The WatchdogTHE MRC’ S MONTHLY MEMBERS’ REPORT CREATING A MEDIA CULTURE WHERE TRUTH AND LIBERTY FLOURISH IN AMERICA Volume 14 • Issue 5 • May 2007 Liberal Media Hypocrisy: Slam Imus But Give Pass to Olbermann, Totenberg, Huffi ngton, and Other Liberal Heroes Dear Friend, MRC Headquarters • Alexandria, Va Liberal talk-radio host Don Imus lost mistake, or even if distorted by enemies his show because he made racist and — the liberal media attack. This double sexist remarks. What he said was wrong standard is outrageous and sickening INSIDE and he clearly deserved punishment. when one considers how hateful the But there’s more to the story. “Rappers” left really is. Consider some of the PAGE 3 and others have been using this language following quotes and consider that the New MRC Profi le for years and liberals didn’t care. Don liberal media did nothing to condemn Documents Rosie Imus is no conservative — that’s for them and, in many cases, applauded O’Donnell’s Left-Wing Ravings sure. But neither is he them. a radical leftist. In fact, ☛ “If there is PAGES 4 – 5 he was highly critical retributive justice,” Sen. Bits & Pieces: of Sen. Hillary Clinton. Jesse Helms “will get ABC Censors ABC, And that’s why Hillary’s AIDS from a transfusion, $13 Million Matt Lauer, machine went after CBS Frets Over ‘God,’ or one of his grand- him. Global Warming children will get it.” Hurts Puppies! And it is now clear — Nina Totenberg, that the “morally right- National Public Radio’s PAGE 6 eous” left in the media legal affairs correspond- CNSNews.com Separating are using the Imus case MSNBC’s ultra-liberal Keith ent, and Broadcaster Fact from Fiction in the as the launching pad Olbermann charges that Rush of the Year in 1998, as Global Warming Debate to target conservatives Limbaugh’s conservative views are awarded by the National in the media next. worse than the racist comments of Press Foundation PAGE 7 Don Imus, and that Rush should be Our friends, like Rush ☛ “For hypocrisy, MRC in the News boycotted or fi red. Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, for sheer gall, [Newt] PAGE 8 Neal Boortz, Michelle Malkin, and Mark Gingrich should be hanged.” — How You Can Help Levin, among many others, are being Washington Post syndicated columnist the MRC Fight targeted. Richard Cohen Liberal Media Bias We won’t stand for that. There is ☛ Evangelical Christians are “poor, obvious liberal bias and a clear double uneducated, and easy to command.” — standard at work here and these leftists Reporter Michael Weisskopf, Washington need to be exposed, which is part of the Post Media Research Center’s mission. ☛ “Radical Christianity is just as Liberal reporters and liberal leaders threatening as radical Islam in a country in America have been making hateful, like America.” — ABC’s The View co-host bigoted, and racist comments against Rosie O’Donnell conservatives for decades, and the ☛ “I hear about Tony Snow and say liberal media establishment has let them to myself, well, stand up every day, lie www.MRC.org slide. Yet when a conservative makes to the American people at the behest of an off-color remark — in passing, by Continued on page 2 The 2 Watchdog MAY 2007 Continued from page1 ☛ “What it looks like is going to happen is that your dictator-esque boss and, well, how could a cancer [Lewis] Libby and Karl Rove are going to be executed. …I don’t know how I feel about it because I’m basically NOT grow in you. Work for Fox News, spinning the against the death penalty, but they are going to be truth in a billion knots and how can your gut not rot?” executed.” — former Air America radio host Al Franken, – Huffi ngton Post blogger Charles Karel Bouley now a Democratic senatorial candidate ☛ “What must it be like to live in Rush Limbaugh’s ☛ Forget Imus, “Why have none from the racist world? …Edgy, controversial, brilliant. What a way to right been protested, boycotted or fi red? …How does shake up intelligent sports commentary. Hitler would Rush Limbaugh or Michael Savage get away with worse have killed in talk radio. He was edgy, too.” — CBS than what Don Imus said?” — MSNBC Countdown host Sunday Morning contributor Nancy Giles and NBC Nightly News contributor Keith Olbermann ☛ “Vote Republican and you vote to enable George Phew! These liberals did not use the words “nappy- Bush to keep ruling as an emperor — a retarded child headed” or “ho,” but as far as I’m concerned, what emperor, but an emperor.” — HBO’s Real Time host Bill liberals says — virtually every day — about conservatives Maher is far worse. Look at just one ☛ Vladimir Putin “is perceived of these leftists, ABC’s Rosie to be an effective dictator. What O’Donnell who, as noted above, we have in this country is a dictator equates Christians with Islamic who’s ineffective.” —Newsweek extremists. Contributing Editor Eleanor Clift O’Donnell uses her platform at ☛ At the Winter Olympics, ABC to spew anti-American venom “try not to laugh when someone daily. While she is leaving The says these are the world’s great View in June because of a contract athletes, despite a paucity of blacks dispute, she is reportedly being that makes the Winter Games look courted by NBC and CBS to launch like a GOP convention.” — HBO’s a new show. Rosie is not going to go Real Sports host Bryant Gumbel away and the liberal media love her. ☛ After interviewing the MRC’s “If there is The same holds for MSNBC’s Keith Robert Knight, who criticized Olbermann, a leftist propagandist homosexual scoutmasters in the retributive justice,” who served as an “anchor” at the Boy Scouts, host Bryant Gumbel May 3 GOP presidential candidates exclaimed, “What a f***ing idiot!” Sen. Jesse Helms debate, and who is an “essayist” — CBS Early Show “will get AIDS from a for the NBC Nightly News. ☛ About Supreme Court Justice Olbermann has equated the Clarence Thomas: “I hope his transfusion, or one comments and actions of Don Imus wife feeds him lots of eggs and with those of great conservatives, butter and he dies early like many of his grandchildren such as Rush Limbaugh. Other black men do, of heart disease.” liberal media types are doing — Syndicated columnist Julianne will get it.” the same. The goal? To remove Malveaux Rush and other conservative talk- ☛ Justice Clarence Thomas is NINA TOTENBERG radio hosts from the airwaves. “a handkerchief-head, chicken- They want them gone. Liberals and-biscuit-eating Uncle Tom.” — Movie director Spike couldn’t beat the conservatives in the marketplace — Lee remember Air America? — so they will try to slay them ☛ “We would stone Henry Hyde to death! We would with politically correct condemnation and political and stone him to death! …I’m not fi nished. We would stone fi nancial pressure. Henry Hyde to death and we would go to their homes That just won’t happen, not while we’re around. and we’d kill their wives and children! We would kill We are documenting and exposing the liberal media’s their families!” — Actor Alec Baldwin hypocritical agenda. This is another crucial battle in ☛ On 2nd Amendment hero Charlton Heston, “Shoot the long war against the liberal media and the culture him with a .44 caliber Bulldog” — Movie Director Spike war in general. Stay tuned, and stay in the fi ght. Lee Sincerely, ☛ The House of Representatives “has been run like a plantation, and you know what I’m talking about.” — Sen. Hillary Clinton ☛ “I hate the Republicans and everything they L. Brent Bozell III stand for.” — Democratic National Committee Chairman Founder and President Howard Dean The MAY 2007 Watchdog 3 New MRC Profi le Documents Rosie O’Donnell’s Left-Wing Ravings A new MRC profi le, released the day Rosie O’Donnell to convert them to your way of thinking.” Hasselbeck: announced her departure from ABC’s The View, “Well, I’m a person of faith, so I, but I also believe—” on April 26, details the co-host’s left-wing ravings O’Donnell: “Well, then, get away from the fear. Don’t on everything from President Bush to Don Imus fear the terrorists. They’re mothers and fathers.” (The to 9/11 conspiracy theories. View, Nov. 9, 2006) Researched and written by MRC Anti-Christian Bigot Research Director Rich Noyes, After the Supreme Court ruled The Full Rosie shows how Ms. that the Partial-Birth Abortion O’Donnell has used the coveted Act was constitutional, O’Donnell national platform provided to declared the ruling “frightening” her by ABC and Barbara Walters and then smeared the fi ve Catholic to spew her mean-spirited and justices on the Court as theocrats: anti-American political views. “You know what concerns me? Below are some excerpts from How many Supreme Court judges the Profi le. are Catholics? Five. How about separation of church and state in America?” O’Donnell also blurted Don Imus To ‘Thought Police’ out: “If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.” As the scandal from talk-radio (The View, Apr. 19, 2007) host Don Imus’s racist and sexist remarks unfolded, O’Donnell warned: “It’s not a freedom if you …More Rosie Absurdities: outlaw certain words or thoughts, ☛ “Radical Christianity is just as because then the thought police threatening as radical Islam in a come and then, before you know country like America.” (The View, it, everyone’s in Guantanamo Bay 9/12/06) without representation.” (The ☛ View, Apr. 11, 2007) South Africa’s racist apartheid Read the complete MRC report, The Full Rosie: was “very similar to what we 9/11: A Government Daytime Host’s Long Record of Mean-Spirited have in the United States, thanks Conspiracy Left-Wing Ravings, at our Web site — to the Patriot Act.” (The View, www.MRC.org — and click on “Profi les in Bias.” 10/24/06) Echoing the loopy theories of some hard-leftists that the U.S.