Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani tried to diss The New York Times, Sen. Hillary Clinton and MoveOn.org all at once by placing his own advertisement in the paper to counter MoveOn.org’s critique of Gen. David Petraeus, claiming The Times had played favorites with their ad sales policy.

New York Daily News:

In one of the more transparent stunts of the 2008 presidential race, Giuliani began the day by accusing The Times of selling the Democrat-friendly MoveOn.org a “heavily discounted” ad on Monday that cast U.S. commander Gen. David Petraeus as “General Betray Us.”

Republican candidates have blasted the ad as an unpatriotic smear of a revered general, and [Thursday] Republican Giuliani accused The Times, MoveOn.org and Democratic presidential foe Clinton — who has refused to denounce the ad — of engaging in “character assassination.”

“What we should move on with … is a civil discourse without name-calling,” Giuliani said in Atlanta — after demanding that his campaign be given the same “discounted rate” to run a pro-Petraeus ad {Friday].

But Giuliani’s facts were challenged. Any advocacy group seeking to place a single, full-page, black-and-white ad in The Times on “standby” over a seven-day period — the paper picks the day — pays what MoveOn.org did, $64,575, sources said.

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