http://mediamatters.org/tools/syndication/tag_rss/the_beltway_boys This link is for use by RSS-enabled software to retrieve Media Matters items matching the term: The Beltway Boys en-US Copyright 2008, Media Matters for America 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/200710070003 http://mediamatters.org/items/200710070003 Sun, 7 Oct 2007 15:59:47 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200704160003 http://mediamatters.org/items/200704160003 Mon, 16 Apr 2007 16:14:14 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200703260011 http://mediamatters.org/items/200703260011 Mon, 26 Mar 2007 19:51:24 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200703230007 http://mediamatters.org/items/200703230007 Fri, 23 Mar 2007 16:13:29 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200612190009 Several media outlets uncritically reported President Bush's claim that he delayed the release of his new "way forward in Iraq" strategy from before Christmas to until January 2007 to allow new Defense Secretary Robert Gates to join the policy discussion and visit Iraq. These media outlets did not mention that the White House scheduled Gates' swearing-in ceremony fully 12 days after his Senate confirmation in order for him to attend commencement at Texas A&amp;M before resigning as the school's president. <br /> http://mediamatters.org/items/200612190009 Tue, 19 Dec 2006 17:46:59 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200612040002 <em>The Washington Post</em>, in citing<em> Post</em> columnist George F. Will in a news article claiming that an "icy exchange between President Bush and Virginia Sen.-elect James Webb" has "angered conservatives," failed to note that Will, in his column on the incident, left out a key part of an earlier <em>Post</em> account of the conversation between Bush and Webb in order to assert that Webb showed "calculated rudeness." http://mediamatters.org/items/200612040002 Mon, 4 Dec 2006 13:27:28 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200611280004 On <em>The Beltway Boys</em>, Fred Barnes baselessly asserted that recent violence in the Middle East is the result in part of the voters' "repudiat[ion]" of President Bush in the midterm elections. Later Barnes asserted that "five, 10 years ago," Americans "didn't see dead bodies all over the front page of newspapers, whether it's an accident or an explosion or Iraq or something." By contrast, CNN's John Roberts stated that "the pictures on television are sanitized compared to" the events occurring "on the ground." http://mediamatters.org/items/200611280004 Tue, 28 Nov 2006 11:25:30 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200611270007 While discussing potential candidates for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination, Fred Barnes and Morton Kondracke mentioned Sen. John McCain's views on abortion rights, but did not note his apparently inconsistent statements. Neither Barnes nor Kondracke mentioned that McCain told reporters in 1999 that he would "not support repeal of <em>Roe v. Wade</em>" or that McCain later issued a "clarification" saying he "would work toward its repeal." http://mediamatters.org/items/200611270007 Mon, 27 Nov 2006 15:49:30 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200611200009 http://mediamatters.org/items/200611200009 Mon, 20 Nov 2006 18:31:35 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200611200005 In their coverage of Sen. Trent Lott's election as minority whip, several media outlets have either failed to note Lott's 2002 comment praising Strom Thurmond's 1948 pro-segregation presidential campaign or failed to place Lott's remark in the context of his previous statements and actions that have been attacked as racially insensitive.<br /> http://mediamatters.org/items/200611200005 Mon, 20 Nov 2006 16:35:02 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200611140012 http://mediamatters.org/items/200611140012 Tue, 14 Nov 2006 18:26:01 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200610240016 Newt Gingrich and Fred Barnes both falsely suggested that the media have ignored allegations that Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid improperly reported a land deal and have focused exclusively on Republican scandals. In fact, <em>Time</em>, CNN and Fox News have devoted significantly more coverage to the Reid deal than to a controversial land deal that benefited Republican House Speaker Dennis Hastert. http://mediamatters.org/items/200610240016 Tue, 24 Oct 2006 16:31:19 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200610130010 http://mediamatters.org/items/200610130010 Fri, 13 Oct 2006 17:36:49 EST