Once again, The New York Times shows its bias, only this time it is directed at the Republican presidential nominee (“Blue Paper’s Red Pencil,” Editorial, July 22).

Pathetic? Yes, but not unexpected.

It proves that there is only one opinion on issues – the Times’.

If it’s this bad in July, I can only imagine how it will be come November.

Heaven help John McCain.

Bret Wallach

Hicksville

After reading “Getting Iraq Right” (John McCain, PostOpinion, July 22), it’s clear why the Times refused to publish it.

The Times already published an op-ed laying out Sen. Barack Obama‘s Iraq plans and written by Obama himself.

The truth is that McCain lays out no new proposals; instead, he states Obama’s policies with his own spin.

The reason the Times published Obama’s essay is because he used the piece to lay out his own policies – some new and some old – but McCain used his piece to attack Obama and lay out proposals that we’ve already heard countless times.

It’s not that the Times won’t publish op-eds by conservatives.

Jared Foretek

Brooklyn

The rejection of McCain’s views on US policy in Iraq by the Times is a travesty.

Trying to force him to include “timetables” in his piece is an assault on any concept of a free press. Why didn’t the Times just take Obama’s opinion that it had published and ask McCain to sign it?

If McCain had not urged the surge in Iraq, Obama would not be able to visit Iraq today.

Obama is a lightweight who is being propped up by the left-wing media.

It is their privilege to swoon and drool over him. It is not their privilege, however, to stifle opinion that differs from what has come from a pro-surrender, block-headed Obama.

Anthony Spinelli

Manhattan

I do not agree with McCain on the critical issue of Iraq, and I believe that he will needlessly involve the United States in other wars. For these and other reasons, this Republican cannot cast a vote for him in good conscience.

Any major presidential candidate, however, has the right to air his views in the editorial section of a major paper in whatever form that he wishes, particularly when he wishes to respond to the publication of a similar piece by one’s challenger.

It is patently offensive that the Times sought to dictate to McCain what he would be permitted to say.

Editorial opinion belongs on the editorial page, but some publications seem to unabashedly spread their admiration for one candidate over another beyond that section of the paper.

The actions of the Times cause the objective observer to lose faith in the media.

Oren Spiegler

Upper Saint Clair, Pa.