On the January 11 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor, Fox News political analyst Kirsten Powers and host Bill O'Reilly discussed Media Matters for America's coverage of MSNBC host Chris Matthews' recent comments about Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY), that "the reason she's a U.S. senator, the reason she's a candidate for president, the reason she may be a front-runner is her husband messed around" O'Reilly asserted that "Media Matters is a big propaganda machine, and they're ripping up the far-left people at MSNBC.
And I, for one, am shocked and appalled." In response, Powers stated that "what [Media Matters is] doing is going after Chris Matthews for attacking Hillary, and I think it's a very fair criticism," adding that she has "been appalled at the way [Matthews] treats Hillary Clinton." Later in the segment, Powers asserted, "what Chris Matthews said was totally inappropriate."
On the previous day's edition of The O'Reilly Factor, as Media Matters has noted, guest Jane Hall, a Fox News contributor, also expressed disapproval of remarks like Matthews'. She noted Matthews' comments about "how [Hillary Clinton] got elected not on her own merits, but because of his [Bill Clinton] fooling around, as he put it.
... He said she wanted to bury his [Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL)] campaign and what would she do with the body? That she wanted to strangle Obama in the crib." Hall then stated, "[E]very woman I know saw the media coverage declaring her dead and said, 'You know, I've been through that. I've experienced that kind of sexism.' " O'Reilly asked, "So there was a backlash against that?" Hall responded, "Oh, absolutely."......
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