After reading the content of several noteworthy stories printed in the New York Times in the last few months, I have a question: Does the New York Times have Multiple Personality Disorder, or is it simply so big and complex and siloed that the right hand does not know (or care) what the left hand is doing?
The first notable article was the actual endorsement of McCain by the newspaper, hardly a surprise, coming from this liberal editorial board. After all, a conservative republican in New York City is about as rare as a Blue-Footed Booby.
McCain was simply the most palatable choice in a field of unacceptable candidates.
The second article was the much-ballyhooed expose of a supposed inappropriate relationship between McCain and telecom lobbyist Vicki Iseman, and the repeated interventions of his then-campaign advisors. He is rumored to have ridden in corporate jets with Iseman, done her a few favors, and possibly even "done" her.
The third was today's "self-spanking" of it's own work, in which the newspaper casts doubt on its own editorial judgement. Not going so far as to deny that nothing happened between McCain and Iseman, it nevertheless does not produce any hard proof that something untoward actually occured.
One could ask at this juncture -- Has the New York Times editor sufficiently integrated internal controls and figured out exactly what position the newspaper is taking on McCain. It's an understatement that any credibility the paper had on McCain, either pro or con, has taken a fall.
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