McCain Campaign to NYTimes: "Thank You" for Helping Us Raise Money

Like I said, this helped him:

Operating on the principle that the enemy of my enemy is my friend, many conservatives who had long distrusted Mr. McCain on a variety of issues, including his peculiar fondness for talking to reporters for hours on end, rallied to see him at war with a newspaper they revile as a voice of the left. ...

Charles Black, a senior McCain adviser who had taken heat from conservative friends after the editorial board of The Times endorsed Mr. McCain in the Feb. 5 New York primary, was pleased. Thursday, Mr. Black said, “was the first day in the campaign that McCain won the day on conservative talk radio.”

Later that afternoon, the McCain campaign began using The Times in an fund-raising appeal sent by e-mail to supporters. “Well, here we go,” the letter from Mr. McCain’s campaign manager, Rick Davis, began, then outlined what it characterized as the newspaper’s smear campaign. Mr. Davis quickly got to the point: “We need your help to counteract the liberal establishment and fight back against The New York Times by making an immediate contribution today.”

By Friday, the campaign was tracing its jump in fund-raising directly to the article in The Times. “Thank you,” [McCain advisor Steve] Schmidt said to a Times reporter on Mr. McCain’s campaign plane as it headed back to Washington from Indianapolis.

The politics of victimhood is the specialty of the right. And after The Times' endorsement didn't help but hurt, they went out of their way to make amends.

Comments

[thereisnorule6]

so what if the NYT endorsed him, and led us headlong into Iraq as tools of the neocons. Now the NYT is back to being a bad guy.