Media Matters - Willie Geist

Media Matters - Willie Geist http://mediamatters.org/tools/syndication/tag_rss/willie_geist This link is for use by RSS-enabled software to retrieve Media Matters items matching the term: Willie Geist en-US Copyright 2008, Media Matters for America Scarborough on Obama's "dainty" bowling performance: "Americans want their president, if it's a man, to be a real man" http://mediamatters.org/items/200803310007 On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough and Willie Geist repeatedly mocked Sen. Barack Obama's bowling performance -- which Scarborough called "dainty" -- at a campaign stop in Pennsylvania. Deriding Obama's score, Scarborough said: "You know Willie, the thing is, Americans want their president, if it's a man, to be a real man." He added, "You get 150, you're a man, or a good woman," to which Geist replied, "Out of my president, I want a 150, at least." After guest Harold Ford Jr. said that Obama's bowling showed a "humble" and "human" side to him, Scarborough replied, "A very human side? A prissy side." http://mediamatters.org/items/200803310007 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:58:55 EST Morning Joe allowed McCain adviser to falsely assert Clinton and Obama are "talking about raising taxes across the board" http://mediamatters.org/items/200803280003 On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough, Willie Geist, and NBC News' Savannah Guthrie did not challenge senior McCain adviser Steve Schmidt's false assertion that "[w]ith regard to the economy," Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are "talking about raising taxes across the board." In fact, Obama and Clinton have proposed tax cuts -- not tax increases -- for the poor and the middle class. http://mediamatters.org/items/200803280003 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:01:50 EST MSNBC's Geist: "[S]ome people looked at those clips of Hillary Clinton on Saturday and thought, perhaps, about the b-word" http://mediamatters.org/items/200802250006 On MSNBC Live, co-host Willie Geist stated that "some people ... thought, perhaps, about the b-word" when viewing "clips" of Sen. Hillary Clinton on the campaign trail on February 23. Geist made the statement while discussing a segment from the February 23 edition of NBC's Saturday Night Live in which comedian Tina Fey said, "[M]aybe what bothers me the most is that people say that Hillary is a bitch. Let me say something about that. Yeah, she is. And so am I." http://mediamatters.org/items/200802250006 Mon, 25 Feb 2008 19:15:15 EST Morning Joe hosts launched misleading attacks on Obama over state Senate votes http://mediamatters.org/items/200801250005 Joe Scarborough and Willie Geist ridiculed Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) for "push[ing] the wrong button" when casting votes as an Illinois state senator. But they failed to make clear that, according to the Los Angeles Times article they were referencing (which addressed only five of the six alleged mistaken votes), Obama stated that he had voted the wrong way and asked that the record reflect that fact for each of those five votes when he actually cast them in the Illinois state Senate. http://mediamatters.org/items/200801250005 Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:14:50 EST Morning Joe panel panned Gibson's "awful joke of an apology" after his "anti-gay tirade" about Ledger's death http://mediamatters.org/items/200801250001 On Morning Joe, Mika Brzezinski described John Gibson's statement in response to the firestorm over remarks he made concerning the death of actor Heath Ledger as "an awful, awful joke of an apology," and later asserted that it was "not an apology." After airing Gibson's statement, Joe Scarborough said, "What he said was, 'I'm sorry if you were offended. ... I'm sorry if you were offended that I mocked the death of a young man.' " Scarborough also asserted that Gibson "got caught in an anti-gay tirade." http://mediamatters.org/items/200801250001 Fri, 25 Jan 2008 12:16:19 EST MSNBC's Geist, Politico's Brown misrepresented Clear Channel letter on Limbaugh's "phony soldiers" comments http://mediamatters.org/items/200710030005 http://mediamatters.org/items/200710030005 Wed, 3 Oct 2007 12:07:02 EST Scarborough and Geist repeated Limbaugh's defense of "phony soldiers" comment without noting its holes http://mediamatters.org/items/200710020009 On MSNBC's Morning Joe, contributor Willie Geist stated that he had gone "back and looked at the full transcript" of Rush Limbaugh's recent description of soldiers who support withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq as "phony soldiers" and asserted that Limbaugh had been "talking about a specific soldier, this guy Jesse MacBeth," who falsely claimed to be an injured Iraq war veteran. Joe Scarborough agreed that Limbaugh's remark has "been blown out of context." However, the transcript and audio included in the original Media Matters <a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200709270010?f=h_top" title="http://mediamatters.org/items/200709270010?f=h_top">item</a> documenting Limbaugh's comments makes clear that he referred to "phony soldiers," plural. http://mediamatters.org/items/200710020009 Tue, 2 Oct 2007 15:05:55 EST