{"id":1810,"date":"2008-07-22T03:40:18","date_gmt":"2008-07-22T03:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2008-07-25T17:15:26","modified_gmt":"2008-07-25T17:15:26","slug":"someone_at_the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=1810","title":{"rendered":"Someone At The New York Times Is A Monty Python Fan…"},"content":{"rendered":"

The NYT published<\/a> an oped from Obama on his policies on Iraq.<\/p>\n

Then they rejected a parallel one from McCain<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I had this image of the editorial conference room at the Times, and it was eerily like this…<\/p>\n

Bridgekeeper:<\/b> Stop. Who would cross the Bridge of Death must answer me these questions three, ere the other side he see.<\/p>\n

\nSir Lancelot:<\/b> Ask me the questions, bridgekeeper. I am not afraid.<\/p>\n

\nBridgekeeper:<\/b> What… is your name?<\/p>\n

\nSir Lancelot:<\/b> My name is Sir Lancelot of Camelot.<\/p>\n

\nBridgekeeper:<\/b> What… is your quest?<\/p>\n

\nSir Lancelot:<\/b> To seek the Holy Grail.<\/p>\n

\nBridgekeeper:<\/b> What… is your favourite colour?<\/p>\n

\nSir Lancelot:<\/b> Blue.<\/p>\n

\nBridgekeeper:<\/b> Go on. Off you go.<\/p>\n

\nSir Lancelot:<\/b> Oh, thank you. Thank you very much.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That’s how I imagine things went for Obama’s piece. For McCain’s – not so much…<\/p>\n

Sir Robin:<\/b> That’s easy.<\/p>\n

\nBridgekeeper:<\/b> Stop. Who would cross the Bridge of Death must answer me these questions three, ere the other side he see.<\/p>\n

\nSir Robin:<\/b> Ask me the questions, bridgekeeper. I’m not afraid.<\/p>\n

\nBridgekeeper:<\/b> What… is your name?<\/p>\n

\nSir Robin:<\/b> Sir Robin of Camelot.<\/p>\n

\nBridgekeeper:<\/b> What… is your quest?<\/p>\n

\nSir Robin:<\/b> To seek the Holy Grail.<\/p>\n

\nBridgekeeper:<\/b> What… is the capital of Assyria?<\/p>\n

\n[pause]<\/p>\n

\nSir Robin:<\/b> I don’t know that.<\/p>\n

\n[he is thrown over the edge into the volcano] <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The email rejecting McCain’s piece is here<\/a>, and actually – it really does read like this joke. Here’s the email:<\/p>\n

It would also have to lay out a clear plan for achieving victory … with troops levels, timetables and measures for compelling the Iraqis to cooperate. And it would need to describe the Senator\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Afghanistan strategy, spelling out how it meshes with his Iraq plan.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As well as the command roster down to the platoon level, vehicle counts, and ammo loads for each vehicle. No notes – this will be a closed-book test.<\/p>\n

It’s the Times’ credibility that gets slammed here a bit, I think…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Monty Python bridgekeeper rejects McCain oped, sends McCain into volcano…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}