Tim Graham on FNC's 'Just In' Discusses Media Coverage of Obama
July 1st, 2008 5:14 PM
MRC's Director of Media Analysis Tim Graham appeared on the July 1 edition of Fox News Channel's "Just In" to discuss a Chicago Tribune article entitled "Coded Prejudice Is Cloaked Dagger," marking the second media appearance in two days dealing with Chicago Tribune nonsense.Graham appeared opposite Paul Porter of IndustryEars.com, who alleged the media have an anti-Obama bias. "The question…
MRC/NB's Graham on Chicago Tribune Call to Repeal 2nd Amendment
July 1st, 2008 10:15 AM
The Chicago Tribune has lurched to the left of Sen. Barack Obama, at least on gun rights, marking the latest point in its evolution from a historically moderate-to-conservative paper to a reliably left-wing broadsheet.That's how MRC Director of Media Analysis characterized the Trib's decision to issue an editorial last Friday calling for the repeal of the Second Amendment. The editorial board's…
NYT's Attack on Verb 'Swift Boat' Ignores Facts and Media's Role
June 30th, 2008 11:46 AM
The New York Times published an article Monday about the anger some Vietnam veterans feel over the vessel they used to serve on, Swift Boat, now being synonymous with "the nastiest of campaign smears."In dredging up this issue, Times' writer Kate Zernike not only misrepresented many of the facts surrounding the claims made by the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, but also completely ignored the…
Stephen Baldwin Mocks Alec's 'I'm Leaving if Bush Wins' Pledge
June 26th, 2008 1:39 PM
Remember back in 2000 when actor Alec Baldwin allegedly promised to leave the country if George W. Bush was elected president?Well, his brother Stephen was on Fox News's "Just In with Laura Ingraham" Wednesday evening, and apart from skewering celebrities for supporting Barack Obama "just because quote unquote they want change, whatever, without ever really fully recognizing who the best person…
MRC's Bozell On Media Ignoring Good News in Iraq
June 26th, 2008 9:45 AM
MRC President Brent Bozell appeared on the June 24 "Hannity & Colmes" to comment on a trend in Iraq reporting that conservatives have known for a while and the New York Times is only now catching on to: the media love to report negative developments from Iraq, while downplaying or ignoring positive developments such as the succeess of the surge or the exonerations of the Haditha "massacre"…
BMI’s Menefee: Countrywide Story ‘Has Everything,’ but Networks
June 23rd, 2008 3:11 PM
The network news outlets - ABC, CBS and NBC - have missed a great opportunity to cover actual political news in the last week by failing to report on the loan scandal surrounding two Democratic senators, Business & Media Institute Managing Editor Amy Menefee told "Fox & Friends Weekend" June 21."This story has everything," Menefee said. "It has a former presidential candidate, Chris Dodd…
Laura Ingraham Calls for an End to the Fairness Doctrine on the Factor
June 23rd, 2008 11:48 AM
Laura Ingraham, syndicated radio talk show host and now host of Just In on the Fox News Channel, filled in for Bill O'Reilly, syndicated radio talk show host, on his FNC Show The O'Reilly Factor on Friday, June 20.And led off with her Talking Points Memo, in which she excoriated the left's call for the return of the Fairness Doctrine, dismantling and undermining every liberal (alleged)…
Elisabeth Hasselbeck Recounts Tumultuous Season with Rosie
June 19th, 2008 1:11 PM
Appearing on June 18's "Hannity and Colmes," "View" co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck opened up about her rocky relationship with former co-host Rosie O’Donnell. Hasselbeck discussed Michelle Obama’s guest co-host on "The View" before the conversation moved on to Rosie.Elisabeth exclaimed how much fun "The View" panel is today and then noted that "it was [fun] then it wasn’t, then it is now." The…
Obama Advisor's Dog-Ate-My-Transcript Dodge
June 18th, 2008 6:30 PM
The dog ate my transcript. That's roughly what Susan Rice's response to a pointed question from Laura Ingraham amounted to. Give credit to Rice, Obama senior foreign policy advisor, for appearing on Ingraham's "Just In" FNC show today and taking on the host in a freewheeling conversation. But she and her candidate are really going to have to learn to do better than the feeble dodge she offered…
Obama VP Committee Member Helped Enable 2000 Elian Gonzalez Seizure
June 13th, 2008 1:14 PM
Now that Jim Johnson has quit Barack Obama's vice-presidential candidate selection team, maybe somebody, anybody, in the media, instead of making "He's havng a bad day" excuses, might focus on the questionable judgment of Barack Obama in having Eric Holder serve on that team. Besides his already-known role in facilitating the Clinton pardons, including that of fugitive billionaire financier…
CNN: 'The Only News Channel to Give You All Sides
June 11th, 2008 10:22 AM
Try reading the following without busting out in uproarious laughter: the good folks at CNN see themselves as the "middle ground" between Fox News and MSNBC -- "the only news channel to give you all sides." "No spin. No affiliation. No agenda." Bet you can't.Well, as hysterical as it might seem, such was asserted -- with a straight face, no less! -- in a Los Angeles Times piece Tuesday (emphasis…
