Fight! McCain Vs. New York Times

Editor & Publisher:

Sen. John McCain, on the floor of the U.S. Senate today, offered a lengthy point-by-point critique of The New York Times' editorial on Sunday that called for the beginning of a U.S. pullout in Iraq.

McCain often took a mocking or exasperated tone, quoting from passages in the editorial.

He said that the soldiers in Iraq he has visited "understand the purpose" of the war. "I wish I could say the same of our journalist friends in New York," he added.

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