Media Matters for America summary, April 10, 2007
 
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 22:03:04 -0400


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<p>Here are today's news items from <i>Media Matters for America</i>, 
click on the title or 'read more' to read the entirety of each story.</p>
<h1><a href="http://mediamatters.org/issues_topics/race_affirmative_action?src=other">Race/Affirmative Action</a></h1>
<p><b><a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200704100024?src=other">In report on Imus' "past political guests," Costello did not address Imus' ban on Clinton appearances</a></b><br />
On the April 9 <a href="http://mediamatters.org//rd?http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0704/09/sitroom.02.html">edition</a> of CNN&#39;s
<i>The Situation Room</i>, CNN
contributor Carol Costello reported that she had contacted various "past
political guests" of MSNBC host Don Imus&#39; to inquire whether they would appear
again on his show after he <a href="http://mediamatters.org//items/200704040011?src=other">referred</a> to
the Rutgers women&#39;s basketball team as "nappy-headed hos." Costello
noted that she "didn&#39;t hear back" from Sen. Hillary Rodham
Clinton (D-NY) -- along with several other 2008 presidential candidates who
have apparently appeared on Imus&#39; program. But contrary to
Costello&#39;s suggestion, Clinton has
not been a recent guest
of Imus&#39; -- the Clintons and Imus had a falling-out after comments Imus made at
a Radio and Television
Correspondents&#39; Association dinner in 1996. Imus said recently that he will
"never" have Sen. Clinton as a guest on his show.
<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200704100024?src=other" class="read">Read more</a></p>

<p><b><a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200704110001?src=other"><em>CBS Evening News</em>, ABC's <em>World News</em> failed to note Imus' history of racially charged insults</a></b><br />
Reporting on the suspension of MSNBC&#39;s Don Imus, the
April 9 broadcasts of the <i>CBS Evening News</i>
and ABC&#39;s <i>World News</i> described
Imus as "outrageous," "provocative," and "inflammatory," but did not note that <i>Imus in the Morning</i> has a history of
racial slurs.
<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200704110001?src=other" class="read">Read more</a></p>

<p><b><a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200704110002?src=other">Barnes: Rutgers basketball team "acted like victims"</a></b><br />
Appearing on the "All-Star
Panel" on the April 10 edition of Fox News&#39; <i>Special Report with Brit Hume, Weekly Standard</i> executive editor Fred
Barnes said that the Rutgers University women&#39;s basketball team "acted
like victims" during their April 10 <a href="http://mediamatters.org//rd?http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/nation/20070410-1442-imus-protests.html">press conference</a>
responding to radio host Don Imus&#39; <a href="http://mediamatters.org//items/200704040011?src=other">statement</a> that members of the team were
"nappy-headed hos." After telling Barnes, "That sounds
correct," <i>Roll Call</i> executive
editor Morton M. Kondracke added, "[T]hey do live in a culture where a
&#39;ho&#39; is a commonly tossed-around term ... [b]y the rap music
industry, by black men, largely."
<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200704110002?src=other" class="read">Read more</a></p>

<p><b><a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200704100015?src=other">ABC's <em>World News</em> highlighted appearances on <em>Imus by </em>NBC's Russert, but not by its own anchor</a></b><br />
On the April 9 edition of ABC&#39;s <i>World News with Charles Gibson</i>,
correspondent Dan Harris,
reporting on Don Imus&#39;
April 4 <a href="http://mediamatters.org//items/200704040011?src=other" title="blocked::http://mediamatters.org/items/200704040011">comments</a> on
MSNBC&#39;s <i>Imus in the Morning</i> referring to the Rutgers University women&#39;s
basketball team as "nappy-headed
hos," noted that "Imus interview[ed]
politicians and journalists" both before and since his comments but did not mention that <i>World News</i>
anchor Charles Gibson has appeared on Imus&#39; radio program himself.
Rather, footage of NBC
News Washington bureau chief Tim Russert, host of NBC&#39;s <i>Meet the Press,</i> and a graphic from <i>Imus in the Morning</i> that pictured <i>Boston Globe</i> columnist Tom Oliphant and <i>Newsweek&#39;s</i> Evan Thomas and Howard
Fineman appeared on-screen while Harris reported on the prominence of
Imus&#39; guests.
<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200704100015?src=other" class="read">Read more</a></p>

<p><b><a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200704100007?src=other">Imus vow: "[A]t some point, I stop playing"</a></b><br />
On the April 10 edition of MSNBC&#39;s <i>Imus in the Morning</i>, host Don Imus,
discussing the <a href="http://mediamatters.org//items/200704100002?src=other">decision</a>
by MSNBC and CBS Radio to suspend the broadcast of his program for two weeks
beginning April 16 in light of the controversy surrounding <a href="http://mediamatters.org//items/200704040011?src=other">comments</a> he made about
the Rutgers University women&#39;s basketball team, said that
"there&#39;s a lot of stuff that we can do, but at some point, I stop
playing." Imus added that he doesn&#39;t "deserve to be
fired" but that he "should be punished." He ended the
segment by saying, "I&#39;m not whining, because I don&#39;t feel as bad as those kids
feel, and I&#39;ve said that
several times. But, I&#39;m not going to play forever."
<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200704100007?src=other" class="read">Read more</a></p>

<p><b><a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200704100020?src=other">Imus' non-defense: The phrase "nappy-headed hos" "originated in the black community"</a></b><br />
While acknowledging that it was not "OK" for him
to <a href="http://mediamatters.org//items/200704040011?src=other" title="http://mediamatters.org/items/200704040011">refer</a> to
the Rutgers University women&#39;s basketball team
as "nappy-headed hos," Don Imus asserted on the April 10 edition of
his show, MSNBC&#39;s <i>Imus in the Morning</i>,
and on NBC&#39;s <i>Today</i> show
that the phrase "originated
in the black community." Specifically, he stated: "I may be a white
man, but I know that ... young black women all through that society are
demeaned and disparaged and disrespected ... by their own black men and
that they are called that name." Those comments -- and his <a href="http://mediamatters.org//items/200704100007?src=other" title="http://mediamatters.org/items/200704100007">assertion</a>,
during the same show, that "there&#39;s a lot of stuff that we can do,
but at some point, I stop playing" -- stand in contrast with the
contrition he purported to express the day before. On the April 9 edition of the
show, Imus acknowledged that his comments were especially objectionable because
he mocked a specific group of young women who he said didn&#39;t
"deserve it." Imus has a <a href="http://mediamatters.org//items/200704090001?src=other">long history</a>
of ad hominem slurs that target race, ethnicity, and sex.
<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200704100020?src=other" class="read">Read more</a></p>

<h1><a href="http://mediamatters.org/issues_topics/2008_elections?src=other">2008 Elections</a></h1>
<p><b><a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200704100006?src=other"><em>Politico</em>'s Smith: Fox can now "confirm to its viewers" that Dems are "cowards"</a></b><br />
In an April 9 <a href="http://mediamatters.org//rd?http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0407/Hillary_Wont_Do_Fox_Debate_Either.html">entry</a>
to his Politico.com weblog, <i>Politico</i>
senior political writer Ben Smith asserted
that Fox News can "confirm to its viewers that Democrats are
... cowards"
after Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton
(D-NY), Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL), and former Sen. John Edwards (D-NC) declined
to participate in a <a href="http://mediamatters.org//rd?http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2007Mar29/0,4670,DemocratsDebate,00.html">presidential
debate</a> sponsored by Fox News and the Congressional Black
Caucus Political Education and Leadership Institute. Smith wrote: "No
word yet from [Rep. Dennis] Kucinich [D-OH] and [former Sen. Mike] Gravel
[D-AK], or the other campaigns, or from Fox, which could presumably do an empty
podium hour and confirm to its viewers that Democrats are, in fact, the cowards
it&#39;s often portrayed them as. Sounds win-win to me."
<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200704100006?src=other" class="read">Read more</a></p>

<p><b><a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200704100014?src=other">Seeking scandal, but lacking evidence of wrongdoing, media "raise questions" about Obama</a></b><br />
In <i>Roll Call</i>&#39;s
April 9 "Heard on the Hill" <a href="http://mediamatters.org//rd?http://www.rollcall.com/issues/52_104/hoh/17872-1.html">column</a>
(subscription required), staff writer
Emily Heil claimed that an April 1 <a href="http://mediamatters.org//rd?http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/01/magazine/01axelrod.t.html?ex=1176264000&amp;en=311b9a341b251768&amp;ei=5070">photo</a>
that appeared in <i>The New York Times Magazine</i> of Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) talking in his Senate office with David
Axelrod, the Obama 2008 presidential campaign chief media and political
adviser, was the "equivalent of a paparazzi gotcha of a disheveled
Lindsay Lohan leaving a Los Angeles hotel with her latest crush" because
"Congressional ethics rules forbid the use of federal office space for
political and campaign activity." However, in the very next sentence,
Heil explained that the photo is not "evidence of any wrongdoing" and noted that "Ken Gross, an election law expert, said that while
ethics rules are very specific that fundraising activities using federal
resources is a no-no, there is no law per se that prohibits talking
shop." She then cited an unnamed Democratic strategist
saying the photo "does raise some flags" and "could be viewed
as a rookie mistake" -- echoing a phrase <i>The
Politico</i> <a href="http://mediamatters.org//items/200703270006?src=other">used</a> to describe some of
Obama&#39;s admittedly "trivial" inconsistencies.
<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200704100014?src=other" class="read">Read more</a></p>

<p><b><a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200704100025?src=other">RNC's Obama attack sheet "not surprising" and "a bit of a stretch" -- but still news to <em>National Journal</em>, MSNBC</a></b><br />
An April 9 <a href="http://mediamatters.org//rd?http://hotlineblog.nationaljournal.com/archives/2007/04/rnc_to_blast_ob.html">entry</a> on the <i>National Journal</i>&#39;s Hotline On Call
weblog noted that the Republican National Committee, in anticipation of Sen.
Barack Obama&#39;s (D-IL) appearance that night on CBS&#39; <i>Late Show with David Letterman</i>, released
an <a href="http://mediamatters.org//rd?http://www.gop.com/News/Read.aspx?ID=6885">attack sheet</a> detailing
"Obama&#39;s Top Ten Fabrications." However, despite acknowledging that "these are
&#39;alleged&#39; fabrications, and some of them are... a bit of a
stretch," Hotline On Call reprinted the entire RNC release without
informing readers which "fabrications" it considered to be "a
bit of a stretch."
<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200704100025?src=other" class="read">Read more</a></p>

<p><b><a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200704100018?src=other"><em>Wash. Post</em>'s Cillizza described Bush's 70-percent approval among South Carolina GOP voters as "sky-high"</a></b><br />
In a brief April 10 <i>Washington Post</i> <a href="http://mediamatters.org//rd?http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/09/AR2007040901115.html">article</a> reporting on a
Fox News/Opinion Dynamics <a href="http://mediamatters.org//rd?http://www.foxnews.com/projects/pdf/SC_GOP_Primary_-_web.pdf">poll</a> of likely
Republican presidential primary voters in South Carolina, staff writer Chris
Cillizza stated that apart from the results of the "hypothetical primary
matchup" among GOP presidential candidates in that state, an
"interesting" aspect of the poll was "the sky-high approval
ratings registered by President Bush." Cillizza noted that the poll,
which was conducted April 1-3 among "600 likely South Carolina Republican
primary voters," found that 70 percent of those voters approved of the
job Bush is doing as president, while 23 percent disapproved. However, the
article did not explain why the poll&#39;s finding was
"interesting." Indeed, recent nationwide polling of self-identified
Republicans regarding Bush&#39;s job performance have yielded similar
results, which themselves represent a significant decline in support for Bush among
Republicans since his 2004 re-election. 
<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200704100018?src=other" class="read">Read more</a></p>

<p><b><a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200704100019?src=other">Dick Morris: If not for Sen. Clinton, Americans would be afraid of "the first black man ... running for president"</a></b><br />
Appearing on the April 9 edition of Fox
News&#39; <i>Hannity &amp; Colmes</i>,
syndicated columnist Dick Morris, referring to Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL), said:
"You have to ask yourself, the first black man is running for president
and nobody&#39;s afraid of him, because everybody&#39;s afraid of
Hillary." Host Sean Hannity replied, "Well, that&#39;s pretty
interesting." Morris gathered this conclusion from a new Fox News/Opinion
Dynamics <a href="http://mediamatters.org//rd?http://www.foxnews.com/projects/pdf/032907_foxnewspoll.pdf">poll</a> in which 26
percent of respondents reported that they would be "scared" if Sen.
Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) were to "become the next president,"
while 11 percent said the same of Obama. 
<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200704100019?src=other" class="read">Read more</a></p>

<h1><a href="http://mediamatters.org/issues_topics/national_security_foreign_policy?src=other">National Security/Foreign Policy</a></h1>
<p><b><a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200704100010?src=other"><em>Newsweek</em>'s Thomas, CNN's O'Brien and Sesno uncritically cited <em>Wash. Post</em> editorial, Cheney comments to attack Pelosi</a></b><br />
On the April 8 broadcast of <i><a href="http://mediamatters.org//rd?http://www.insidewashington.tv/">Inside Washington</a></i>,
a weekly news program on Washington, D.C., TV station WJLA, <i>Newsweek</i> assistant managing editor Evan
Thomas claimed that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) "look[ed]
ridiculous" for her recent trip to Syria, citing an April 5 <i>Washington Post</i> editorial attacking
Pelosi&#39;s trip as "counterproductive" and
"foolish." Thomas said the <i>Post</i> editorial
"creamed her," and later added that "it&#39;s sort of
pathetic that" Pelosi and congressional Democrats "look like
fools" and "like rookies making rookie mistakes" regarding
foreign policy.
<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200704100010?src=other" class="read">Read more</a></p>

<p><b><a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200704100013?src=other">Olbermann named Turner "Worst Person" runner-up for op-ed on Pelosi and Logan Act</a></b><br />
On the April 9 edition of MSNBC&#39;s <i>Countdown</i>, host Keith Olbermann awarded <a href="http://mediamatters.org//rd?http://www.law.virginia.edu/lawweb/Faculty.nsf/FHPbI/4459">Robert F.
Turner</a>, a University of Virginia School of Law professor,
"the silver" in his nightly "Worst Person in the World"
segment for asserting, in an April 6 <i>Wall
Street Journal</i> <a href="http://mediamatters.org//rd?http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110009908">op-ed</a>, that House
"Speaker Nancy Pelosi [D-CA] might have violated a federal criminal law
by going to Syria to meet with [Syrian] President [Bashar Al-] Assad," as
Olbermann put it. Turner claimed Pelosi "may well have" violated
the 200-year-old Logan Act even though, as <i>Media
Matters for America</i> <a href="http://mediamatters.org//items/200704080001?src=other">noted</a>, a 1975 State
Department <a href="http://mediamatters.org//rd?http://fpc.state.gov/documents/organization/61050.pdf#page=12">opinion</a>
applying the act, stated, "Nothing in [the Logan Act, U.S. Code Title
18,] <a href="http://mediamatters.org//rd?http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode18/usc_sec_18_00000953----000-.html">section
953</a>, however, would appear to restrict members of the Congress from
engaging in discussions with foreign officials in pursuance of their
legislative duties under the Constitution." As <i>Media Matters</i> noted, Pelosi has <a href="http://mediamatters.org//rd?http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/07/washington/07diplo.html?ex=1333598400&amp;en=9262dcd3d4903015&amp;ei=5090&amp;partner=rssuserland&amp;emc=rss">said</a>
that her trip was well within those duties.
<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200704100013?src=other" class="read">Read more</a></p>

<h1><a href="http://mediamatters.org/issues_topics/global_warming?src=other">Global Warming</a></h1>
<p><b><a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200704100009?src=other">CNN gave coal company CEO a platform for Gore-bashing, did not report company's labor and safety violations</a></b><br />
On CNN's
<em>The S</em><em>ituation Room</em>, Murray Energy Corp. CEO
Robert Murray called Al Gore "the shaman of global goofiness and gloom
and doom," and Carol Costello reported: "What [Murray is] really concerned about are people
losing their jobs." But Costello did not report that several of Murray's own mines
have reportedly been embroiled in controversy over labor rights and substandard
safety conditions.
<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200704100009?src=other" class="read">Read more</a></p>

<p><b><a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200704100016?src=other">Beck, CEI's Horner denounced Gore's work as "science fiction," spread global warming misinformation</a></b><br />
On the April 5 <a href="http://mediamatters.org//rd?http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0704/05/gb.01.html" title="blocked::http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0704/05/gb.01.html">edition</a>
of his CNN Headline News program, <a href="http://mediamatters.org//issues_topics/people/glennbeck?src=other" title="blocked::http://mediamatters.org/issues_topics/people/glennbeck">Glenn
Beck</a> joined Chris Horner, counsel for the <a href="http://mediamatters.org//items/200703150012#reiter?src=other">energy industry-funded</a>
Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), in denouncing former Vice President Al
Gore&#39;s award-winning documentary,
<i><a href="http://mediamatters.org//rd?http://www.climatecrisis.net/" title="blocked::http://mediamatters.org/rd?src=other&http://www.climatecrisis.net/">An
Inconvenient Truth</a></i> (Paramount Classics, 2006), with Horner
saying the film is "pure science fiction." As evidence, Beck cited a <i>New York
Times</i> <a href="http://mediamatters.org//rd?http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/13/science/13gore.html?ex=1331438400&amp;en=2df9d6e7a5aa6ed6&amp;ei=5090&amp;partner=rssuserland&amp;emc=rss" title="blocked::http://mediamatters.org/rd?src=other&http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/13/science/13gore.html?ex=1331438400&amp;en=2df9d6e7a5aa6ed6&amp;ei=5090&amp;partner=rssuserland&amp;emc=rss">article</a>
on global warming -- which, as <i>Media Matters
for America</i> <a href="http://mediamatters.org//items/200703150012?src=other" title="blocked::http://mediamatters.org/items/200703150012">has</a> <a href="http://mediamatters.org//items/200703130003?src=other" title="blocked::http://mediamatters.org/items/200703130003">repeatedly</a> <a href="http://mediamatters.org//items/200703260011?src=other" title="blocked::http://mediamatters.org/items/200703260011">noted</a>, includes
misleading characterizations, a false comparison, and misrepresentations of
Gore&#39;s statements.
Horner also claimed that, "in about a year, it&#39;ll be almost 10
years since we&#39;ve experienced any warming" -- an argument contradicted by NASA
surface <a href="http://mediamatters.org//rd?http://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/news/20070208/" title="blocked::http://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/news/20070208/">temperature</a> <a href="http://mediamatters.org//rd?http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=17553" title="blocked::http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=17553">analyses</a>. He
also asserted that Gore "has been saying, for nigh on five years, that we&#39;ve got 10 years to live," a statement that Gore does not appear to have ever made.

<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200704100016?src=other" class="read">Read more</a></p>

<h1><a href="http://mediamatters.org/issues_topics/ethics?src=other">Ethics</a></h1>
<p><b><a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200704100021?src=other"><em>Wash.</em><em> Post'</em>s Cohen's flat assertion that Goodling is "no criminal" undermined by her own lawyer's letter</a></b><br />
In his April 10 <a href="http://mediamatters.org//rd?http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/09/AR2007040901001.html?hpid=opinionsbox1" title="blocked::http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/09/AR2007040901001.html?hpid=opinionsbox1">column</a>, <i>Washington Post</i> columnist Richard Cohen
stated as fact that former Justice Department White House liaison Monica
Goodling, who recently <a href="http://mediamatters.org//rd?http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/26/AR2007032600935.html" title="blocked::http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/26/AR2007032600935.html">invoked her Fifth Amendment privilege</a>
against self-incrimination in the investigation into the firing of eight <a href="http://mediamatters.org//rd?http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/linkset/2007/03/05/LI2007030500666.html" title="blocked::http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/linkset/2007/03/05/LI2007030500666.html">U.S. attorneys</a>, is
"no criminal -- but what could happen to her surely is." Cohen
further claimed that "Goodling&#39;s problem is probably not what she&#39;s done
but what she might do," adding that if she testifies before Congress,
"she will produce a record -- a transcript -- that can be used against
her." But even Goodling&#39;s own attorney -- unlike Cohen --
acknowledged that Goodling has been accused of actions that may be illegal and
that her testimony could be used against her in the context of those
allegations. Cohen ignored the allegation by deputy attorney general Paul J.
McNulty that Goodling and others caused him to give inaccurate testimony to the
Senate Judiciary Committee by failing to inform him of relevant facts. If this
allegation is true, Goodling could be prosecuted, as her own attorney has
observed.
<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200704100021?src=other" class="read">Read more</a></p>

<h1><a href="http://mediamatters.org/issues_topics/contraception?src=other">Contraception</a></h1>
<p><b><a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200704100011?src=other"><em>Time</em> falsely claimed that "&nbsp;'morning-after' contraception pill" is "abortion-inducing"</a></b><br />
A March 30 <i>Time</i>
magazine article titled "<a href="http://mediamatters.org//rd?http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1605054,00.html">A Pro-Choice Movement in Mexico</a>"
falsely described the " &#39;morning-after&#39; contraception pill[]" as
"abortion-inducing." In
fact, the morning-after
pill is an <a href="http://mediamatters.org//rd?http://www.fda.gov/cder/drug/infopage/planB/planBQandA20060824.htm">emergency contraceptive</a>
that works to prevent a
pregnancy, rather than terminate an unwanted pregnancy.
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<h1><a href="http://mediamatters.org/issues_topics/war_in_iraq?src=other">War in Iraq</a></h1>
<p><b><a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200704100017?src=other">RedState.com falsely claimed McCain "confirmed" on <em>Hannity</em> that he was heckled by CNN's Ware</a></b><br />
RedState
contributor "haystack" falsely
claimed that Sen. John
McCain had "confirmed
[that] there was talking and laughing coming out of" Michael Ware's
"mouth while he (McCain) was speaking" during a recent press
conference in Baghdad.
In fact, during McCain's
appearance on <em>The Sean Hannity Show</em>, he stated that three other Republican members of Congress at the press conference said "there
was laughter and chuckling going on." McCain did not mention "heck[ling]" or say that
his colleagues attributed the purported behavior to Ware.
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<h1><a href="http://mediamatters.org/issues_topics/propaganda_noise_machine?src=other">Propaganda/Noise Machine</a></h1>
<p><b><a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200704100022?src=other">O'Reilly said Virginia Beach mayor "should be baking pies, not running a major city"</a></b><br />
On the April 6 edition of his nationally
syndicated radio show, Fox News host <a href="http://mediamatters.org//issues_topics/people/billoreilly?src=other">Bill O&#39;Reilly</a> stated
that Virginia Beach Mayor Meyera Oberndorf "should be baking pies, not running a
major city." O&#39;Reilly made the
comment while discussing a March 30 automobile <a href="http://mediamatters.org//rd?http://content.hamptonroads.com/story.cfm?story=122113&amp;ran=7606">accident</a> that resulted
in the deaths of two teenage girls, reportedly at the hands of an illegal
immigrant who said he had been drinking the night of the accident. O&#39;Reilly blamed Oberndorf in part for the
accident, saying that Virginia Beach&#39;s "sanctuary city
policy" prevented police from detaining and deporting the driver, despite
three
previous <a href="http://mediamatters.org//rd?http://content.hamptonroads.com/story.cfm?story=122201&amp;ran=61852">alcohol-related convictions</a>.
<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200704100022?src=other" class="read">Read more</a></p>




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