Media Matters for America summary, August 19, 2007
 
Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 22:03:02 -0400


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<p>Here are today's news items from <i>Media Matters for America</i>, 
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<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/200708190001?src=other">On <em>Chris Matthews Show</em>, Kathleen Parker claimed "the Clintons can slime better than anybody"</a></b><br />
On the August 19 broadcast of the NBC-syndicated
<i>Chris Matthews Show</i>, <i>Washington Post</i>
Writers Group syndicated columnist Kathleen Parker asserted
that Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama (IL) is
"holding back a little bit because he knows as well as anyone that the
Clintons can slime better than anybody."

<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200708190001?src=other" class="read">Read more</a></p>

<p><b><a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200708190002?src=other">CNN's King failed to challenge Thompson on his apparent abortion flip-flop</a></b><br />
During the August 17 edition of CNN&#39;s
<i>The Situation Room</i>, former Sen. Fred Thompson (R-TN), a potential Republican presidential candidate, asserted, "I think
<i>Roe vs. Wade</i> was a bad
decision," and added, "You don&#39;t just get up one day and overturn the
entire history of the country with regard major social policy without
any action by Congress, without any action by the American people or a
constitutional amendment. And that&#39;s what happened. It shouldn&#39;t have
happened. It ought to be reversed." National correspondent John King
did not note that Thompson&#39;s statement contradicted comments Thompson
reportedly made in 1993 to the Memphis <i>Commercial Appeal.</i> As 
<i>Media Matters for America</i> has <a href="http://mediamatters.org//items/200706010008?src=other">
documented</a>, a July 29, 1993, article in the
<i>Commercial Appeal</i>
reported that Thompson said in an interview that he "supports the
Supreme Court&#39;s Roe vs. Wade decision that established a constitutional
right to abortion."

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