http://mediamatters.org/tools/syndication/tag_rss/neil_cavuto This link is for use by RSS-enabled software to retrieve Media Matters items matching the term: Neil Cavuto en-US Copyright 2008, Media Matters for America http://mediamatters.org/items/200809300020 Fox News' Neil Cavuto contradicted reporting by Fox News by suggesting that the financial bailout bill would not have failed if House Speaker Nancy Pelosi "had just shut up earlier and not characterized it one way or the other" in a speech she gave before the vote. However, Fox News producer Chad Pergram reported before Pelosi spoke that Republicans "may only have 40 to 60 of their members" supporting the bill, a number that Pergram said "leaves us very short there." Additionally, several GOP House members have said that Pelosi's speech did not cause Republicans to switch their votes. http://mediamatters.org/items/200809300020 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:01:29 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200809190021 On September 18, Fox News' Neil Cavuto conflated giving home mortgages to minorities with risky lending practices, suggesting that there should have been "a clarion call that said, 'Fannie and Freddie are a disaster. Loaning to minorities and risky folks is a disaster.' " http://mediamatters.org/items/200809190021 Fri, 19 Sep 2008 18:28:48 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200809020014 On <em>Your World</em>, Neil Cavuto did not challenge Rep. Michelle Bachmann's false claim that "[w]e didn't have any spillage whatsoever from the oil rigs during Katrina." In fact, a report prepared for the federal government by an international consulting firm identified damage from Hurricane Katrina to 27 platforms and rigs that resulted in the spilling of approximately 2,843 barrels of petroleum products into the Gulf of Mexico. http://mediamatters.org/items/200809020014 Tue, 2 Sep 2008 15:18:04 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200808290022 Since Sen. John McCain named Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate, media outlets including the Associated Press, MSNBC, CNN, Fox News, the <em>Detroit Free-Press</em>, and the washingtonpost.com blog The Fix have taken the "maverick" label the media have frequently and uncritically applied to McCain and affixed it to Palin as well. http://mediamatters.org/items/200808290022 Fri, 29 Aug 2008 20:46:29 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200808210007 Fox News' Neil Cavuto interviewed "anti-feminist attorney" Roy Den Hollander, who discussed his lawsuit against Columbia University for offering a women's studies program "but not a men's studies program." Den Hollander said: "[C]ut out the feminazi, feminist women's studies programs and bring back varsity sports, and you're going to do a lot better for the university." Den Hollander later said that women "are a suspect class. Every time they open their mouths, I begin to suspect something." http://mediamatters.org/items/200808210007 Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:36:24 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200808070008 Echoing <em>The Washington Post</em>'s Dana Milbank, Fox News' Neil Cavuto repeated as fact a disputed version of a comment Sen. Barack Obama reportedly made in a closed-door meeting with congressional Democrats, citing it as purported evidence that Obama's "messianic thing is getting a little over the top." http://mediamatters.org/items/200808070008 Thu, 7 Aug 2008 17:12:12 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200805300007 Fox News' Neil Cavuto left unchallenged a false claim by Vets For Freedom chairman Pete Hegseth that Sen. Barack Obama has "never met with General Petraeus." In fact, as recently as April 8, Obama questioned Petraeus and U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker at a Senate Committee on Foreign Relations hearing on Iraq. http://mediamatters.org/items/200805300007 Fri, 30 May 2008 18:05:03 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200805230001 On Fox News' <em>Your World</em>, Neil Cavuto reported on Sen. John McCain's rejection of Rev. John Hagee's endorsement, but he didn't note Hagee's remarks about Adolf Hitler and Zionism or that McCain admitted he sought Hagee's endorsement. http://mediamatters.org/items/200805230001 Fri, 23 May 2008 11:09:24 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200805080009 Fox News' Neil Cavuto misrepresented the projected cost of a federal "housing rescue package" by saying it was going to cost "300 billion bucks," while an on-air graphic read, "House lawmakers set to pass $300B housing bill; bailout?" In fact, while the legislation would authorize the FHA to insure up to $300 billion in homeownership retention loans, the Congressional Budget Office estimated that the program would cost the government $2.7 billion between 2008-2013. http://mediamatters.org/items/200805080009 Thu, 8 May 2008 18:38:51 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200805010006 On <em>Your World</em>, Neil Cavuto said of Sen. Barack Obama: "Well, one of the reasons why he espoused talking to our enemies -- much as Jimmy Carter has with his recent meeting with Hamas and all that -- is that we can't make things worse, so what's the harm in talking to them?" Contrary to Cavuto's suggestion that Obama has expressed a willingness to meet with Hamas, Reuters reported on March 3 that Obama "has said he would break with President George W. Bush's stance of declining to talk to some other international adversaries but that stance does not apply to Hamas." http://mediamatters.org/items/200805010006 Thu, 1 May 2008 16:16:01 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200802190004 While discussing Sen. Hillary Clinton's campaign strategy for the March 4 Democratic primary in Texas, Neil Cavuto said of Clinton: "[S]he's trying to run away from this tough, kind of bitchy image." http://mediamatters.org/items/200802190004 Tue, 19 Feb 2008 16:04:04 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200802140009 On Fox News' <em>Your World</em>, Ann Coulter repeatedly referred to Sen. Barack Obama as "B. Hussein Obama," and said, "It's shocking that ... he's probably going to be our next president, President Hussein." Less than a week ago, Coulter also referred to Obama as "B. Hussein Obama," and asserted: "[H]is first big accomplishment" was "being born half-black. ... He wouldn't be running for president if he weren't half-black." http://mediamatters.org/items/200802140009 Thu, 14 Feb 2008 17:55:42 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200711150008 On Fox News' <em>Your World</em>, echoing an anonymously sourced blurb posted on the Drudge Report, Ann Coulter stated, "Well, apparently, Wolf Blitzer has gotten a little talking-to. And, yes, I think he'll be serving tea and cookies before asking [Sen.] Hillary [Rodham Clinton] a question." Host Neil Cavuto agreed with Coulter's claim that Blitzer "has been given a talking-to" prior to the November 15 Democratic presidential debate. But Blitzer himself said, "No one has pressured me. No one has threatened me. No one is trying to intimidate me." http://mediamatters.org/items/200711150008 Thu, 15 Nov 2007 15:29:47 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200710310009 During an interview with Rudy Giuliani, Fox News' Neil Cavuto did not challenge Giuliani's assertion that "[t]he chance of a man surviving prostate cancer in the United States is somewhere, when I was doing it, 82, 84 percent. It's probably over 90 percent now. In socialized medicine countries ... some of them can be less than 50 percent." However, the purported source for the statistics, the Commonwealth Fund, issued a statement saying that the numbers are "incorrect." <br /> http://mediamatters.org/items/200710310009 Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:44:21 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200710120001 http://mediamatters.org/items/200710120001 Fri, 12 Oct 2007 10:16:41 EST