Media Matters for America summary, November 18, 2007
 
Date: Sun, 18 Nov 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/200711180001?src=other">AP reported McCain "didn't embrace the [bitch] epithet" not that he called the question "excellent"<br /></a></b><br />
The Associated Press reported that Sen. John McCain "chuckled in response to" a supporter's question, "How do we beat the bitch?" -- presumably referring to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton -- but that he "didn't embrace the epithet." The article further noted that "[a] few minutes later he said he respects Clinton, a New York senator and colleague." However, the article made no mention of the fact that McCain first called the question "excellent" and then pointed to a Rasmussen poll that he said showed him beating Clinton in a head-to-head matchup before saying, "I respect Senator Clinton."

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<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200711180001?src=other" class="read">Read more</a></p>

<p><b><a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200711180003?src=other">Contrary to its own reporting, <em>NY Times</em> claimed Clinton campaign "struggled to explain whether a tip was left for a waitress"</a></b><br />
<em>The New York Times</em>
reported that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's (D-NY) presidential
campaign "struggled to explain whether a tip was left for a waitress
who served Mrs. Clinton during a recent visit." In fact, the
<em><em>Times</em></em>
previously reported that the
Clinton campaign said
 it had left a tip, and that
the restaurant manager confirmed that a tip had been left.
<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200711180003?src=other" class="read">Read more</a></p>

<p><b><a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200711180004?src=other"><em>Wash. Post</em>  article called Giuliani "America's mayor," referred to his "triumphal leadership on Sept. 11"</a></b><br />
<em>The Washington Post</em> referred to Rudy Giuliani as "America's mayor" and suggested that
after
his "triumphal leadership on Sept. 11" Giuliani "transcended
the life that was," including controversies involving his friend and
former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik as well as
controversies in his personal life. The
<em>Post</em> article repeated
a tendency by some in the media of touting Giuliani's actions as mayor
of New York on 9-11 or labeling him "America's mayor" without
mentioning that his performance before, during, and after the September
11, 2001, terrorist attacks has been questioned and criticized.
<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200711180004?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/200711180002?src=other">Hume: Democrats "often" seem "invested in our losing" in Iraq</a></b><br />
Echoing previous comments by conservative media figures suggesting
that Democrats want the United States to lose the war in Iraq, Fox
News' Brit Hume asserted: "The American people don't like the Iraq war,
they probably never will. But they're not rooting for us to lose; they
don't seem invested in our losing the way the Democrats so often do."
Hume offered no evidence
that
any Democrats
are
"invested in our losing" or "rooting for us to lose" in Iraq.

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