Media Matters for America summary, December 18, 2007
 
Date: Tue, 18 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/200712180007?src=other">CNN's  Beck mimed Hillary Clinton shaving her face</a></b><br />
On the December 17 <a href="http://mediamatters.org//rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Ftranscripts.cnn.com%2FTRANSCRIPTS%2F0712%2F17%2Fgb.01.html" title="http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0712/17/gb.01.html">edition</a> of his CNN Headline News show, 
host <a href="http://mediamatters.org//issues_topics/people/glennbeck?src=other" title="http://mediamatters.org/issues_topics/people/glennbeck">Glenn Beck</a> interviewed <a href="http://mediamatters.org//rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Fcei.org%2F" title="http://mediamatters.org/rd?src=other&to=http://cei.org/
http://cei.org/">Competitive Enterprise Institute</a> (CEI) 
senior fellow Chris Horner, who referred to senators "who see a president in the 
mirror when they shave in the morning." Beck responded by inquiring about 
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY), asking: 
"Does that include Hillary? Does she shave? ... Does that include Hillary? Does 
she -- I mean, she -- she shaves her legs. I&#39;m just saying." After Horner said, 
"Now who&#39;s being na&iuml;ve?" Beck -- 
while jutting out his lower jaw and miming shaving his face -- said: "I can see 
her in there. &#39;Gimme a pack of Kool cigarettes, will ya?&#39; "
<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200712180007?src=other" class="read">Read more</a></p>

<p><b><a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200712190002?src=other">Taking  lead from Drudge, conservative echo chamber hypes Clinton photo</a></b><br />
After the Drudge Report displayed an Associated Press photo of Hillary Clinton 
above the headline "The Toll of a Campaign," the conservative echo 
chamber went into effect. Rush Limbaugh discussed the photo on his radio show, 
Drudge then linked to the transcript on Limbaugh's website, and <em>The Washington Times</em> and Michelle Malkin 
on Fox news' <em>The Big 
Stor</em>y, then 
reprinted 
or discussed 
the photograph, 
characterizing it as representative of the toll the campaign was taking on 
Clinton.
<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200712190002?src=other" class="read">Read more</a></p>

<p><b><a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200712180012?src=other">MSNBC's Adubato still questioning "exactly how Vince Foster died"</a></b><br />
MSNBC media analyst Steve
Adubato asserted that Bill and Hillary Clinton "want the media to focus
on [] only the positive aspects of her experience but won't say a word
about such topics as ... exactly how [former deputy White House counsel]
Vince Foster died." In fact, while some right-wing commentators and
websites continue to suggest that the Clintons
were somehow involved in Foster's death, numerous investigations into the
matter have determined that his death was a suicide.

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<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200712180012?src=other" class="read">Read more</a></p>

<p><b><a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200712180008?src=other">During  Giuliani interview, Hannity again failed to disclose reported appearance at  Giuliani fundraiser</a></b><br />
As he had during a previous interview with Rudy Giuliani on Fox News' <em>Hannity &amp; Colmes</em>, Sean Hannity failed 
to disclose that he has reportedly helped raise money for Giuliani's 
presidential campaign.
<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200712180008?src=other" class="read">Read more</a></p>

<p><b><a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200712180011?src=other"><em>NY</em> <em>Times</em>' Healy omitted Rose's on-air  comments about ending Clinton  interview</a></b><br />
In his December 16 <i>New York Times</i> <a href="http://mediamatters.org//rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2007%2F12%2F16%2Fus%2Fpolitics%2F16clinton.html" title="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/16/us/politics/16clinton.html">article</a>, 
reporter Patrick Healy discussed former President Bill Clinton&#39;s interview with 
host Charlie Rose, broadcast on the December 14 <a href="http://mediamatters.org//rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.charlierose.com%2Fshows%2F2007%2F12%2F14%2F1%2Fan-hour-with-former-president-bill-clinton" title="http://www.charlierose.com/shows/2007/12/14/1/an-hour-with-former-president-bill-clinton">edition</a> 
of the Public Broadcasting Service&#39;s <i>The 
Charlie Rose Show</i>, 
writing that "Mr. Clinton looked agitated at times" and that "[a]t 
one point, Mr. Rose said that, in his control room, aides to Mr. Clinton were 
trying to persuade the show&#39;s producers to end the interview." However, Healy 
did not report Rose&#39;s on-air comments indicating why Clinton&#39;s aides wanted to 
"end the interview." During the interview, Rose said to Clinton: "Let me -- let me 
just close with this, because it&#39;s important and fairly -- we&#39;re over and your 
people need to take you -- you need to go wherever you need to go." The 
interview then continued for several more minutes. Minutes later, Rose added: 
"Your people are pushing me, so I want you to finish, but it&#39;s not my 
--"
<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200712180011?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/200712190003?src=other">Savage  rant: <em>Media Matters </em>made up of  "yokels and drunks," "cretins," "rat snitches," "snitch perverts,"  and  "scum"</a></b><br />
On the December 14 
broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, Michael Savage repeated his 
disparagements of prominent Democratic women and the residents of New Hampshire, and referred to <i>Media Matters for America</i> as "yokels and drunks," "cretins," "rat snitches," "snitch perverts," "snitches out of the 
ex-Soviet Union," and 
"scum." 

<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200712190003?src=other" class="read">Read more</a></p>

<p><b><a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200712190001?src=other">Horowitz's  FrontPageMag.com yet to correct false Princeton  assault story</a></b><br />
FrontPageMag.com, the "online magazine" of the David Horowitz Freedom Center, posted an 
excerpt from a <em>New York Sun</em> 
article published that day detailing allegations by a Princeton University student who claimed he had been 
assaulted because of his conservative views. However, while the <em>Sun</em> updated its story to report that Nava 
admitted to police that "he fabricated the assault," FrontPageMag.com has yet to 
acknowledge that the entire story was fabricated.
<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200712190001?src=other" class="read">Read more</a></p>

<h1><a href="http://mediamatters.org/issues_topics/domestic_spying?src=other">Domestic spying</a></h1>
<p><b><a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200712180010?src=other">Fox's Angle  falsely claimed, under  FISA, government is  "forced to treat foreigners overseas as if they were Americans" inside U.S.</a></b><br />
In a report on the congressional debate over revisions to the 1978 FISA law , 
Fox News' Jim Angle reported that, "since about 80 percent of the world's 
Internet traffic passes through U.S. communications infrastructure, officials 
now find themselves in a bizarre situation, forced to treat foreigners overseas 
as if they were Americans inside the United States." But, in August, Congress 
passed the Protect America Act that temporarily revised FISA to allow the 
warrantless surveillance of these communications -- while also temporarily 
expanding the president's authority to wiretap without a warrant.

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<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200712180010?src=other" class="read">Read more</a></p>

<p><b><a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200712180006?src=other">Matthews asserted that Clinton got <em>Register</em> endorsement "thanks to her husband's lobbying with its female editors and publisher"</a></b><br />
On the December 17 edition of
MSNBC&#39;s <i>Hardball,</i> host
Chris Matthews said of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY)<i>,</i> "She may have gotten <i>The Des
  Moines Register&#39;s</i> endorsement the other
day, thanks to her husband&#39;s lobbying with its female editors and publisher,
but voters have spotted the dagger, and they don&#39;t like what it looks
like." Matthews went on to say, "Hillary&#39;s loyal lieutenants are
ready to scratch the eyes out of the opposition right now."
<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200712180006?src=other" class="read">Read more</a></p>

<p><b><a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200712180005?src=other">Chris Matthews on Hillary Clinton and Rudy Giuliani</a></b><br />
On October
4, MSNBC host Chris Matthews professed his neutrality in the
presidential race. "I&#39;m pretty independent, in terms of the two parties," he
said. "I have been just as tough on
Bill Clinton and Hillary and Rudy and the whole bunch of them."
<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200712180005?src=other" class="read">Read more</a></p>




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