http://mediamatters.org/tools/syndication/tag_rss/charles_krauthammer This link is for use by RSS-enabled software to retrieve Media Matters items matching the term: Charles Krauthammer en-US Copyright 2008, Media Matters for America http://mediamatters.org/items/200805300004 On <em>Special Report</em>, Charles Krauthammer said, "The Obama campaign and the Democrats will say that [Sen. John] McCain has his Reverend [John] Hagee, and Obama has his reverend, and they disavowed them, and they're sort of morally equivalent." Krauthammer continued, "The obvious counterargument, which the Democrats refuse to accept, is that presidential candidates are endorsed by hundreds of people, half of whom they don't know, some of whom are scoundrels and rogues whom they then dissociate themselves from." But McCain, by his own admission, actively sought Hagee's endorsement, despite Hagee's numerous controversial comments. http://mediamatters.org/items/200805300004 Fri, 30 May 2008 15:34:14 EST 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." <em>Washington Post</em> 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 http://mediamatters.org/items/200711050003 On Fox News' <em>Special Report</em>, Charles Krauthammer claimed that Sen. Barack Obama's policy regarding Iran's purported nuclear weapons program "takes all aggression, all threats, everything serious off the table in advance." But in an interview with <em>The New York</em> <em>Times </em>that formed the basis for an article Krauthammer cited, Obama did not take military action against Iran "off the table." When asked whether he would "retain a military option for striking Iran's nuclear facilities," Obama said, "I don't think the president of the United States takes military options off the table, but I think that we obviously have to measure costs and benefits in all the decisions that we make." http://mediamatters.org/items/200711050003 Mon, 5 Nov 2007 14:03:41 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200709210006 In a blog post on National Review Online's The Corner, Michael Ledeen wrote that it "was under [retired Army Gen. John] Abizaid that the copious evidence of Iranian activity was suppressed, and we, let's say, took it easy on the thousands of Revolutionary Guards killers running all over the country." While several NRO contributors criticized MoveOn.org for its "General Betray Us" ad and Democrats for not condemning it, no NRO contributor has similarly condemned Ledeen's criticism of an American general. <br /> http://mediamatters.org/items/200709210006 Fri, 21 Sep 2007 14:10:06 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200709120009 Among the reasons cited by Charles Krauthammer that Al Qaeda has not and cannot "hit us" is because the Bush administration has waged an "incredibly effective war in Afghanistan" that he said has "expelled Al Qaeda and scattered it, and has kept it off-balance for six years now." In fact, the July 2007 National Intelligence Estimate concluded that Al Qaeda "has protected or regenerated key elements of its Homeland attack capability" including a "safehaven" in Pakistan. Krauthammer also credited "secret prisons and the interrogation which yielded and interrogated people like Khalid Shaikh Mohammed"; but even supporters of the CIA's interrogation and detention program reportedly acknowledge that much of the information that coercion produces, including information gathered from Mohammed, is unreliable. <br /> http://mediamatters.org/items/200709120009 Wed, 12 Sep 2007 19:49:30 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200708240005 http://mediamatters.org/items/200708240005 Fri, 24 Aug 2007 14:31:04 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200708070009 http://mediamatters.org/items/200708070009 Tue, 7 Aug 2007 17:06:45 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200707280005 http://mediamatters.org/items/200707280005 Fri, 27 Jul 2007 21:30:12 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200704130013 http://mediamatters.org/items/200704130013 Fri, 13 Apr 2007 17:23:47 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200703230004 http://mediamatters.org/items/200703230004 Fri, 23 Mar 2007 13:20:27 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200703160008 http://mediamatters.org/items/200703160008 Fri, 16 Mar 2007 15:45:53 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200703060017 http://mediamatters.org/items/200703060017 Tue, 6 Mar 2007 18:18:30 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200702270012 http://mediamatters.org/items/200702270012 Tue, 27 Feb 2007 18:32:18 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200701300007 On January 17, InsightMag.com posted a story stating that Sen. Barack Obama attended a madrassa as a boy and that this information had originated from Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's camp. With the aid of the conservative media, InsightMag.com's anonymously sourced report turned into 11 days of baseless accusations against two leading contenders for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination. <br /> http://mediamatters.org/items/200701300007 Tue, 30 Jan 2007 15:14:03 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200701290002 http://mediamatters.org/items/200701290002 Mon, 29 Jan 2007 13:21:48 EST