Media Matters for America summary, June 17, 2007
 
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 22:03:03 -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/2008_elections?src=other">2008 Elections</a></h1>
<p><b><a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200706170001?src=other">In <em>Tucker</em> discussion, <em>Weekly Standard</em>'s Ferguson on Clinton and liberal Protestants: "[T]hey believe in everything but God"</a></b><br />
On the
June 14 edition of MSNBC&#39;s <i>Tucker</i>,
host Tucker Carlson asked <i>Weekly Standard</i>
senior editor Andrew Ferguson if Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY)
"could, in the end, be a Jimmy Carter in the sense that she gets a
significant percentage ... of evangelical votes," later asking:
"Can you imagine a scenario, though, where the Democrat gets religious
voters? Or is abortion is still the stumbling block?" Ferguson answered: "Only in --
religious in the way that Hillary Clinton is religious, which is to say of a very liberal
Protestant sort of view, in which they believe in everything but God." Carlson said
later, "I have never met anybody less sincere than the religious
left."
<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200706170001?src=other" class="read">Read more</a></p>

<p><b><a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200706170002?src=other">Washingtonpost.com's O'Keefe: "I don't necessarily know what" Obama campaign would want him to cover</a></b><br />
Discussing the online video "<a href="http://mediamatters.org//rd?http://barelypolitical.com/">Obama
Girl</a>" in an appearance on MSNBC, washingtonpost.com
"Channel &#39;08" blogger <a href="http://mediamatters.org//rd?http://blog.washingtonpost.com/channel-08/2007/05/channel_08_podcasted.html">Ed O&#39;Keefe</a>
asserted that Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) "perhaps is, you know, big on
style, not enough on substance," rehashing a baseless critique of Obama
advanced by <i>Washington Post</i> staff
writer <a href="http://mediamatters.org//items/200703300004?src=other">Chris Cilizza</a> and MSNBC anchor <a href="http://mediamatters.org//items/200704240006?src=other">Peter Alexander</a> -- <a href="http://mediamatters.org//items/200704270001?src=other">among</a> <a href="http://mediamatters.org//items/200703270004?src=other">others</a> -- despite Obama&#39;s numerous
detailed policy speeches. O&#39;Keefe later said: "[H]ere we are four
days after the video surfaced talking about this and not perhaps talking about
what the Obama campaign would want us to talk about. I don&#39;t necessarily know
what that is."
<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200706170002?src=other" class="read">Read more</a></p>

<p><b><a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200706170003?src=other">Matthews: "Do Americans want to return to the Hillary model of first lady, or do they like the Laura Bush model?"</a></b><br />
On the June 17 edition of the
NBC-syndicated <i>Chris Matthews Show</i>,
host Chris Matthews, leading off the discussion topic "What are Americans
looking for in their next first lady?" asked "<a href="http://mediamatters.org//rd?http://www.thechrismatthewsshow.com/index.php">The Matthews Meter</a>" -- composed of 12 of his regular
panelists, including June 17 panelists BBC Washington correspondent Katty Kay, <i>Newsweek</i> chief political correspondent Howard Fineman, and
MSNBC host Tucker Carlson -- "Do Americans want to return to the Hillary
model of first lady, or do they like the Laura Bush model?" All 12
panelists responded that Americans want "the Laura Bush model." 
<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200706170003?src=other" class="read">Read more</a></p>




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