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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. . 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, , 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 ’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 , 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 , – 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 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. government conspired to ☛ “Christopher Reeve died without hope because of the implement the 9/11 attacks to justify a war in the Middle religious — separation — lack of separation of church and East, O’Donnell ranted, “I do believe it is the fi rst time state by this administration.” (The View, 6/7/05) in history that fi re has ever melted steel. I do believe ☛ “Someone should call for the impeachment of George that it defi es physics for the World Trade Center Tower Bush” so “the world knows that is not standing Seven, building seven, which collapsed in on itself, it is behind this President’s choices, that the nation, a impossible for a building to fall the way it fell without democracy, feels differently than the man who is leading explosives being involved ….” (The View, Mar. 29, 2007) as if it were a dictatorship, and that we represent this country, he does not lead as a monarch.” (The View, Jan. Terrorists Are Parents Too 24, 2007) Lecturing co-host Elisabeth Hassellbeck about post- ☛ President Bush “invaded a sovereign nation in defi ance 9/11 America and the , O’Donnell charged: “Faith of the U.N. He is basically a war criminal. Honestly. He or fear, that’s your choice. You can walk through life should be tried at The Hague.” (At Large with Geraldo believing in the goodness of the world, or walk through life Rivera, June 30, 2005) afraid of anyone who thinks different than you and trying The 4 Watchdog MAY 2007 class-envy card on April 26 by reporting on an alleged widening gap between rich and poor. “Do you feel like you’re working harder and harder these days just to stay fi nancially afl oat while fat cats get richer and richer?” asked & Lauer on Today. “It’s not just a feeling Bits Pieces and you’re not alone.” Lauer then introduced CNBC’s Scott Cohn who churned, “Not only ABC Censors ABC Get With It, America are the rich getting richer, they’re ABC News hid the results of some On the April 18 Good Morning leaving everyone else behind. In fact, of its own survey about gun violence, America, Sam Champion, ABC’s the last time the rich were this much following the Virginia Tech massacre. weatherman and liberal activist richer than everyone else was the On its April 23 broadcast, World News environmentalist, escalated his cam- Great Depression.” Cohn then made gave two minutes to a report about paign to encourage Americans to fi ght his case by relying on a sound-bite its survey but chose not to disclose global warming. Standing in front of that when “asked the primary cause a bank of televisions and scolding of gun violence, far more Americans viewers for their energy output, blamed the effects of popular culture Champion bellowed: “Did you know (40%) or the way parents raise their that even with the fl ip of a switch, children (35%) than the availability of we all contribute to global warming? guns (18%).” Well, I know it sounds a little intense. In other words, 75% of Americans But there are some small things you blame popular culture and/or poor can do to change that, like paying parenting for gun violence, and not attention to your carbon footprint. … the availability of guns. This didn’t If you think you have nothing to do with fi t ABC’s liberal agenda, and the global warming, think again. From the On NBC’s Today, Matt Lauer, who makes network buried this information deep car you drive, to the house you live $13 million a year, warns that America’s in the pages of its Web site, ABCNews. in, it all contributes to the problem.” Champion didn’t mention how poor are getting poorer “while fat cats com. Yet on its World News broadcast get richer and richer.” much energy the television screens reaching 9.5 million people, ABC from Robert Greenstein, who works emphasized its survey’s rather non- behind him were contributing to global warming. for the far-left Center on Budget controversial fi nding that “83 percent and Policy Priorities. No mention— of Americans says states should do beyond the liberal Bill Gates—of the more to report mentally ill people to wealthy class’ generous contributions the federal gun sales registry.” to charity and how their assets and investment fuel economic growth. ABC Outraged They’re just evil. ABC’s survey about gun violence may have stemmed from its own obvious outrage over the apparent political CBS Frets Over God lassitude following the Virginia Tech The newsroom at CBS is so liberally shootings. On the April 19 edition of biased that its members reacted acidly , ABC ran with ABC’s Sam Champion spreads global and complained viciously when a the on-screen headline, “Politicians warming propaganda and lectures “freeSpeech” segment from Oct. 2, 2006 and Gun Control: Why Aren’t They Americans about the environment on showcased the father of a boy killed at the April 18 Good Morning America. Outraged?” ABC’s Robin Roberts then Columbine High School — a father who whined that “most politicians have In addition to lecturing viewers had the temerity to freely say that been running away from the debate on about their contribution to climate expelling God from the public schools guns — so, why is this happening?” change, Champion led a segment and allowing abortion was contributing ABC’s kept the com- featuring a representative from the to America’s moral decadence. This plaining going, commenting on “what Natural Resources Defense Council, information came to light as a result of some liberals are referring to as a a staunch left-wing group that was an April 22 Philadelphia Inquirer story deafening silence from Democrats on never labeled liberal, even political. on Couric and the ratings slump Capitol Hill.” Tapper ended his report at CBS Evening News. by relaying “in the rest of the world, of $13 Million Matt “Despite CBS’s avowed intention to course, gun rights in the United States NBC Today co-host Matt Lauer, who include all viewpoints in ‘Free Speech,’ are viewed somewhat oddly.” makes $13 million a year, played the the segment caused an uproar in the The MAY 2007 Watchdog 5 newsroom, according to CBS insiders,” emissions for an increase in pollen reported the Inquirer. “‘There’s a that is spiking allergic reactions in difference between free speech and humans and pets. “We may only have responsible speech,’ an embarrassed ourselves to blame,” intoned Today correspondent says. It was another co-host Matt Lauer in introducing the signifi cant misstep in Couric’s uphill story. climb to legitimacy, a trek that seems Savidge then came on and held to grow steeper by the day.” up his own dog, saying, “Sure, you think you got it bad. The itching, the Good News, But … sneezing, the watery eyes, but it isn’t Positive economic news with the On the April 25 CBS Evening News, anchor just you. There’s another group of contends that good economic sufferers out there, they just happen Dow Jones Industrial Average soaring news is actually bad economic news. past 13,000 on April 25 nonetheless to be a little smaller.” … But they left CBS fi nding a gray lining in a puttered about “less-than-inspiring won’t write a word about partial- silver cloud, as usual. On the Evening news on the economy overall.” ABC’s birth abortions. News, anchor Katie Couric fretted Betsy Stark then prattled about “fresh that “even as investors are making signs today of trouble in the housing money in the market, Anthony Mason market” and “consumer woes” at the reports there are concerns tonight gas pump. Gibson and Stark concluded about the rest of the U.S. economy.” by warning of a market “correction,” Mason talked with a celebrating stock i.e., recession or depression. trader and then went negative: “But Wall Street and Main Street appear You Hurt Puppies! to be headed in different directions. NBC’s April 4 Today show used a While the stock market’s been racing supposed health report to push global ahead, the economy has been slowing warming alarmism and even claimed NBC’s Martin Savidge whines on the down. Housing is mired in a slump.” that car emissions, allegedly tied to April 4 Today show that supposedly Over at ABC, the spin was just as “climate change,” are hurting not just human-caused global warming is spiking negative. World News anchor Charles people but, yes, puppies. Reporter allergies in puppies. Gibson noted the market rise and then Martin Savidge blamed fossil fuel

■ CBS’s Katie Couric is ecstatic: “Also in Washington today, a lot of excitement on Capitol Hill. A movie star Minibits showed up to testify before Congress — a movie star named Al Gore.” ■ Then, the downcast Katie Couric: “More than 46 million Americans have no health insurance. So when it comes to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness and good health, all men are not created equal.” ■ Newsweek’s Jonathan Alter blames President Bush for Don Imus’s fall: “In the last couple of years there has been such a negative reaction against President Bush’s failure to apologize, failure to seem like CBS’s Andy Rooney lectures he is being accountable to where the people are, that we’ve got more of a thirst for that America’s volunteer people apologizing when they screw up.” ■ American Idol is popular, NYT journalist army is made up of people Alessandra Stanley seriously claims, because “it cannot be a coincidence that television with problems and nothing else to do with their lives. voting rights arose so soon after the 2000 election left slightly more than half the voting population feeling cheated.” ■ The falsely arrested and smeared Duke lacrosse players, like students at “other elite institutions will get on with their privileged lives,” whines ABC’s . “They are very differently situated from the young women of the Rutgers University women’s basketball team.” ■ L.A. Times’s sniffs, “For all the howling on the right, it’s diffi cult to argue that mainstream news organizations operate with anything approaching Fox’s partisan and ideological agenda.” ■ Andy “Military Genius” Rooney complains, “If it’s all-volunteer Army, you get people who join up because of some problem in their own lives. They don’t have anything else to do, they don’t have a job, or they can’t fi nd what they want to do, so they join the Army. And it doesn’t produce the best Army.” ■ Finally, some good news from Rosie O’Donnell: “Breaking news! I’ve decided, we couldn’t come to terms with my deal with ABC, so next year I’m not going to be on The View.” The 6 Watchdog MAY 2007

CNSNews.com Separating Fact from Fiction in the Global Warming Debate

The liberal media are in lockstep when it comes again set the record straight. to covering the global warming debate. Pick up a Amid reports that Gore’s monthly David Thibault, paper, turn on the television, or tune your car radio energy usage ($1,300 a month CNSNews.com to the news at the top of the hour, and the coverage in electricity) is 20 times the Editor-in-Chief you’ll get from the establishment media will follow average citizen’s, our reports exposed that fellow an identical script. They’ve synchronized their “global warming” author John Kerry’s $1,100 electric watches and memorized the party line when it comes bill isn’t far behind — while President Bush’s 4,000 to advancing three main media myths regarding the square-foot ranch sports a wastewater purifi cation global warming debate: system and geothermal heating and cooling system 1) There is no debate, because no intelligent person that make it far more environmentally-friendly than can be found who disagrees that man is destroying Gore’s home. We also reported on the energy frugality the world by causing global warming, of Republican Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas), who used 2) Republicans are evil, raping and pillaging the only $79 of electricity in both his Texas and Virginia planet, while Democrats are paragons of virtue, homes combined in a recent month. nurturing Mother Earth and defending Her from the As for the leftist media-celebrated “carbon offsets” conservative brutes who seek to bring about the purchased by Gore to excuse his energy excesses, apocalypse, and CNSNews.com learned and reported that it is actually Gore’s London-based company — not the former vice- 3) There are no negative consequences to Big Govern- president himself — that pays for his carbon offsets. ment enacting laws to force the Little People (public) to embrace extremist environmental schemes. Finally, while the liberal media has been busy promoting the myth that bigger government will While this conformity of reporting may engender a be devoid of any negative consequences, CNSNews. feeling of solidarity and brotherhood among the Left’s com has been reporting on what economic and policy media elite, it’s bad journalism — and it’s exposed analysts fear will be the highly negative repercussions as such when news organizations like CNSNews.com of increased government power, intervention and take the tenets of responsible journalism seriously and mandates. report the facts that expose the liberal media’s myths Regarding a recently introduced bill to outlaw about global warming. standard light bulbs and force the public to buy more While the liberal media were trying to convince energy-effi cient varieties, CNSNews.com reported on the public of the scientifi c “consensus” on man-made how the new law could increase the cost of a single global warming, CNSNews.com published an interview light bulb to as much as fi ve dollars and provide a with environmental scientist Fred Singer, who called fi nancial windfall to the light bulb manufacturers who the very notion of consensus “laughable” and cited are lobbying for the bill. hundreds of other climate scientists who have argued against the liberal media’s “consensus” . And, while liberal media were fawning over the CNSNews.com also reported on a global warming Supreme Court decision to empower and order the skeptic and essayist (who served as an advisor to EPA to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from cars, former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher) who CNSNews.com reported on analysis suggesting that has been taking out ads in national U.S. newspapers the ruling’s “potential for economic harm is vast.” publicly inviting former Vice President Al Gore to All of this is not to say that the earth is defi nitely debate climate change with him. not experiencing a brief warming period, or that Likewise, while the Left’s media minions were there aren’t things that man can do to better steward trumpeting Gore’s Oscar-bound movie which among the environment — that’s not our job. Our role as other claims says the polar bear population is being journalists isn’t to embrace a conclusion and then go killed off by melting glaciers, CNSNews.com reported about excluding, exaggerating, and distorting facts to studies cited by scientists and climate experts showing support that conclusion. Our role is to investigate and that the polar bear population isn’t actually being report the facts — all the facts — on both sides of an endangered and, in some areas, has actually increased issue and provide the reader with the information and by as much as 25 percent. analysis needed to draw his or her own conclusion. As for the “Republicans are destroying the earth That’s balanced, responsible journalism. That’s and Democrats are saving it” myth, CNSNews.com CNSNews.com journalism. The MAY 2007 Watchdog 7

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