FOX News "Wrap" Sheets

Brit Hume

• FOX selective in Kerry-Edwards v. Bush-Cheney poll reporting
• Hume touted discredited WMD discovery; chided French news agency for not following suit
• Conservatives seized upon faulty report of Moore's supposed dual voter registrations
• Stephen Hayes: Conservatives' favorite authority on "The Connection"
• Drudge hid Clinton's boffo book sales -- and the right-wing followed his script
• FOX's Brit Hume spins for Bush
• Dems invisible in FOX News Channel Bush speech coverage
• Backdating the Recession: A Report by Media Matters for America
• Unsubstantiated Drudge rumor echoed through the media

Carl Cameron

• FOX's Cameron downplayed Bush's negative ad blitz; played up Kerry surrogate's attack
• Special Report tag team: FOX's Barnes, Birnbaum, and Cameron took turns distorting Kerry's record
• Conservative media echoed Republican misstatements on Edwards's voting record: "fourth most liberal member of the Senate"
• FOX's Carl Cameron: Kerry quotes poet who "praised communism"
• Conservative media true to Republican message; revived old Kerry criticisms of Reagan

Major Garrett

• FOX reporter Garrett falsely claimed that Gore distorted 9-11 Commission finding

Molly Henneberg

• Bush attacks on Kerry-Edwards '04 resonate on cables

Mort Kondracke

• Kondracke swooned over Ken Starr
• GOP Reagan-Bush spin echoed by the media

Fred Barnes

• Special Report tag team: FOX's Barnes, Birnbaum, and Cameron took turns distorting Kerry's record
• Barnes denied that "we've said" gay marriage will "destroy institution of marriage," but it's all over the magazine he leads
• New Gore speech, same right-wing diagnosis
• Krauthammer and Barnes misrepresented Pew journalists survey: "[N]ational media is generally very liberal"

Bill Kristol

• Conservatives resuscitated 1988 Kerry quote on Reagan years
• Weekly Standard's Kristol: Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal "small"
• Weekly Standard's Kristol falsely claimed Kerry and Bush even on campaign funds

Susan Estrich

• Hannity & Colmes substitute host Estrich: progressive standard-bearer?
• Democratic dementia? "Drs." Gingrich, Hannity, Coulter, Estrich continue diagnosis of Gore

Brian Wilson

• FOX's Brian Wilson distorted Kerry connection to Lay and Enron

Michael Barone

• George Will bashed "Blue" America, ignored the facts
• Barone accused "Michael Moore Democrats" of "rooting against America"
• U.S. News' Barone smears, "MoveOn.org folks were cheering when they heard of Reagan's death"

Posted to the web on Sunday, July 25, 2004 at 02:26 PM ET