What’s Good for the Goose…
Rudy Giuliani is calling the New York Times’ bluff when they say they don’t consider the political message or affiliation when they discount ads.
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R) said Thursday that he is asking The New York Times for the “same heavily discounted rate they gave MoveOn.org” for his campaign to run an ad in Friday’s paper.
Giuliani, calling MoveOn.org’s controversial “General Betray Us” ad “abominable,” said his campaign is asking the paper for a comparable rate for an ad to run following President Bush’s speech on Iraq.
The former mayor said his ad “will obviously take the opposite view” from MoveOn.org, which argued in its ad that Gen. David Petraeus is “cooking the books” on Iraq and cherry-picking facts that support his recommendation to keep a large number of troops in Iraq for some time. …
…“It’s time for Americans to really insist that American politicians move beyond character assassination,” Giuliani said. “And this is exactly what they tried to do with Gen. Petraeus. Well, it’s one thing when politicians do it to each other. It’s another thing when it’s done to an American general who has put his life at risk to protect us.”
Let’s see if he gets the same discount Moveon.org got when they tried to ruin the reputation of a General who has more integrity in his small fingernail than Moveon.org has in its entire membership.
Written by ~J~
Sue Says:
September 13th, 2007 at 7:13 pmVisit Sue
Right on Rudy!
Sue Says:
September 13th, 2007 at 7:59 pmVisit Sue
You have to go read this at Blackfive. Love those Milbloggers.
http://www.blackfive.net/main/2007/09/complaint-filed.html
Sue Says:
September 13th, 2007 at 10:10 pmVisit Sue
Rudy was just on Fox with Sean Hannity and mentioned that the NYT has agreed to give him the same rate at Moveon received.
They must know they are in a box here. Interesting.
~J~ Says:
September 13th, 2007 at 10:17 pmVisit ~J~
They didn’t have much choice, given they said political affiliation has nothing to do with how they set their prices.