The New York Times doing oppo research on Cindy McCain for the Obama campaign generates this response from Mrs. McCain’s attorney:
…Any further attempts to harass and injure her … will be met with an appropriate response. While she may be in the public eye, she is not public property nor the property of the press to abuse and defame.
It is worth noting that you have not employed your investigative assets looking into Michelle Obama. You have not tried to find Barack Obama’s drug dealer that he wrote about in his book, Dreams of My Father. Nor have you interviewed his poor relatives in Kenya and determined why Barack Obama has not rescued them. Thus, there is a terrific lack of balance here.
I suggest to you that none of these subjects on either side are worthy of the energy and resources of The New York Times. They are cruel hit pieces designed to injure people that only the worst rag would investigate and publish. I know you and your colleagues are always preaching about raising the level of civil discourse in our political campaigns. I think taking some your own medicine is in order here…(emphasis added)
If it was just peachy to have us treated to President Bush’s ancient DUI in 2000, why can’t we get a page 1, above-the-fold interview with Obama’s drug dealer? Is he dead? In jail? What is the story on the guy? How about some conversations with an ex-boyfriend of Mrs. Obama? And the people have a right to know just how many of Obama’s cousins live in abject poverty in Kenya. But, none of that – and, of course, none of it would be relevant, anyways…but the fact that we are getting the MSM looking into the less flattering aspects of Mrs. McCain’s life (and who among us doesn’t have some of those which we’d be mortified to find reported in the pages of the New York Times?) and not getting the dirt on the Obamas shows the MSM bias.
You can bet dollars to donuts that the MSM – in coordination with the Obama campaign – will dump as many nasty stories about the McCains and the Palins as they can in the last week of the campaign. Tabloid trash to be trotted out when its too late for McCain/Palin to make a response. And while Team Obama will say they had nothing to do with it, the facts of reporting on Campaign ’08 clearly indicate collusion between Team Obama and various elements in the MSM…they are just too often on the exact same page at the exact same time for it to be mere coincidence (this, by the way, is another criminal investigation to have done once McCain/Palin are in office – whether or not the apparent coordination between Obama and the MSM can be proved and, if it can, who gets to go to jail over it).
I will give this advice to Obama and the MSM – for us on the right, chivalry is not dead. When we see you launching cruel attacks against honorable women, it makes our blood boil and all the more determined to emerge victorious, if only to teach you how to treat ladies with proper respect. The things being done to Mrs. McCain and governor Palin are things which, in a different age, would result in a duel. We cannot get that satisfaction in 2008, but we can sure as heck do everything we can to make you eat your disgusting words.
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