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• Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall: ... Adviser: NYT Sources Will Dispute Story HM: Too Much Innuendo McCain Blames TNR Other Reporters on Story ...
• The Washington Monthly (#): ... After the TNR reporter, Gabriel Sherman, began making phone calls to the Times and others outside the paper, they decided to publish, Black alleged. And TNR says this: The McCain campaign is apparently blaming TNR for forcing the Times' hand on this story. We can't yet confirm that. ...
• JustOneMinute (#): ... that "The story reads to me like it had originally been much more ambitious, but had its guts ripped out somewhere along the way", and he should know - apparently TNR will have a piece online tomorrow covering the Times foot-dragging on this story; said article may have forced the Times hand. Quel clown show. ...
• The Carpetbagger Report - Commentary and Analysis on Politics in America by Steve Benen (#): ... Hillary is up by 12 in Pennsylvania. The New Republic had a similar McCain story in the works about his relationship to a female lobbyist, which may have “forced” the Times hand. ...
• Perrspectives: Blog: ... The paper did not, as the Drudge Report first detailed, run with the Iseman story in December. While the New Republic is not confirming the McCain campaign's claims that it forced the Times' hand in publishing the piece, the magazine's Noam Scheiber reports that "TNR correspondent Gabe Sherman is working on a piece about the Times' foot-dragging on the McCain ...
• Bark Bark Woof Woof (#): ... Robert Bennett, the lawyer who defended President Clinton, to intervene with the Times to kill the story in December, before the Iowa caucuses. According to other reports, the reason the Times came out with it now was because another outlet, The New Republic , was planning to put out its own story... about the Times not writing the story. It will be interesting to see how the anti-McCain wingnuts in the conservative camp take to this story. ...
• Taegan Goddard's Political Wire (#): ... But McCain aides will also strike at the source, using the Times’ liberal reputation as a means of self-defense to draw sympathy from the GOP’s conservative base." The New Republic will publish a story today about the "foot-dragging" in the New York Times newsroom "on the McCain story, and the back-and-forth within the paper about whether to publish it." ...
• Democrat Taylor Marsh Broadcasts Live Talk Radio and Blogs Politics: ... Gabe's story will be online tomorrow. Bonus TNR Angle on the McCain Story Hmmmm.. a piece about the Times' foot-dragging on the McCain story. Sounds like trouble to me, not for John McCain, but for the Times. ...
• Reason Magazine - Hit & Run (#): ... What about the newspapers? Clearly, there is an interesting story-behind-the-story, which The New Republic says it will detail tomorrow, for whatever that's worth. I think the Post story kicks the Times' behind, and was certainly worth printing. ...