Media Matters for America summary, September 25, 2007
 
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 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/race_affirmative_action?src=other">Race/Affirmative Action</a></h1>
<p><b><a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200709250002?src=other">O'Reilly told CNN that Harlem restaurant comments were "hatchet job by <em>Media  Matters</em>"</a></b><br />
On CNN's <em>Out in the Open</em>, Rick 
Sanchez and CNN contributor Roland Martin discussed Bill O'Reilly's statement that he was 
surprised there was "no difference" between Sylvia's restaurant in the Harlem 
neighborhood of Manhattan and other New York restaurants, even though Sylvia's 
is "run by blacks." Sanchez reported that during an "animated" phone 
conversation, O'Reilly denied any "racial intent" in his comments and described 
the story as "a hatchet job by <em>Media 
Matters</em>."
<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200709250002?src=other" class="read">Read more</a></p>

<p><b><a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200709250007?src=other">NY's  WABC interviewed  Harlem restaurant patrons about O'Reilly's  comments</a></b><br />
On the September 24 edition of 
<i>Eyewitness News</i> on WABC in New York City, co-anchor Liz Cho introduced 
a segment in which reporter Jeff Pegues spoke with patrons of Sylvia&#39;s, the 
famous Harlem restaurant, about Fox 
News host <a href="http://mediamatters.org//issues_topics/people/billoreilly?src=other" title="http://mediamatters.org/issues_topics/people/billoreilly">Bill O&#39;Reilly</a>&#39;s <a href="http://mediamatters.org//items/200709210007?f=h_top" title="http://mediamatters.org/items/200709210007?f=h_top">comments</a> following his recent trip to the restaurant with Rev. Al Sharpton. Cho stated: 

<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200709250007?src=other" class="read">Read more</a></p>

<p><b><a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200709250010?src=other">Sowell  cited Neo-Nazis' actions as example of "racial hype game" surrounding Jena 6  case</a></b><br />
In his September 25 
syndicated <a href="http://mediamatters.org//rd?http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2007/09/25/law_versus_mob_rule" title="http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2007/09/25/law_versus_mob_rule">column</a> on the so-called Jena Six case, <a href="http://mediamatters.org//issues_topics/people/thomassowell?src=other" title="http://mediamatters.org/issues_topics/people/thomassowell">Thomas Sowell</a> asserted that "[r]acial 
hype has replaced all rational discussion," claiming that "the Jena episode has shown 
that two can play the racial hype game." As an example of such "racial hype," 
Sowell cited the publishing of "the telephone numbers and home addresses of all 
the young blacks involved in the school incident" on a neo-Nazi website. 
<i>The Washington Post</i> <a href="http://mediamatters.org//rd?http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/22/AR2007092200105.html" title="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/22/AR2007092200105.html">reported</a> in a September 22 article that 
the posting on the Neo-Nazi website encourages 
readers to "get in touch [with 
the black teenagers], and let them know justice is coming." The article further 
reported that the "FBI is investigating to see whether the posting violates 
federal laws."
<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200709250010?src=other" class="read">Read more</a></p>

<p><b><a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200709250004?src=other">MSNBC's Scarborough highlighted O'Reilly's comments about Sylvia's in Harlem</a></b><br />
 On the September 25 edition of MSNBC&#39;s <i>Morning Joe</i>, host Joe Scarborough, co-anchor Mika Brzezinski, and guest host Willie Geist discussed Fox News host <a href="http://mediamatters.org//issues_topics/people/billoreilly?src=other">Bill O&#39;Reilly</a>&#39;s recent comment, <a href="http://mediamatters.org//items/200709210007?src=other">documented</a> by <i>Media Matters for America</i>, that he, in Scarborough&#39;s words, "couldn&#39;t get over the fact that there was no difference between a black restaurant and a white restaurant," after a recent trip to Harlem&#39;s famous restaurant <a href="http://mediamatters.org//rd?http://www.sylviassoulfood.com/restaurants.html" title="http://www.sylviassoulfood.com/restaurants.html">Sylvia&#39;s</a>. Scarborough twice played audio clips of O&#39;Reilly&#39;s comments, made on the September 19 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show. Scarborough called the remarks "shocking" and "fascinating," and added, "I&#39;m sure we&#39;re going to be hearing more about that throughout the day." Scarborough also highlighted O&#39;Reilly&#39;s comment that everyone at the restaurant was "tremendously respectful," to which Geist responded: "And Sylvia&#39;s of all places, which is like world famous, great restaurant. He was still surprised."     From the September 25 edition of MSNBC&#39;s <i>Morning Joe:</i>
<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200709250004?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/200709250011?src=other">Fox News' "body  language expert" accused Clinton of exhibiting "evil laughter"</a></b><br />
On the September 24 edition of Fox 
News&#39; <i>The O&#39;Reilly Factor</i>, during 
the weekly "Body 
Language" segment, which, according to host <a href="http://mediamatters.org//issues_topics/people/billoreilly?src=other" title="http://mediamatters.org/issues_topics/people/billoreilly">Bill 
O&#39;Reilly</a>, "has been switched to Mondays because of popular demand," Fox News 
body language expert Tonya Reiman asserted that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton 
(D-NY) exhibited "evil laughter" during her recent <i>Fox News Sunday</i> interview with host Chris 
Wallace. After playing video clips of Clinton laughing at different 
moments during the interview, O&#39;Reilly asserted: "Well, she 
looked like she&#39;s having a swell time." Reiman replied: "Oh, contrived, 
contrived. That was the first word that came to mind." O&#39;Reilly then asked: 
"[Y]ou mean, those laughs weren&#39;t genuine?" to which Reiman responded: "I saw 
some evil laughter." "Evil?" O&#39;Reilly asked. "Evil laughter," Reiman 
repeated.
<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200709250011?src=other" class="read">Read more</a></p>

<p><b><a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200709250013?src=other">Matthews  revisited Yankees comments to claim Clinton "tried hard to prove she was a Noo  Yawker"</a></b><br />
<em>The Chris Matthews Show</em> aired 
footage of a 1999 interview on NBC's <em>Today 
</em>in which Sen. Hillary Clinton said that she has "always been" a fan 
of the New York Yankees as evidence that Clinton, according to Matthews, "tried 
hard to prove she was a Noo Yawker." Following the clip, Matthews said: "I just 
love the way Katie Couric went at her there. 'Come on, how many hats you 
wearing, babe?' I just think that was great." But evidence supports the claim 
that Clinton 
has, in fact, been a longtime Yankees fan.
<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200709250013?src=other" class="read">Read more</a></p>

<p><b><a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200709250001?src=other">CNN's Costello failed to ask NRA's LaPierre about Nugent's slurs against Obama, Clinton, Feinstein</a></b><br />
During a September 21 interview,
CNN's Carol Costello interviewed National Rifle Association executive
vice president
Wayne LaPierre, but she did not ask LaPierre about controversial remarks made by Ted
Nugent -- an NRA board member -- during an August concert in which he insulted
Sens. Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Dianne Feinstein.

<br />
<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200709250001?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/200709250012?src=other"><em>Reliable  Sources</em>  panel dismissed Rather claims, but left out other times  when  CBS allegedly placated White House</a></b><br />
During a discussion of Dan Rather's lawsuit against CBS, CNN's Howard Kurtz asked 
if it was "plausible" that CBS made Rather "a scapegoat to placate the Bush 
administration" over the controversial <em>60 
Minutes II </em>report about President Bush's service in the Texas Air 
National Guard, as Rather alleges. Kurtz's guests -- conservative radio host 
Laura Ingraham and former <em>CBS</em> 
<em>Evening News</em> executive producer 
Rome Hartman -- disputed Rather's assertion. But neither Kurtz nor his guests 
mentioned two other instances in which CBS allegedly acted to placate the White 
House in 2004.
<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200709250012?src=other" class="read">Read more</a></p>

<p><b><a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200709250014?src=other">Fox News lashed  out at media criticism of O'Reilly's racially charged  comments</a></b><br />
During the September 25 edition of 
<i>CNN Newsroom</i>, co-host Don Lemon 
and anchor Rick Sanchez discussed the <a href="http://mediamatters.org//items/200709210007?f=h_top" title="http://mediamatters.org/items/200709210007?f=h_top">recent statement</a> by Fox News host <a href="http://mediamatters.org//issues_topics/people/billoreilly?src=other" title="http://mediamatters.org/issues_topics/people/billoreilly">Bill 
O&#39;Reilly</a> that he was surprised "there was no difference 
between Sylvia&#39;s restaurant [in Harlem] and any other restaurant in New York 
City ... even though [Sylvia&#39;s is] run by blacks." Sanchez stated that "every 
African-American that 
I&#39;ve talked to since this -- and my God, have I gotten a bevy of 
phone calls on this, inside and outside the business -- people are actually 
offended. They ... call this a subtle type of racism. It&#39;s not the &#39;hit you over 
the head with a hammer&#39; type; it&#39;s the &#39;velvet glove&#39; type." He then said 
that, during a September 24 phone conversation, O&#39;Reilly "didn&#39;t want any part 
of it" and "was screaming the entire conversation," adding, "He was not happy with me." As <i>Media Matters for America</i> <a href="http://mediamatters.org//items/200709250002?f=h_top" title="http://mediamatters.org/items/200709250002?f=h_top">noted</a>, on the 
September 24 edition of CNN&#39;s <i>Out in the 
Open</i>, Sanchez also recounted his "animated" conversation with 
O&#39;Reilly, saying that O&#39;Reilly denied any "racial intent" in his comments and 
described the story as "a hatchet job by <i>Media 
Matters</i>."
<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200709250014?src=other" class="read">Read more</a></p>

<p><b><a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200709250009?src=other">O'Reilly: "CNN  has now entered the dark side with <em>Media  Matters</em>"</a></b><br />
During the September 25 broadcast of 
his nationally syndicated radio show, Fox News host <a href="http://mediamatters.org//issues_topics/people/billoreilly?src=other" title="http://mediamatters.org/issues_topics/people/billoreilly">Bill 
O&#39;Reilly</a> advised listeners to tune in to his Fox News program for "a great segment 
tonight" on how 
"CNN has now entered the dark side with <i>Media Matters</i>." O&#39;Reilly further claimed 
that CNN "will use the far-left assassins," and "will prop them up." Later in 
the broadcast, O&#39;Reilly referred to "another attack on me by another far-left, 
loony, smear website that CNN picked up."
<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200709250009?src=other" class="read">Read more</a></p>

<h1><a href="http://mediamatters.org/issues_topics/war_in_iraq?src=other">War in Iraq</a></h1>
<p><b><a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200709250003?src=other">MSNBC  asks about "GOP hypocrisy?" in denunciations of MoveOn but silence on Limbaugh's  "Senator Betrayus" comments</a></b><br />
While discussing what he suggested might be "hypocrisy when it comes to 
political attacks" with regard to a MoveOn.org ad headlined "General Petraeus or 
General Betray Us?" and comments by Rush Limbaugh about "Senator Betrayus, new 
name for Senator Hagel," MSNBC's David Shuster asked Rep. Marsha Blackburn, 
"Where was the outrage when Rush Limbaugh said this about Republican Senator 
Chuck Hagel over one of the senator's stances on Iraq?"

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<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200709250003?src=other" class="read">Read more</a></p>




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