Richardson’s beard part of Hispanic vote wooing plot?
Sigh, more from the folks over at Fox News.
It’s the Europeans that are mistaken?
More fair and balanced from Fox News.
Free Ride: John McCain and the Media
In the midst of the most contentious American presidential campaign in forty years, comes FREE RIDE: John McCain and the Media — bestselling authors David Brock and Paul Waldman’s eye-opening study of how the media has helped John McCain’s political rise from the Keating Five scandal to presumptive Republican presidential nominee. Anchor Books will publish FREE RIDE next Tuesday, March 25, 2008, as An Anchor Books Paperback Original.
FREE RIDE: John McCain and the Media explores the way the American media can affect and influence public perception of the candidates and other players involved in national politics. The book will be required reading for anyone interested in the political process, as well as those frustrated or fascinated by the role media plays in politics.
Bill O’Reilly just can’t get enough of my employer…
To say that Bill O’Reilly hates my employer would be a major understatement. He’s gone after us many, many times in the past. Here is the latest.
Photos from my trip to Spain…
I went to Spain (Madrid and Seville) with my good friend Portia over the Winter holiday and I’ve finally gotten around to putting all of the photos I took online. Check them out by clicking here.
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.
10/08/07: Media Matters on Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report: QT | WMV
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.
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