Media Matters for America summary, October 28, 2007
 
Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 22:03:02 -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/2008_elections?src=other">2008 Elections</a></h1>
<p><b><a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200710280001?src=other">Fox  News' MacCallum on alleged plot against Giuliani: "Does it make him, you know,  even more, sort of, invincible?"</a></b><br />
On the October 25 
edition of Fox News&#39; <i>The Live 
Desk</i>, host Martha MacCallum reported on recent allegations that 
during the 1980s, "John Gotti, the late head of the Gambino crime family, along 
with four other powerful mafia family bosses, at one time thought about and 
talked about ... whacking" Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani, who 
then was a U.S. attorney. Following the report, MacCallum asked attorney Arthur 
Aidala: "But in terms of Rudy Giuliani and his presidential aspirations, does 
this help him, this story? Does it make him, you know, even more, sort of, 
invincible?"
<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200710280001?src=other" class="read">Read more</a></p>

<p><b><a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200710280004?src=other">Discussing  reasons for Ron Paul's "groundswell," <em>Tucker</em> panel ignored his opposition to  Iraq  war</a></b><br />
On the October 26 
edition of MSNBC&#39;s <i>Tucker</i>, 
discussing Republican presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul (TX) and "the 
remarkable Paul-for-president movement," <i>Los 
Angeles Times</i> columnist Rosa 
Brooks 
attributed Paul&#39;s 
support to his "tapping into ... a lot of distaste for the kind of cookie-cutter 
stuff of the major parties. A lot of desire to have a candidate who just says 
whatever the heck he thinks." Later in the segment, <i>Washington Post</i> staff writer Anne E. 
Kornblut said that the "groundswell that Ron Paul has" demonstrates "a real 
craving on the Republican side for somebody who seems like they are being 
authentic." During the segment, the panel discussed Paul&#39;s position on numerous 
issues, and host Tucker 
Carlson asked: "But who does agree with him? OK, consider -- here is a guy who 
is against legal abortion. Just against -- he&#39;s gonna ban abortion. Very 
pro-marijuana, Ron Paul, OK? Doesn&#39;t believe the IRS ought to exist and is for 
the gold standard. So just take those four among 4,000 positions he &#39;s taken in 
his public life." However, at no point 
in their discussion of support for Paul and his positions did any of the 
participants note that Paul is the only Republican presidential candidate to 
have voted <a href="http://mediamatters.org//rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Fclerk.house.gov%2Fevs%2F2002%2Froll455.xml" title="http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2002/roll455.xml">against</a> the Authorization for the Use of 
Military Force in Iraq Resolution of 2002, or that he has repeatedly voiced his 
support for withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq.
<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200710280004?src=other" class="read">Read more</a></p>

<p><b><a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200710280002?src=other">Echoing  previous remarks,  BBC's  Kay claims that Clinton has to "appear particularly tough,  because she's a female candidate"</a></b><br />
On the October 28 
edition of the NBC-syndicated <i>Chris Matthews 
Show</i>, during a discussion of the Democratic presidential candidates&#39; 
stances on Iran and other national security issues, BBC Washington correspondent 
Katty Kay said that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) "has to be able to stand 
up and appear particularly tough, because she&#39;s a female candidate." Kay added: 
"I think there&#39;s a lot of reticence still about how tough a woman would be as 
commander in chief. I don&#39;t think she can afford to stand up there and be soft 
on this particular issue [Iran]." Kay&#39;s comments <a href="http://mediamatters.org//items/200709300001?f=s_search" title="http://mediamatters.org/items/200709300001?f=s_search">echoed</a> those she made on the September 30 
edition of <i>The Chris Matthews 
Show</i>, when she asserted that Clinton&#39;s "calculation is that she can&#39;t 
stand up there as a woman and sound soft" and claimed that Clinton "knows that 
as a Clinton and as a woman, she&#39;s got to come across as somebody who is 
prepared to use military action if it&#39;s needed."
<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200710280002?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/200710280003?src=other">Ignoring Bush  comment, Hume asserted president declined to compare CA wildfire response to  Katrina</a></b><br />
Fox News' Brit Hume asserted that President Bush "declined to compare" the 
government's response to wildfires in Southern 
California and to Hurricane Katrina, and correspondent Bret Baier 
aired only Bush's statement that "[t]here's all kinds of time for historians to 
compare this response or that response." But neither Hume nor Baier noted that 
Bush also said, during a news conference earlier in the day, that "[i]t makes a 
big difference when you have someone in the statehouse willing to take the 
lead."

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<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200710280003?src=other" class="read">Read more</a></p>




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