Obama Has Republicans Dusting Off ‘Liberal’ Attacks
From Bloomberg News today:
Karl Frisch, spokesman for Media Matters for America, a Washington-based media watchdog organization, criticized the rating, saying it is “remarkably misleading” to count Obama votes such as those he cast in favor of the 9/11 Commission’s recommendations and ethics overhaul as “liberal.”
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US network faces backlash after Democratic debate
From today’s Guardian UK:
A spokesman for media monitoring organisation Media Matters said the network missed an opportunity to “offer the American people a frank discussion of the issues that we all face and how these candidates plan on tackling them.
“Instead, those that tuned in saw a veteran news team clearly out of touch and more interested, frankly, in gaffes and gotchas than health care, the war in Iraq, and our failing economy,” said the spokesman, Karl Frisch.
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Talk radio host links fire victims to those who ‘hate America’
Los Angeles Times
Glenn Beck’s comments draw a rebuke from one media watchdog group, whose spokesman calls them ‘heartless.’
By Andrew Blankstein
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
With at least 1,000 homes destroyed, two deaths reported and more than a quarter-million people ordered to evacuate, the wildfires ravaging Southern California have been as indiscriminate as they have been devastating.
But the images of charred residences, grieving homeowners and valiant firefighters apparently were not enough to move conservative talk radio host Glenn Beck, who told his listeners on his nationally syndicated show Monday that those suffering losses “hate America.”
“I think there is a handful of people who hate America,” Beck said. “Unfortunately for them, a lot of them are losing their homes in a forest fire today.”
Steven Colbert Attacks My Employer… Media Matters
On the October 8 edition of Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report, host Stephen Colbert mocked Rush Limbaugh for his attacks on Media Matters for America, which documented Limbaugh’s characterization of service members who support U.S. withdrawal from Iraq as “phony soldiers” during the September 26 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show.
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Fact vs. Fiction in the Limbaugh “Phony Soldiers” Controversy
To: Interested Parties
From: Karl Frisch, Media Matters for America
Re: Fact vs. Fiction in the Limbaugh “phony soldiers” controversy…
Below you will find a brief description of Rush Limbaugh’s “phony soldiers” comments along with documentation that corrects common misconceptions in the media about the controversy surrounding his remarks and subsequent statements on the subject.
Rush Limbaugh Comments Spark Outrage
ABC News
Democrats and Veterans Group Outraged by Radio Host’s ‘Phony Soldiers’ Comment
By Jennifer Parker
In what has become the latest partisan battle over the Iraq war, congressional Democrats and a veterans group are expressing outrage over comments made by conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh on his talk radio program last week.
The war of words began last Wednesday when Limbaugh, a longtime conservative radio talk-show host, insinuated that veterans who question the war in Iraq are “phony soldiers” on his talk-radio program.
Limbaugh was responding to a caller who argued that anti-war groups “never talk to real soldiers.”
“They like to pull these soldiers that come up out of the blue and talk to the media,” the caller said.
“The phony soldiers,” Limbaugh responded.
Rush Refers to Murtha as “Genuine Phony Soldier”
Responding to the growing controversy over his claims that members of the military who support U.S. withdrawal from Iraq are “phony soldiers,” Rush Limbaugh today referred to Rep. John Murtha (D-PA), a Vietnam veteran, as a “genuine phony soldier.” Limbaugh also falsely claimed that Media Matters for America had taken his original statement out of context — and resorted to distorting his own comments in order to do so.
Fox’s Bill O’Reilly Says His Stereotypes Taken Out of Context
Washington Post
By Paul Farhi
Bill O’Reilly says he thought he was dispelling stereotypes when he told his radio audience last week about his recent trip to Harlem with the Rev. Al Sharpton. Instead, O’Reilly found himself yesterday fighting accusations of racial insensitivity.
During a 35-minute discussion about race relations last Wednesday on his syndicated “Radio Factor,” the pugnacious host repeatedly decried “demeaning” portrayals of African Americans, particularly in hip-hop videos. To illustrate his contention that such images provide a false impression of black culture, he recalled having dinner with Sharpton at Sylvia’s, a famous soul-food restaurant in Harlem:
“I couldn’t get over the fact that there was no difference between Sylvia’s restaurant and any other restaurant in New York City,” he said. “It was exactly the same, even though it’s run by blacks [and has a] primarily black patronship. It was the same. And that’s really what this society is really all about now here in the U.S.A. There’s no difference.”
Bill O’Reilly Says He’s Being Smeared
Associated Press
By David Bauder
NEW YORK (AP) - Fox News Channel’s Bill O’Reilly said Wednesday his critics took remarks he made about a famed Harlem restaurant out of context and “fabricated a racial controversy where none exists.” He criticized the liberal group Media Matters for America as “smear merchants” for publicizing statements he made on his radio show last week.
O’Reilly told his radio audience that he dined with civil rights activist Al Sharpton at Sylvia’s recently and “couldn’t get over the fact that there was no difference” between the black-run restaurant and others in New York City.
It was just like a suburban Italian restaurant, he said. “There wasn’t any kind of craziness at all,” he said.
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