http://mediamatters.org/tools/syndication/tag_rss/crime_and_justice_issues This link is for use by RSS-enabled software to retrieve Media Matters items matching the term: Crime and Justice Issues en-US Copyright 2008, Media Matters for America http://mediamatters.org/items/200804240009 On Fox News' <em>Your World</em>, Floyd Brown, creator of a new ad claiming that Sen. Barack Obama is "weak in the war on gangs," asserted: "[I]n Chicago, we saw six people killed and over 31 injured. People were stabbed. This is, you know, like Baghdad. And he was the state senator there, and he didn't do anything to clean it up, and I think it's a legitimate issue." Host Neil Cavuto gave no indication that Obama has responded to the ad, much less provide Obama's response. http://mediamatters.org/items/200804240009 Thu, 24 Apr 2008 20:10:33 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200803280012 Author Marc Rudov asserted on Fox News' <em>The O'Reilly Factor</em> that "[m]en are depressed, and it's their own fault, because men are allowing women to take over the world." He also told guest host Laura Ingraham: "I don't have a problem with women, Laura. I have a problem with little girls occupying adult female bodies. And any women who feel entitled to wining and dining and jewelry and free vacations are not adults." http://mediamatters.org/items/200803280012 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 19:49:16 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200802210008 Discussing his previous comments about Michelle Obama, Bill O'Reilly stated that "[t]he word 'lynching' was used because I said it quite clearly. I'm not going to go on some lynching party against Michelle Obama; that's ridiculous." However, O'Reilly had said: "I don't want to go on a lynching party against Michelle Obama unless there's evidence, hard facts, that say this is how the woman really feels. If that's how she really feels -- that America is a bad country or a flawed nation, whatever -- then that's legit. We'll track it down." O'Reilly also attacked a caller who asked him if he owed "Michelle Obama an apology for that disrespectful lynching analogy," calling him a "far-left loon." http://mediamatters.org/items/200802210008 Thu, 21 Feb 2008 19:05:06 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200711170001 In a report on the newly passed House bill containing a prohibition on the interrogation technique known as waterboarding, NBC News' Jim Miklaszewski asserted that the House included the "waterboarding clause" "pretty much to ensure that it doesn't happen, but also ... [as] a poke in the eye of the administration, clearly." But the Army field manual's prohibition on the use of waterboarding currently applies only to the Department of Defense; the House bill would expand that prohibition to cover "the United States Government." <br /> http://mediamatters.org/items/200711170001 Fri, 16 Nov 2007 19:53:51 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200711020011 An Associated Press report claimed that, in an October 30 letter to Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee, attorney general nominee Michael Mukasey "pledged to study," if confirmed, the legality of the interrogation technique known as waterboarding. However, if news reports that the government stopped the use of waterboarding in 2005 are correct, then Mukasey's promise appears not to cover waterboarding, because Mukasey said in his letter that he would "review any coercive interrogation techniques <em>currently</em> used by the United States Government and the legal analysis authorizing their use to assess whether such techniques comply with the law" [emphasis added]. http://mediamatters.org/items/200711020011 Fri, 2 Nov 2007 17:23:51 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200711020009 On CNN, <em>Washington Times</em> columnist Diana West said: "What I would like to see is people really start thinking about what is torture. If putting people into human-size shredders, as Saddam Hussein did, is torture, then waterboarding, which my senior military sources tell me you wake up feeling fine the next day -- it is not torture." However, in congressional testimony, Allen S. Keller, M.D., director of the Bellevue Hospital Center/New York University Program for Survivors of Torture, stated, "To think that abusive methods, including the enhanced interrogation techniques [in which Keller included waterboarding], are harmless psychological ploys is contradictory to well established medical knowledge and clinical experience." Keller stated of waterboarding specifically, "Long term effects include panic attacks, depression and PTSD," and said it poses a "real risk of death." http://mediamatters.org/items/200711020009 Fri, 2 Nov 2007 16:57:34 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200710120008 On his radio show, John Gibson said: "<em>Media Matters for America</em>, a Soros-backed, Hillary Clinton-backed media hit-job website is after me today because of what I said last night, and they are calling me a racist for what I said about this [school shooting] at SuccessTech in Cleveland." In fact, the item documenting Gibson's comments did not characterize him or his comments as racist. Also, philanthropist George Soros has never given money to <em>Media Matters</em>, either directly or through another organization, nor is <em>Media Matters</em> funded by or affiliated with any candidate or political party. http://mediamatters.org/items/200710120008 Fri, 12 Oct 2007 15:38:40 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200710110004 On his radio show, while discussing an incident in which a student shot four people at his Cleveland high school before killing himself, John Gibson asserted that "I know the shooter was white. I knew it as soon as he shot himself. Hip-hoppers don't do that. They shoot and move on to shoot again." <br /> http://mediamatters.org/items/200710110004 Thu, 11 Oct 2007 14:34:31 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200709250002 On CNN's <em>Out in the Open</em>, Rick Sanchez and CNN contributor Roland Martin discussed Bill O'Reilly's statement that he was surprised there was "no difference" between Sylvia's restaurant in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan and other New York restaurants, even though Sylvia's is "run by blacks." Sanchez reported that during an "animated" phone conversation, O'Reilly denied any "racial intent" in his comments and described the story as "a hatchet job by <em>Media Matters</em>." http://mediamatters.org/items/200709250002 Tue, 25 Sep 2007 12:46:56 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200709240013 http://mediamatters.org/items/200709240013 Mon, 24 Sep 2007 19:32:30 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200709240010 http://mediamatters.org/items/200709240010 Mon, 24 Sep 2007 16:59:21 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200709200004 In segments on University of Florida student Andrew Meyer, who was shocked with a Taser by campus police, Glenn Beck asserted: "To me, Taser videos are a little like potato chips. I just can't watch just one," and Bill O'Reilly announced that "[a]nyone buying anything on BillOReilly.com will receive a 'Don't Taze me, bro!' bumper sticker." <br /> http://mediamatters.org/items/200709200004 Thu, 20 Sep 2007 14:10:21 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200707060006 On <em>Hardball</em>, Chris Matthews did not challenge a claim by David Rivkin, a former Justice Department official, that the impeachment of Bill Clinton by the House of Representatives "is tantamount to what the jury found with regard to [Lewis] Scooter [Libby]." In fact, the two impeachment articles passed by the House constituted a compilation of accusations against Clinton. These accusations were then considered by the Senate, which acquitted him on both charges. http://mediamatters.org/items/200707060006 Fri, 6 Jul 2007 18:47:42 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200704200010 http://mediamatters.org/items/200704200010 Fri, 20 Apr 2007 17:47:38 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200704200001 http://mediamatters.org/items/200704200001 Thu, 19 Apr 2007 20:00:50 EST