Tipsheet The Pot Pushing the Kettle Off the Cliff Matt Lewis | February 22, 2008 12:25 PM If reports are true that the NYT was rushed into the McCain story because the New Republic was about to scoop them -- or because TNR was going to mock them for not going forward with the story -- it is truly ironic.After all, it was The New Repulbic who gave us Stephen Glass and Private Beauchamp.