From the front page at RedState.com, reprinted here with my own permission:

John McCain has been given a failing grade by New York Times opinion editor Dave Shipley, who quickly vacated the premises for his vacation but told McCain that he could have a do-over.

Drudge reports that John McCain submitted an editorial to the lefty New York Times last week, only to have it be rejected as not Obama-esque enough by Times opinion editor David Shipley: “I’m not going to be able to accept this piece as currently written.”

Nothing short of Obama’s vacuous prosaic cadence and mind-numbingly mastery of nonsense will do for the Old Gray Drunk Lady. Check it out:

Shipley, who is on vacation this week, explained his decision not to run the editorial.

‘The Obama piece worked for me because it offered new information (it appeared before his speech); while Senator Obama discussed Senator McCain, he also went into detail about his own plans.’

Shipley continues: ‘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.’

Drudge has the complete McCain Op/Ed in the space linked above. He asserts that Obama is naïve and dangerous, and he lays out why he thinks that way. Obama’s piece from last Monday attacks McCain and consists not of reasoned arguments but instead, worn talking points leftover which have been written and uttered by spokesmen for the sundry anti-military groups.

When the paper publish one candidates asinine campaign speech masked as an Op/Ed but refuse to publish his opponents rebuttal, that is a blatant attempt to condition the minds of their readers. There is no balance. Obama has suckered Shipley, and this has corroded his judgment.

The New York Times, I am afraid, has now lost all pretense of being an unbiased… Stop! Wait! That last sentence is about a decade too old, just as the Obama piece is at least two-years embedded in quasi-historical fiction. I’ll rephrase: It’s the New York Times, talking to themselves again.