http://mediamatters.org/tools/syndication/tag_rss/abcnews_com This link is for use by RSS-enabled software to retrieve Media Matters items matching the term: ABCNews.com en-US Copyright 2008, Media Matters for America http://mediamatters.org/items/200807030009 ABCNews.com's The Note, after linking to reports on Sen. John McCain's recent trip to Colombia, stated: "(And the RNC may want you to remember that it was Obama's name -- not McCain's -- that popped up on a seized FARC laptop.)" ABC offered no explanation for its reference to a report that Obama's name "popped up" in a computer seized from "FARC," the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia. Several right-wing groups and media outlets have used a letter from a FARC spokesman that reportedly mentioned Obama to falsely allege "contacts" and other connections between FARC and Obama. http://mediamatters.org/items/200807030009 Thu, 3 Jul 2008 18:26:53 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200805210005 Reporting on the $4 million loan Sen. John McCain's campaign obtained in November 2007, neither <em>The New York Times</em> nor ABCNews.com's Political Radar blog noted that the loan is at the center of a dispute between McCain's campaign and the FEC, whose chairman has cited the loan in taking the position that McCain cannot opt out of public financing in the primary without FEC approval. http://mediamatters.org/items/200805210005 Wed, 21 May 2008 15:03:22 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200805020008 Referring to the false allegation that in the 1993 movie <em>The War Room</em>, Clinton campaign adviser Mickey Kantor called Indiana voters "shit," Jake Tapper wrote on his blog: "Were I not currently eating a chicken sandwich at Liberty East Restaurant in Charlotte, NC, while working on a World News piece about the economy and the candidates, I would go to Blockbuster, rent a copy of The War Room and settle this matter as much as possible." <em>Media Matters for America</em> did obtain a copy of the film and does indeed "settle" the matter; Kantor did not call anyone "shit," and he was not referring to Hoosiers when he said, "Those people are shitting." http://mediamatters.org/items/200805020008 Fri, 2 May 2008 19:38:16 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200804180007 Several media outlets have reported that Sen. John McCain's campaign justified refusing to release Cindy McCain's tax returns by citing Sen. John Kerry and his wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, as "precedent." But they did not report that, in contrast with Cindy McCain, Heinz Kerry did release a part of her 2003 income tax return that showed "total income," which enabled <em>The New York Times</em> to analyze how she benefited from the Bush tax cuts. Such an analysis of how the McCains have benefited from the tax cuts -- which Sen. McCain supports extending permanently -- is not possible, based on the information his campaign has released on Cindy McCain's income. http://mediamatters.org/items/200804180007 Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:12:45 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200804110010 An ABC News Political Radar blog post stated that Sen. Barack Obama made a "near gaffe" in saying, " 'Al Qaeda is not in Ir -- ' ... at which point he caught himself and finished the sentence by saying: 'the key Al Qaeda leadership is not based in Iraq,' " and also noted that the statement was "quickly seized on by aides to presumptive Republican nominee John McCain R-Ariz." But the blog post did not note that McCain himself has repeatedly made <em>actual </em>misstatements regarding Al Qaeda. http://mediamatters.org/items/200804110010 Fri, 11 Apr 2008 18:40:37 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200803310003 In a blog post, ABC's Jake Tapper wrote, "Campaigning in Indiana on Friday, Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, claimed to have been a 16-year vocal opponent of NAFTA." But in the very comments Tapper cited, Clinton did not assert that she had "been a 16-year vocal opponent of NAFTA"; rather, she said she "spoke out" against NAFTA starting in 1992. http://mediamatters.org/items/200803310003 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:56:24 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200802120012 Citing Dean Barnett's <em>Weekly Standard</em> piece about a recent speech by Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, radio host Rush Limbaugh and ABC's Jake Tapper promoted Barnett's claim that without a teleprompter, Obama is, in Limbaugh's words, "a different guy." However, in claiming that Obama "improvised" or "ad-libbed" and that the audience "saw a different Obama," Barnett provided several quotes that have been part of Obama's standard stump speech since as early as November 2007. http://mediamatters.org/items/200802120012 Tue, 12 Feb 2008 21:11:06 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200801310009 In a blog post, ABC News' Jake Tapper wrote: "In a long, and interesting speech, [Bill Clinton] characterized what the U.S. and other industrialized nations need to do to combat global warming this way: 'We just have to slow down our economy and cut back our greenhouse gas emissions 'cause we have to save the planet for our grandchildren.' " But Clinton did not say that is what has to be done to combat global warming. http://mediamatters.org/items/200801310009 Thu, 31 Jan 2008 17:24:43 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200712180001 In a blog post, ABC's Jake Tapper wrote: "Some Obama supporters have asked why former Sen. Bob Kerrey, D-Neb., who endorsed Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., today, mentioned her opponent Sen. Barack Hussein Obama's middle name in remarks published in The Washington Post." Tapper's headline read: "Why Did Bob Kerrey Mention Obama's Middle Name -- 'Hussein.' " While the question is justified, Tapper himself has made unprompted references to Obama's middle name in two prior blog posts and a <em>Nightline</em> report. http://mediamatters.org/items/200712180001 Mon, 17 Dec 2007 19:50:33 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200711130003 Despite the <em>Politico</em>'s correction of its claim that Democrats were "Zero for 40" on legislation "limiting President Bush's war policy" -- though the <em>Politico</em> did not acknowledge that it had made a mistake in the corrected article -- several in the media, including the <em>Politico</em>'s own Mike Allen, Matt Drudge, and ABC's The Note, highlighted the false statistic without noting that it is inaccurate. http://mediamatters.org/items/200711130003 Tue, 13 Nov 2007 15:33:50 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200709290001 The Drudge Report and ABCNews.com both highlighted an Associated Press article that cited an NBC/<em>Wall Street Journal</em> poll that, the article said, "found that fully one-quarter of all Americans said that the prospect of having at least 24 straight years of a President Clinton or Bush would be a consideration in their vote for president in 2008." But the AP left out the data on other responses to the question -- that a majority of respondents, 54 percent, said it would "not be a consideration at all." Nor did the AP report that the poll also found that 42 percent of respondents "feel positive" that former President Bill Clinton is Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's (D-NY) husband, while only 28 percent "feel negative" about it. http://mediamatters.org/items/200709290001 Fri, 28 Sep 2007 20:09:49 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200709190011 ABC News' <em>The Note</em> claimed that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, in favoring legislation calling for troop withdrawal timelines, "virtually ensured the return of polarized Iraq politics -- and is giving the left the showdown (take two) it craves." But polling repeatedly shows that a significant majority of the country supports withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq in -- at most -- a timeframe that comports with what Reid has suggested. http://mediamatters.org/items/200709190011 Wed, 19 Sep 2007 19:17:41 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200706140007 http://mediamatters.org/items/200706140007 Thu, 14 Jun 2007 17:48:15 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200706110006 http://mediamatters.org/items/200706110006 Mon, 11 Jun 2007 17:37:02 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200705020011 In ABC's The Note, senior political reporter Rick Klein wrote that "Democrats will still need to move toward the Republican position, unless they want to shut down [Iraq] war funding." In doing so, Klein suggested that unless congressional Democrats compromise and send President Bush a bill he finds acceptable, they will be responsible for cutting off funding to the troops, rather than Bush being responsible. <br /> http://mediamatters.org/items/200705020011 Wed, 2 May 2007 19:47:06 EST