On MSNBC, Crowley called Edwards a "metrosexual," "the prettiest one of the Democrats"
On the August 7 edition of MSNBC's Morning Joe, MSNBC political analyst and nationally syndicated radio host Monica Crowley referred to Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards as "the metrosexual in the race" and said he is "the prettiest one of the Democrats." In response, co-host Mika Brzezinski said: "I think he and [Republican presidential candidate] Mitt Romney are taking a spa day."Read more
Bill Sammon reported contrast in Obama, Bush positions on Pakistan, but not Bush flip-flops
On Special Report, The Washington Examiner's Bill Sammon asserted that, in contrast with Sen. Barack Obama's recent statement, President Bush said at a press conference, "[W]e'll go after terrorists in Pakistan, but we'll work with Musharraf to do that," as Sammon put it. In fact, Bush refused to give a direct answer about whether he would pursue terrorists in Pakistan without Musharraf's consent, and he has given conflicting statements on this issue in
the past. Read more
O'Reilly named "Worst Person" for attack on Dodd; Ingraham named "runner-up"
During the August 6 edition of MSNBC's Countdown, host Keith Olbermann named Fox News host Bill O'Reilly the "winner" of his nightly "Worst Person in the World" segment for attacking Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Chris Dodd (CT) after he brought up O'Reilly's comment regarding an Al Qaeda attack on San Francisco, as Media Matters for America documented.
Olbermann stated: "In an interview, Senator Chris Dodd of Connecticut reminded Orally that he had once talked about how this country should let Al Qaeda attack San Francisco. Bill did not deny it. He just demanded Dodd present a quote and a date. Senator Dodd who, having a life, does not keep handy a list of Bill O'Reilly's top 3,000 inhuman and inaccurate statements, could not produce either." Olbermann continued: "Bill-O barked, 'No, you're wrong, I did not say it here.
You don't know what the hell I said, with all due respect.' Bill, Bill, Bill, it's you who've never known what the hell you said." Olbermann went on to quote from the November 10, 2005, comment that Dodd cited, in which O'Reilly reacted to San Francisco's passage of a ballot measure urging public high schools and colleges to prohibit on-campus military recruiting. O'Reilly said that if he were president, he would tell San Franciscans that "if Al Qaeda comes in here and blows you up, we're not going to do anything about it. We're going to say, look, every other place in America is off limits to you, except San Francisco. You want to blow up the Coit Tower? Go ahead." Read more
Couric ignored Bush dodge on Pakistan during joint press conference with Afghanistan's Karzai
In a news brief on President Bush and Afghan President Hamid Karzai's August 6 joint press conference during that day's edition of the CBS Evening News, anchor Katie Couric reported that "President Bush and Afghan President Karzai vowed today to finish off the Taliban once and for all." She did not report that during the same press conference, Bush did not directly answer the question "[I]f you had actionable intelligence about the whereabouts of top al Qaeda leaders in Pakistan, would you wait for [Pakistani President Pervez] Musharraf's permission to send in U.S. forces, even if it meant missing an opportunity to take them out?" Bush ignored the part of the question about "wait[ing] forMusharraf's permission," replying, "I am confident that with actionable intelligence, we will be able to bring top al Qaeda to justice," without addressing whether or not Bush would "wait for Musharraf's permission" to do so. Read more
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