Media Matters - Carol Costello

Media Matters - Carol Costello http://mediamatters.org/tools/syndication/tag_rss/carol_costello This link is for use by RSS-enabled software to retrieve Media Matters items matching the term: Carol Costello en-US Copyright 2008, Media Matters for America CNN re-airs smear video, no mention of McCain campaign's attacks on Obama patriotism http://mediamatters.org/items/200803260007 Reporting on a YouTube video that CNN's Wolf Blitzer described as portraying Sen. Barack Obama and his wife as "America-hating racists," correspondent Carol Costello quoted, without challenge, a Republican National Committee official saying attacks on Obama's patriotism "do[n't] come from us." Costello did not note that Sen. John McCain's campaign has suspended one staffer for circulating the video and that the campaign also reportedly said it was "an error" when it sent out a Wall Street Journal op-ed attacking Obama's minister. http://mediamatters.org/items/200803260007 Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:54:25 EST CNN's Situation Room again aired McCain's attacks on Clinton over earmark without noting his missed vote to remove it http://mediamatters.org/items/200802250005 CNN correspondent Carol Costello aired a video clip of Sen. John McCain criticizing an earmark requested by Sens. Chuck Schumer and Hillary Clinton in which McCain says: "Senator Clinton tried to spend $1 million on the Woodstock concert museum." However, Costello did not mention that McCain skipped the vote on removing the earmark, as other CNN reporters have also failed to do. http://mediamatters.org/items/200802250005 Mon, 25 Feb 2008 17:29:41 EST CNN repeats smear of Obama supporters as "creepy" and "cult-like" http://mediamatters.org/items/200802150018 CNN's Carol Costello said that audience response at a Barack Obama rally is "a scene some increasingly find not inspirational, but 'creepy,' " quoting columnists who have likened Obama supporters to members of a cult or described their enthusiasm as "creepy." On-screen text during Costello's report read: "OBAMA-MANIA BACKLASH" and "PASSION 'CULT-LIKE' TO SOME." Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer similarly cited other writers to make the same assertion: "ABC's Jake Tapper notes the 'Helter-Skelter cult-ish qualities' of 'Obama worshipers,' what Joel Stein of the Los Angeles Times calls 'the Cult of Obama.' " http://mediamatters.org/items/200802150018 Fri, 15 Feb 2008 20:32:13 EST CNN reporter on issue of driver's licenses for undocumented immigrants: "It literally drives some off the deep end, like Lou Dobbs" http://mediamatters.org/items/200801300003 Discussing driver's licenses for illegal immigrants, CNN correspondent Carol Costello remarked on The Situation Room that the issue "literally drives some off the deep end, like Lou Dobbs." http://mediamatters.org/items/200801300003 Wed, 30 Jan 2008 13:16:38 EST CNN's Costello echoed Politico falsehood about Democrats being "Zero for 40 on Iraq" http://mediamatters.org/items/200711150001 Echoing the false assertion in a Politico article that Democrats are "Zero for 40" on passing "bills limiting President Bush's war policy," CNN's Carol Costello reported, "Forty times Democrats have forced a vote to curtail the Iraq war and 40 times they've lost." In fact, in April, both the House and Senate passed war funding legislation that included a timetable for a U.S. troop withdrawal, which President Bush vetoed. http://mediamatters.org/items/200711150001 Wed, 14 Nov 2007 19:33:25 EST CNN reported on some who say single women voters are "stupid," "slutty, anxious female[s]" http://mediamatters.org/items/200711020014 Discussing young female voters' support for presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, CNN's Carol Costello asserted, "[I]f Hillary Clinton can persuade these young, single women to vote for her, many say she will win. And those who oppose Clinton know that. That's why they're calling these young women voters stupid." She added, "[T]he online magazine Jezebel dubbed them the elusive, slutty, anxious female, that's slutty in a political sense of course," a reference to a June 14 Jezebel item with the headline: "Barack Obama Lures Elusive Slutty Anxious Female Demographic." http://mediamatters.org/items/200711020014 Fri, 2 Nov 2007 19:19:53 EST CNN's Costello claims "Springsteen-loving" white men now vote GOP, but doesn't note the Boss's own politics http://mediamatters.org/items/200710120002 In a CNN segment on a new book purporting to tell, in Wolf Blitzer's words, "exactly why white men are leaving the Democratic Party," correspondent Carol Costello asked, "[W]hat's a [Bruce] Springsteen-loving white man to do? Recent history says, 'Vote Republican.' " In fact -- as Costello herself noted at the conclusion of the segment -- Democrats "picked up 6 percent more white men" in the 2006 midterm election. Further, Springsteen himself campaigned for Democrat John Kerry for president in 2004 and recently said of the Bush administration: "I think that we've seen things happen over the past six years that I don't think anybody ever thought they'd see in the United States." http://mediamatters.org/items/200710120002 Fri, 12 Oct 2007 11:12:21 EST CNN's Costello failed to ask NRA's LaPierre about Nugent's slurs against Obama, Clinton, Feinstein http://mediamatters.org/items/200709250001 During a September 21 interview, CNN's Carol Costello interviewed National Rifle Association executive vice president Wayne LaPierre, but she did not ask LaPierre about controversial remarks made by Ted Nugent -- an NRA board member -- during an August concert in which he insulted Sens. Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Dianne Feinstein. http://mediamatters.org/items/200709250001 Tue, 25 Sep 2007 11:31:32 EST CNN, NY Times, Wash. Post uncritically repeated Giuliani's claim that anti-Giuliani firefighter unions are partisan http://mediamatters.org/items/200707130001 http://mediamatters.org/items/200707130001 Thu, 12 Jul 2007 20:05:44 EST CNN's Costello ignored failed Bush nominee's private-sector severance http://mediamatters.org/items/200705240006 http://mediamatters.org/items/200705240006 Thu, 24 May 2007 17:22:56 EST CNN's Situation Room asks: "[C]an what happened in the French election mimic our own race for president?" http://mediamatters.org/items/200705090010 CNN's Wolf Blitzer and Carol Costello drew an analogy between the French presidential election and a possible 2008 matchup between Hillary Clinton and Rudy Giuliani, misleadingly suggesting that the victory of "law-and-order, plain-talking conservative" Nicolas Sarkozy in France bodes well for Giuliani -- whose actual record on security issues has come under considerable criticism -- and referring to Clinton as a "liberal woman" who is similar to Sarkozy's opponent, the socialist Ségolène Royal. http://mediamatters.org/items/200705090010 Wed, 9 May 2007 19:02:15 EST In report on Imus' "past political guests," Costello did not address Imus' ban on Clinton appearances http://mediamatters.org/items/200704100024 http://mediamatters.org/items/200704100024 Tue, 10 Apr 2007 18:56:07 EST CNN's Costello falsely asserted that "you don't see candidate Hillary Clinton on Leno or Letterman" http://mediamatters.org/items/200703020009 http://mediamatters.org/items/200703020009 Fri, 2 Mar 2007 17:15:55 EST CNN did not challenge unsubstantiated GOP claim that Pelosi specifically requested "one of the most luxurious planes" http://mediamatters.org/items/200702090008 http://mediamatters.org/items/200702090008 Thu, 8 Feb 2007 20:57:52 EST CNN, Fox ignored DOJ report's vindication of CREW in controversy over Foley emails http://mediamatters.org/items/200701250002 http://mediamatters.org/items/200701250002 Wed, 24 Jan 2007 19:31:51 EST