After blasting press for yukking it up with "the people they're charged with covering," will Matthews challenge Russert on Gridiron dinner?
Chris Matthews lambasted journalists for laughing at and applauding President Bush's performance at the March 8 Gridiron Club dinner. Matthews stated, "If there's one thing I can't stand, it's reporters -- the best of them -- laughing at events and political acts that warrant anything -- I mean anything -- but laughter." Several of Matthews' colleagues reportedly attended the Gridiron Club dinner, including NBC's Tim Russert and Andrea Mitchell. Read More
AP reported McCain attacks on Dems' threats to withdraw from NAFTA, ignored his own 2000 ABM Treaty threat
The AP's Glen Johnson reported Sen. John McCain's criticism of Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama for considering U.S. withdrawal from NAFTA "to force Canada and Mexico to negotiate more protections for workers and the environment in the agreement." The report continued: "If that threat is made, McCain asked, 'What are the other countries in the world going to think about the agreements we've negotiated with them?' " But Johnson did not note that McCain himself threatened during his 2000 presidential campaign to pull out of the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty. Read More
Hume joins other media in ignoring McCain's failure to commit to tax return release
On Special Report, Molly Henneberg reported that Sen. John McCain's "full medical records will be released around April 15th." Host Brit Hume then asked, "Along with Hillary [Clinton]'s tax records, right?" Henneberg responded: "Right." But neither Henneberg nor Hume noted that McCain reportedly "hasn't released his tax returns either. His campaign has said it won't decide whether to release the returns until after he is officially the nominee." Read More
Wash. Post's Quinn suggested "personal ambition" led Clinton and Silda Wall Spitzer to "stand by her man" because "there was something in it for her"
In a report on "powerful men who cheat and the women who stand stoically by them," CBS News' Nancy Cordes aired a clip of The Washington Post's Sally Quinn saying, "I can only think that ambition, their own personal ambition, is part of why they stick by these men, because they are accomplished women in their own right. And so, why would a Hillary Clinton or a Silda [Wall Spitzer] stand by her man and allow herself to be humiliated unless there was something in it for her?" Read More
Limbaugh sketch repeated false claim that Rep. Frank "let a prostitution ring be run out of" his "home"
On his radio show, Rush Limbaugh aired a parody clip in which an impersonator of former President Bill Clinton repeated the false claim that Rep. Barney Frank "let a prostitution ring be run out of [his] home." In fact, the House ethics committee in 1990 determined that Frank "did not have either prior or concomitant knowledge of prostitution activities involving third parties alleged to have taken place in his apartment." Read More
After saying she "hold[s] women accountable" when their husbands "stray[]," Schlessinger returned twice to Today in same morning
Discussing marital infidelity on Today, Laura Schlessinger said, "I hold women accountable for tossing out perfectly good men by not treating them with the love and kindness and respect and attention they need." Despite the fact that panelists later referred to Schlessinger's comments as "absurd" and "nonsense" and that Meredith Vieira said of Schlessinger's first appearance, "The women were hysterically upset with her," Today had Schlessinger return to the program twice more the same morning. Read More
CNN report on McCain trip to Middle East ignored misleading claims from previous trip
Reporting about John McCain's upcoming trip to Iraq, CNN's Dana Bash read from a statement in which McCain said: "Had I not traveled to Iraq, I doubt I would have been informed enough to understand what we were doing wrong and what we should do to correct our mistakes." But Bash and host Wolf Blitzer did not report that just before and during a previous fact-finding trip to Iraq, McCain made claims about the safety of Baghdad neighborhoods that were widely criticized as misleading and that McCain later admitted he had "missp[oken]." Read More
CNN again raised issue of tax records without noting that McCain has not released his
On CNN's The Situation Room, Brian Todd reported that each presidential candidate "is under more pressure now to release" different types of information, stating that "[f]or [Sen.] Hillary Clinton, it's those elusive tax records." But Todd did not mention that Sen. John McCain has yet to release his tax returns. Read More
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