Media Matters for America summary, June 24, 2007
 
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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/200706240003?src=other">Clarke: Another "national security incident" would cause people to question Clinton's fitness for presidency</a></b><br />
On the June 24 edition of ABC&#39;s <i>This Week,</i> during a roundtable discussion
with host George Stephanopoulos, <i>Newsweek</i>
editor Fareed Zakaria, syndicated columnist George F. Will, and ABC
News chief political correspondent Jake Tapper, former Pentagon spokeswoman
Victoria Clarke asserted that "the single thing that will make the
biggest difference between now and November of 2008" in terms of Sen.
Hillary Rodham Clinton&#39;s (D-NY) chances in the presidential election "is
whether or not there is another very large national security incident."
Clarke continued: "Because then, I think it will be very hard for people
to look at Hillary Clinton, no matter what they thought up &#39;til now, and say,
&#39;Umm, you know, can she sit in that chair? Can she make those awesome
decisions that the next president of the United States may have to
make?&#39; " She added, "Fair or
unfair, I think some people would think that." Clarke <a href="http://mediamatters.org//rd?http://www.stennis.gov/swips/torieclarke.htm">served</a> as assistant
secretary of Defense for public affairs from 2001-2003. 
<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200706240003?src=other" class="read">Read more</a></p>

<p><b><a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200706240001?src=other">Matthews on Clinton "being surrounded by women": "[D]oes that make a case" for or against her as commander in chief?  <br /></a></b><br />
On the June 24 edition of the
NBC-syndicated <i>Chris Matthews Show</i>,
during a discussion about Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY), host Chris
Matthews asked Kathleen Parker, a syndicated columnist with the Washington Post
Writers Group, if "being surrounded by women" makes "a case
for commander in chief -- or does it make a case against it?" Parker
answered by referring to a June 21 front-page <i>Washington
Post</i> <a href="http://mediamatters.org//rd?http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/20/AR2007062002567.html">article</a> about the women
working as senior advisers to Clinton&#39;s campaign: "It makes a case
with a certain demographic, and I noticed the picture on the front of <i>The Washington
Post</i> the other day showed her with all these women and her crew, and
did you notice, there was only one blonde out of about 15 women, so it sort of
-- I thought that was very telling." Parker never explained what was
"telling" about the hair color of Clinton&#39;s top aides.
<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200706240001?src=other" class="read">Read more</a></p>

<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/200706240004?src=other">On <em>Fox News Sunday</em>, Wallace did not note Inhofe changed his story about talk radio allegations</a></b><br />
On the June 24 edition of <i>Fox News Sunday</i>, host Chris Wallace
reported on Sen. James Inhofe&#39;s (R-OK) disputed claim that he had
overheard Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) and Barbara Boxer (D-CA)
discussing a "legislative fix" for right-wing talk radio, but
Wallace did not note that Inhofe had altered a crucial element of the story since
his allegations were first made public. Wallace said Inhofe "says that he
overheard Barbara Boxer and Hillary Clinton three years ago complaining about
talk radio and saying there should be a legislative fix." Wallace was
referring to comments Inhofe had made during a June 22 interview on Fox
News&#39; <i>Your World</i>. However,
as blogger Greg Sargent <a href="http://mediamatters.org//rd?http://electioncentral.tpmcafe.com/blog/electioncentral/2007/jun/22/inhofe" title="http://electioncentral.tpmcafe.com/blog/electioncentral/2007/jun/22/inhofe">observed</a>, Inhofe had first
asserted during a June 21 <a href="http://mediamatters.org//rd?http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2cfy1_claim-clinton-boxer-conspire-to-rei" title="http://mediamatters.org/rd?src=other&http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2cfy1_claim-clinton-boxer-conspire-to-rei">interview</a> on Los
Angeles radio station KFI 640 AM&#39;s <i><a href="http://mediamatters.org//rd?http://www.johnziegler.com/" title="http://mediamatters.org/rd?src=other&http://www.johnziegler.com/">The John Ziegler Show</a></i>
that he had overheard the conversation between Boxer and Clinton "the
other day" but then said on <i>Your World</i> that
the conversation had occurred "three years ago." 
<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200706240004?src=other" class="read">Read more</a></p>

<p><b><a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200706240002?src=other">Kurtz claimed "a lot of journalists" are giving to Dems -- but number giving at all is tiny percentage of whole</a></b><br />
On the June 24 edition of CNN&#39;s <i>Reliable Sources</i>, host and <i>Washington Post</i>
media critic Howard Kurtz said: "MSNBC.com had a lengthy <a href="http://mediamatters.org//rd?http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19113455/">investigation</a> this week ... they found a lot of journalists contributing to
political candidates and political parties, mostly Democrats." Throughout
the segment, the on-screen text read: "Journalists&#39; donations: Many
give to Democrats." While Kurtz did not define what he meant by "a
lot" and the on-screen text did not define "many," the
assertions are contradicted by the MSNBC <a href="http://mediamatters.org//rd?http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19113485/">report</a> itself. As the report notes, the
actual number of journalists identified in the study as political donors --
143<a href="http://mediamatters.org/#note?src=other">*</a>  total -- is a "tiny fraction of the roughly 100,000 staffers in
newsrooms across the nation."  
<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200706240002?src=other" class="read">Read more</a></p>




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