http://mediamatters.org/tools/syndication/tag_rss/mort_kondracke This link is for use by RSS-enabled software to retrieve Media Matters items matching the term: Mort Kondracke en-US Copyright 2008, Media Matters for America 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 <em>New York Times </em>columnist Maureen Dowd. http://mediamatters.org/items/200805060001 Tue, 6 May 2008 11:52:00 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200803100004 On <em>The Beltway Boys</em>, Morton Kondracke asserted that Sen. John McCain "may well" be able to "match George Bush's 2004 record of 40 percent" of the Hispanic vote "because he's got a position on comprehensive immigration reform that's humanitarian." But McCain asserted on January 30 that he "would not" support his original comprehensive immigration proposal if it came to a vote on the Senate floor and now says that "we've got to secure the borders first" -- a position at odds with his prior assertion that border security could not be disaggregated from other aspects of comprehensive immigration reform without being rendered ineffective. http://mediamatters.org/items/200803100004 Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:59:42 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200802250001 On <em>The Beltway Boys</em>, Mort Kondracke conflated primary election and general election funding, falsely asserting that Sen. Barack Obama will be "violating a promise" if he "forgo[es] public financing ... between now and August" -- that is, during the primary. In fact, Obama did not pledge to accept public funds during the primary, and long ago opted out of public financing for the primary election. Rather, he has said that he will attempt to reach an agreement with Sen. John McCain to use public financing in the <em>general </em>election. http://mediamatters.org/items/200802250001 Mon, 25 Feb 2008 13:36:40 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200802030004 <em>Weekly Standard</em> executive editor Fred Barnes stated on Fox News' <em>The Beltway Boys</em> that "MoveOn.org -- which hates the war, hates the military, hates America -- endorsed [Sen. Barack] Obama [D-IL]." <em>Media Matters for America</em> has documented numerous media attacks on MoveOn.org. http://mediamatters.org/items/200802030004 Sun, 3 Feb 2008 15:40:25 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200711010011 MSNBC's Keith Olbermann named <em>Roll Call</em>'s Mort Kondracke the "winner" of his nightly "Worst Person in the World" segment for asserting on Fox News' <em>Special Report</em>: "I'm sure [waterboarding] feels like torture, you know, it doesn't result in any lasting damage, but it feels like torture." Olbermann also named Fox News' John Gibson the "runner-up" for criticizing an "NBC news anchor" for offering Sen. Barack Obama advice on what he "needs to say" about Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton -- one day after Gibson himself had offered Obama advice. http://mediamatters.org/items/200711010011 Thu, 1 Nov 2007 15:29:54 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200710310004 In a Fox News "All-Star" panel discussion, Morton Kondracke said of the interrogation technique known as waterboarding, "I'm sure it feels like torture, you know, it doesn't result in any lasting damage, but it feels like torture." But a physician who heads a program for torture survivors told a Senate committee that techniques such as waterboarding "are intended to break the prisoners down, to terrify them and cause harm to their psyche, and in so doing result in lasting harmful health consequences." He also said: "There is a real risk of death from actually drowning or suffering a heart attack or damage to the lungs." <br /> http://mediamatters.org/items/200710310004 Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:16:20 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200710260001 During the "All-Star Panel" segment on <em>Special Report</em>, the <em>Washington Examiner</em>'s Bill Sammon and <em>Roll Call</em>'s Mort Kondracke blamed the Louisiana state and local governments for their handling of Hurricane Katrina while excusing or ignoring the failures of the federal government. Sammon concluded that "to the extent that anybody failed [during Katrina], I think it was state and local, and in this case [the California wildfires], the state and locals have stepped up." However, two congressional reports -- while not excusing the state and local governments -- extensively detailed the federal government's failures in its preparation for and response to Katrina. http://mediamatters.org/items/200710260001 Thu, 25 Oct 2007 21:09:51 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200709240010 http://mediamatters.org/items/200709240010 Mon, 24 Sep 2007 16:59:21 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200707120008 Morton Kondracke said that the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on the Bush administration's firing of nine U.S. attorneys have "discovered nothing specifically nefarious that any of -- that these firings had anything to do with, except, maybe, the failure to prosecute voter fraud cases." In fact, two of the fired prosecutors have said that they investigated voter fraud allegations but found insufficient evidence to warrant prosecution or a grand jury investigation, while administration officials have stated that a third was fired for reasons unrelated to his performance. <br /> http://mediamatters.org/items/200707120008 Thu, 12 Jul 2007 16:32:58 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200707030012 http://mediamatters.org/items/200707030012 Tue, 3 Jul 2007 17:59:14 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200706070011 http://mediamatters.org/items/200706070011 Thu, 7 Jun 2007 19:04:00 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200704160003 http://mediamatters.org/items/200704160003 Mon, 16 Apr 2007 16:14:14 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200703300010 On <em>Special Report</em>, Mort Kondracke called the Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee investigating the firing of eight U.S. attorneys "a hanging party," explaining that he chose the characterization "because every time there's an inconsistency in somebody's testimony, however minute ... they're ready to pounce and accuse [the witness], basically, of perjury or violating the law or something like that." Kondracke also accused Sen. Patrick Leahy of "McCarthyism," for questioning the reasons behind Monica Goodling's decision to invoke her Fifth Amendment right and refuse to testify if called upon by Congress. http://mediamatters.org/items/200703300010 Fri, 30 Mar 2007 17:40:29 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200703230007 http://mediamatters.org/items/200703230007 Fri, 23 Mar 2007 16:13:29 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200703220008 http://mediamatters.org/items/200703220008 Thu, 22 Mar 2007 15:38:22 EST