Olbermann gave "Worst Person" bronze to "webmasters at BillOReilly.com" for "Those weren't veterans John Edwards, they were sex offenders" headline
On the February 8 edition of MSNBC's Countdown, host Keith Olbermann awarded the "bronze" in his nightly "Worst Person in the World" segment to "the webmasters at BillOReilly.com," the website of Fox News host Bill O'Reilly. Olbermann stated: Read More
CNN's Sesno suggests McCain owns copyright on "straight talk" label
Referring to the Democratic presidential campaign of Sen. Barack Obama, CNN's Frank Sesno said: "[M]oney is pouring in, but with apologies to [Sen.] John McCain, you might hear some straight talk, too." In assigning McCain ownership of the "straight talk" label, Sesno joined a long line of media, including CNN hosts and correspondents, who have adopted McCain's self-laudatory label of "straight-talker" despite his stark inconsistency on numerous issues. Read More
NY Times reported McCain's prior "differences" with Bush on tax cuts, but didn't note flip-flop
The New York Times' Sheryl Gay Stolberg wrote that Sen. John McCain's "differences with the White House are well known," and added: "He did not vote for the president's 2001 and 2003 tax cuts, a sore point with groups like the conservative Club for Growth." However, Stolberg did not note that after opposing the Bush tax cuts in 2001 and 2003, McCain now supports making the tax cuts permanent -- a position Bush noted during his Sunday interview. Read More
Wash. Post and Politico ignore subjectivity, McCain omission, and self-admitted flaw in uncritically reporting National Journal rating
The Washington Post and the Politico both noted the National Journal's rating of Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama as "the most liberal senator in 2007" without mentioning an admitted flaw in the Journal's 2003 rating of Sen. John Kerry as "the most liberal senator," or that Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain did not receive a composite score in 2007 because he "missed more than half of the votes in both the economic and foreign-policy categories." Read More
While ignoring Bush's inconsistent statements on the issue, Fox's Wallace allowed Bush to distort Obama's Pakistan remark
During a Fox News Sunday interview with President Bush, Chris Wallace left unchallenged Bush's statement regarding Sen. Barack Obama: "I certainly don't know what he believes in. The only foreign policy thing I remember he said was he's going to attack Pakistan and embrace [Iranian President Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad." But Bush and his administration have made contradictory statements on the question of dealing with Al Qaeda leaders in Pakistan, the specific issue that Bush purported to know where Obama stands. Wallace also did not note Bush misrepresented Obama's statements regarding Pakistan and engaging in dialogue with Ahmadinejad. Read More
Citing Drudge headline, MSNBC's Brewer suggested Latinos would react negatively to Clinton campaign change
While discussing the news that Sen. Hillary Clinton had replaced her campaign manager, MSNBC's Contessa Brewer asked Kathleen Kennedy Townsend: "[T]he Drudge Report has a headline that reads, quote, 'Adiós: Clinton's Top Latina Sidelined.' Are you concerned at all about the way Hispanic voters might interpret this shakeup heading into Texas?" Neither the Drudge Report nor MSNBC offered any reason why Solis Doyle's replacement as campaign manager might have anything to do with her being Latina or any reason why Latino voters might react in any way to the staff change. Read More
Buchanan simply asserted Obama has "most liberal voting record in the United States Senate"
MSNBC political analyst Pat Buchanan claimed that if Sen. Barack Obama (IL) wins the Democratic presidential nomination, Republicans will "tear him apart because ... he has the most liberal voting record in the United States Senate." Buchanan was presumably referencing the National Journal's 2007 vote rankings that claimed Obama was the "most liberal senator in 2007," but he did not mention that the Journal changed its methodology and has acknowledged a flaw in a previous vote rating. Buchanan also did not note a study that ranked Obama as tied with Sen. Joe Biden as the 10th "most liberal" senator last year. Read More
Citing admittedly flawed Zogby poll, Novak claimed Obama result in CA "raises the specter of the ... 'Bradley effect' "
Citing a "Zogby poll that showed a big Obama lead in California," Robert D. Novak asserted that Sen. Barack Obama's defeat in the California presidential primary "raises the specter of the dreaded 'Bradley effect.' " But in explaining why his poll showing Obama leading in California by 13 points did not match the actual results, John Zogby wrote: "It appears that we underestimated Hispanic turnout and overestimated the importance of younger Hispanic voters. We also overestimated turnout among African-American voters." Read More
CNN's Crowley again defines liberals by purported choice of caffeinated beverage
CNN's Candy Crowley said that the "affluent, well-educated white voters" who were part of Sen. Barack "Obama's voting bloc" were the "so-called latte liberals." This statement recalls her reported 2004 suggestion that green tea is unfamiliar to "most of America" after John Kerry requested it in Iowa. Similarly, on Fox News, U.S. News & World Report's Michael Barone suggested that Obama would do well among "latte liberals." Alan Colmes then challenged Barone's description: "[A]re there latte conservatives?" Read More
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