Finally Coming Clean

After a couple of weeks of denials, the New York Times finally came clean yesterday and admitted that it was inappropriate to offer MoveOn.Org a discount to run their disgusting attack on American Hero, General David Petraeus.

He [Times Public Editor Clark Hoyt] quoted Times spokeswoman Catherine Mathis as saying the advertising representative who sold the ad failed to make it clear that for the standby rate of $65,000, The Times could not guarantee it would run it on the day of Petraeus' testimony.
That standby rate is offered to political and advocacy groups willing to be flexible about the day their ads run.

"We made a mistake," Mathis was quoted as saying.

And if that wasn't enough, Times Public Editor Clark Hoyt says that the ad violated its own acceptability standards - as if it had any for its leftist allies.

"The ad appears to fly in the face of an internal advertising acceptability manual that says, 'We do not accept opinion advertisements that are attacks of a personal nature,"' he wrote, adding that the phrase "Betray Us" was "a particularly low blow when aimed at a soldier."

He quoted Times spokeswoman Catherine Mathis as saying the advertising representative who sold the ad failed to make it clear that for the standby rate of $65,000, The Times could not guarantee it would run it on the day of Petraeus' testimony.

That standby rate is offered to political and advocacy groups willing to be flexible about the day their ads run.

"We made a mistake," Mathis was quoted as saying.

Finally, it appears that MoveOn.Org will have to pay the full and fair price for their abomination.

Moveon.org said that it would wire the difference between the standby rate and the full rate of $142,083 to The Times.

"Now that the Times has revealed this mistake for the first time, and while we believe that the $142,083 figure is above the market rate paid by most organizations, out of an abundance of caution we have decided to pay that rate for this ad," it said in statement.

They appear to not to be sweating too much about the money, thanks to the deep pockets of George Soros, the chief financier of virtually every national Democrat party organization. (MoveOn.org, Media Matters, ACT, pro-union Campaign for America's Future, Center for American Progress, etc.)

Quite simply, the National Democrat Party is owned by George Soros and his armies of lefty loons.

You can read the Times' Clark Hoyt's editorial here.