Media Matters - Hillary Clinton

Media Matters - Hillary Clinton http://mediamatters.org/tools/syndication/tag_rss/hillary_clinton This link is for use by RSS-enabled software to retrieve Media Matters items matching the term: Hillary Clinton en-US Copyright 2008, Media Matters for America Will falsely claimed Clinton became Yankee fan "retroactively" http://mediamatters.org/items/200805080001 In his column, George F. Will claimed that "Hillary Clinton, 60, Illinois native and Arkansas lawyer, became, retroactively, a lifelong Yankee fan at age 52, when, shopping for a U.S. Senate seat, she adopted New York state as home sweet home." However, the idea that Clinton proclaimed herself a Yankees fan "retroactively" is a myth commonly repeated in the media and contradicted by the evidence. http://mediamatters.org/items/200805080001 Thu, 8 May 2008 12:40:39 EST Scarborough and Brzezinski denounced Jillette's "bitch" joke, but MSNBC had plenty of notice he likes to tell it http://mediamatters.org/items/200805060005 On MSNBC Live, magician Penn Jillette told a version of a joke about Sen. Hillary Clinton: " '[Sen. Barack] Obama did great in February, and that's because that was Black History Month. And now Hillary's doing much better 'cause it's White Bitch Month,' right?" After Jillette told the joke, co-host Joe Scarborough said, "I knew I -- you know, I knew I should have warned you before you started it." Co-host Mika Brzezinski added: "I don't like that." But MSNBC had plenty of notice that Jillette likes to tell the joke, which he is seen telling in a Web video, clips of which aired while Scarborough and Brzezinski introduced him. http://mediamatters.org/items/200805060005 Tue, 6 May 2008 15:41:32 EST Kondracke echoed Maureen Dowd "theory" that "Hillary's a vampire ... sucking the blood out of Barack Obama" http://mediamatters.org/items/200805060001 On Fox News, Morton M. Kondracke presented a "theory" for why Sen. Hillary Clinton may be having a "good time" on the campaign trail: "[S]omebody I know has a theory about this. Remember back when [Bill] Clinton was president of the United States, people said that he's really Satan because he walks through life and people collapse around him and go to jail and die, and all this kind of stuff? Well, this person says Hillary's a vampire. She's sucking the blood out of Barack Obama." Kondracke did not name his "theor[ist]," but the purported "theory" has been publicly articulated before, by New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd. http://mediamatters.org/items/200805060001 Tue, 6 May 2008 11:52:00 EST Kristol falsely claimed Clinton and Obama didn't denounce "General Betray Us" ad http://mediamatters.org/items/200805040002 On Fox News Sunday, Bill Kristol falsely claimed that Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama "didn't denounce MoveOn.org when they ran the 'General Betray Us' ad when General [David] Petraeus was testifying before Congress." In fact, both Clinton and Obama voted for an amendment in September 2007 that condemned the ad. Additionally, Clinton stated at the time, "I am an admirer of General Petraeus, as I've said on numerous occasions. I don't condone it, and I joined in voting for a resolution that condemned such attacks." http://mediamatters.org/items/200805040002 Sun, 4 May 2008 15:20:53 EST NPR's Rudin said "I wish I hadn't" compared Clinton to Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction http://mediamatters.org/items/200805030001 National Public Radio political director Ken Rudin wrote in an April 30 blog post: "[D]id I really say on CNN that Hillary Clinton reminded me of Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction? I did. I wish I hadn't. It was a facile and dumb comparison." As Media Matters for America noted, while discussing the Democratic presidential primary race on the April 27 edition of CNN's Sunday Morning, Rudin said, "Hillary Clinton is Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction." http://mediamatters.org/items/200805030001 Sat, 3 May 2008 13:52:37 EST If Tapper had put down his chicken sandwich and rented The War Room, he'd know that Mickey Kantor did not call Indiana voters "shit" http://mediamatters.org/items/200805020008 Referring to the false allegation that in the 1993 movie The War Room, 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." Media Matters for America 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 Drudge further distorted Hill article that itself made misleading comparison regarding Clinton's reported earmark request http://mediamatters.org/items/200804290006 The Hill made a misleading comparison between the amount in earmarks reportedly requested by Sen. Hillary Clinton for 2009 and the amount secured by other senators for the 2008 fiscal year in reporting that Clinton "has requested nearly $2.3 billion in federal earmarks for 2009, almost three times the largest amount received by a single senator this year." The Hill did not report which senator had requested the most in earmarks for 2009 -- presumably because senators are not required to make their earmark requests public, a detail not noted until the 22nd paragraph of the Hill article. The Drudge Report further distorted the Hill article to falsely claim: "Clinton requests $2.3B in earmarks -- three times largest amount ever by Senator!" http://mediamatters.org/items/200804290006 Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:36:39 EST NPR's Rudin: "Hillary Clinton is Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction. She's going to keep coming back and they're not going to stop her" http://mediamatters.org/items/200804280002 During a discussion on CNN about the Democratic presidential primary race, NPR's Ken Rudin stated: "[L]et's be honest here, Hillary Clinton is Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction. She's going to keep coming back, and they're not going to stop her." http://mediamatters.org/items/200804280002 Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:55:08 EST After lamenting absence of debate on "fundamental issues," Lauer asked Clinton only about the race http://mediamatters.org/items/200804230007 On the April 15 edition of Today, Matt Lauer asserted, "It's been a long time since an actual vote was cast in this primary season, a long time since we've debated actual fundamental issues. We've had a lot of sniping and second-guessing." Yet in an April 23 interview on Today with Sen. Hillary Clinton, Lauer discussed only the state of the Democratic presidential primary race, not any "actual fundamental issues." http://mediamatters.org/items/200804230007 Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:42:10 EST Following Buchanan's comment on Clinton's voice, Matthews warned: "Go the other way. You're in the danger area" http://mediamatters.org/items/200804230006 On Morning Joe, after Pat Buchanan said of Sen. Hillary Clinton's speech following the Pennsylvania primary that "only once or twice did that voice start rising to the level that every husband in America at one time or another has heard. You know, where it starts going up -- " Joe Scarborough said, "Be careful here, Buchanan." Chris Matthews added, "Go the other way. You're in the danger area. ... You're in the danger area, Pat, take my advice." http://mediamatters.org/items/200804230006 Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:29:35 EST Wash. Post's Cohen's double standard: Clinton's acts disqualifying, while McCain's numerous inconsistencies and falsehoods are "understandable" http://mediamatters.org/items/200804230005 The Washington Post's Richard Cohen wrote of Sen. John McCain: "He's an honorable man who has fudged and ducked and swallowed the truth on occasion ... but always, I think, for understandable although not necessarily admirable reasons." By contrast, Cohen accused Sen. Hillary Clinton of "want[ing] to become president so badly that she has made the goal more important than how she gets there -- and now she has rendered herself incapable of doing an essential part of the job." http://mediamatters.org/items/200804230005 Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:51:23 EST MSNBC's Shuster, Carlson discuss purported "cackle," laugh over "Hillary laughing pen" http://mediamatters.org/items/200804220008 On MSNBC Live, David Shuster presented to Tucker Carlson "a Hillary laughing pen" -- a pen shaped in the likeness of Hillary Clinton's head with a mouth that moves as the pen makes a laughing noise. In response, Carlson stated: "I can't tell you, David, how much I appreciate this, how much I appreciate your going through Chris' mail while he's gone and how much I'm really going to miss that cackle. I hope it goes on forever. It's brought light to my life." http://mediamatters.org/items/200804220008 Tue, 22 Apr 2008 20:27:00 EST Matthews still falsely suggesting Clinton did not become Yankees fan until Senate run http://mediamatters.org/items/200804220006 Chris Matthews stated of Sen. Hillary Clinton, "When she went to New York, she quickly became a New Yorker with the Yankees hat and the upstate listening tour." Matthews has repeatedly suggested that Clinton's assertion during her first Senate campaign that she has "always been" a Yankees fan is false, despite photographic and other evidence showing that her allegiance to the Yankees long precedes her Senate run. http://mediamatters.org/items/200804220006 Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:00:24 EST Colmes rebutted Morris' false and contradictory attacks against Clinton http://mediamatters.org/items/200804220004 On Hannity & Colmes, Dick Morris repeated his false assertion that Sen. Hillary Clinton "sat on the board of the New World Foundation that gave a grant to the Palestine Liberation Organization, headed by [Yassir] Arafat, which, back then, was identified as a terrorist group." However, as co-host Alan Colmes pointed out, in 1999, the Jewish daily Forward reported that the New World Foundation "granted funds to Grassroots International, which in turn funneled the money to two PLO-affiliated groups." Colmes stated: "If money was diverted, she didn't know anything about it. ... You're drawing a parallel line here which does not exist." http://mediamatters.org/items/200804220004 Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:50:10 EST Matthews discussed "grumpy old men" who hang around diners "because they don't want to be at home with their wives" http://mediamatters.org/items/200804210009 On Real Time, Bill Maher said to Chris Matthews: "I heard you say on your show, you were talking about Barack Obama and you said -- and I know you like him. But you said when he goes into a diner, he can't ask the average guy, you know, how the Phillies doing and all that stuff. And you said he was -- at one point, he was offered coffee and he turned it down and asked if he could have orange juice instead." After Matthews said, "Yeah," Maher continued: "First of all, Chris, you don't understand black people. They like juice. Preferably gin and juice." In response, Matthews replied: "No, no. Not true. Let me, you know, it's -- you walk into a diner, one of these things where grumpy old men are hanging around because they don't want to be at home with their wives for an hour a morning and they're hanging around there." http://mediamatters.org/items/200804210009 Mon, 21 Apr 2008 20:43:31 EST