Media Matters for America summary, August 30, 2007
 
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 22:03:05 -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/lgbt_issues?src=other">LGBT Issues</a></h1>
<p><b><a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200708300003?src=other">Jeanne  Moos -- in "bathroom humor" segment -- was only CNN reporter to cover Carlson  story</a></b><br />
In the only coverage that CNN has given to Tucker Carlson's 
August 28 comments, Jeanne Moos said of Sen. Larry Craig's arrest during an investigation of "lewd 
conduct": "It's causing commentators to tell personal stories 
you'd never expect. MSNBC's Tucker Carlson described how he was once bothered in 
a men's room." Moos then aired a brief clip of Carlson explaining how he responded to being 
"bothered": "I went back with someone I knew and grabbed the guy by the -- you 
know, and grabbed him, and ... [h]it him against the stall with his head, 
actually!"

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<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200708300003?src=other" class="read">Read more</a></p>

<p><b><a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200708300002?src=other">MSNBC silent so far on Carlson comments</a></b><br />
Following an August 28 segment on MSNBC&#39;s <i>Live with Dan Abrams</i>, during which MSNBC host
Tucker Carlson admitted to assaulting an individual who "bothered"
him in a restroom in Washington, D.C., Abrams, host and MSNBC&#39;s <a href="http://mediamatters.org//rd?http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13285722/">general manager</a>, did not
mention Carlson&#39;s comments on his program the following night, and MSNBC
management apparently has not yet made a statement regarding Carlson&#39;s
comments. Indeed, the cable network has replayed portions of the segment three
times, highlighting Carlson&#39;s account of having been
"bothered" in a restroom, but cropping out the part in which
Carlson said, "I went back with someone I knew and grabbed the guy by the
-- you know, and grabbed him, and ... [h]it him against the stall with his
head." On the August 30 edition of MSNBC&#39;s <i>Morning Joe</i>, host Joe Scarborough also
referred to Carlson&#39;s claim of having been "bothered" in the
men&#39;s room, but did not mention that Carlson "went back with
someone," even though Scarborough was a
guest on Abrams&#39; show when Carlson recounted the alleged high school
incident. During the August 28 show, laughter can be heard in the background as
Carlson tells Scarborough and Abrams about the
incident.
<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200708300002?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/200708300009?src=other">Right-wing media continue to repeat false claim that Castro endorsed Clinton and Obama</a></b><br />
CNN's Glenn Beck and Fox
News' Dagen McDowell repeated the false claim that Cuban dictator Fidel
Castro had given an "endorsement" to Sens. Barack Obama (D-IL) and
Hillary Clinton (D-NY) in a Cuban newspaper column. But nowhere in his
column did Castro endorse Clinton or Obama; to the contrary, he attributed to
Clinton and Obama a pro-democratic view that he called an "error,"
and he said of Clinton and Obama, "They are not making politics: they are
playing a game of cards on a Sunday afternoon."

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<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200708300009?src=other" class="read">Read more</a></p>

<h1><a href="http://mediamatters.org/issues_topics/iran?src=other">Iran</a></h1>
<p><b><a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200708300004?src=other">Buchanan, Scarborough claimed that a military strike against Iran would be popular, but polls suggest otherwise</a></b><br />
On MSNBC, Pat Buchanan claimed
that a U.S. attack on Iran is "comin[g]" and went on to
assert that a military strike against Iran would be "a very popular
initial move." Joe Scarborough agreed, stating that "a military
strike against Iran
initially would be extraordinarily popular with the American people." But
polling data show that most Americans say they would oppose an attack on Iran.

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<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200708300004?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/200708300008?src=other">Buchanan repeated discredited claim that Rep. Frank "had a fellow running ... basically a full-service whorehouse in his basement"</a></b><br />
On MSNBC, Pat Buchanan asserted that Rep. Barney Frank "had a fellow running a -- basically a full-service whorehouse in his basement." In fact, the House ethics committee found that the man's initial public assertions that he had run a prostitution ring out of Frank's residence were contradicted by evidence and the sworn testimony of third parties.
<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200708300008?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/200708300007?src=other">NBC's Myers  advanced "value[s]  voters" myth, cited Tony Perkins</a></b><br />
During a report on the fallout from Sen. Larry Craig's guilty plea for 
misdemeanor disorderly conduct, NBC's Lisa Myers reported that Tony Perkins says 
"value voters have lost 
faith in the Republican Party and warns that Republicans had better be sure 
their members are living up to pro-family rhetoric." In doing so, Myers joined 
other media figures in advancing the myth that social conservatives are more 
concerned with "values" than other voters.

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<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200708300007?src=other" class="read">Read more</a></p>

<h1><a href="http://mediamatters.org/issues_topics/natural_disasters?src=other">Natural Disasters</a></h1>
<p><b><a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200708300010?src=other">Media ignored  Mississippi's  use of waivers to redirect funds designated for low-income Katrina victims</a></b><br />
Despite widespread reporting on the reconstruction in the Gulf Coast, the media have largely ignored 
reports that Mississippi Republican Gov. Haley Barbour has used waivers to 
redirect funds designated for low- to moderate-income Katrina victims.

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<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200708300010?src=other" class="read">Read more</a></p>




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