Olbermann named O'Reilly "Worst Person" for suggesting New Orleans homeless encampment does not exist
MSNBC's Keith Olbermann named Fox News' Bill O'Reilly the "winner" of his nightly "Worst Person in the World" segment for baselessly suggesting that a homeless encampment under an overpass in New Orleans that former Sen. John Edwards mentioned in a speech did not exist. Olbermann noted that the New Orleans Times-Picayune and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer both published recent articles about the encampment. Read More
CNN's Henry cited Bush's "tout[ing]" of Iraq troop withdrawals -- but Henry had reported troops "would have to come home ... anyway"
Reporting on a speech by President Bush, CNN's Ed Henry asserted: "The president touted the fact that more than 20,000 U.S. troops will be coming home from Iraq by July." However, Henry made no mention of his reporting for CNN in September 2007, when he noted Bush's attempt to "get some political credit for bringing these troops home" and said: "[I]t's important to stress, as you know, that military officials have already suggested that they're stretched and these surge troops would have to come home by next spring -- next summer anyway." Read More
Brzezinski falsely asserted that McCain "stood by" his views on immigration
On Morning Joe, Mika Brzezinski said of Sen. John McCain, "[F]or the most part, he really does stick to his views even if they're unpopular," adding that McCain's "views on immigration were unpopular, and he stood by them even at the peril of his campaign." In fact, McCain once called for comprehensive reform that addressed the creation of a guest-worker program, a path to citizenship, and border security, but now says he supports addressing border security first. Read More
NY Post, Wash. Post editorials distorted key facts regarding Clinton's Kazakhstan trip
A New York Post editorial about President Bill Clinton's September 2005 trip to Kazakhstan with Canadian mining financier Frank Giustra misleadingly characterized Giustra as "a newcomer to uranium mining" and suggested he was able to secure mining agreements because of his connection to Clinton; in fact, Giustra reportedly had been involved in other Kazakh mining deals at least as far back as 10 years ago. And a Washington Post editorial misrepresented a New York Times report of a quote by Moukhtar Dzhakishev, the president of the Kazakh company that reached the uranium mining deal with Giustra, falsely suggesting that Dzhakishev had acknowledged that Clinton's presence had played a role in Dzhakishev's willingness to reach a deal with Giustra. Read More
Echoing GOP attack line, Blitzer referred to "the class warfare argument that the Democrats make"
On Late Edition, Wolf Blitzer described opposition to President Bush's 2001 tax cuts on the grounds that "so many of the benefits go to the most fortunate among us at the expense of middle-class Americans who most need tax relief" as "almost like the class warfare argument that the Democrats make," echoing an attack Republicans commonly use against Democratic positions. Read More
Fox News' Hill: Are Latinos "going to vote for the person who basically is going to give them the most for ... the least?"
Discussing the upcoming presidential primaries on the February 4 edition of Fox News' America's Pulse, host E.D. Hill asked Eddie "Piolín" Sotelo, host of Univision's Piolín por la Mañana: "Do you think that the majority of Latino listeners that you hear from are going to vote for the person who basically is going to give them the most for, you know, for the least? Who's gonna, you know, open up the borders, who's going to give everybody automatic citizenship, that sort of thing? Or are they voting on other issues? On taxes, on health care, on those sort of things?" Hill offered no indication as to which candidate would "open up the borders" and "give everybody automatic citizenship," nor did she offer any support for her suggestion that Latino voters want to "open up the borders." Read More
Savage: "America's not ready for an affirmative action presidency"
Referring to Democratic presidential candidates Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama, Michael Savage stated: "We have a woman and a multi-ethnic man running for office on the Democrat side. Is this not akin to a -- an affirmative action election? Isn't that why the libs are hysterical, tripping over themselves to say amen and yes to this affirmative election vote?" He later added, "America's not ready for an affirmative action presidency." Read More
Novak falsely claimed Clinton did not argue "until her presidential campaign" that Levin amendment would subordinate U.S. decisions to the U.N.
While writing that Sen. Clinton said "she opposed the Levin amendment to the 2003 [sic] Iraq war resolution because it would 'subordinate' U.S. decision-making to the United Nations," Robert Novak falsely claimed that Clinton "made no such claim until her presidential campaign." In fact, the same day Clinton voted on Sen. Carl Levin's proposed amendment to the 2002 resolution authorizing the use of force against Iraq, she gave a floor speech that included her reason for opposing a proposal that the United States "should only resort to force if and when the United Nations Security Council approves it." Read More
Zakaria falsely claimed Clinton "won't say" she favors the U.S. "reduc[ing] its own nuclear arsenal"
Newsweek's Fareed Zakaria wrote that Sen. Barack Obama "has spoken in favor a of proposal" made by former Secretaries of State Henry Kissinger and George Shultz, former Secretary of Defense William Perry and former Sen. Sam Nunn, for the United States to "begin to fulfill its end of the treaty [on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons] and reduce its own nuclear arsenal," adding: "[F]or all I know, Hillary Clinton agrees with this approach. But she won't say so. Her long years of experience -- in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s -- warn her against such audacity." In fact, Clinton has stated her support for, in her words, the Shultz-Perry-Kissinger-Nunn " 'vision' ... of reducing reliance on nuclear weapons" and to "negotiate an accord that substantially and verifiably reduces the U.S. and Russian nuclear arsenals." Read More
NY Daily News editorial lauded McCain's "straight talk" on immigration, ignoring his reversal
A New York Daily News editorial endorsing Sen. John McCain asserted that McCain "has delivered 'straight talk' and risked the consequences of unpopular positions," citing as an example McCain's "forceful advoca[cy] of comprehensive immigration reform," claiming that "[c]haracteristically, he has held his ground against an anti-immigrant fervor that rivals ... have exploited." In fact, McCain has reversed his position on a key element of the immigration debate and has offered inconsistent statements on whether he would support his own comprehensive immigration bill. Read More
Hardball panel ponders reasons Clinton "tear[ed] up" with Yale former colleagues
On the February 4 edition of MSNBC's Hardball, discussing Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's (D-NY) appearance earlier that day at the Yale Child Study Center -- which the Associated Press described as "an emotional reunion Monday with a colleague from the early days of her legal career as a child advocate" -- host Chris Matthews said, "Hillary Clinton, this question of tearing up, is this now become part of the story line of this campaign?" Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson remarked: "[W]ith some people it's sad movies; with some people, they see a puppy, they want to -- with Hillary Clinton ... it's an impending primary. It just breaks her down." Bloomberg columnist Margaret Carlson asserted that "I think the tears are genuine," before adding, "I think the cause is maybe different than just going back to a place she once worked where she has good memories and they welcomed her." She continued, "But that she's extremely fatigued -- as they all are -- under tremendous pressure. Because the pressure isn't just from without, the pressure is from within. 'What are you doing wrong? Why can't you fix it? Maybe you should cry more often.' All those kinds of things inside a campaign. And then the very thing she thought was hers." Carlson said, "Remember, she was inevitable. Everyone around her told her that. And now she sees it not as inevitable and receding possibly from her grasp, and it's very distressing. I would cry, too." Read More
No comments:
Post a Comment