Media Matters - Byron York

Media Matters - Byron York http://mediamatters.org/tools/syndication/tag_rss/byron_york This link is for use by RSS-enabled software to retrieve Media Matters items matching the term: Byron York en-US Copyright 2008, Media Matters for America Will pundits who blasted Howard Dean in 2003 over troop-numbers response question McCain's fitness following his Iraq troop-level falsehood? http://mediamatters.org/items/200805300012 During a May 29 campaign appearance, Sen. John McCain falsely stated that U.S. troops in Iraq "have [been] drawn down to pre-surge levels." As the Associated Press reported, "[T]here are 17 brigades in Iraq" right now, as opposed to the 15 brigades in place before the increase. In 2003, then-Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean was criticized in the media for his response to a question about the number of active-duty soldiers, with Tim Russert and others questioning his fitness to be commander in chief. In light of McCain's troop-surge falsehood and numerous national security gaffes, will the media similarly question his suitability to be commander in chief? http://mediamatters.org/items/200805300012 Fri, 30 May 2008 21:41:18 EST Byron York's admittedly "wildly inappropriate" comparison: Giuliani's Florida concession speech and slain Italian hostage's final words http://mediamatters.org/items/200801300010 In a column about Rudy Giuliani's speech following his "resounding defeat in the Florida primary," National Review White House correspondent Byron York wrote: "[I]t is hard not to think of Fabrizio Quattrocchi, the courageous Genoan who, taken hostage by Islamic terrorists in Iraq in 2004 cried out, 'Now I will show you how an Italian dies!' just before he was shot." http://mediamatters.org/items/200801300010 Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:56:48 EST York asserted that SC white men who did not vote for Clinton "voted against" her http://mediamatters.org/items/200801280007 In another example of a media figure asserting that primary or caucus voters who chose a candidate other than Sen. Hillary Clinton were thus rejecting her, National Review's Byron York asserted that in South Carolina, "72 percent of white men voted against" Clinton. York did not point to any evidence that the white men who voted for someone other than Clinton did so because they were "vot[ing] against her." http://mediamatters.org/items/200801280007 Mon, 28 Jan 2008 14:15:53 EST York falsely claimed that Limbaugh discussed MacBeth "in the same exchange" in which he used "phony soldiers" http://mediamatters.org/items/200710050009 http://mediamatters.org/items/200710050009 Fri, 5 Oct 2007 17:25:17 EST National Review's York ignores Limbaugh falsehood about splicing of audio and transcript http://mediamatters.org/items/200710030010 Reporting on Rush Limbaugh's explanation of his "phony soldiers" comments, Byron York wrote that "[a]s part of that explanation" Limbaugh "played a tape of the original September 26 program [and] cut some extraneous material out -- 'for space and relevance reasons, not to hide anything,' he told me." In fact, Limbaugh said that he was airing "the entire transcript, in context, that led to this so-called controversy" and gave no indication that he cropped the audio or the transcript. http://mediamatters.org/items/200710030010 Wed, 3 Oct 2007 16:35:14 EST York column compounded Wash. Post reporters' misrepresentation of their own interview http://mediamatters.org/items/200708030010 http://mediamatters.org/items/200708030010 Fri, 3 Aug 2007 19:49:07 EST MSNBC's Jansing asked Edwards: "Why give Ann Coulter more publicity?" http://mediamatters.org/items/200706280010 http://mediamatters.org/items/200706280010 Thu, 28 Jun 2007 19:49:17 EST Gregory, Byron York repeated myth of Giuliani as 9-11 hero, omitting criticism http://mediamatters.org/items/200705120001 http://mediamatters.org/items/200705120001 Fri, 11 May 2007 20:54:11 EST On Today, York's suggestion that Bush delayed Iraq proposal to boost his political standing drew no response http://mediamatters.org/items/200612140007 Despite the daily toll of casualties in Iraq, Matt Lauer and Kelly O'Donnell did not respond to Byron York's comment that "public relations" contributed to President Bush's decision to delay the announcement of changes in his Iraq policy. http://mediamatters.org/items/200612140007 Thu, 14 Dec 2006 18:07:48 EST National Review's York uncritically noted Hastert's claim that House Republicans "asked [Foley] to resign," without mentioning Hastert's contrary statement the day before http://mediamatters.org/items/200610030012 In a weblog entry at National Review Online's The Corner, Byron York uncritically noted House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert's claim that "[w]e took care of [former Rep. Mark] Foley" and that "[w]e ... asked him to resign." But York did not mention an apparently inconsistent statement Hastert made during a press conference the previous day, in which Hastert stated: "I think Foley resigned almost immediately upon the outbreak of this information, and so we really didn't have a chance to ask him to resign." http://mediamatters.org/items/200610030012 Tue, 3 Oct 2006 19:56:52 EST Russert claimed National Review's York is an "objective observer of American politics" http://mediamatters.org/items/200606120007 On Meet the Press, Tim Russert noted that National Review White House correspondent Byron York is "a conservative writer," but then added that York is "an interesting, objective observer of American politics," without elaborating on the term "objective." Media Matters for America has documented numerous instances of conservative misinformation from York. http://mediamatters.org/items/200606120007 Mon, 12 Jun 2006 14:46:42 EST York misstated Fitzgerald correction http://mediamatters.org/items/200604140004 Byron York claimed that court papers pertaining to Patrick J. Fitzgerald's investigation of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby "contained the erroneous and later-corrected suggestion that Libby lied about the contents of the National Intelligence Estimate [NIE]." York, however, misstated Fitzgerald's correction. In fact, Fitzgerald corrected the suggestion that Vice President Dick Cheney authorized Libby to tell Judith Miller that a "key judgment" of the 2002 NIE was that Iraq was "vigorously trying to procure" uranium -- not the "suggestion that Libby lied about the contents of the" NIE, as York wrote. http://mediamatters.org/items/200604140004 Fri, 14 Apr 2006 13:55:54 EST Will York explore conflicting accounts of how Cheney hunting incident was publicly revealed? http://mediamatters.org/items/200602130008 National Review White House correspondent Byron York wrote that Katharine Armstrong, the host of the hunting expedition during which Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot a hunting partner, "said she did not coordinate with the vice president's office before calling" a Corpus Christi, Texas, newspaper. But when a spokeswoman for Cheney responded to the article by saying that, in fact, Armstrong and Cheney discussed specifically how the news would be disclosed to the public, York printed the White House response as an "author's note" at the bottom of the article, without explaining the discrepancy between the two accounts. http://mediamatters.org/items/200602130008 Mon, 13 Feb 2006 16:27:55 EST York repeated disputed claim that bin Laden warned U.S. states to vote against Bush http://mediamatters.org/items/200601200010 On MSNBC's Hardball, National Review White House correspondent Byron York claimed that Osama bin Laden, in a 2004 videotape, "suggested that ... if states vote against Bush, then we'll [Al Qaeda] protect you in the future." York's comment was apparently based on a translation by the Middle East Media Research Institute indicating that bin Laden threatened the individual U.S. states not to vote for President Bush, but that translation has been disputed by numerous scholars and experts. http://mediamatters.org/items/200601200010 Fri, 20 Jan 2006 16:21:39 EST