Media Matters for America summary, September 28, 2007
 
Date: Fri, 28 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/war_in_iraq?src=other">War in Iraq</a></h1>
<p><b><a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200709280011?src=other">Limbaugh expands group of "phony soldiers" to include Vietnam veteran Murtha</a></b><br />
On his radio show, Rush Limbaugh defended his
statement characterizing
service members who advocate U.S.
withdrawal from Iraq as
"phony soldiers" and expanded
the group of "phony soldiers" to include Vietnam veteran Rep. John P.
Murtha.

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<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200709280011?src=other" class="read">Read more</a></p>

<p><b><a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200709280009?src=other">Limbaugh selectively edited "phony soldiers" clip, claimed it was "the entire transcript"</a></b><br />
In response to Media Matters' documentation of his recent description of service members who advocate U.S. withdrawal from Iraq as "phony soldiers," Rush Limbaugh claimed that he had not been talking "about the anti-war movement generally," but rather "about one soldier ... Jesse MacBeth." Limbaugh then purported to air the "entire" segment in question. In fact, the clip he aired omitted a full 1 minute and 35 seconds of discussion that occurred between Limbaugh's original "phony soldiers" comment and his subsequent reference to MacBeth.

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<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200709280009?src=other" class="read">Read more</a></p>

<p><b><a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200709280013?src=other">Like  radio show, transcript on RushLimbaugh.com selectively edits his "phony  soldiers" comments</a></b><br />
<i>Media 
Matters for America</i> has previously <a href="http://mediamatters.org//items/200709280009?src=other" title="http://mediamatters.org/items/200709280009">noted</a> how, during the September 28 
broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, in response to <i>Media Matters</i>&#39; <a href="http://mediamatters.org//items/200709270010?f=h_top" title="http://mediamatters.org/items/200709270010?f=h_top">documentation</a> of his recent 
characterization of service members who advocate U.S. withdrawal from Iraq as 
"phony soldiers," Rush Limbaugh selectively edited an audio clip of the 
September 26 exchange while calling it "the entire transcript" of the segment. 
Limbaugh claimed that "<i>Media 
Matters</i> had the transcript, but they selectively choose what they 
want to make their point. Here is, it runs about 3 minutes and 13 seconds, the 
entire transcript, in context, that led to this so-called controversy." Excised 
from the clip, however, was a full 1 minute and 35 seconds of discussion 
that occurred between Limbaugh&#39;s original "phony soldiers" comment and his 
subsequent reference to "one soldier ... Jesse 
MacBeth."
<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200709280013?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/200709280010?src=other">Limbaugh  falsely recasts "phony soldiers" smear</a></b><br />
Rush Limbaugh insisted that his September 26 remarks characterizing 
U.S. service members who 
support withdrawal from Iraq as "phony soldiers" had 
been taken out of context and that he was referring specifically to "one 
genuine, convicted, lying, fake soldier," Jesse MacBeth. But Limbaugh did not 
refer to MacBeth during his September 26 broadcast until 1 minute, 
50 seconds after making 
his "phony soldiers" comment, and at no point on that show prior to making his 
"phony soldiers" comment did Limbaugh refer to any actual fake 
soldiers. Additionally, on September 28, 
Limbaugh misrepresented those comments.

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<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200709280010?src=other" class="read">Read more</a></p>

<p><b><a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200709280006?src=other">CNN's Sanchez noted O'Reilly falsehood about on-air complaints</a></b><br />
On CNN's <em>Out
in the Open</em>, Rick Sanchez said Bill O'Reilly "told me on the
phone that nobody complained about the show that he had done on the air,"
referring to the radio show in which O'Reilly made controversial comments
about race. Sanchez continued: "Guess what? Somebody did complain on the
air to him directly." Sanchez then
aired audio of a caller's
complaint -- identified
by <em>Media Matters </em>-- about O'Reilly's race-related comments
during the same radio show.
<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200709280006?src=other" class="read">Read more</a></p>

<p><b><a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200709280004?src=other">CNN's  Pilgrim left unchallenged guest's false claim about Ford, Rockefeller  foundations</a></b><br />
On CNN's <em>Lou Dobbs Tonight</em>, 
author Phil Kent asserted that "back in 2004, the American Civil Liberties 
Union, of all people, rejected some Ford and Rockefeller grants because of fear 
of terror links." Guest host Kitty Pilgrim did not challenge the claim. In fact, 
the ACLU has stated that it rejected funding from the Ford and 
Rockefeller foundations because 
their "restrictive funding agreements ... might adversely affect the civil 
liberties of the ACLU and other grantees."
<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200709280004?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/200709280007?src=other">Rev. Jackson to  O'Reilly: "[T]o underestimate the civility of blacks was insulting to many  people"</a></b><br />
During the September 27 edition of 
Fox News&#39; <i>The O&#39;Reilly Factor</i>, 
the Rev. Jesse Jackson asked host Bill O&#39;Reilly what he was "trying to say" 
during the September 19 broadcast of his radio show when he made <a href="http://mediamatters.org//items/200709210007?src=other" title="http://mediamatters.org/items/200709210007">controversial remarks</a> 
about his visit to Sylvia&#39;s, a restaurant in Harlem. O&#39;Reilly replied: "The hour 
was on how ... many whites fear blacks. And fear drives racism, as you know. Fear 
drives it. And I said to my audience, &#39;Look, this is a restaurant like any other 
restaurant,&#39; but a lot of whites are afraid to go there." Jackson then told O&#39;Reilly: 
"What concerns me is that fear and ignorance, you know, lead to hatred and leads 
to violence, obviously. ... And so, to underestimate the civility of blacks was 
insulting to many people." O&#39;Reilly countered: "Who underestimated the civility 
of blacks?" 
<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200709280007?src=other" class="read">Read more</a></p>

<h1><a href="http://mediamatters.org/issues_topics/2004_elections?src=other">2004 Elections</a></h1>
<p><b><a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200709280002?src=other">Limbaugh  previously called Vietnam veteran Kerry "a fraud," "a  total phony"</a></b><br />
Rush Limbaugh's characterization of 
service members who 
advocate U.S. withdrawal from 
Iraq as "phony soldiers" was not the 
first time that he has labeled a military service 
member a "phony." On his June 27 radio show, Limbaugh said of Sen. John Kerry, 
whose Vietnam record was the subject of a 
smear campaign by the discredited Swift Boat Veterans and POWs for Truth: "The 
guy's a fraud! He's a total phony, and people were able to see 
it!"

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<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200709280002?src=other" class="read">Read more</a></p>

<p><b><a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200709290001?src=other">Drudge  Report, ABC highlight AP article that left out key data on Bush/Clinton  "dynasty" issue</a></b><br />
The Drudge Report and ABCNews.com both highlighted an Associated Press article 
that cited an NBC/<em>Wall Street 
Journal</em> poll that, the article said, "found that fully one-quarter of 
all Americans said that the prospect of having at least 24 straight years of a 
President Clinton or Bush would be a consideration in their vote for president 
in 2008." But the AP left out the data on 
other responses to the question 
-- that a majority of 
respondents, 54 
percent, said it would "not be 
a consideration at all." Nor did the AP 
report that the poll also 
found that 42 percent of respondents "feel positive" that former President Bill 
Clinton is Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's (D-NY) husband, while only 28 percent 
"feel negative" about it.
<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200709290001?src=other" class="read">Read more</a></p>

<p><b><a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200709280003?src=other">Savage on "gay, fascist website" <em>Media Matters</em>, a "bunch of punk coward psychotics"</a></b><br />
While discussing Bill
O'Reilly's controversial comments about his visit to Sylvia's
restaurant in Harlem, Michael Savage once
again called <em>Media Matters for America</em>
a "gay, fascist website." He added, "[T]hey attack me,
O'Reilly, or whoever they can get their hands on that's a
conservative because they think that we're anti-gay. They're
psychotic. They're off their medication most of the time."
<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200709280003?src=other" class="read">Read more</a></p>




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