This is a follow-up to Joel's earlier posting about McCain's senior advisor, Steve Schmidt, slamming the New York Times yesterday. Here we go, from Politico:
Schmidt might want to break the news to Steve Duprey, the McCain adviser who scurries at many campaign stops to get copies of it for the candidate and his top aides. He might also want to break the news to McCain himself, who has enjoyed a very friendly relationship with the paper and many of its biggest stars – as recently as 24 hours before the Schmidt attack.
“Whatever the New York Times once was, it is today not by any standard a journalistic organization,” Schmidt said on a conference call. “It is a pro-Obama organization that every day attacks the McCain campaign, attacks Sen. McCain, attacks Gov. Palin and excuses Sen. Obama.”
That metamorphosis from what it once was must have happened awfully fast. McCain granted the paper an interview on the economy less than 24 hours before Schmidt sought to discredit it.
McCain was also scheduled to sit down last week with the Times’s chief military correspondent, Michael R. Gordon, whom McCain is known to hold in high regard.
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The culture of victimhood in the GOP is pathetic.
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