Brock Launches New Center to Correct Media Distortions ona Real Time Basis

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David Brock Launches New Center to Correct Media Distortions of Pro-Bush, Right Wing Press on a Real Time Basis


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In the column below, Media Matters for America will document and correct conservative misinformation in each news cycle. Media Matters for America will monitor cable and broadcast news channels, print media and talk radio, as well as marginal, right-wing websites that often serve as original sources of misinformation for well-known conservative and mainstream media outlets.
FOX's Chavez called Kerry a "communist apologist" -- and then lied about it


Four days after her nationally syndicated column calling Senator John Kerry a "communist apologist" appeared in newspapers and on The Heritage Foundation's website Townhall.com, Linda Chavez, in a May 2 interview with FOX & Friends host Mike Jerrick, claimed that she had not called Kerry a "communist apologist" ...

Monday May 3, 2004 more...

Koppel reports, Wallace decides

FOX News Sunday host Chris Wallace ended a discussion about ABC's Nightline to announce that next Sunday, May 9, his FOX Broadcasting Network show will provide the "context" Wallace said was lacking when Nightline devoted an entire broadcast to reading the names of the more than 700 U.S. troops who have died in the Iraq war. Wallace's roundtable discussion featured FOX News managing editor and chief Washington correspondent Brit Hume, who previously worked for ABC; Washington Post staff writer Ceci Connolly; NPR senior correspondent Juan Williams; and Weekly Standard editor William Kristol. Only Kristol -- a neo-conservative who was an outspoken proponent of the Iraq war -- strongly criticized ABC's Nightline broadcast. Yet Wallace abruptly broke in ...

Monday May 3, 2004 more...

Hannity & Colmes guest compared U.S. soldiers' maltreatment of Iraqi POWs to "frat hazing"

Two days after CBS's 60 Minutes II first broadcast photographs of U.S. military police posing and smiling next to naked, hooded Iraqi prisoners of war, Hannity & Colmes hosted a guest who compared the maltreatment of the Iraqi POWs to "frat hazing." On the April 30 broadcast of FOX News Channel's Hannity & Colmes, former U.S. Army sergeant and former interrogation instructor Tony Robinson stated that "frat hazing is worse" than "what happening in these pictures" ...

Monday May 3, 2004 more...

WorldNetDaily's Kohn: "evidence" suggests Kerry having an affair with New York Times reporter

Without citing any sources, in a May 1 WorldNetDaily "Exclusive Commentary," author Bob Kohn claimed that "evidence suggests" Senator John Kerry is having an affair with a New York Times reporter. Under the headline "Gray Lady goes to bed with Kerry," Kohn wrote, "Evidence suggests that a New York Times reporter covering the Kerry campaign may be sleeping with the presumptive nominee of the Democrat Party." The "evidence" that Kohn presented is a laundry list of instances he insisted demonstrate bias on the part of The New York Times or instances from which he inferred that the reporter had special access to Senator Kerry. He all but named the reporter by citing specific passages from articles with her byline; then he cited serial fabricator Jayson Blair as a source for his charge that New York Times reporters trade "favorable" stories for sex. For example, Kohn wrote ...

Sunday May 2, 2004 more...

Conservative pundits wrongly claimed Kerry lied about Vietnam decorations

On May 1, two panelists on FOX News Watch asserted that Senator John Kerry has a "credibility" problem over the issue of whether he threw away ribbons or medals at a 1971 anti-Vietnam War rally, when in fact, an official U.S. Navy website, which displays various medals and ribbons under the heading "The United States Military Navy Service Ribbons" seems to confirm that the Navy regards the two war decorations as interchangeable.

Sunday May 2, 2004 more...

Novak distorted Kerry's defense record, denied that Cheney cut defense

On CNN's The Capital Gang on May 1, co-host Robert Novak repeated distortions about Senator John Kerry's voting record on national defense, and he falsely claimed that Vice President Dick Cheney did not cut weapons programs as Secretary of Defense under President George H.W. Bush ...

Sunday May 2, 2004 more...

Townhall columnist said some children should have been aborted

Contemplating abortion in the United States in his May 1 column, Doug Giles simultaneously decried the growing number of women who he says are getting abortions for selfish reasons, while averring that it would be better if some children who are "living with uncaring parents" were aborted, so they "wouldn't have to watch John Flipper Kerry trip over his prevaricating tongue" ...

Sunday May 2, 2004 more...

The Federalist's Alexander suggested Kerry responsible for soldier deaths

In a May 1 column, The Federalist's Mark Alexander claimed that the recent spike in casualties among American soldiers in Iraq coincides with what he described as Senator John Kerry's increased focus on Iraq and expression of "dissenting views on our mission" there. Alexander wrote ...

Sunday May 2, 2004 more...

FOX's Hannity falsely stated Kerry's record on military funding ... again

Host Sean Hannity repeated misstatements of Senator John Kerry's record on military spending for the fifth time in less than two weeks. " voted against the major weapon systems in the Bush ad that our modern military uses," stated Hannity on the April 29 edition of FOX News Channel's Hannity & Colmes.

Sunday May 2, 2004 more...

Limbaugh lied about Republicans undermining the Kosovo war effort

Accusing Senator Edward Kennedy (D-MA) and other unnamed Democrats of undermining the nation's unity over the war in Iraq, Rush Limbaugh, during his April 29 radio show, made the false claim that Republicans refrained from criticizing the war effort in Kosovo out of concern for unity ...

Friday April 30, 2004 more...

Unsubstantiated Drudge rumor echoed through the media

An unsubstantiated rumor about Senator John Kerry's hair, originating with an April 27 Drudge Report Exclusive that cited only anonymous "campaign sources," made its way onto the April 29 episode of Special Report with Brit Hume on FOX News Channel. In his "Political Grapevine" segment, Hume reported the story without citing any sources ...

Friday April 30, 2004 more...

Limbaugh wrong on the minimum wage

Ridiculing Senator Edward Kennedy (D-MA) for advocating that Congress raise the federal minimum wage, Rush Limbaugh falsely claimed that minimum-wage earners are overwhelmingly teenagers who don't have to support families. From the April 29 Rush Limbaugh Show ...

Friday April 30, 2004 more...

FOX's O'Reilly engaged in same "pathetic rambling" he decried

Host Bill O'Reilly mocked a Canadian newspaper column, labeling as "pathetic rambling" the column's description of O'Reilly and FOX News Channel viewers as "the lunatic fringe." From the April 29 episode of The O'Reilly Factor ...

Friday April 30, 2004 more...

Limbaugh dismissed questions about Bush's National Guard service

Chiding critics of President George W. Bush for harping on questions about Bush's Texas Air National Guard service record, Rush Limbaugh claimed on his April 28 radio show, "They can't get off this AWOL business. There's no evidence. This whole business of Bush going AWOL. It's absolute total bogus-ness."

Thursday April 29, 2004 more...

Insight, WorldNetDaily, FrontPage reported that Iraqi WMD have been found

In an April 27 article, Insight on the News senior writer Kenneth R. Timmerman reported that Iraqi weapons of mass destruction have indeed been found but that the media has chosen to let the story go unreported. According to Timmerman ...

Wednesday April 28, 2004 more...

Coulter lauded discrimination against Arab, Middle Eastern, and Muslim passengers

In Ann Coulter's April 28 syndicated column, titled "Arab Hijackers Now Eligible For Pre-Boarding," the right-wing pundit described her search for the airline that, post-September 11, has "engaged in the most egregious discrimination" against passengers who appeared to be Arab, Middle Eastern, or Muslim, "so could fly only that airline."

Wednesday April 28, 2004 more...

FOX's O'Reilly fabricated evidence of success of purported boycott of French imports

Host Bill O'Reilly threatened Canada with a boycott like the one he advocated against France, then cited a phony statistic about the success of the French boycott. The threat came during O'Reilly's April 27 debate with Toronto Globe and Mail columnist Heather Mallick about Canada's harboring of two deserters from the U.S. military who have fled to Canada. From FOX News Channel's The O'Reilly Factor ...

Wednesday April 28, 2004 more...

"See the Passion.com" founder was Scarborough's guest 14 times in 9 weeks

On the April 26th, 2004 episode of MSNBC's Scarborough Country, host Joe Scarborough discussed what he called the New York Times' "bashing" of Mel Gibson's The Passion of The Christ with Jennifer Giroux, founder and director of See the Passion.com. In a teaser for the Passion segment, Scarborough said, "Mel Gibson has taken a lot of grief from 'The New York Times' ... over his blockbuster hit 'The Passion.' How many times can one paper get it wrong about a movie? We'll separate fact from 'New York Times' fiction."

Tuesday April 27, 2004 more...

Weekly Standard's Kristol falsely claimed Kerry and Bush even on campaign funds

Though President George W. Bush has raised more than $100 million more than Senator John Kerry and has $55 million more than Kerry remaining to spend, William Kristol -- editor of the conservative magazine The Weekly Standard -- falsely claimed that Kerry is "now even with Bush in money" during Kristol's April 25 appearance as a panel member on FOX News Sunday with Chris Wallace.

Monday April 26, 2004 more...

"Christian, conservative, white male" Doug Giles on feminism

In his April 24, 2004, column on The Heritage Foundation's website Townhall.com, columnist Doug Giles claimed that, according to "the feminists," his opinion, that of a "Christian, conservative, white male," "no longer counts." Giles continued ...

Saturday April 24, 2004 more...

Drudge, Talon News distorted Kerry's abortion stance

On the eve of an April 23 rally for the March for Women's Lives in Washington, DC, Matt Drudge posted an "Exclusive" on his website accusing Senator John Kerry, an abortion rights supporter for his entire career, of an "abortion flip." Citing an October 1972 interview in The Lowell Sun, Drudge "revealed" that Kerry had once claimed he was opposed to abortion ...

Friday April 23, 2004 more...

FOX's O'Reilly on "Loony Lefty" Huffington


During an April 20th exchange with author Arianna Huffington on FOX News Channel's The O'Reilly Factor, host Bill O'Reilly equated author and syndicated columnist Molly Ivins, comic and former TV host Bill Maher, Bill Moyers of PBS, and Seinfeld director Larry David with Cuban dictator Fidel Castro and convicted serial killer Ted Bundy ...

Wednesday April 21, 2004 more...

Scarborough cast himself as "very moderate guy"

During the April 18 edition of MSNBC's Scarborough Country, the show's host, former Florida Republican Representative Joe Scarborough, described himself as a "very moderate guy." Scarborough's lifetime American Conservative Union rating was 93 percent -- nearly the same as Tom DeLay's career 96 percent rating. The rating was based on Scarborough's voting record as a Republican member of Congress.

Monday April 19, 2004 more...

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Will be sending this one around to a bunch of people!!

They're going to have to hire more help to keep up with the lies spewed by the right wing. Maybe this is Bush's job creation program?
These vile pieces of crap need someone to call them of their bullshit. Problem is, it piles up so high and so fast it's hard to keep up. And how many people is this reaching? Certainly not all that listen to these numbskulls. The right wing lunatics' poison will still get through to the masses, but this is a good start. If we could only get the mainstream press off their duffs and do the same thing, then we'd have something. :crazy: Yeah, like THAT will ever happen!

After I read his book about 1 year ago, I started to get politically involved. Read the stuff -- great site so far.

more power to him and his allies.

gonna go tell some friends.

you should, too.