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In an advance copy
of Her Way: The Hopes and Ambitions of
Hillary Rodham Clinton (Little, Brown & Co.) obtained by Media Matters for America, co-authors Jeff
Gerth and Don Van Natta Jr. claim that former President Bill Clinton and Sen.
...
On the June 3 edition of NBC-syndicated The Chris
Matthews Show, host Chris Matthews asserted that, in their forthcoming book, Her
Way: The Hopes and Ambitions of Hillary Rodham Clinton (Little,
Brown & Co., June 2007),
Jeff Gerth and D...
During the June 1 edition of his
nationally syndicated radio program, Fox News anchor John Gibson responded to
posts on Media Matters for America and Think Progress about
his comment on the May 31 edition of Fox News' The Big Story that...
On the May 4 broadcast of his nationally
syndicated radio show, Glenn Beck said of Rep.
Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) and his wife, Elizabeth Harper Kucinich: "How did
that happen? ... You think it's dope?" Beck went on to
speculate whether sh...
On the June 3 edition of Fox News Sunday, discussing a 1997 Senate Governmental
Affairs Committee investigation led by then-chairman Fred Thompson (R-TN) into
President Clinton's 1996 campaign finances, Fox News Washington managing
edit...
During CNN's pre-debate coverage on the June 3 edition of Lou Dobbs Tonight, host Lou Dobbs noted
that Congress has a "33 percent approval rating" and asserted that
"this Congress [is] get[ting] hammered even more in these opinion polls...
On the June
1 edition of Fox News' The
O'Reilly Factor, discussing the recent news that
attorney Andrew Speaker traveled by airline while infected with an
antibiotic-resistant strain of tuberculosis, host Bill O'Reilly asserted...
On the May 31 edition of ABC's World News, host Charles Gibson reported
that President Bush "call[ed] on 15 major nations to set a goal for
reducing greenhouse gas emissions" and that "[t]his is a major
change for the White House." Gibs...
In response to a New York
Times column by David Leonhardt that
noted CNN correspondent Christine Romans' inaccurate citation two years
ago on CNN's Lou Dobbs Tonight
of the number of leprosy cases in the United States, host and CBS ...
On the May 31 edition of Fox News' Special Report, Fox News chief political
correspondent Carl Cameron falsely asserted that former Sen. Fred Thompson
(R-TN) "is ... consistently pro-life." In fact, on July 29,
1993, the Memphis
Commerc...
An article in the Style
section of the May 31 edition of the Washington
Post described possible Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson as "the
pickup-driving former senator and 'Law & Order' star,"
referring to the long...
On the June 1 edition of NBC News' Today, Carl Bernstein suggested that he,
in his upcoming book A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary
Rodham Clinton (Alfred A. Knopf), is the first to disclose that Hillary Clinton failed the D.C. bar ...
On the May 31 edition of Fox News' The Big Story, host John Gibson said he
was "mesmerized" by what he called "[t]he TB Man story"
-- the recent news that American attorney
Andrew Speaker traveled by airline while infected with antibiot...
On the May 29 edition of his nationally
syndicated radio program, host Bill O'Reilly asserted that the proposed
immigration reform bill is supported by "people who hate America,
and they hate it because it's run primarily by white, ...
In his May 31 nationally syndicated
column, "It
Takes a Socialist Village," Cal Thomas selectively cited a May 29 speech by Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) to claim that Clinton
"prefers" a "socialist" society where "the only
equality is...
On the May 30 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor, host Bill O'Reilly
said: "[Y]ou can't get more presidential-looking than [former
Massachusetts Gov.] Mitt Romney [R]." O'Reilly continued:
"[I]f you were to make up...
On the May 27 edition of Fox News Sunday, host Chris Wallace asserted
that, in voting against the emergency supplemental funding bill for the Iraq
war last week, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) "was voting to actually
let the money run o...
On the May 29 edition of MSNBC's Countdown, host Keith Olbermann named Fox
News host Sean Hannity the "winner"
in his nightly "Worst Person in the World" segment for stating that
Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards is " '...
On the May 29 edition of Fox News' Hannity &
Colmes, Fox News
contributor and syndicated columnist Dick Morris falsely claimed
that in Jeff Gerth and Don Van Natta Jr.'s Her Way: The Hopes and Ambitions of
Hillary Rodham Clinton...
On the May 30 edition of NBC's Today, co-host Matt Lauer said of former Gov.
Mitt Romney (R-MA): "And while showing some strength at the polls ...
many say he even looks presidential." Minutes later, NBC News Washington bureau chief
Tim...
On May 29, The
New York Times published an excerpt of Jeff
Gerth and Don Van Natta Jr.'s upcoming book Her Way: The Hopes and Ambitions of Hillary Rodham Clinton
(Little, Brown & Co., June 2007).
The excerpt asserted
that Sen. Clint...
On the May 25 edition of CNN's The Situation Room, during a report on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's (D-CA) trip to Greenland, correspondent Kathleen Koch said
that Pelosi's "last holiday break in the Middle East drew heated
conde...
Numerous media figures and news outlets
uncritically reported or advanced Sen. John McCain's (R-AZ) recent jab at Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) for spelling
"flack jacket" with a "c" in "flack," including: NBC News Washington bureau chief
Ti...
In a May 24 appearance on CNN to promote her book The Extreme Makeover of Hillary (Rodham) Clinton
(Regnery, May 2007), Bay Buchanan, a Republican strategist and senior adviser to
presidential hopeful Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-CO), falsely claim...
On the May 25 edition of Fox News' Special Report with Brit Hume, guest host
and Fox News chief White House correspondent Bret Baier reported the allegation in the forthcoming book Her
Way: The Hopes and Ambitions of Hillary Rodham Clin...
Radio host Rush Limbaugh,
Politico senior political writer
Jonathan Martin, and other media figures uncritically repeated Sen. John.
McCain's (R-AZ) attack on Sen. Barack Obama's (D-IL) spelling of
"flack jacket" with a "c" in "flac...
On the May 24 broadcast of Fox News' Hannity & Colmes, co-host Sean Hannity
asserted that Democratic presidential candidate and former Sen. John Edwards
(NC) -- whom he referred to as the "$400 haircut man" -- is
"not really viewed ...
On the May 25 edition of MSNBC
Live, NBC News congressional
correspondent Chip Reid uncritically read a statement from
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) attacking Sens. Barack Obama (D-IL) and Hillary Clinton
(D-NY) for their May 24 votes against a w...
On the May 24 edition of MSNBC's Tucker, commenting on Sen. Hillary Rodham
Clinton's (D-NY) decision to have the public choose the
theme song for her presidential campaign, host Tucker Carlson said: "But
this does nothing to make me...
On the May 24 edition of NBC's Today, NBC News chief White House
correspondent David Gregory reported that in a May 23 speech, former Sen. John Edwards
(D-NC) "question[ed]
whether there is a war on terror at all." Gregory aired a clip ...
Continuing a pattern of ignoring developments in
the scandal surrounding
Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales and the dismissal of several U.S.
attorneys, the May 23 CBS Evening News with Katie Couric was the
only network evening news broad...
On the May 23 edition
of CNN's The Situation Room,
contributor Carol Costello reported that manufacturing industry lobbyist
Michael Baroody "is withdrawing his nomination as President Bush's pick
to head the Consumer Product Safety ...
President Bush's statement,
"The enemy in Vietnam
had neither the intent nor the capability to strike our homeland. The enemy in Iraq
does," was aired three times in the 4 p.m. ET hour of the May 23 edition of
CNN's The Situation Ro...
In an interview on the May 22 edition
of CNN's The Situation Room,
host Wolf Blitzer did not take the opportunity to ask New York City Mayor
Michael Bloomberg (R) about the New York Police Department's surveillance
of non-violent an...
Several media figures have attacked
Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards for receiving a $55,000 fee for
a January 2006 speech at the University of California-Davis -- as first
reported in a May 21 entry to the San Francisco Chron...
On the May 22 edition of his nationally
syndicated radio show, in response to
segments on the May 21 editions of NBC's Today and MSNBC's Scarborough
Country highlighting his
"Barack, the Magic Negro" parody, Rush Limbaugh claimed:
"...
On the May 22 edition of MSNBC's Tucker, host Tucker Carlson attacked Democratic
presidential candidate and former Sen. John Edwards (NC) for his January 9, 2006, speech at the
University of California-Davis, claiming that Edwards "soak...
On the May 22 edition of MSNBC's Countdown, host Keith Olbermann named Fox
News host Bill O'Reilly
the "runner-up" in his nightly "Worst Person in the
World" segment for, as Media Matters
for America documented,
"comparing extremist...
On the May 21 edition of MSNBC's Hardball, in his dogged quest for what he
would consider "straight answers" on the Clintons' marriage and on how much time
the couple spends together, host Chris Matthews elicited the following respo...
On the May 21 edition of Fox News' Hannity & Colmes, conservative radio
host and Move
America Forward chairman Melanie
Morgan addressed a May 17 statement by
Linda Winslow, executive producer of Public Broadcasting Service's The...
On the May 21 edition of
CNN's The
Situation Room, correspondent Tom Foreman reported that Sen.
John McCain (R-AZ) "became famous for
his straight talk during his first run for the White House." But in
touting McCain's purported "st...
On the May 16 edition of his Focus on the Family radio show, Focus on the Family founder
and chairman James C. Dobson broadcast an interview with evangelical pastor
Michael Youssef, founder of The Church of The Apostles and host of the synd...
On the May 21 edition of NBC's Nightly News, anchor Brian Williams teased
a segment on former President Jimmy Carter's (D) recent criticism of President
Bush by asking, "[D]id a former president break an unwritten rule when
commenti...
On the May 18 broadcast of his nationally
syndicated radio show, while discussing May 17 Senate negotiations on a
comprehensive immigration bill, Fox News host Bill O'Reilly
asserted: "Now, the far right, the hard right, somehow believe...
In television appearances to promote her
new book, The Extreme Makeover of Hillary (Rodham)
Clinton (Regnery, May 2007), Bay Buchanan, a
Republican strategist and senior adviser to
Republican presidential hopeful Rep. Tom Tancredo (CO), fal...
On the May 21 edition of MSNBC's Jim Cramer Live, while discussing former
President Jimmy Carter's criticism of President Bush, host Jim Cramer
asked: "Who does he play for, Carter? Does he play for himself? Does he
play for another...
On the May 20 broadcast of NBC's Meet the Press, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich
(R-GA) suggested without challenge from host Tim Russert that the alleged plot by six men to carry out an armed attack on
the Fort Dix Army base
in New ...
On the May 19 edition of Fox News' Fox News Watch, Newsday columnist James P. Pinkerton asserted that, during
its coverage of Rev. Jerry Falwell's May 15 death, CNN featured "a
picture of Falwell and [Adolf] Hitler together" as "kin...
Following the May 15 Fox News-sponsored Republican
presidential debate,
several news outlets reported former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani's attack on Democratic presidential candidate Sen.
Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY), in which he...
On the May 17 edition of CNN's Lou Dobbs Tonight, host and CBS Early Show special contributor Lou Dobbs
interviewed Bay Buchanan, who is promoting her new anti-Clinton
book, The
Extreme Makeover of Hillary (Rodham) Clinton (Regnery
Publ...
Reviewing the May 15
Republican presidential debate in his column in
the May 28 edition of Time, Joe
Klein wrote that Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) had a "singular moment of
weirdness" when he said "that al-Qaeda attacked on Sept. 11 because
the U.S...
In a May 18 online discussion, a reader
asked Washington Post columnist
David Broder about President Bush's "non-answer" to a
question about former deputy attorney general James B. Comey's Senate testimony concerning
the effort to p...
On the May 15 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio
show, Michael
Savage called Democrats who support the proposed Media
Ownership Reform Act (MORA),
"National Socialists," continuing his pattern
of comparing Democratic supporters of...
On the May 17 edition of his nationally syndicated radio
program, Michael
Savage labeled Hispanic advocacy group the National
Council of La Raza (NCLR) "the Ku Klux Klan of the Hispanic
people." Savage also said of NCLR, "This is the most s...
On the May 16 edition
of CNN's Lou Dobbs Tonight,
host and CBS Early Show special contributor Lou Dobbs accused two officials of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC)
of misrepresenting a claim made on the April 14, 2005, edition
of Lo...
On the May 17 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor, while
discussing May 17 Senate negotiations on a
bipartisan immigration bill, host Bill O'Reilly
said: "Reluctantly, and I mean reluctantly, 'Talking Points'
is goi...
On the May 17 edition of MSNBC's Countdown, host Keith Olbermann named
nationally syndicated radio host Rush Limbaugh
the "winner" of his nightly "Worst Person in the World"
segment for complaining that, as
Media Matters for America not...
On the May 16 broadcast of CNN Headline
News' Glenn Beck, during an
appearance by former New York City Mayor Ed Koch, host Glenn Beck cited
Koch's May 15 op-ed in The New
York Sun -- in which he criticized the Democrats' positio...
While discussing the recent Fox News-sponsored Republican
presidential debate
on the May 16 edition of MSNBC's Hardball,
NBC News political director Chuck Todd repeatedly asserted -- three times during the course of his
appearance -- th...
ABC and CBS still have not reported -- on
either their evening news or morning news broadcasts -- former deputy attorney
general James B. Comey's account of what NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams May 15
called a "rare glimpse of a ...
On the May 16 edition of MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann, CNBC chief
Washington correspondent and Wall Street
Journal national political editor John Harwood, comparing Sen. John McCain
(R-AZ) and former New York City Mayor Rudy G...
Referring to the May 15 Republican
presidential debate,
Rush Limbaugh asserted,
on the May 16 broadcast
of his nationally syndicated radio show, that "there's a template
developing for the Republican debate last night. 'How come the...
Several news outlets uncritically repeated or paraphrased a claim
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) made during the May 15 Republican presidential debate
on Fox News, in which he said: "I have kept a consistent position on
right to life. And I haven&...
Covering the May 15 Republican presidential debate at the University of South Carolina,
some media figures
mischaracterized a response by Rep.
Ron Paul (TX), asserting
that Paul had "blamed" the United States
for the 9-11 terrorist attacks....
On the May 15 edition
of CNN's The Situation Room,
CNN chief national correspondent John King said that the state of South Carolina
"has a history of mixing God with politics" and, therefore, would
be a "critical testing ground" to gaug...
Of the three national nightly news
broadcasts, only NBC's Nightly News reported
on former deputy attorney general James B. Comey's May 15 congressional
testimony regarding what
Nightly News anchor Brian
Williams called a "rare glimp...
At one point during the May 15 Republican presidential
debate, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee quipped: "We've had a
Congress that's spent money like John Edwards at a beauty shop," a
reference to reports that Democratic presiden...
In a May 15 article (subscription
required) on President Bush's recent announcement that his
administration will begin the process of deciding how to regulate motor vehicle
pollution, The Wall Street Journal falsely suggested that an
Ap...
In a May 15 article (subscription
required) on President Bush's recent announcement that his
administration will begin the process of deciding how to regulate motor vehicle
pollution, The Wall Street Journal falsely suggested that an
Ap...
Several conservative commentators have
misrepresented the results of an April 20-May 1 Rasmussen Results poll
question -- which was itself
ambiguous -- to accuse a substantial percentage of Democrats of believing that
President Bush knew ab...
On the May 14 broadcast of Fox News' Hannity & Colmes, syndicated columnist
Dick Morris asserted that there is "a concerted effort by the liberal media
and the Democratic establishment to derail [former New York City mayor] Rudy
Giu...
On the May 14 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor, host Bill O'Reilly
again criticized the Los Angeles Times
for not publishing Factor
producer Ron Mitchell's op-ed in the print
edition of the newspaper. O'Reilly as...
On the May 14 edition of
CNN's The Situation Room, host Wolf Blitzer asked
whether former President Bill Clinton's recent campaign advertisement on behalf of
his wife, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N...
On the May 14 edition of CNN's The Situation Room, host Wolf Blitzer
claimed that legislation
sponsored by Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI) and co-sponsored by Senate Majority Leader Harry
Reid (D-NV) would "just stop the funding" for the Iraq...
CNN Headline News host Glenn Beck appeared on
the May 14 edition of CNN's American Morning
to discuss the dismissal of radio host Don Imus and New York shock jocks JV and Elvis and claimed that there is a "leftist witch hunt" against
sh...
On the May 11 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio
show, Michael
Savage denounced Rep. Robert Wexler's (D-FL) questioning
of Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales
during a May 10 congressional hearing about the firing of nine fed...