Media Matters - Pat Buchanan

Media Matters - Pat Buchanan http://mediamatters.org/tools/syndication/tag_rss/pat_buchanan This link is for use by RSS-enabled software to retrieve Media Matters items matching the term: Pat Buchanan en-US Copyright 2008, Media Matters for America Buchanan overstates Democratic support for Alito and Roberts on Supreme Court confirmation votes http://mediamatters.org/items/200810200014 On Morning Joe, Pat Buchanan misrepresented Senate votes by Democrats on the confirmations of Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justice Samuel Alito, saying, "Roberts probably got 25 Democrats, Alito probably got a dozen." In fact, four Democrats voted to confirm Alito, while Roberts received 22 votes from Democrats. http://mediamatters.org/items/200810200014 Mon, 20 Oct 2008 18:55:18 EST Media have repeatedly asserted Palin faces "low" or "lowered" expectations in debate, despite praise of her debate skills http://mediamatters.org/items/200810010015 Several media figures have asserted that Gov. Sarah Palin faces "low" or "lowered" expectations in the upcoming vice-presidential debate and that she therefore faces a lower bar for victory than Sen. Joe Biden. They have made these assertions despite criticism by at least one member of the media over the media's setting of a lower bar for Palin and despite praise of her performance in the Alaska gubernatorial debate by others in the media and by McCain campaign surrogate Mitt Romney. http://mediamatters.org/items/200810010015 Wed, 1 Oct 2008 16:49:52 EST Scarborough falsely asserted that Obama "wants" "higher taxes" http://mediamatters.org/items/200809290007 On Morning Joe, host Joe Scarborough falsely asserted that Sen. Barack Obama "wants" "higher taxes." In fact, the Tax Policy Center concluded that, compared to Sen. John McCain, "Obama would give larger tax cuts to low- and moderate-income households and pay some of the cost by raising taxes on high-income taxpayers" -- those households earning more than $250,000 per year. http://mediamatters.org/items/200809290007 Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:38:16 EST MSNBC's Buchanan didn't hear any DNC speakers say "the word 'Guantánamo' " -- but Kerry did, just as MSNBC cut to commercial http://mediamatters.org/items/200808280006 During MSNBC's coverage of the Democratic convention, Pat Buchanan asked, "Has anybody heard the word 'Guantánamo' mentioned this entire convention?" In fact, in his speech, Sen. John Kerry said, "President [Barack] Obama and Vice President [Joe] Biden will shut down Guantánamo," but MSNBC cut to commercial break a fraction of a second before Kerry said the word "Guantánamo." http://mediamatters.org/items/200808280006 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:15:08 EST Does MSNBC approve of Pat Buchanan's appearances on a "pro-White" radio show? http://mediamatters.org/items/200808190010 MSNBC political analyst Pat Buchanan appeared on the June 29, 2008, and September 14, 2006, editions of The Political Cesspool Radio Show, a program whose "Statement of Principles" asserts that it "represent[s] a philosophy that is pro-White." Buchanan's June 29 interview was streamed "Live" on the self-described "White Nationalist" and "White Pride" website Stormfront.org. http://mediamatters.org/items/200808190010 Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:08:09 EST Buchanan again falsely suggested Obama did not visit wounded troops while abroad http://mediamatters.org/items/200808050006 In his column, Pat Buchanan falsely suggested that Sen. Barack Obama did not visit wounded troops during his recent trip abroad. Buchanan asserted: "While the first half of his foreign trip, to Afghanistan and Iraq, was official, the European tour was campaign related. Yet, it was on this leg that a visit to wounded U.S. soldiers had been scheduled. As campaigning in a military hospital is prohibited, the visit was canceled." In fact, according to Buchanan's colleague, NBC News chief foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell, Obama did visit with wounded troops during the "official" part of his tour. http://mediamatters.org/items/200808050006 Tue, 5 Aug 2008 16:28:17 EST Buchanan still asking of Obama: "Who does this guy think he is?" http://mediamatters.org/items/200808040002 On Morning Joe, Pat Buchanan praised an attack ad by the McCain campaign that refers to Sen. Barack Obama as "The One" and said the ad "goes right to an enormous vulnerability that Barack has created for himself with his grandiosity." Echoing a comment he made last week, Buchanan said: "The question's now becoming, 'Who does this guy think he is?' ... I think that is the real question." http://mediamatters.org/items/200808040002 Mon, 4 Aug 2008 13:58:28 EST MSNBC's Buchanan adopts "hubris" theme from Milbank's falsehood-laden column, says of Obama: "[W]ho ... the heck does this guy think he is" http://mediamatters.org/items/200807310008 Pat Buchanan criticized the McCain campaign attack ad that refers to Sen. Barack Obama's "celebrity," but said "there is a truth behind all this." Touting Dana Milbank's falsehood-laden Washington Post column as "credible," Buchanan said, "[W]ho is he and who ... the heck does this guy think he is, is becoming a real issue for Barack Obama." http://mediamatters.org/items/200807310008 Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:17:33 EST MSNBC's Buchanan falsely suggested Obama did not visit wounded troops, repeated smears of Obama's patriotism http://mediamatters.org/items/200807280005 On Morning Joe, Pat Buchanan asserted that an ad by Sen. John McCain attacking Sen. Barack Obama for not visiting the U.S. military's Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany played into "the sense that, you know, Barack is not one of us. He's just not a normal guy who would go see the wounded troops." In fact, Andrea Mitchell reported that, while in Iraq, Obama "visited a casualty unit in the Green Zone, without photographers, as part of the congressional delegation." http://mediamatters.org/items/200807280005 Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:02:17 EST Media figures continue to cite National Journal ranking of Obama as "most liberal" senator in '07 without noting subjectivity http://mediamatters.org/items/200806270010 NPR's Renée Montagne, MSNBC's Pat Buchanan, and CNN's Bill Bennett all referred to the National Journal's 2007 Vote Ratings, which ranked Sen. Barack Obama the most liberal senator that year, without noting the subjectivity of the ratings. The National Journal based its rankings not on all votes cast by senators in 2007, but on "99 key Senate votes, selected by NJ reporters and editors, to place every senator on a liberal-to-conservative scale." http://mediamatters.org/items/200806270010 Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:21:07 EST 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" http://mediamatters.org/items/200806160007 MSNBC political analyst Pat Buchanan said of the Republican strategy against Sen. Barack Obama: "[T]hey're going to use his associations. And they're going to use his statements, his elitism. They're going to use the fact he's exotic." http://mediamatters.org/items/200806160007 Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:35:32 EST After lambasting sourcing of NY Times' McCain story, Scarborough, Barnicle, and Buchanan ignore anonymous sourcing in Vanity Fair article about Clinton http://mediamatters.org/items/200806040008 Discussing in February a New York Times article about Sen. John McCain's ties to lobbyists, MSNBC's Joe Scarborough, Mike Barnicle, and Pat Buchanan criticized the Times for its use of anonymous sources. However, Scarborough, Barnicle, and Buchanan offered no such criticism in their discussions of a Vanity Fair article that also relied on anonymous sourcing in purporting to report on "post-presidential sexual indiscretions" by former President Bill Clinton. http://mediamatters.org/items/200806040008 Wed, 4 Jun 2008 17:47:51 EST On MSNBC, purveyors of sexism Buchanan and Barnicle purported to assess role of sexism in presidential campaign coverage http://mediamatters.org/items/200805220005 On Morning Joe, Mike Barnicle and Pat Buchanan discussed whether "sexism [will] play a key role in what went wrong" in Sen. Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, with Barnicle saying that "reality," not sexism, "will play a much larger role in what has happened," and Buchanan asserting that, while "there's resistance to a woman being the nominee," "the fact that she's a woman has helped her." But Barnicle has referred to Clinton as "looking like everyone's first wife standing outside a probate court." Buchanan has described Clinton's voice as "rising to the level that every husband in America at one time or another has heard." http://mediamatters.org/items/200805220005 Thu, 22 May 2008 15:00:43 EST Following Buchanan's comment on Clinton's voice, Matthews warned: "Go the other way. You're in the danger area" http://mediamatters.org/items/200804230006 On Morning Joe, after Pat Buchanan said of Sen. Hillary Clinton's speech following the Pennsylvania primary that "only once or twice did that voice start rising to the level that every husband in America at one time or another has heard. You know, where it starts going up -- " Joe Scarborough said, "Be careful here, Buchanan." Chris Matthews added, "Go the other way. You're in the danger area. ... You're in the danger area, Pat, take my advice." http://mediamatters.org/items/200804230006 Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:29:35 EST Buchanan on Obama's race speech: "We hear the grievances. Where is the gratitude?" http://mediamatters.org/items/200803220001 Discussing Sen. Barack Obama's speech addressing race and controversial comments by his former pastor, Jeremiah Wright, Pat Buchanan wrote in his syndicated column: "Wright ought to go down on his knees and thank God he is an American." Buchanan then asserted that "no people anywhere has done more to lift up blacks than white Americans," adding: "We hear the grievances. Where is the gratitude?" http://mediamatters.org/items/200803220001 Sat, 22 Mar 2008 13:42:56 EST