Media Matters - Investor's Business Daily

Media Matters - Investor's Business Daily http://mediamatters.org/tools/syndication/tag_rss/investor_s_business_daily This link is for use by RSS-enabled software to retrieve Media Matters items matching the term: Investor's Business Daily en-US Copyright 2008, Media Matters for America IBD cited McCain's " 'maverick' positions" on taxes and immigration, failed to note his reversal on those issues http://mediamatters.org/items/200806270009 An Investor's Business Daily article claimed that the Supreme Court ruling that overturned a handgun ban in the District of Columbia "is a potential lifeline for [Sen. John] McCain, who has failed so far to unite conservative voters behind him," many of whom "still resent his 'maverick' positions on taxes and immigration." But the article did not mention that McCain has reversed his positions on taxes and immigration, adopting positions more closely conforming to the views of the GOP base on both issues. http://mediamatters.org/items/200806270009 Fri, 27 Jun 2008 19:44:34 EST IBD editorial quoted Will's false claim after Newsweek issued correction http://mediamatters.org/items/200805210010 In criticizing Sen. Barack Obama for proposing to "lift[] the tax cap on earnings subject to the 12.4% Social Security tax, which now covers only the first $102,000," an Investor's Business Daily editorial quoted a false assertion made by George Will that a "Chicago police officer married to a Chicago public-school teacher, each with 20 years on the job, have a household income of $147,501, so you (Obama) would take another $5,642 from them." Newsweek issued a correction of Will's false claim the day before the IBD editorial appeared. http://mediamatters.org/items/200805210010 Wed, 21 May 2008 17:28:01 EST IBD falsely cited Petraeus to rebut Obama's statement that "all our top military commanders recognize there is no military solution in Iraq" http://mediamatters.org/items/200803110006 Commenting on Sen. Barack Obama's August 2007 statement that "All our top military commanders recognize that there is no military solution in Iraq," Investor's Business Daily wrote, "Except, of course, for Gen. David Petraeus." But three months earlier, Petraeus had said during a news conference, "I think, again, that any student of history recognizes that there is no military solution to a problem like that in Iraq, to the insurgency of Iraq." http://mediamatters.org/items/200803110006 Tue, 11 Mar 2008 15:56:39 EST IBD editorial claimed "FARC seems to have an inside line to Obama's campaign" http://mediamatters.org/items/200803100007 In an editorial discussing recently killed spokesman of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Columbia, "Raúl Reyes," and the fact that there was a reference to Sen. Barack Obama in one of the letters allegedly found on Reyes' computer, Investor's Business Daily claimed that the "little Obama reference ... signals a disturbing pattern of contacts with rogue actors." IBD further stated that "FARC seems to have an inside line to Obama's campaign." However, the letter offers no indication whatsoever that Reyes or FARC had any "contacts" with the Obama campaign. http://mediamatters.org/items/200803100007 Mon, 10 Mar 2008 19:42:17 EST Bound to repeat it: Conservative media cited National Journal "most liberal" rating in 2004, now touting 2007 rating http://mediamatters.org/items/200802140003 In an email to readers encouraging recipients to read the National Journal article on the magazine's 2007 vote ratings, the National Journal Group wrote: "In 2004, President Bush invoked Senator John Kerry's liberal Vote Ratings score repeatedly on the campaign trail and at their head-to-head debates. We anticipate similar attention for our Vote Ratings across the 2008 election cycle." Numerous media did follow suit and tout the Journal's 2003 rating of Kerry. And once again, the media are giving the 2007 ratings the "similar attention" the National Journal Group anticipated -- despite the Journal's acknowledgment that the methodology it used to rate Kerry was flawed. http://mediamatters.org/items/200802140003 Thu, 14 Feb 2008 12:56:48 EST IBD editorial falsely claimed Obama "permitted" Cuban flag in volunteer office, called Senate colleagues "hypocrites" http://mediamatters.org/items/200802130007 Investor's Business Daily asserted in an editorial that Barack Obama "permit[ed] the display of a huge Cuban flag at one of his offices, emblazoned with a mass murderer's mug" -- a reference to Che Guevara. In fact, the office in question is run and funded by Obama volunteers and is not sanctioned by the official Obama campaign. The editorial further claimed that Obama "dismiss[ed] ... his Senate colleagues who wear lapel flags as 'hypocrites.' " But a review of the Nexis database found no evidence that Obama has ever described any of his fellow members of Congress as "hypocrites" for wearing U.S. flag lapel pins. http://mediamatters.org/items/200802130007 Wed, 13 Feb 2008 14:42:32 EST Reporting National Journal's rating of Obama, media ignored magazine's non-rating of McCain because of missed votes http://mediamatters.org/items/200802050002 Media Matters for America has identified numerous media outlets or figures who reported that the National Journal has rated Sen. Barack Obama "the most liberal senator in 2007," but did not report that the same National Journal feature stated that Sen. John McCain "did not vote frequently enough in 2007 to draw a composite score. He missed more than half of the votes in both the economic and foreign-policy categories." http://mediamatters.org/items/200802050002 Tue, 5 Feb 2008 12:46:58 EST IBD editorial falsely claimed Clinton said that "we must slow the economy to save the earth" http://mediamatters.org/items/200802020002 An Investors' Business Daily editorial falsely asserted that "Bill Clinton says we must slow the economy to save the earth." In fact, Clinton said in the January 30 speech to which the editorial referred that "rich" countries could take that approach, but then he stated why he thought it wouldn't work and asserted that the "only way" to fight global warming is to prove that doing so "is good economics." http://mediamatters.org/items/200802020002 Sat, 2 Feb 2008 15:59:12 EST Investor's Business Daily earned runner-up in Olbermann's "Worst Person" for "blatantly untrue, wildly racist" Obama editorial http://mediamatters.org/items/200801170012 Keith Olbermann named "the editorial writers at Investor's Business Daily" the "[r]unners-up" in his nightly "Worst Person in the World" segment for "publishing a blatantly untrue, wildly racist editorial today about [Sen.] Barack Obama." http://mediamatters.org/items/200801170012 Thu, 17 Jan 2008 15:27:30 EST Investor's Business Daily: "Would Obama put African tribal or family interests ahead of U.S. interests?" http://mediamatters.org/items/200801160003 An Investor's Business Daily editorial claimed that "the core" of Sen. Barack Obama's "faith -- whether lapsed Muslim, new Christian or some mixture of the two -- is African nativism" and asked: "Would Obama put African tribal or family interests ahead of U.S. interests?" The editorial's claims about Obama's faith being "lapsed Muslim, new Christian or some mixture of the two" echo widely debunked allegations that Obama is or ever has been a Muslim. http://mediamatters.org/items/200801160003 Wed, 16 Jan 2008 15:25:58 EST Investor's Business Daily editorial suggested Dem contributor improperly influenced Pres. Clinton -- but DOJ probe cleared him http://mediamatters.org/items/200711100002 An Investor's Business Daily editorial suggested that Bernard Schwartz, then-head of Loral Space and Communications Corp., donated "$600,000 in campaign cash" to President Bill Clinton in 1996 in exchange for "the traitorous transfer of missile technology to Beijing." However, while the editorial mentioned that the Justice Department "investigated Schwartz," it did not note that the Justice Department exonerated him. http://mediamatters.org/items/200711100002 Fri, 9 Nov 2007 20:27:31 EST Citing Investor's Business Daily, Hannity repeated Soros funding falsehoods http://mediamatters.org/items/200710010008 On Hannity's America, Sean Hannity asserted: "The left-wing group Media Matters denies that Soros gives them any funding, but IBD [Investor's Business Daily] suspects they may be getting his money indirectly through third parties." As Media Matters has repeatedly and exhaustively demonstrated, philanthropist George Soros has never given money to Media Matters, either directly or through another organization. http://mediamatters.org/items/200710010008 Mon, 1 Oct 2007 16:06:54 EST Investor's Business Daily editorial -- reprinted by CNN -- falsely claimed Soros "financed" Media Matters http://mediamatters.org/items/200709210008 An Investor's Business Daily editorial, reprinted on CNNMoney.com, claimed that George Soros "has financed spin outfits such as Media Matters that specialize in providing distorted conservative political statements as grist for leftist politicians and media." The editorial also claimed that Media Matters "succeeded last year in denying incumbent [Sen. Joseph] Lieberman the Democratic nomination for Senate in Connecticut." In fact, Soros has never given money to Media Matters, and Media Matters does not participate or intervene in political campaigns. http://mediamatters.org/items/200709210008 Fri, 21 Sep 2007 14:53:56 EST Myths and falsehoods about progress in Iraq http://mediamatters.org/items/200709090001 Supporters of the Iraq war -- rather than waiting for testimony by Gen. David Petraeus and U.S. ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker on the effect of President Bush's troop increase in Iraq -- have engaged in a campaign to convince the media and public that progress is being made in Iraq and that the "surge" is "working." Media Matters has compiled some of the most pervasive myths and falsehoods advanced by opponents of withdrawal in service of the "surge is working" message, which many in the media have been complicit in perpetuating. http://mediamatters.org/items/200709090001 Sun, 9 Sep 2007 13:15:20 EST Media quoted criticism of Pelosi for wearing headscarf in Middle East without noting that Rice, Laura Bush have also done so http://mediamatters.org/items/200704050012 http://mediamatters.org/items/200704050012 Thu, 5 Apr 2007 18:32:10 EST