Today's Editorials: The YouTube Primaries, DeLay's Memoir

YouTube: Predicting an onslaught of political attack ads during the 2008 race on the popular Internet site YouTube, the LAT argues that politicians should not respond to the ads by calling for regulation, but by creating response ads and posting them online.

Tom DeLay: The NYT slams Tom DeLay, former House Republican majority leader, for writing in his new memoir that Republicans lost in 2006 not because of corruption and incompetence, but because they "'did not communicate their message' and overcome 'short-term, media-fed issues.'"

LAT ... noting that Ameriquest recently lost its legal battle to keep its name on a Texas baseball field, and that McDonalds lost its bid to change the definition of "McJob" in the English Oxford Dictionary, hails the fact that even large corporations can't "own the English language."

NYT ... applauds Russia's decision to pressure Iran to curtail its nuclear program, and urges the United States to "draw a lesson from Russia's improved behavior" by "dropping fantasies of regime change" in Tehran and pledging "to re-establish diplomatic and economic ties if Iran abandons its nuclear ambitions" ... fears that the private equity powerhouse Blackstone Group's decision to sell portions of the firm to the public may signal a downturn in the economy: If "if the stock market were a coal mine, Blackstone could be the canary."

WaPo ... argues that Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's recent crackdown against his political opposition should convince countries that have defended Mugabe in the past to realize they "can no longer afford to allow Mr. Mugabe to go on destroying his own country" ... argues that even though the White House opposes plans to grant the District of Columbia a voting member in the House of Representatives, Congress should move forward with its voting-rights bill.

WSJ ... notes that a new Security and Exchange Commission rule will require companies to disclose the amount their executives earn soon, and predicts that the "new information will be misused by reporters and politicians with a class-war ax to grind" ... reacting to China's recent announcement that it will launch what is likely to become the world's largest investment fund, asks if state-owned investment companies are really that good of an idea.

USA Today ... applauds Delta Air Lines CEO Gerald Grinstein for refusing to accept $10 million his company owes him under a new restructuring plan and suggesting that the money should help struggling Delta employees and retirees.

By Rob Anderson |  March 21, 2007; 6:19 AM ET
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