McCREA1 has raised the interesting possibility that the line spectrum from quasi-stellar objects could arise from a jet aimed toward the observer. McCrea states that this sort of model avoids the intergalactic absorption of Lyman α from 3C9 predicted by Gunn and Peterson2 if the density of neutral intergalactic hydrogen at z = 2 is of the order of 10−11 cm−3 or more. Here I shall point out that this model still leads to difficulties with Lyman α absorption of the type predicted by Gunn and Peterson.