you. Cnn is trying to divert attention away from bias.

Palin's destroying herself...forget the media.

Nice try, Desperado!

I am shocked! Shocked that McCain constrained himself from calling the New York Times unpatriotic!!! After all how dare a news paper publish any thing negative about his relatively unknown, unfettered running mate. The idea that new papers should be allowed to conduct research and publish those results just simply interferes with the Republican style politics of first call your opponent ever criticism that can be honestly levied against you to where the undecided voter is kept confused, then lie, lie, lie some more and if that does not work tell even bigger, bolder lies.

This is news, no kidding? What's next, MSNBC's also in the tank?

Aren't we delicate flowers these days!

Here's a tissue. Now grow up and advise your nominee to run a better campaign.

When whaever you have supported for 26 yrs do not matter anymore now, or the outrage of pressure on Hillary with the acclaimed "evidence" that is no more viable..what do u expect from a reputable ornazation back off from the lies you keep spreading
Obama/ Biden 08

This has become a well known tactic of the McCain campaign. They have been trying to portray themselves as the victim of everything that is thrown at them. This is NOT going to work anymore!!!

Steve Schmidt, who used to work with Karl Rove has made sure that he uses every chapter of the Karl Rove playbook.

Lies, lies and more lies from none other than John McCain.

It seems despite the current economic crisis that some Roving spokespersons think it's time to get back to the gutter with hyperventiating accusations and diversions. "It's the economy again, stupid."

the problem is the repuplicans say what they want, then the truth comes out and they back away. if they act like dogs they will be treated like dogs. i used to like mccain and think it wouldn't be so bad if he won, wasn't even planning on voting. but i think his campaign's tactics and thus the reflection on him, are so disrespectful and lacking in integrity that now i am so fervently in support of obama that i am commenting on cnn!

Schmidt is the one trying to intimidate the media everytime they call out mccain...do you expect them not to do thier job? CNN and NY Times are the two most credible sources out there and if they don't expose the truth, then who will?!!

More whining from the Repubs! Between the complaining in general and the secrets held now by and about Palin, all they have left is to report those reporting their poor campaigning and misdeeds.
OBAMA/BIDEN '08 & '12 YES WE CAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Guess what... The Times may be in the "tank" for Obama, but Fox "news" is in the OCEAN for McCain!

How many times has the McSame Campaign been forced to "step back" from outrageous comments only aftert the damage inflicted is complete? Shameful.

It is rich to hear Schmidt...a Bush crusader, complain about one way journalism...maybe he's never read the National Review, Wll Street Journal, listened to Limbaugh or watched Fixed News.

The vultures are coming home to roost

Seems like the NYT hit the TRUTH nerve. LOL.

Give it up Schmidt. The criticism of McCain and Palin is based on obvious and verifiable FACTS. The Republican attacks, on the other hand, are full of innuendo and outright lies. McCain and Palin have been reduced – by honest reporting and a strong, fact-based Democratic response – to desperate measures. We saw it in 2000 and 2004.. Get this Schmidt: NEVER AGAIN. From the court house to the state house to the white house; on November 4th, VOTE DEMOCRAT.

Sorry Bush advisors..........

fool me once, shame on.........shame on you......fool me.......you can't fool me again.

The days of fear mongering and blaming everybody besides yourself are over!!!

Blame all the newspapers, media outlets, and other agencies of being on Obama's side........

It's called freedom of the press........you know, FREEDOM. The thing the Bush Administration is trying to slowly suck away from the people.

This is more of the same old lies and deception and bullying from McCain. Oh, I'm sorry I mean McSame–if you read the Washington Post today you will learn that just about all of McCain's staff worked for the current Bush Administration. As we all know, campaign workers and staff have a way of becoming the President's staff.

So, if McCain gets elected, who will be running things? If you guessed all of the same people as the current Bush Administration you guessed right.

What do you do when your campaign is tanking? Blame the media. McCain needs to get a grip. When you get called out for ads that are completely untrue, be prepared to be called out. When you can not win an election based on your own merrits then that is when you attack the media and the elites and college educated. This is a sign of desperation.

More of the same. McCain screams bloody murder and directly attacks Obama or the media and the guess what. They say it's Obama who is implementing these vile and dishonest tactics.

McCain being president is tough quit whining about everything that doesn't go your way. The press pretty much is like our society. At times they are great and at times they really suck. All studies show more negative and critical coverage has been given to Obama. Still these claims of unfairness come from your camp.

Who release a non sensical ad today attacking Obama's character. What did he do in response. Attacked you on the issues. You could learn something from watching Obama.

P.S. If you don't want newspapers covering your campaign manager making 30k a month lobbying to deregulate Fannie May and Freddie Mac then don't hire him.

Is everyone as sick and tired of their griping as I am?? Grow up boys...the media game is a level playing field. Where is your indignation over the bias at Fox News?? Oh, their reporting is balanced and fair, you say??

Give me a break...stop your whining and let's here about McCain's "trickle down" economics plan crafted by Phil Gramm or his "stay until I say so" strategy in Iraq....

This campaign is disgusting...

Steve mad at the N.Y. Times, Tucker mad at Campbell, Cindy mad at Barbara and the View, John mad at Carly, John mad at CNN and Larry King, Palin mad at any journalist asking questions, Not to mention Palin mad at former brother in law. Shut up all of you and start running an ethical campaign.

Yes! Keep making enemies of the truth-sayers you dirty Republican lie machine!!!!

Now, if someone would finally report on what should be obvious to all: that McCain's entire campaign is founded on appearing to be offering to do everything Obama is promising in order to play up the Bradley Effect. You want racism? There it is. McCain: "You don't have to vote for a black guy to get change and reform cuz I'm a white guy and I'm pretending to promise the same thing!"

Talk about a campaign of whiners.

I KNOW THIS WANT GET POSTED BUT JUST IN CASE

boo hoo
cry babies/ obama has had his share of mediwa bliff
if mcsain and palin did not lie so much they would not be under attach
what makes mcsain think he is privilaged,is it because he has 13 vehickles,9 houses, and millions of bucks. well not enought.
as i respect mr mccains time in the military, i do not think that gives him the right to bash obama with lies. and for his running mate, she has no place in our goverment. so i say to mcsain camp
(STOP WHINNING)

It is everybody's fault the republicans screw up everything.

It is time to fix America again.

Obama/Biden 08/12.

Why, because they are not buying your bull? Somebody, besides FACTCHECK.org, is actually calling you guys out on your lies. What's wrong with that. They see you and palin for the pathological liars you are. I'd say the New York Times was doing a great job. Keep up the great work NYT!

Steve,

For your argument to be valid, there would have to be symmetry between the sins of the two campaigns. There isn't. Your campaign is much, much worse, and any dissimilarity in reporting of your misleading and downright false ads is your own fault. Quit spinning.

This isn't even news. Anybody who can't see that the New York Times is in the tank for Obama hasn't been paying attention.

Don't forget about the Washington Post, MSNBC, and unfortunately CNN. I understand when political editorials let their feelings be known, but guys like Wolf Blitzer cannot show such blatant bias and then have CNN tout themselves as a legitimate news station.

I haven't made up my mind on the election, but bias reporting swings me the opposite way.

Maybe if McCain stopped lying so much you would see and I quote:

some degree of a level of symmetry in coverage.”

Wow, strong statements against one of the most respected news papers in the world...

Cheer up McCain, after you have lost the election you will still have (most of) your money, cars, and houses.

Hey, when you run a campaign strictly on lies, distortions,
attacks and than you have the audicity to cry wolf about the
truth, well, does not make sense.
Palin not getting a fair shake. When all comes out about
her, if the media does it's job, it will be the end of the
republican ticket.
You cannot be a total phony and it not eventually catch
up with you.
Mccain/palin, we voters are not stupid.
Neither of you are fit to even think of leading our country.

So can Steve Schmidt actually read, or is it just his job to throw tantrums like a 4-year-old?

"Media bias" has become the excuse-of-choice in the modern era...get over it.

I guess the truth hurts this time, GOP!

Keep it up, NY Times.

Obama/Biden '08

The New York Times and NBC have been pretty transparent in their support of Obama....much in the way that Fox is in their support of McCain.

Obama sites sources in his ads, while McCain lies through his dishonorable teeth. And, he picked to the perfect partner in Palin, whose entire image and record has been based on one lie after another.

OBAMA IS A LOOSE CANNON FOR THIS COUNTRY. AMERICA WILL BE MAKING THE WORST MISTAKE ELECTING A GREENHORN WITH A FOLLOWING OF HATERS. THEY THREATENED RACE WARS IF HE DONT WIN. BRING IT ON. THATS THE CHANGES OBAMA HAS BROUGHT HATE,DIVISION ,AND RACIST. OBAMA TALKS CHANGE ,BUT PUTSN US BACK IN TIME 100 YRS. OR MORE. MCCAIN PICKS A VP. AWAY FROM WASHINGTON AND A FEMALE AT THAT. NOW THATS REAL CHANGE. OBAMA PICKS OLD POLITICS IN BIDEN FROM WASHINGTON AND ALSO VOTED FOR WAR HE TRASHED HIS OWN CANIDATE HRC ABOUT. OBAMA IS JUST BIAS AND HUNG UP ON HIMSELF. MCCAIN/PALIN COUNTRY FIRST THAN REFORM.

So any news organization that questions McCain is "in the tank for Obama"? The McCain campaign continues to astound me with the level of their hypocrisy.

It is absolutely pertinent that we know everything about the people working on these campaigns. It was important to know about the lobbyist for Georgia on McCain's campaign, just as it's important to understand that Davis worked for the mortgage industry. We need to know where McCain's loyalties, and those of his potential administration, lie.

Did you all notice that McCain's lapdog, Tucker Bounds, refused to commit to NOT having Gramm, he of the "nation of whiners" and "mental recession" comments, as the Treasury Secretary?

We need to vote smart. We need to vote for someone who actually stands a chance at restoring this country to its former glory. We need to vote Obama/Biden.

Another attempt by the McCain campaign to play the refs.

McCain's bunch can't take the truth. They have to attack anyone that has the guts to tell the truth. Lie lie lie al the time it is like listening to GWB all over again. If his lips are moving he is lying. I don't understand how people can hear lie after lie and then go on and believe every word that spews from the repuklican's mouth. We have a 8 year history of lies and deciet from this administration McCain included and now he is taking up the lie banner and wrapping himself in it like it is the flag. Shame on you Mccain.

Wow! According to John McCain, the NYT is way more menacing than his captives at the Hanoi Hilton.

John McCain: "The only POW who appears to have been brainwashed AFTER being released from captivity/" (courtesy of the Daily Show)

then you should disavow Fox broad casting stations as well...they are so in the gutter with Republicans it's blatantly obvious. And fyi: Sue yourself for being biased while you are at it....

MORON / Lobbyist / Criminal / in other words "Republican"

I don't know where the media is when it comes to Obama. The man does not have an original idea in his head. When this problem with the economy started McCain gavie his ideas on what to do. Obama said nothing. Now obama is saying the same things that McCain said three days ago. Obama did this with Hillary Clinton. Wait for her ideas then steal them. The media is quick to go after McCain, but Obama they are mum on how he operates. I wish the media would go after him like they went after Hillary Clinton and are now going after McCain. The man is an empty shell.

The New York Times had been a beacon for fair, balanced, investigative reporting on both presidential candidates and their running mates. My hero, Ida Tarbell, would be proud to know that at least one news organization knows how to follow the paper trail, conduct interviews, and corroborate evidence with multiple sources.

I'm not seeing that from the other media, which, for the most part, are owned by large entertainment conglomerates.

his campaign wants to talk about change. the only thing that changed from 2004 to 2008 is steve schmidt's employer. from bush to mccain.

This is a great strategy. The McCain campaign puts out lie after lie, but when they are called on it they blame the "liberal media". Never mind that it was the same media that kept mcCain afloat during the Republican primaries.

The TRUTH HURTS. I say who cares about what McCain's puppetmaster Steve Schmidt has to say!?!? Keep up the good work NYT! CNN really appreciate your FACT-CHECK articles if only Fixed News could follow your leadership...

a campaign of intimidation and lies sounds like Fox News to me. Opps.

Just be aware people, that this is typical strategy #1 for my pathetic party. When you get in the dumps like McCain is right now, a little "blame it on the liberal media" magically surfaces to distract you from McCain's problems. Notice that crybaby Schmidt didn't address a single issue or problem McCain and Palin have – he just whines about the media.

Don't be distracted. Vote the issues, not who whines more.

Stop trying to change he subject! Economy economy economy!!!

Yes ye, no matter how much you want the NYT not to report Rick Davis’s ties with Freddy and Fannie, getting 30K a month just for his access to McCain, it is news.

NYTimes speaks truth to power...deal with it!

Free press... and I thought the NY TIMES endorsed Obama long ago. So what is the big deal?

Get over it Republicans McSame and Piling

Everybody is finding out more about McCain and Palin lies and attacks against Obama with these awful ads

Obama/Biden 08

Schmidt, you are as corrupted as the person you advised before (Bush) and advising now (McCain/Palin). When media discovers the lies and rubbish that you guys put out there, they are pro-Barack Obama. But when they just look away like "Fix News" does, they are "real journalists". Get over yourself!

NY Times is a cultural icon, and if you research, you will see that they have criticized both Obama and Clintons in the past for many of their stances. Oh I forgot that "research" is not one of your strong suit. You guys are just pathetic.

This is GREAT News for McGimmick and his skunk meat campaign that stinks to high heaven!

these guys whine more than a 2 yr old.

Why would anyone in their right mind try to vote for McCain/Palin? What can they possibly do for our country other than keep up with the failed politics of the Bush Administration? Give me a break! A vote for McCain/Palin is a vote for disaster!!!

OBAMA/BIDEN= The clear, right choice!!!!

I am GLAD our media is not going to play the 'silent observer' that like they played and helped lead us into Bush's war which killed four thousand americans!

It is PROPER for the media to help expose ANY candidate that is untruthful, scheming, and could lead us into ANOTHER disastrous time – together with his unvetted VP!

The media has learned it's lesson and I say

GOOD FOR THEM – THEY ARE PATRIOTS!!! THEY ARE HELPING TO PROTECT OUR COUNTRY!!!

I happen to like reading the New York Times. They have the most breaking news and relevant information.

A McCain aide looking for excuses won't change my mind and I'll continue my subscription with the Times. Thank You.

Obama/Biden '08

The McCain camp is upset that there is one media organization with the guts to call out McCain on his lies and distortions.

This coming from a guy with FIXED Noise in their back pocket?!?! Give m a break!

I tell you where the outrage is!!!

I am outraged that the American people are people taken for the largest single corporate welfare scam in the history of the world–at the behest of George Bush–and NOBODY in our Congress or Senate is against it.

So much for a freemarket economy.

Socialism is looking better all the time.

Just sour grapes of a loser. We the people want a centralized government and a planned economy! Yes! Vote Obama!!!!! GIVE US COMMUNISM NOW !!! Take from the rich and give to us poor! Guarantee our jobs! Give us health care managed by our government! Nationalize our oil companies! Set wage and price controls! We want Communism and we want it now! Vote OBAMA!

Read: I am Bushes man and I am running McDishonorables campaogn now, quit reporting the truth or I am toast ...

McLIAR aught-8

CRY ME A RIVER...................

STOP WHINING....SHEESH..............

Do we want to be a military state where no one has any rights?

Time to get away from the subpoena-dodging republicans.

Time for the constitution to mean something again. Obama/Biden '08

McCain needs to clean his own house first. If he wants Americans trust then he Needs to get rid of and guarantee Americans that he will not use any lobbiest or people on his staff that even remotely had anything to do with this wall street melt down. That includes Gramm and all the lobbiest croonies on his staff. He must also guarantee Americans that he will increase taxes on corporate American sufficently to recoup the taxpayers money. He must also start running an honest honerable campaign. McCain must also guarantee that NO govermental official, politician, corporate head, lobbiest or any one connected to those corporations receiveing bailout funds will benefit from this mess. He wont and cant do this so he is toast in my book. McCains hands are dirty here and will remain very dirty. Leeches is all they are and they could care less about the American people, this is all about their political future and their own personal finances.

You can't logically accuse the media of being "in the tank for Obama" just because they point out all the flaws, misleading ads, and inconsistencies in your own campaign. They hold Obama to task as well, it's just that the McCain campaign is grossly inferior to Obama's.

This strategy of blaming liberal bias on anyone who asks legitimate questions about your policies or tactics is pathetic.

Hey, when The New York Times is right, they're right.

The campaign reflects the candidate- a petualant child, stomping his feet when things don't go his way. McCain- just take your toys and go home for good!

150 percent correct. The NY Times lost credibility as a news organization years ago. It is now no better than People Magazine.

If you can't beat 'em, blame the media!

QQ more!

Why does McCain hate that truth be told?