The New York Times has never published a single investigative piece, factually correct or otherwise, examining the relationship between Obama campaign chief strategist David Axelrod, his consulting and lobbying clients, and Senator Obama.False. They did, in fact, publish a single investigative piece, just one.
The paper examined Axelrod's ties to Exelon in an investigative article about Obama and the nuclear industry.
As I recall, the Times has also looked closely at Obama's relationship with the Illinois coal industry, among others.
Here is a point that the McCain campaign did not make: journalists tend to cover Republican consultants' ties to industry and never Democratic consultants' ties to labor unions.
It's a double standard, maybe an appropriate one, as labor and corporations have different purposes to play in our economy. And maybe the ties of McCain associates are more germane to the issues at stake this year.
But it's worth noticing all the same.
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