They didn’t have any problem publishing Obama’s though.

What’s perhaps most amazing, though, is how Opinion Editor David Shipley told McCain that he should write a piece that “mirrors” Obama’s.

An editorial written by Republican presidential hopeful McCain has been rejected by the NEW YORK TIMES—less than a week after the paper published an essay written by Obama, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.

The paper’s decision to refuse McCain’s direct rebuttal to Obama’s ‘My Plan for Iraq’ has ignited explosive charges of media bias in top Republican circles.

‘It would be terrific to have an article from Senator McCain that mirrors Senator Obama’s piece,’ NYT Op-Ed editor David Shipley explained in an email late Friday to McCain’s staff. ‘I’m not going to be able to accept this piece as currently written.’

Here’s what Shipley had to say about rejecting McCain’s op/ed:

‘The Obama piece worked for me because it offered new information (it appeared before his speech); while Senator Obama discussed Senator McCain, he also went into detail about his own plans.’

Shipley continues: ‘It would be terrific to have an article from Senator McCain that mirrors Senator Obama’s piece. To that end, the article would have to articulate, in concrete terms, how Senator McCain defines victory in Iraq.’

Who knew that it was the place of New York Times editors to tell Presidential candidates what to put in their opinion pieces?

No wonder the public thinks the media is in the bag for Obama.