More of interview revealed Stephanopoulos failed to challenge Cheney on further falsehoods
Additional portions of the interview of Dick Cheney showed ABC News' George Stephanopoulos letting Cheney repeat the administration's self-serving and dubious assertions on Democratic tax plans, Iraq, and the economy, including the oft-repeated Republican talking point that if Rep. Charlie Rangel were to become chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, "you would see a major tax increase." Read more
AP reported litany of unchallenged GOP attacks on Dems; botched description of Kerry controversy
In a November 4 Associated Press article, reporter Liz Sidoti uncritically reported GOP attacks against Democrats, including that if Democrats win control of Congress next week, they will "let the terrorists win," institute "bigger government and higher taxes," and stand "on the border with open arms welcoming people across." Sidoti did not include any responses or rebuttals from Democrats. Read more
Matthews: Democratic victory will "look bad for the president and world diplomacy"
On the November 4 broadcast of NBC's Nightly News, MSNBC host Chris Matthews claimed that if the November 7 midterm election "breaks bad for the president," the "world press, which is anti-American already, will jump on this and say [President] Bush has lost his control over his own government. It'll look bad for the president and world diplomacy." Read more
LA Times labeled Sweeney "an economy and energy expert," failed to note Sweeney's ties to big oil
In a November 3 article in the Los Angeles Times, staff writer Marc Lifsher reported on voters who are confused about California ballot initiative Proposition 87, which would impose a tax on California's oil producers with the intent of creating a $4 billion fund to promote alternative energy vehicles, fuels, and technologies and reduce statewide petroleum consumption by 25 percent. At the end of the article, Lifsher quoted an argument against Proposition 87 by James Sweeney, who was labeled as "an economist and energy expert at Stanford University." But Lifsher failed to note Sweeney's ties to oil companies Exxon and ARCO and the oil industry's trade association, the American Petroleum Institute. Read more
Juan Williams on public telling pollsters it favors Democrats on taxes: "[T]o me, that's crazy"
On Fox News Sunday, National Public Radio's Juan Williams acknowledged that "most people are telling pollsters that they trust the Democrats more on taxes than they do the Republicans," but then said, "To me, that's crazy." On The Chris Matthews Show, Chris Matthews again falsely suggested that the issue of taxes favors Republicans, even though recent polling shows otherwise. Read more
NY Times article left unchallenged Snow's assertion that it is "preposterous" to suggest Saddam verdict timed for political reasons
A New York Times article uncritically reported White House press secretary Tony Snow's assertion that it is "preposterous" to suggest that the verdict in the trial of Saddam Hussein "was timed to coincide with this week's elections in the United States," despite the U.S. government's heavy influence on the tribunal that tried Saddam and the Bush administration's history of reportedly timing Iraq- or terrorism-related actions to the U.S. political calendar. Read more
MSNBC's Brewer: PA Senate race with Dem ahead by 13 points is "tight," but TN Senate race with Republican ahead by 12 is "all but over"
On the November 5 edition of MSNBC News Live, anchor Contessa Brewer described the Pennsylvania senatorial race between incumbent Sen. Rick Santorum (R) and Democratic challenger Robert Casey Jr. as "tight" and "right down to the wire" just before citing the latest MSNBC/McClatchy/Mason-Dixon poll showing Casey ahead of Santorum by 13 percentage points (52-39 with a +/- 4 margin of error). Yet moments later, while an onscreen graphic showed the latest Mason-Dixon/Tennessee Papers poll, which put Tennessee Republican Senate candidate Bob Corker ahead of his Democratic challenger, Rep. Harold Ford Jr., by 12 percentage points (50-38 with a +/- 4 margin of error), Brewer pronounced that race "all but over." Read more
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