Instead of putting John McCain on the defensive with its "yellow" journalism, The New York Times has decidedly become the story behind its story. Another nail in the coffin of print journalism in general and the NYT in particular.

The Dinosaur media continues to lose readers and, hopefully, influence as we endure the  3 P’s of Democratic party politics: Pandering, Promising and Pleading. Publius and I both agree that it is the Internet that makes the difference. Even the Times has acknowledged this. As cliché as it sounds, all you need to ask is “what didn’t Dan Rather know and when didn’t he know it?” Post Number 47 is when it all began. (I remember where I was when I first read it – in the Emoryville, California, Courtyard by Marriot). The NYT couldn’t get away with this – too many people are watching, reading alternative sources and analyzing.

 But, I digress.

 I was just talking to Publius and he and I both agree that McCain has benefited from this, as the Right comes to his aid. Perhaps this is more anti – New York Times than Pro John McCain but this could be the wake up call to us on the Far Right who didn’t get our “perfect” candidate. The “perfect candidate”, of course, died in June 2004.

 What is encouraging is that McCain’s organization came out fast and furious with an organized professional response that has placed the spotlight on the Times and not himself. He emerges as a sympathetic figure. Perhaps Medved says it best, quoting  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900): 

 "That which does not kill us makes us stronger."

My Big Screen TV will be installed today.

I’m getting my new computer (again) today.

It’s all good. Right, Ragologist?