The Love Affair Is Over

For several months (particularly since the implosion of Giuliani's campaign), the flagship of liberal media bias New York Times has been nearly cooing for McCain. Of course, such affection was not due to any actual affinity for McCain, but rather lust for the internal chaos and potential liberalization of the Republican party which McCain posed.

Now, upon McCain's ascension as the GOP candidate, the Gray Lady's Machiavellian tryst has come to an end. McCain has just begun to take aim at liberal Democrat candidates Clinton and Obama, and in knee-jerk response, the Times has taken aim at McCain. Tommy Christopher covers the matter below,

The substance is what one might expect from the degraded "paper of record." The Times' sinister article, which McCain has called a "hit-and-run smear campaign," more justly belongs in a pouting teenager's blog than a newspaper claiming respectable circulation. Given the near unbelievability that the Times saw a story of ethical "risk" in such miserably slim evidence, I concur with Powerline's indignation at "the absurdity of the paper's attempt to cobble together an anti-McCain story,"

This is the first salvo in an extended war the Times (and other media networks) will conduct against the still-too-conservative McCain. The Times proudly announced this article as "part of a series of articles about the life and careers of contenders for the 2008 Republican and Democratic presidential nominations." No doubt - though I would bet good money against Ms. Clinton or Mr. Obama suffering any serious ethical scrutiny from the fawning media Lady Macbeth.