- NY Times included Republicans' claim minimizing impact of ANWR drilling, omitted Democratic rebuttal
A November 3 New York Times article by staff writer Robert Pear on congressional consideration of legislation to authorize oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) included Republicans' assertion that the plan would use "only 2,000 acres" of land for oil production, but omitted Democrats' rebuttal of the Republican claim -- namely, that the 2,000 acres refers only to the actual drilling area and does not include the roads, airstrips, pipelines, and other support facilities that would be necessary to begin drilling in the reserve.
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- WSJ, Limbaugh, Garrett falsely claimed government reports found that Bush administration didn't misuse intelligence
As Senate Democrats pressured Senate Intelligence Committee chairman Pat Roberts (R-KS) to complete an investigation into whether the Bush administration misused intelligence in the run-up to the war in Iraq, The Wall Street Journal editorial page, nationally syndicated radio host Rush Limbaugh, and Fox News correspondent Major Garrett falsely claimed that various government reports had already done so. In fact, "phase two" of the Senate Intelligence Committee report would mark the first assessment of whether proponents of the war exaggerated the threat posed by Saddam Hussein's regime.
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- Rosa Parks's memorial received scant coverage on Fox News
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- In WSJ op-ed, Toensing revisited familiar Plame falsehoods
In a November 3 Wall Street Journal op-ed (subscription required), Republican attorney Victoria Toensing criticized the CIA's role in the controversy surrounding outed CIA operative Valerie Plame and repeated a variety of falsehoods and distortions regarding Plame and her husband, former ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV.
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- O'Reilly claimed guest canceled after "pressure" from opponents; she says her daughter had a soccer game
On the November 2 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor, host Bill O'Reilly claimed that the lone dissenter in a Florida school board's vote to end school closings for some religious holidays canceled a planned appearance on the show after succumbing to "pressure" from opponents of her vote. But the dissenting school board member, Jennifer Faliero, told a different story to a Tampa Tribune columnist, saying that she "had a conflict" because of her daughter's soccer game. She also said of O'Reilly's claim, "I cannot fathom how that came out of his mouth."
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- Mehlman falsely suggested Democrats were primarily responsible for delaying creation of Department of Homeland Security
On the November 1 edition of MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews, Republican National Committee chairman Ken Mehlman asserted that "[a]fter the 9-11 attacks, when it came to a Department of Homeland Security [DHS], [Democrats] delayed for more than 100 days creating that department because they were worrying about the public employee unions," falsely suggesting that it was primarily Democrats, not Republicans who were responsible for delays in creating DHS. Mehlman made a similar statement on the November 2 edition of MSNBC News Live during the 10 a.m. ET hour in a discussion with MSNBC chief White House correspondent Norah O'Donnell. In answering a question from O'Donnell about Senate Democrats' decision to force the Senate into a closed session the day before, Mehlman characterized the move as a "political stunt" and stated: "You may remember that this was the same Democrat [sic] leadership, or the same Democrat [sic] team that delayed for more than 100 days the creation of the Department of Homeland Security because of the fact that they were worried about the public employee union."
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- Fox's Cavuto and guest see move toward "scary" "nation of communists" in Capitol Hill legislation targeting oil and pharmaceutical companies
On the November 1 edition of Fox News' Your World with Neil Cavuto, Charles Payne, CEO of Wall Street Strategies, a stock market research company, claimed that this year has been "so awful for [President Bush] and the Republicans" that the United States is becoming vulnerable to an "anti-capitalistic, pro-communist" movement, warning, "We better be careful." Payne's remarks came at the end of a segment discussing government regulations on the oil and pharmaceutical industries.
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- O'Reilly: Alito will defend Christmas like the Founding Fathers; but did they?
Fox News host and nationally syndicated radio host Bill O'Reilly claimed that "traditionalist" Supreme Court nominee Samuel A. Alito Jr., like the country's Founding Fathers, does not "want all mention of Christmas stricken from the public arena." Alito's views aside, O'Reilly offered no support for his contention that the Founding Fathers would not want to strike all public mentions of Christmas. He offered no support for the suggestion that the Founding Fathers would have had an opinion on whether Macy's department stores should wish customers a "Merry Christmas," "Happy Holidays," or "Season's Greetings" or that the Founding Fathers would have opposed New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's unveiling of the "holiday tree." It is possible that, in fact, the Founding Fathers may have been swept up in the wave of anti-British sentiment following the American Revolution, in which "British" customs, such as celebrating Christmas, were widely shunned.
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- Boot, Kondracke falsely suggested Bush administration has been cleared of manipulating Iraq intelligence
In his November 2 column, Los Angeles Times columnist Max Boot falsely claimed that the Robb-Silberman report and the Senate Intelligence Committee's Report on the U.S. Intelligence Community's Prewar Intelligence Assessments on Iraq "euthanized" claims that the Bush administration manipulated intelligence in the buildup to the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. Similarly, on the November 1 edition of Fox News' Special Report with Brit Hume, Roll Call executive editor Morton M. Kondracke misleadingly claimed that there is no available evidence indicating that the administration "trumped the evidence up." In fact, neither the Robb-Silberman commission nor the Senate Intelligence Committee investigated the Bush administration's use of pre-war Iraq intelligence. Indeed, Democrats say that it's the Senate Intelligence Committee's failure to investigate the issue of whether the administration "trumped the evidence up" that prompted their decision to force the Senate into closed session on November 1. If there is little evidence that the administration trumped up its case for war, that may be because it didn't; or it may be because no formal investigation that might uncover such evidence has been done.
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