{"id":3818,"date":"2008-09-15T03:30:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-15T03:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3818"},"modified":"2025-09-30T00:58:45","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T00:58:45","slug":"the-new-york-times-attack-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3818","title":{"rendered":"The New York Times attack on McCain and Palin begins\/continues"},"content":{"rendered":"

With their candidate Barack Obama exposed for what he is, the Times must feel it has no choice but to make a concerted, open, effort to bring down McCain and Palin. <\/p>\n

The gist: Palin is a dumbbell and McCain has sold out to the "culture war" right wing.<\/p>\n

Here are the top seven most emailed articles on their website Sunday:<\/p>\n

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  1. Bob Herbert: She\u2019s Not Ready<\/font><\/a>\n
  2. Once Elected, Palin Hired Friends and Lashed Foes<\/font><\/a>\n
  3. Editorial: Gov. Palin\u2019s Worldview<\/font><\/a>\n
  4. Frank Rich: The Palin-Whatshisname Ticket<\/font><\/a>\n
  5. Thomas L. Friedman: Making America Stupid<\/font><\/a>\n
  6. Maureen Dowd: Bering Straight Talk<\/font><\/a>\n
  7. Paul Krugman: Blizzard of Lies<\/font><\/a> <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Also, Dick Cavett had a column attacking Palin, as did Judith Warner. <\/p>\n

    "All the News that Fits." <\/p>\n

    It does start to get tedious. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    With their candidate Barack Obama exposed for what he is, the Times must feel it has no choice but to make a concerted, open, effort to bring down McCain and Palin. The gist: Palin is a dumbbell and McCain has sold out to the "culture war" right wing. Here are the top seven most emailed articles on their website […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9234,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3818\/revisions\/9234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}