By Rose Pedenko and Tanya Simon

"Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters.” -Francisco de Goya

The morning news led with the announcement that the New York Times had published an extensive article exposing an alleged dalliance over eight years ago between John McCain and a woman (not his wife) which came as absolutely no surprise to us. We had synchronized our watches in expectation, because it was just a matter of time – the countdown commencing the moment the Times puffed their feathers and handed McCain a grandiose endorsement following the final Republican debate at the Reagan Library. The fact they endorsed the most liberal Republican candidate was also lost on no one save the candidate himself.

With this so-called exposé of Senator McCain and a lobbyist, Sulzberger’s gang – three, two, one – fired away, and right on schedule.

For the unenlightened and non-believers, the New York Times was once the noble powerhouse of responsible journalism – their sheets filled with some of the finest writing ever to grace any newspaper of any country. To wake up every morning and have the New York Times waiting for you on the floor at your door was a thrill. But the thrill is gone as B.B. King says. Like religious zealots, this newspaper is now governed by ceremony and greed: pandering to and supporting the man or the issue, gaining their trust to close the distance between them then stabbing them in the back.

John F. Kennedy was courted by mobsters and it was rumored he kept company with other less-than savory characters, but the New York Times did not turn him into a “made man by association.” In 2008, however, this is neither a ludicrous analogy nor out of the question. The Times has inferred that sensible advice given to the candidate, “ But to his advisers, even the appearance of a close bond with a lobbyist whose clients often had business before the Senate committee Mr. McCain led threatened the story of redemption and rectitude that defined his political identity ” enough of a story to pin their assumption of impropriety right after their endorsement.

We very recently wrote an article entitled “ Media Calls Election ” in which we reminded readers how hard line liberal journalists and influential bloggers, from the start of these primaries, have harnessed Americans’ attention towards who they wanted attention paid to. It does not take a university graduate to comprehend which rivers we are being steered down, because, ladies and gentlemen, we are there.

The Times, much like the other major dailies currently on financial life-support, has reduced itself to speculation, hearsay, and innuendo in order to score well-timed points in an effort to control the direction of the 2008 election. While we do not fully support John McCain’s numerous moderate-to-liberal positions on a multitude of issues, the game of politics, most especially Presidential campaigns, was never meant to be usurped, controlled or driven by The Gray Lady. These major dailies have virtually ignored – and this is possibly why they are falling fast like a fiery stone -- the guidelines set down by the Society of Professional Journalists code of ethics, specifically: Journalists should be free of obligation to any interest other than the public's right to know.

Their Times’ editorials have become self-serving nonsense delved out without conscience or reason. They have acquired an unsoundness that supports our enemies. We are a nation in turmoil, and the Times is only adding to the confusion and chaos, such as when they and other media disclosed the Administration’s plan to monitor the financial records of terrorist cells within the United States after our administration pleaded with them not to do it. But then they have made it crystal clear how they feel about “your” President.

Ever hopeful, we wish that the Times, and all other MSM, will reconsider their position when disseminating events of the day in light of the public’s emerging cyber-awareness -- whether about politicians, the war on terror, illegal immigration or widgets. Because one day, and that day will come, we will open our front door and there will be nothing to pick up.