Given the media’s penchant for creating the very news that it purports to report, one wonders whether or not the NYT, if they could have discovered young McCain’s unit’s location in Anbar, would have published it. I ask because if, G-d forbid, anything happened to the young man, Sulzburger’s little people could have then run “I told you so” stories about this war’s cruelty and then shoved a microphone in the elder McCain’s face to “see how much he liked it,” i.e., suffering a casualty.

I suspect that the editors of the NYT, who would never dare send a son or daughter into uniform, might well feel ashamed that one of their fellow elites did so.

They ought to be ashamed.