Media Matters for America summary, August 10, 2007
 
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 22:03:02 -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/200708100002?src=other">On <em>Hardball</em>, Patterson repeated dubious smear  of Clinton, despite his changing story</a></b><br />
Retired Air 
Force Lt. Col. Robert "Buzz" Patterson 
repeated the claim that when he worked in the White House in 1996, then-first 
lady Hillary Rodham Clinton "wanted to outlaw uniforms, military uniforms in the 
White House," saying it was a "perfect example" of how Clinton "does not 
understand the military." Patterson's story <font style="background-color: #ffffff">of Clinton's purported "edict" </font>-- which he says occurred in 1996 
"when he first arrived" at the White House -- echoes a debunked claim about 
Clinton dating back to 1993. And his 
version of how he learned of Clinton's purported plan to ban 
military uniforms in the White House varies with each 
telling.

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<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200708100002?src=other" class="read">Read more</a></p>

<p><b><a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200708100006?src=other">O'Reilly  claimed Edwards is "actually lying" about Fox News'  treatment  of Democrats</a></b><br />
After playing a clip of 
John Edwards asserting that "Fox News 
... has a clear and long history of bias against Democrats," host Bill O'Reilly 
responded that "John Edwards has been on the Fox News 
Channel 33 times," and that, in reviewing those interviews, "[n]ot once could I 
find anything insulting, demeaning, or disrespectful to the senator." In fact, 
beyond Edwards' treatment while a guest on Fox News, O'Reilly himself and 
numerous other Fox News personalities have repeatedly made "insulting, 
demeaning, or disrespectful" statements about Edwards and other Democrats.

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<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200708100006?src=other" class="read">Read more</a></p>

<p><b><a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200708100007?src=other">On <em>Hardball</em>, Cillizza falsely claimed "most"  Dem candidates said "our kids don't go to" public  schools</a></b><br />
Washingtonpost.com's 
Chris Cillizza asserted 
that during a debate for Democratic presidential candidates, 
"Democrats were 
asked, 'Are your kids in public 
schools?' Well, most of them said, 'Yes, we believe very strongly in public 
schools. But no, our kids don't go to them.' " In fact, three of the 
candidates said their children currently attend or did attend public schools, 
two said their children attended both public and private schools, and two said 
their children currently attend or did attend private schools.

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<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200708100007?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/200708100008?src=other"><em>NY  Times</em>,  <em>USA Today</em> repeated Bush attack on  Dems without noting bipartisan criticism of Gonzales</a></b><br />
<em>The New York Times</em> and <em>USA Today</em> uncritically reported President 
Bush's attacks on Democrats over congressional investigations of Alberto 
Gonzales, but neither newspaper noted that criticism of Gonzales 
has been bipartisan: numerous Republicans 
have called for Gonzales' resignation, several have criticized the 
administration's lack of cooperation with congressional investigations, and 
senior Republican Judiciary Committee members have joined Democrats in voting to 
authorize subpoenas of Bush administration officials as part of investigations 
involving Gonzales.
<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200708100008?src=other" class="read">Read more</a></p>

<p><b><a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200708100003?src=other">O'Reilly accused liberal bloggers of being "blackmailers"</a></b><br />
During the August 9 edition of Fox News&#39; <i>The O&#39;Reilly Factor</i>, host <a href="http://mediamatters.org//issues_topics/people/billoreilly?sort=default&amp;offset=15">Bill O&#39;Reilly</a>
claimed: "[W]hat people don&#39;t understand is that these Internet
bloggers give messages to these candidates: &#39;If you don&#39;t do what
we tell you to do, we will trash you and try to interfere with your
fundraising.&#39; " Fox News contributor and syndicated columnist Dick
Morris later asserted that O&#39;Reilly is "a great rallying point
for" liberal bloggers, to which O&#39;Reilly replied: "But I
think it&#39;s a danger to have blackmailers, which is what these bloggers
are, active in the political process."
<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200708100003?src=other" class="read">Read more</a></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/200708100005?src=other">Boortz:  Non-English-speaking Latinos are "the ones with sombreros" and  "bandoliers full of bullets across their chest"</a></b><br />
On the August 10 broadcast of Cox 
Radio Syndication&#39;s <i>The Neal Boortz 
Show</i>, producer Belinda Skelton told host Neal Boortz about a 
bilingual Parent-Teacher Association meeting she had attended, remarking that 
she had been unable to tell how many of the families in attendance spoke 
English. Boortz responded: "[Y]ou can look at the parents and tell, because the 
ones with sombreros can&#39;t speak English. ... The ones with the bandoliers full of 
bullets across their chest."
<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200708100005?src=other" class="read">Read more</a></p>

<h1><a href="http://mediamatters.org/issues_topics/lgbt_issues?src=other">LGBT Issues</a></h1>
<p><b><a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200708100004?src=other">Tapper on Dems at HRC debate: "They came, they saw, they pandered"</a></b><br />
On <em>Good Morning
America</em>, Jake Tapper said that Democratic presidential candidates at the August 9 Human Rights
Campaign forum "treated the group as with
any other interest group: They came, they saw, they pandered." In fact, Tapper himself later noted that four candidates reiterated their
opposition to same-sex
marriage.
<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200708100004?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/200708100009?src=other">CNN's O'Brien  ignored damage from Bush-endorsed Pakistan-tribal leader  pact</a></b><br />
In reporting that a "much-criticized pact" between Pakistani President Musharraf 
and tribal leaders -- that "would have pulled Pakistani troops from that tribal 
region bordering Afghanistan where many believe Osama Bin Laden is ... fell 
through" -- CNN's Miles O'Brien did not mention that the deal, which did take 
effect and which the Bush administration "reluctantly endorsed," facilitated the 
"regenerat[ion]" of several elements of Al Qaeda's infrastructure, according to 
a recent National Intelligence Estimate.

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