Friday, May 04, 2007

Media Matters for America, May 04, 2007

Thoroughly debunked, O'Reilly dreams up new, apparently sinister Soros-Media Matters link

On the May 3 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor, host Bill O'Reilly again purported to find a nefarious link between Media Matters for America and philanthropist George Soros. Responding to an Indiana University study that found that "O'Reilly called a person or a group a derogatory name once every 6.8 seconds, on average, or nearly nine times every minute during the ['Talking Points Memo'] editorials that open his program each night," O'Reilly stated: "But somehow, some way, their research wound up in the hands of Media Matters, the smear Internet site partly funded by enterprises connected to George Soros. And guess what? Media Matters issued a press release about the terrible 'Talking Points Memos.' " The "somehow, some way" that Media Matters found out about the research was through an IU press release promoting the study and its results. Read more



Blitzer's list of recent Washington sex scandals included only Democrats

On the May 3 edition of CNN's The Situation Room, host Wolf Blitzer observed that Washington is "no stranger to sex scandals," then provided viewers with examples of scandals involving only Democrats. During the segment, Blitzer was discussing the "DCMadam" scandal that has already led to the resignation of Deputy Secretary of State Randall L. Tobias, the first director of U.S. Foreign Assistance and administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development. Read more

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