On Chris Matthews Show, Kathleen Parker claimed "the Clintons can slime better than anybody"
On the August 19 broadcast of the NBC-syndicated Chris Matthews Show, Washington Post Writers Group syndicated columnist Kathleen Parker asserted that Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama (IL) is "holding back a little bit because he knows as well as anyone that the Clintons can slime better than anybody." Read more
CNN's King failed to challenge Thompson on his apparent abortion flip-flop
During the August 17 edition of CNN's The Situation Room, former Sen. Fred Thompson (R-TN), a potential Republican presidential candidate, asserted, "I think Roe vs. Wade was a bad decision," and added, "You don't just get up one day and overturn the entire history of the country with regard major social policy without any action by Congress, without any action by the American people or a constitutional amendment. And that's what happened. It shouldn't have happened. It ought to be reversed." National correspondent John King did not note that Thompson's statement contradicted comments Thompson reportedly made in 1993 to the Memphis Commercial Appeal. As Media Matters for America has documented, a July 29, 1993, article in the Commercial Appeal reported that Thompson said in an interview that he "supports the Supreme Court's Roe vs. Wade decision that established a constitutional right to abortion." Read more
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