Media Matters for America - Yesterday's CNN, Fox, NBC lies noted/refuted

[papau]

Here are the latest items from Media Matters for America, click on 'read more' to read the entire item.

Novak called The Truth About Hillary "well-attributed"; CNN's John King ignored book's factual errors, sleazy gossip

During the "Strategy Session" portion of the June 17 edition of CNN's Inside Politics, host John King led CNN contributors Robert D. Novak and Jack Valenti in a nearly six-minute-long discussion of Edward Klein's attack book on Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY), The Truth About Hillary What She Knew, When She Knew It, and How Far She'll Go to Become President (Sentinel, June 2005) -- without mentioning any of the book's most controversial claims or its factual errors.

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After Matthews again bashed Dems, Imus repeated canard that Matthews is a Democrat

MSNBC host Chris Matthews again smeared Democrats, declaring on MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews that the Democrats are "a party of raising money and pressure groups and the same old crap" and on MSNBC's Imus in the Morning the next day that Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean was a "whackjob." Yet in the same interview with Matthews, host Don Imus identified Matthews as a Democrat without Matthews's objection.

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Fox's Angle distorted Durbin's Guantánamo comments

Fox News chief Washington correspondent Jim Angle cited an unnamed "knowledgeable official" to wrongly dispute Sen. Richard J. Durbin's (D-IL) statement that FBI emails concerning apparent detainee abuse at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, describe the treatment as "torture." In fact, though Angle insisted that his source was "familiar" with the emails Durbin cited, the emails themselves are publicly available, and one such email does use the term "torture techniques" to describe interrogation techniques used at Guantánamo.

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British sources confirm that meaning of "fixed" -- as in "manipulated" or "cooked" -- is the same in Britain and America

Conservatives have attempted to dismiss the Downing Street memo, a secret British intelligence document indicating that intelligence officials there believed that the Bush administration was manipulating intelligence to support its case for war in Iraq by insisting that the term "fixed" has a different meaning in British English than in the United States. The memo describes Sir Richard Dearlove, head of the British foreign intelligence agency MI6, stating that in Washington, "the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy." In fact, British reports -- including one that quoted the memo itself six weeks before the British Sunday Times published its full text on May 1 -- refute the notion that "fixed" means anything different in British parlance.

Read more... http://mediamatters.org/items/200506170003



Dean fund-raising lie persists among conservatives

The conservative media continues to falsely assert that Democratic National Committee (DNC) chairman Howard Dean is an ineffective fund-raiser. In the past week, Weekly Standard executive editor Fred Barnes, New York Post columnist John Podhoretz, and Washington Times chief political correspondent Donald Lambro all cast Dean as a fund-raising failure. In fact, when compared with fund-raising in the most recent non-election year, Dean has raised more money in raw dollars, and more in comparison to the Republican National Committee (RNC), than did his predecessor.

Read more... http://mediamatters.org/items/200506170001

[Smarmie Doofus]

1. Speaking for , myself, Dean is an excellent fund raising impetus,,,,

I had pledged to withhold $$$ from DNC so it wouldn't be used to benefit DEM war supporters... my lynch-pin issue.

Dean as chairman makes that much more difficult.

[papau]

2. I agree - our media is deep into 1984 up is down announcements.

:-)

[rodeodance]

3. suppose it works for some--I find it insulting!!

The Right is really running low on its thinking when they resort to this stuff.





http://mediamatters.org/items/200506170003

British sources confirm that meaning of "fixed" -- as in "manipulated" or "cooked" -- is the same in Britain and America

Conservatives have attempted to dismiss the Downing Street memo, a secret British intelligence document indicating that intelligence officials there believed that the Bush administration was manipulating intelligence to support its case for war in Iraq by insisting that the term "fixed" has a different meaning in British English than in the United States. The memo describes Sir Richard Dearlove, head of the British foreign intelligence agency MI6, stating that in Washington, "the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy." In fact, British reports -- including one that quoted the memo itself six weeks before the British Sunday Times published its full text on May 1 -- refute the notion that "fixed" means anything different in British parlance.

Robin Niblett, executive vice president and chief operating officer of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, claimed that "'Fixed around' in British English means 'bolted on' rather than altered to fit the policy." In an exclusive interview with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on the June 15 edition of MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews, Rice eagerly agreed with Matthews's suggestion that in Britain the word "fixed" really "means just put things together." In the June 20 issue of the conservative Weekly Standard, contributing editor Tod Lindberg wrote of the memo: "'Fix' here is clearly meant in its traditional sense, in the sort of English spoken by Oxbridge dons and MI6 directors -- to make fast, to set in order, to arrange."

Other conservatives questioned the meaning of "fixed" without explicitly suggesting transatlantic miscommunication. On the June 10 edition of PBS' NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, National Review editor Rich Lowry claimed "it was meant in the sense that the intelligence is supporting the policy asking questions like what will a post-invasion Iraq look like and questions of that nature." National Review Online contributing editor James S. Robbins also doubted the meaning of "fixed around the policy" in a June 6 column and in a June 16 article on the conservative website CNSNews.com. The June 14 edition of CNN's Inside Politics cited a commentary making this argument by the conservative blog Dean's World........