http://mediamatters.org/tools/syndication/tag_rss/townhall_com This link is for use by RSS-enabled software to retrieve Media Matters items matching the term: Townhall.com en-US Copyright 2008, Media Matters for America http://mediamatters.org/items/200801160004 Columnist Bert Prelutsky said of Sen. Barack Obama: "To be fair, I acknowledge that he has a pleasant smile and speaks better than most politicians. The truth is, he sort of reminds me of David Duke," former Grand Wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. http://mediamatters.org/items/200801160004 Wed, 16 Jan 2008 15:46:39 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200801110009 In a column posted on Townhall.com, Ross Mackenzie wrote that Sen. Barack Obama "must grow beyond offering the sum of his experience in foreign policy as his madrassa school years in Indonesia and a visit or two to his grandmother in Africa." In fact, the claim that Obama was educated in a "madrassa" has been thoroughly debunked by numerous news organizations. http://mediamatters.org/items/200801110009 Fri, 11 Jan 2008 16:54:49 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200710160005 In an editorial, the <em>Arkansas Democrat-Gazette</em> attacked Wesley Clark for "wading into the muddy thick" of the controversy surrounding Rush Limbaugh's characterization of service members who advocate U.S. withdrawal from Iraq as "phony soldiers," saying that Clark had "adopted" Limbaugh's "vociferous style" and made him "look dignified." However, in doing so, the editorial misrepresented the context of Limbaugh's remarks and the controversy that ensued. http://mediamatters.org/items/200710160005 Tue, 16 Oct 2007 14:23:12 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200710040015 Tom DeLay claimed that "[a] few days back," Rush Limbaugh "and a caller were discussing Global War on Terror critics who have either exaggerated or entirely invented their military and combat service in order to bolster their credibility" when Limbaugh referred to "phony soldiers." In fact, during his September 26 broadcast, Limbaugh did not restrict his comments. DeLay also falsely claimed that <em>Media Matters </em>was "George Soros-funded." http://mediamatters.org/items/200710040015 Thu, 4 Oct 2007 18:45:22 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200709250010 http://mediamatters.org/items/200709250010 Tue, 25 Sep 2007 16:40:00 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200707100003 http://mediamatters.org/items/200707100003 Tue, 10 Jul 2007 13:02:36 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200705160001 http://mediamatters.org/items/200705160001 Tue, 15 May 2007 20:00:30 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200705010008 http://mediamatters.org/items/200705010008 Tue, 1 May 2007 18:08:05 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200704170003 http://mediamatters.org/items/200704170003 Tue, 17 Apr 2007 12:10:53 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200701040013 http://mediamatters.org/items/200701040013 Thu, 4 Jan 2007 18:31:46 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200612010002 http://mediamatters.org/items/200612010002 Fri, 1 Dec 2006 12:16:22 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200611100004 In her syndicated column, Ann Coulter claimed that the Democratic Party made "pathetic gains" in the November 7 midterm elections. In fact, the Democrats' gains in the House are just slightly under the average for the party out of power in the White House in the sixth-year midterm elections over the past century, and the Democrats' Senate gains are <em>above</em> the average. Moreover, the 2006 elections were the first sixth-year midterms since 1918 in which control of both houses of Congress switched parties. http://mediamatters.org/items/200611100004 Thu, 9 Nov 2006 20:11:33 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200608290006 In his column, Robert Novak falsely suggested that U.S. District Court Judge Anna Diggs Taylor's decision striking down the administration's warrantless domestic surveillance program was so off-the-wall that it "has been stayed and probably will be reversed," that "Taylor ended up with the case because of forum-shopping," and that professor Jack Balkin had criticized the decision's legal reasoning but nevertheless "rejoiced" over it for "political" reasons. http://mediamatters.org/items/200608290006 Tue, 29 Aug 2006 13:02:09 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200608250009 In his syndicated column, Pat Buchanan likened illegal immigrants to the Goths, a group of Germanic tribes who ravaged the Roman Empire in the centuries preceding the collapse of its western half. Buchanan suggested an analogy between the eastern Roman emperor Valens's admission of Gothic refugees into the Empire and the influx of illegal immigrants into the United States. http://mediamatters.org/items/200608250009 Fri, 25 Aug 2006 16:37:38 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200608110001 In his nationally syndicated column, Robert Novak claimed that Donald Rumsfeld was correct in asserting that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton would have a "dickens of a time" finding examples of Rumsfeld's making "rosy statements" about Iraq. But in making the assertion, Novak limited himself to four examples offered by Clinton of Rumsfeld's testimony to the Senate Armed Services Committee. Clinton in fact cited a total of 13 instances, including the following, ignored by Novak, which Rumsfeld made before the House Appropriations Committee: "My impression is that the war was highly successful." http://mediamatters.org/items/200608110001 Fri, 11 Aug 2006 11:33:11 EST