Oh! The Embarrassment!
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John McCain’s HQ received feedback from NY Times on his rejected op-ed piece.
Here’s a portion of what NY Times Op-Ed Editor, David Shipley sent John McCain’s HQ regarding his op-ed piece: (Note: David Shipley served in the Clinton administration as a senior presidential speechwriter and special assistant to the president from 1995 to 1997.)
“I’d be very eager to publish the senator on the op-ed page. However, I’m not going to be able to accept this piece as currently written. I’d be pleased, though, to look at another draft. Let me suggest an approach,” Times op-ed editor David Shipley wrote the campaign via an e-mail later distributed by McCain’s team.
“It would be terrific to have an article from Senator McCain that mirrors Senator Obama’s piece. To that end, the article would have to articulate, in concrete terms, how Senator McCain defines victory in Iraq. It would also have to lay out a clear plan for achieving victory — with troops levels, timetables and measures for compelling the Iraqis to cooperate. And it would need to describe the Senator’s Afghanistan strategy, spelling out how it meshes with his Iraq plan,” Shipley wrote.
So, unless I am misunderstanding this, basically McCain was told he could write his opinion - as long as it:
1. Contains the information David Shipley thinks it should contain.
2. Mirrors Senator Obama’s piece.
Things have certainly changed since I took my journalism classes in the mid-seventies!
I’m just saying.
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