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Thursday, July 3, 2008

• Media quote GOP claim that Obama reversed Iraq policy, without noting Obama's prior statements

• Novak falsely asserted Clark attacked McCain's "credentials as a war hero" as part of "conscious effort" by Obama campaign

• "Media Matters"; by Jamison Foser

• In Politico, TNR's Kirchick falsely claimed Clark's comments were part of a "pattern of attacks" on McCain as "psychologically unfit for presidential office"

• CNN's Roberts did not challenge McCain adviser's claim that McCain understands the economy by noting numerous dubious economic statements

• Echoing right-wing smears, ABC's The Note falsely suggested a link between Obama and Colombian rebels

• On This Week, Huffington confronted Hewitt about Ohio State-USC football game comment

• In WSJ op-ed, Rove misled about Obama ad

• Limbaugh: Democrats will not say "We honor your service" to troops returning from Iraq

• GMA's Roberts did not challenge McCain's denial that he has said he lacks expertise on the economy

• CNN's Roberts asserted that McCain is a "maverick" and "independent" from Bush, ignoring McCain's votes and statements

• Media outlets -- but not Fox News -- weigh in on doctored photos

• MSNBC analyst Watkins falsely claimed Clark attacked McCain's patriotism

Wednesday, July 2, 2008

• Fox's Henneberg did not challenge Swift Boat member Bud Day's false claim that Clark served in Vietnam for only one month

• Andrea Mitchell falsely suggested that MoveOn.org/AFSCME ad attacked McCain's military service

• Wash. Post's Shear falsely claimed "McCain rarely talks about his time as a POW"

• NBC's Mitchell misrepresented sequence of Clark's remarks, suggesting Clark only "subsequently ... honored" McCain's service

• Purporting to read Clark quote, The Hill's Stoddard omitted major parts of Face the Nation exchange

• NPR's Liasson cited McCain's work with Kennedy on immigration reform as a "source of his maverick reputation," didn't note flip-flop

• Boehlert: The New York Times rewrites its Swift Boat history

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Tuesday, July 1, 2008

• Matthews: "They're the working-class white voters ... the regular folks"

Thursday, June 26, 2008

• Hugh Hewitt on OSU-USC football game: "[I]t's probably the last football game we'll ever get to see before the United States gets blown up by the Islamists under Obama"

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

• Savage: "We're getting refugees now who have never used a telephone, a toothbrush, or toilet paper. ... [T]hey never assimilate. And then their children become gang-bangers"

Thursday, June 19, 2008

• Savage: "I'd hang every lawyer who went down to Guantánamo"

• Boortz again referred to victims of Hurricane Katrina as "parasite[s]"

• Hasselbeck on Obama: "[H]e seemed for a while more willing to give the fist bump to Ahmadinejad than our own General Petraeus"

Monday, June 16, 2008

• MSNBC's Buchanan called Obama "exotic," said "[h]e's like the guys in the Harvard faculty lounge" who "don't know anything about their country"

Thursday, June 12, 2008

• KSFO's Rodgers on voting gender gap: For "a lot of women in this country who get knocked up ... the government becomes Daddy in terms of paying the bills"

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

• Gibson, Jenkins received "Worst Person" honors

• O'Reilly on teenagers' topless photo scandal: "[T]his isn't ... the inner city; you would think that these kids would have some kind of a values system"

Tuesday, June 10, 2008

• Savage repeatedly called Obama an "Afro-Leninist"

• MSNBC's Bernard on Clinton: "She ran as a man"

Monday, June 9, 2008

• Savage's answer to homelessness: "Why not put them in work camps?"

Friday, June 6, 2008

• Fox News' E.D. Hill teased discussion of Obama dap: "A fist bump? A pound? A terrorist fist jab?"

Thursday, June 5, 2008

• MSNBC's Mitchell: Southwest Virginia "is real redneck, sort of, bordering on Appalachia country"

Monday, June 2, 2008

• Limbaugh on Obama: His "only chance of winning is that he's black"

Friday, May 30, 2008

• Limbaugh called Brazilian indigenous tribe "savages"

• Guest host on Beck suggests if Obama elected, political correctness will kill comedy: "[E]veryone will be so scared of saying anything"

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

• On Morning Joe, Carlson compared Clinton to a "cat in a box" and a "drunk party guest"

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

• Limbaugh on Dem primary: If "feminazis" had remembered to oppose "affirmative action for black guys ... they wouldn't face the situation they face today"

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• Fox News airs altered photos of NY Times reporters

• "Media Matters"; by Jamison Foser

• Media outlets -- but not Fox News -- weigh in on doctored photos

• Media quote GOP claim that Obama reversed Iraq policy, without noting Obama's prior statements

• Limbaugh: Democrats will not say "We honor your service" to troops returning from Iraq

• The New York Times rewrites its Swift Boat history

• On This Week, Huffington confronted Hewitt about Ohio State-USC football game comment

• Drudge on Foley: "This wasn't coerced," "the kid was having fun with this"

• Matthews: "They're the working-class white voters ... the regular folks"

• Novak falsely asserted Clark attacked McCain's "credentials as a war hero" as part of "conscious effort" by Obama campaign

• Fox's Henneberg did not challenge Swift Boat member Bud Day's false claim that Clark served in Vietnam for only one month

• Fox News' E.D. Hill teased discussion of Obama dap: "A fist bump? A pound? A terrorist fist jab?"

• Gibson: "Make more babies" because in "[t]wenty-five years ... the majority of the population is Hispanic"

• What haircut stories tell us about the press

• Schlussel: Should Barack Hussein Obama be president "when we are fighting the war of our lives against Islam"?

• Echoing right-wing smears, ABC's The Note falsely suggested a link between Obama and Colombian rebels

• Media continue to falsely claim Clark criticized McCain's service

• In Politico, TNR's Kirchick falsely claimed Clark's comments were part of a "pattern of attacks" on McCain as "psychologically unfit for presidential office"

• So where is Sean Hannity's flag lapel pin?

• CNN's Roberts asserted that McCain is a "maverick" and "independent" from Bush, ignoring McCain's votes and statements

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May 2007

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May 2007

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March 2007

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February 2006

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