Media Matters - Rich Lowry

Media Matters - Rich Lowry http://mediamatters.org/tools/syndication/tag_rss/rich_lowry This link is for use by RSS-enabled software to retrieve Media Matters items matching the term: Rich Lowry en-US Copyright 2008, Media Matters for America Drudge, Lowry revived falsehood that Obama didn't vote to condemn MoveOn Petraeus ad http://mediamatters.org/items/200807010003 The Drudge Report and the National Review's Rich Lowry falsely claimed that Sen. Barack Obama didn't vote to condemn MoveOn.org's 2007 newspaper advertisement critical of Gen. David Petraeus. In fact, Obama did vote for an amendment by Sen. Barbara Boxer that condemned the ad, as well as other attacks on past and present members of the armed forces, as the USA Today blog post to which the Drudge Report linked points out. http://mediamatters.org/items/200807010003 Tue, 1 Jul 2008 14:29:03 EST Echoing McCain, Lowry misrepresented Obama's comments on Pakistan http://mediamatters.org/items/200802220007 On Hannity & Colmes, National Review's Rich Lowry aired a clip of Sen. John McCain falsely asserting that Sen. Barack Obama said he's "going to bomb a country that is a sovereign nation," a distortion of Obama's statement about Pakistan that McCain has repeatedly made. Lowry then echoed McCain by saying that Obama "detailed his willingness to bomb suspected terrorist cells in Pakistan." In fact, Obama said: "If we have actionable intelligence about high-value terrorist targets and [Pakistani] President [Pervez] Musharraf won't act, we will." http://mediamatters.org/items/200802220007 Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:26:59 EST Fox hosted Lowry, Mattera to defend, downplay Coulter's homophobic slur http://mediamatters.org/items/200703060005 http://mediamatters.org/items/200703060005 Mon, 5 Mar 2007 20:38:24 EST Lowry: Minimum wage hike will "give a small boost" to "teenagers working summers" http://mediamatters.org/items/200701090006 In his latest column, Rich Lowry wrote that "[t]he effect" of a Democratic proposal to raise the federal minimum wage "basically will be to give a small boost to the wage of teenagers working summers or after school." In fact, the Economic Policy Institute found that 71 percent of those who would be "directly affected" by the Democratic minimum-wage proposal are age 20 or over. http://mediamatters.org/items/200701090006 Tue, 9 Jan 2007 14:39:22 EST For warbloggers, "The Media Are the Enemy" http://mediamatters.org/items/200612220004 http://mediamatters.org/items/200612220004 Fri, 22 Dec 2006 12:26:57 EST Olbermann named National Review's Lowry second "Worst Person" for misstating results of NY Times poll http://mediamatters.org/items/200611170006 http://mediamatters.org/items/200611170006 Fri, 17 Nov 2006 13:18:36 EST Lowry falsely claimed poll shows most Americans support sending more troops to Iraq http://mediamatters.org/items/200611160001 The National Review's Rich Lowry falsely claimed that a "late-October New York Times poll found that 55 percent of the public favors sending more troops to Iraq." In fact, according to an October 27-31 New York Times/CBS News poll, only 16 percent of respondents favored increasing the number of U.S. troops in Iraq. http://mediamatters.org/items/200611160001 Thu, 16 Nov 2006 09:53:31 EST Fox News personalities serve up a host of CIA leak falsehoods, taking cue from misleading Wash. Post editorial http://mediamatters.org/items/200609070011 Fox News anchors and commentators seized upon a Washington Post editorial falsely asserting that the revelation that former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage was the original source for syndicated columnist Robert D. Novak's column exposing CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity disproved the notion of a coordinated effort within the White House to discredit former ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV, using the occasion to repeat a host of false claims about the CIA leak case. http://mediamatters.org/items/200609070011 Thu, 7 Sep 2006 18:41:19 EST Gingrich: "It's not an insult[ ]" to compare Bush administration critics "to those who enabled Hitler" http://mediamatters.org/items/200609050002 On Hannity & Colmes, Newt Gingrich stated that Donald Rumsfeld's likening of Iraq war critics to Nazi appeasers was "not an insulting comment." Gingrich also repeated the misleading claim that the United States "found over 700 chemical warheads and weapons in Iraq, which supposedly had none, according to our friends on the left." http://mediamatters.org/items/200609050002 Tue, 5 Sep 2006 13:29:36 EST On Hannity & Colmes, Lowry and Simmons teamed up to smear Murtha http://mediamatters.org/items/200607240010 On Fox News' Hannity & Colmes, guest co-host Rich Lowry asserted that Rep. John P. Murtha was "again sounding like the grim reaper when it comes to the war on terror." Lowry also asked whether Murtha has "already decided to undermine another American war effort." Former CIA operative Wayne Simmons attacked Murtha for "running a psy-op [psychological operation] against his own people and against his own military," adding that Murtha "has come out and talked poorly about the military." http://mediamatters.org/items/200607240010 Mon, 24 Jul 2006 17:15:48 EST Lowry repeated Bush administration's reported budget deception http://mediamatters.org/items/200606220008 In an online column, National Review editor Rich Lowry wrote that President Bush, who in 2004 pledged to cut the federal budget deficit in half by 2009, may follow through on that pledge by the end of 2006. However, many experts have said that the Bush administration routinely offers inflated deficit projections so it can then take credit for actual deficits that come in below those projections. http://mediamatters.org/items/200606220008 Thu, 22 Jun 2006 15:16:15 EST Lowry, Newsweek attacked media for reporting that Limbaugh was "arrested" http://mediamatters.org/items/200605010011 On Fox News' Hannity & Colmes, guest host and National Review editor Rich Lowry claimed that nationally syndicated radio host Rush Limbaugh was being "smeared" by the media "because you're seeing his picture up on the TV screen with the legend 'arrested' underneath it" after Limbaugh and Palm Beach County, Florida, state prosecutors reached an agreement on the charge that Limbaugh illegally obtained prescription drugs. Similarly, a Newsweek article asserted that the use of the word "arrested" in initial news stories was "misleading." http://mediamatters.org/items/200605010011 Mon, 1 May 2006 19:52:35 EST Media figures attacked Mexican-flag-wavers, but not those waving Irish, Italian, or Israeli flags http://mediamatters.org/items/200604030012 Following recent demonstrations in which protesters marched against proposed legislation that would criminalize undocumented workers, some in the media have criticized the demonstrators for carrying Mexican flags. But these same media figures have not complained about people waving other nations' flags, such as Irish flags at St. Patrick's Day events, Italian flags at Columbus Day events, or Israeli flags at Israel Day events. http://mediamatters.org/items/200604030012 Mon, 3 Apr 2006 19:50:18 EST