Media Matters for America summary, December 07, 2007
 
Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2007 22:03:02 -0500

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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/200712070003?src=other">Matthews and others on NBC networks have repeatedly linked Clinton to fictional Nurse Ratched</a></b><br />
On <em>Hardball</em>, Chris Matthews asked about Sen.
Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY), "[D]oes she look like Nurse Ratched
here?" referencing a character in Ken Kesey's novel and the movie <em>One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest</em>, who
has been described as a "scheming, manipulative agent" who
"asserts arbitrary control simply because she can." In fact, Matthews
and others on programs on NBC, MSNBC, and CNBC have a long history of
associating Clinton
with Nurse Ratched.
<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200712070003?src=other" class="read">Read more</a></p>

<p><b><a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200712070002?src=other">Shuster on <em>Morning Joe</em>: DuMond not as big an issue as Horton "because [Huckabee's] a conservative guy from a conservative state"</a></b><br />
On the December 6 edition of MSNBC&#39;s <i>Morning Joe</i>, during a discussion of former
Arkansas Gov. and Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee&#39;s role
in the 1999 release of convicted rapist Wayne DuMond, who was convicted of
raping and murdering another woman after being released and was suspected in
another rape and murder, host Joe Scarborough asked MSNBC correspondent David
Shuster, "Do you think this is going to be a big issue?" Shuster
responded: "No, I don&#39;t, because the reason -- the reason I think
it was a big issue for [1988 Democratic presidential candidate] Mike Dukakis
was because it played into the idea of a Massachusetts
liberal soft on crime. Mike Huckabee has sentenced more people to death and
carried out the death penalty more than anybody else, so it doesn&#39;t
really fit that narrative."
<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200712070002?src=other" class="read">Read more</a></p>

<h1><a href="http://mediamatters.org/issues_topics/immigration?src=other">Immigration</a></h1>
<p><b><a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200712070001?src=other">O'Reilly blamed killing of two alleged burglars on "Houston's sanctuary city policies"</a></b><br />
During the December 5 edition of Fox
News&#39; <i>The O&#39;Reilly Factor</i>,
discussing Pasadena, Texas,
resident Joe Horn&#39;s November 17 <a href="http://mediamatters.org//rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cbsnews.com%2Fstories%2F2007%2F11%2F17%2Fnational%2Fmain3517564.shtml%3Fsource%3Dmostpop_story">killing</a> of two illegal
immigrants who were allegedly robbing his neighbor&#39;s home, host Bill
O&#39;Reilly stated: "All right, look, these two illegal aliens are
dead because of Houston&#39;s
sanctuary city policies. That&#39;s why they&#39;re dead. Not Horn. Horn
panicked. Horn got emotional. He probably shouldn&#39;t have done what he
did. I hope he&#39;s not prosecuted ... But these guys are dead because
of chaotic immigration policies. That&#39;s why they&#39;re dead."
O&#39;Reilly also stated that the shooting "is an immigration issue in
the sense that it never should have happened because these guys never should
have been in the country."
<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200712070001?src=other" class="read">Read more</a></p>




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