Writing in WSJ, McGurn falsely claimed McCain "push[ed]" for Bush "to replace Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld"
In a Wall Street Journal op-ed, William McGurn claimed that Sen. John McCain "push[ed]" for President Bush to "replace Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, long before anyone else." In fact, the McCain campaign itself reportedly admitted that McCain did not call for Rumsfeld to be fired, or for his resignation. Read More
CBS Evening News aired only part of Bill Clinton quote about Obama, ignored praise that followed
CBS' Jeff Greenfield reported that President Clinton "offered a decidedly lukewarm endorsement of Obama's credentials," but Greenfield aired only a small portion of a response Clinton gave to the question from ABC's Kate Snow: "Is he ready to be president?" Greenfield did not air Clinton saying: "I mean, I certainly learned a lot about the job in my first year. He's shown a keen strategic sense and his ability to run an effective campaign. He clearly can inspire people and motivate people and energize them, which is a very important part of being president, and he's smart as a whip so there's nothing he can't learn." Read More
Front-page NY Times article misled on Obama and McCain campaigns' dependence on contributions of $1,000 or more
The New York Times reported that a third of the $340 million Sen. Barack Obama's campaign has raised "has come from donations of $1,000 or more: a total of $112 million, more than Senator John McCain ... raised in contributions of that size." But the Times did not note that a significantly higher percentage -- nearly three-fourths -- of McCain's campaign contributions have exceeded $1,000. Read More
LA Times missed its own reporting, didn't note McCain's absence from Congress
Two Los Angeles Times articles quoted Sen. John McCain criticizing Congress for going into recess without voting on energy legislation, but both failed to mention that McCain has not cast a vote in the Senate since April 8, according to the Times' own reporting. Read More
Confronted by Brewer over falsehood, Corsi responds with two more
After being confronted by MSNBC's Contessa Brewer on his book's false claim that Sen. Barack Obama did not dedicate his own book to his mother and grandparents, Jerome Corsi responded with two more falsehoods. Read More
Note to NPR: The only time Mississippi has ever gotten anything out of the federal government is ... always
Reporting on U.S. Senate candidates campaigning at a Mississippi county fair, NPR's Debbie Elliott uncritically aired a clip of one fairgoer claiming that the "[o]nly time we have ever gotten anything out of the federal government was when the Republicans were there." In fact, according to the Tax Foundation, from 1981 through 2005, Mississippi has consistently received more from the federal government than the state's residents pay in taxes. Read More
NRO's Kirsanow and Hanson falsely claimed Obama has not given his views on reparations
In separate blog posts on National Review Online, Peter Kirsanow and Victor Davis Hanson each falsely asserted that Sen. Barack Obama has not further explained what he meant when he stated at the UNITY '08 Convention: "I've consistently believed, when it comes -- whether it's Native American issues, whether it's African-American issues and reparations, that the most important thing for the U.S. government to do is not just to offer words, but offer deeds." Later in his remarks, Obama said: "I have said in the past, and I'll repeat again, that the best reparations we can provide are good schools in the inner city and jobs for people who are unemployed." Read More
CNN Headline News' Glenn Beck on Obama: "[T]his guy really is a Marxist"
On his CNN Headline News program, Glenn Beck said of Sen. Barack Obama, "The thing that I do find about Barack Obama is that -- and I think America is starting to catch on to this -- this guy really is a Marxist. He believes in the redistribution of wealth." Beck has previously said of Barack and Michelle Obama, "[T]here's a socialist agenda there for America." Read More
NBC, CNN repeat McCain's criticism of Obama for 2005 energy bill vote, but neither report included Obama response
NBC and CNN uncritically reported Sen. John McCain's charge that Sen. Barack Obama voted for an energy bill in 2005 that was "full of goodies and breaks for the oil companies," while McCain voted against it. Neither provided a response from the Obama campaign, which says that Obama voted for the bill because it included extensive investments in renewable energy. Nor did either report note that the bill actually resulted in a net tax increase for the oil and gas industry. Read More
MSNBC anchor Savidge baselessly asked, "[I]sn't [Obama] a bit of a liar?"
Addressing Democratic strategist Chris Kofinis, MSNBC anchor Martin Savidge said: "John McCain is claiming that he is also getting money from Big Oil. The question here is, [Sen. Barack] Obama's getting that same money, so isn't he a bit of a liar claiming McCain is the man guilty of getting Big Oil money?" In fact, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, Obama received $394,465 from the oil and gas industry as of July 28, while McCain received more than triple that amount: approximately $1.3 million. Read More
Ignoring key facts, MSNBC's Witt agreed with Freddoso that Obama's opponents in 1996 race were disqualified on a "technicality"
During an interview with David Freddoso, MSNBC's Alex Witt baselessly adopted a word Freddoso used to describe how Sen. Barack Obama challenged his opponents' qualifications for appearing on the ballot of the 1996 Illinois state Senate Democratic primary for the 13th district, saying that Obama's opponents were disqualified on a "technicality." In fact, one of Obama's opponents in that 1996 race reportedly admitted that he "now suspects" some of the signatures his campaign collected were forged, while another reportedly had some of her signatures disqualified because they were from voters who lived outside the 13th district -- facts Witt did not raise during the interview. Read More
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