Media Matters for America summary, December 09, 2007
 
Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2007 22:03:03 -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/200712090004?src=other">Ignoring polling to the contrary, Ignatius asserted there's a "nagging uneasiness" about having both Clintons back in  the White House</a></b><br />
<em>Washington</em><em>
 Post</em>
columnist David Ignatius asserted of Hillary Clinton's presidential
campaign: "[V]oters are grappling with the unusual questions that would
surround her presidency. And the most important of these is the 'two
presidents' problem. Whatever you think of the Clintons, it's hard to
get your mind around having a current and former president in the White
House." But a September
27-30
<em>Washington</em><em>
 Post</em>/ABC
News poll found that 60 percent of respondents said they "personally
feel comfortable ... with the idea of Bill Clinton back in the White
House." And in several other 2007 polls, a majority of respondents
stated that Bill Clinton is an asset to Hillary Clinton's campaign or
would have a positive effect on a Hillary Clinton administration.
<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200712090004?src=other" class="read">Read more</a></p>

<p><b><a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200712090001?src=other">Drudge headline falsely asserted,  "Edwards Slams  Oprah"</a></b><br />
Using the headlines "Edwards
Slams Oprah" and later
 "Edwards Slams Talk Queen,"
 the Drudge Report<em> </em>linked to a post on
<em>The New York Times</em>'
political blog. However, while the post quoted a supporter of former
Sen. John Edwards "express[ing] dissatisfaction" with Oprah Winfrey, a
spokeswoman for the Edwards campaign stated that the supporter was
"speaking only for herself." Further, the post did not include a single
quote from Edwards discussing Winfrey or her tour on behalf of Sen.
Barack Obama's presidential campaign.
<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200712090001?src=other" class="read">Read more</a></p>

<p><b><a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200712090003?src=other">Matthews and guests lauded Romney's "Faith in America"  speech, ignored attack on "secularism"</a></b><br />
Panelists on <em>The Chris Matthews Show</em> praised Mitt Romney's "Faith in America" speech, but none noted that Romney attacked unnamed people who "seek to remove from the public domain any acknowledgment of God," claiming: "It is as if they are intent on establishing a new religion in America -- the religion of secularism. They are wrong." Nor did they note Romney's claims that "[f]reedom requires religion just as religion requires freedom," and "[f]reedom and religion endure together, or perish alone."

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<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200712090003?src=other" class="read">Read more</a></p>

<p><b><a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200712090005?src=other"><em>Wash</em>.<em> Post</em>  uncritically reported Huckabee's false claim that "in 1992 there was much confusion about how AIDS was spread"</a></b><br />
Writing about reports that Mike Huckabee had suggested quarantining people with AIDS in 1992,<em> Washington Post</em> staff writer Perry Bacon Jr. uncritically reported: "As Huckabee's response to a questionnaire on AIDS began to circulate yesterday, his campaign issued a statement from him noting that in 1992 there was much confusion about how AIDS was spread." But an Associated Press article reported that "[w]hen Huckabee wrote his answers in 1992, it was common knowledge that AIDS could not be spread by casual contact."

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<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200712090005?src=other" class="read">Read more</a></p>

<h1><a href="http://mediamatters.org/issues_topics/media?src=other">Media</a></h1>
<p><b><a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200712090002?src=other">O'Reilly claimed "Fox News turns down blatantly anti-American ads," but that's not the reason Fox gave for rejecting CCR ad</a></b><br />
On
<em>The O'Reilly Factor</em>, Bill O'Reilly stated, "Fox News turns down blatantly
anti-American ads. We just turned one down recently."
Fox
News recently refused to air an advertisement produced by the Center
for Constitutional Rights (CCR) that claims the Bush administration is
"destroying the Constitution" through its use of renditions, torture,
and other tactics. However, in an email provided to
<em>Media Matters</em> by CCR, a
Fox News account executive told CCR that Fox would not run the ad "with
it being [narrator] Danny Glover's opinion that the Bush Administration
is destroying the Constitution. If you have documentation that it is
indeed being destroyed, we can look at that."
<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200712090002?src=other" class="read">Read more</a></p>




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