Fishwrap New York Times and Viagra voters
When it comes to friendly headlines, they don't get friendlier than this: "Old Friends Say Drugs Played Only Bit Part in Obama's Young Life". It's the New York Times, of course. A few hours ago, showing its true colours, the paper "broke" an eight-year-old story about John McCain. But a close reading shows that its USP, the sex angle, is totally uncorroborated. The rest of it is just padding. No wonder people hate the media. Yesterday, it was thugs, er, paparazzi, hounding Britney Spears; today, it is gossips, er, reporters, rehashing rumours about John McCain.
Although the New York Times continues to decline as an enterprise and an entity, it is still, bafflingly, looked upon with awe in some parts of the world. No sooner had it put the McCain story online than Germany's jackal press fell upon it and slavered over it. Shows how thin the home gruel is, of course. Bottom line: This is not about John McCain. It's about the New York Times. But in the end, McCain will benefit because a) being attacked by the NYT will send doubting conservatives flocking to his standard and b), the notion that a 71-year-old might have still have the ability to pull gorgeous blondes will do wonders for him with Viagra voters. And there are lots of those.
