Hannity distorted Bill Clinton's comments about readiness for presidency
On Fox News, Sean Hannity asserted, "Bill Clinton says that Barack Obama may not be ready to be president." But Clinton did not say that. Rather, during an interview with ABC's Kate Snow, Clinton said, "[Y]ou could argue that no one is ever ready to be president," adding, "I mean, I certainly learned a lot about the job in my first year." Clinton went on to praise Obama, saying that "[h]e's shown a keen strategic sense" and "he's smart as a whip." Read More
Gingrich in denial that Reagan, too, used "very dangerous" description of himself as a "citizen ... of the world"
On The Sean Hannity Show, Newt Gingrich said of Sen. Barack Obama's speech in Berlin: "I think saying that you are the -- a citizen of the world, talking to 200,000 Germans is very dangerous because the average American does not want to elect a president of the world." In fact, Obama referred to himself in the Berlin speech as "a citizen -- a proud citizen of the United States, and a fellow citizen of the world." Further, he is not the first U.S. public official to refer to himself as a "citizen of the world"; President Reagan did so in a June 1982 speech to the United Nations. Read More
LA Times uncritically quoted McCain falsely claiming that Obama will "raise your taxes"
The Los Angeles Times uncritically quoted Sen. John McCain asserting of Sen. Barack Obama, "[H]is plan is to raise your taxes and spend more of your money," without noting that the claim is false. Obama has proposed cutting taxes for low- and middle-income families, and McCain's own chief economic adviser has reportedly said it is inaccurate to say that "Barack Obama raises taxes." Read More
NY Times staff editor ignored own paper's reporting in posting claim that sales of Living History didn't cover Clinton's advance
New York Times staff editor Tobin Harshaw, in an August 7 post on The Opinionator blog, uncritically quoted conservative blogger Ron Coleman's assertion that Sen. Hillary Clinton has not "come close to earning out the advance paid by" Simon & Schuster for her 2003 autobiography, Living History. But according to the Times' own reporting, sales of the book have covered Clinton's advance. Read More
Limbaugh: "Nature cleaned up itself" after Exxon Valdez oil spill
On his radio show, Rush Limbaugh said of the environmental effects following the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill in Prince William Sound, Alaska, "[N]ature cleaned it up faster than we ever could." However, an NOAA research chemist reportedly said "very little of the oil actually disappeared," while scientists employed by the state and federal governments recently reported that the effects of the oil spill remain. Read More
On CNN, radio talk show host Lars Larson suggested Sen. Clinton is like Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction
On CNN Election Center, after The Washington Post's Dana Milbank said Sen. Hillary Clinton "must really look like some sort of a poltergeist" to Sen. Barack Obama, adding, "Each time he thinks he has finally finished off Hillary Clinton, she keeps coming back," radio host Lars Larson said, "I have got to tell you, he's thinking of the movie Poltergeist? I'm thinking of Fatal Attraction. And I'm waiting to find out when the bunny turns up in the stew pot." Read More
Gibson's guest host Krok called Obama a "steamy hot pile of crap wedged between two pieces of bread"
On the August 7 edition of Fox News Radio's The John Gibson Show, guest host Chris Krok described Sen. Barack Obama as "a stinky, hot, steamy crap sandwich," a "steamy crap sandwich," and a "stinking crap sandwich." Read More
Ignoring numerous speeches and statements, Hannity claims to "never hear" Obama discuss "how great this country is"
On Hannity & Colmes, Sean Hannity asserted of Sen. Barack Obama: "I never hear the inspiring -- where is the inspiring rhetoric about how great this country is? I never hear him talk about that." In fact, Obama has regularly talked about "how great this country is"; during a speech in Iowa in January, Obama said: "Hope is the bedrock of this nation -- the belief that our destiny will not be written for us, but by us, by all those men and women who are not content to settle for the world as it is, who have the courage to remake the world as it should be." Read More
Weisman contradicts Milbank's claim that both reporters believe disputed version of Obama's "symbol" quote "was correct as written"
Discussing a disputed version of a comment Sen. Barack Obama reportedly made during a closed-door meeting with House Democrats, The Washington Post's Jonathan Weisman contradicted colleague Dana Milbank's assertion that both Weisman and Milbank "believe the quote was correct as written, and that this supposed 'context' is a recreation, after-the-fact, by Democratic aides who were worried about how the quote looked." Weisman called his own position "a little more squishy" than Milbank's. Read More
Citing Milbank, Wash. Times' Curl repeated disputed version of Obama's "symbol" remark
Citing Dana Milbank's July 30 Washington Post column in an August 8 Washington Times article, reporter Joseph Curl uncritically repeated as fact a disputed version of a comment Sen. Barack Obama reportedly made in a closed-door meeting with congressional Democrats. Moreover, Curl falsely claimed the comment came during Obama's July 24 speech in Berlin. Read More
Fox & Friends aired McCain's ad of Dems praising him, not DNC response with criticism from many of same Dems
Fox & Friends aired Sen. John McCain's Web ad showing video of Democrats praising McCain, but did not air the DNC's response, which contains clips of many of the same Democrats criticizing McCain. Read More
David Gregory on Edwards: "Is this another skeleton in the Democratic closet that Barack Obama must struggle to overcome?"
On the August 8 edition of MSNBC's Race for the White House, host David Gregory baselessly suggested that former Sen. John Edwards' (D-NC) disclosure of an extramarital affair has some relevance to Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign. Gregory opened the show by saying, "Tonight, more on Edwards and the fallout from his admission today about a sexual affair: Is this another skeleton in the Democratic closet that Barack Obama must struggle to overcome?" Gregory also said that, "now, questions about his [Edwards'] future abound in the party and whether this creates another shadow over Barack Obama as he gets ready for the conventions." Read More
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