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WatchdogTHE MRC’ S MONTHLY MEMBERS’ REPORT CREATING A MEDIA CULTURE WHERE TRUTH AND LIBERTY FLOURISH IN AMERICA VOLUME 13 • ISSUE 10 • OCTOBER 2006 Clinton Squawks Over Bin Laden Question Liberal Media Rush to Defend Former Democratic President

Dear Friend, MRC Headquarters • Alexandria, Virginia This is the second issue of The Watchdog, MRC has documented for years: The the upgraded and improved version of elite media are liberal; the elite media Flash News, our monthly report to our coddle their own; and liberal elites members. The Watchdog contains timely cannot handle tough questions that rely INSIDE and useful content about the antics of the on facts. But what they can do is attack liberal press and specifi c details about how — viciously and personally. PAGE 3 the MRC is battling that bias to help create In the interview, host Chris Wallace The MRC Fights a media culture where truth and liberty politely asked President Clinton what Liberal Media Bias fl ourish in America. This newsletter shows he thought about the claims that he, on Many Fronts you the MRC’s effective- as President, did not ness while providing you do enough to stop PAGES 4 – 5 with information you can terrorist Osama bin Bits & Pieces: use and pass on to Laden. It was a fair Clinton Lies Again, CNN Big Oil Conspiracy, your friends and family question, one that’s CBS Airs Illegal, members. been asked of Presi- Bush Exposes Lauer’s Bias, As the month began, dent Bush dozens of Olbermann Overheats the “October Surprise” times. But Clinton hit involving Rep. Mark Foley the roof, and exploded PAGE 6 hit the headlines and is on Wallace with a Illegal Immigration Op-Ed still unfolding as this litany of allegations by Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX), newsletter goes to press. about a “conservative Citing MRC Study On Sunday, former President Foley appropriately re- Bill Clinton attacks host Chris Wallace hit job” and “right- signed in disgrace. If the wingers who are attack PAGE 7 for daring to ask why Clinton did not House Ethics investigation kill Osama bin Laden when he had ing me.” Clinton MRC in the News shows that any House several opportunities. claimed he “tried” PAGE 8 members, of either party, many times to kill bin How You Can Help knew of his loathsome behavior and did Laden but failed. As usual, the evidence the MRC Fight nothing to stop it, or tried to cover it up, says Clinton was lying. (Surprised?) Even Liberal Media Bias they should resign immediately. I’ve said so members of his administration came publicly. forward to challenge this nonsense. But the liberal media’s non-stop President Clinton’s tirade generated coverage of Foley and their hypocritical much media attention, though little attacks on the House GOP confi rm their attention was paid to his dishonesty. agenda. They want the leftist Democrats to Some analysts said the President unwise- win in November, and they are using their ly lost his cool and came off badly. Most infl uence to help make that happen. This of the top liberal media, however, came strategy was obvious in another way, when to his defense and ran stories for more former President Clinton was interviewed than a week defending him. They also on Fox News Sunday. derided Fox because, as part of the new Mr. Clinton’s behavior during that media, Fox is challenging the liberal www.MRC.org Sept. 24 interview and the liberal media’s media machine by providing more rush to defend him confi rm what the Continued on page 2 The 2 Watchdog OCTOBER 2006 balanced news coverage. The liberal media are doing all Carville was dead wrong. Numerous terror and national they can to hold onto their near-monopoly of major news security experts, from within the CIA and the White House, outlets and defend their liberal leaders. They know Fox is as well as Richard Clarke himself have contradicted the a threat. President’s claims about trying to kill Osama bin Laden Newsweek’s senior editor, Jon Meacham, for instance, (see Bits & Pieces, p. 5). But these experts were not put defended Clinton’s attack on Wallace as “fantastic,” on Today to set the record straight. adding that Clinton was “so articulate” and “there was a ABC’s World News Tonight and NBC’s Nightly News also lot of merit to what he said.” spun the Clinton-Wallace interview in liberalism’s favor. Chris Matthews, liberal Democrat and host of MSNBC’s NBC defended Clinton’s grossly inappropriate behavior as Hardball, praised Clinton effusively. “It’s the War Room the result of stress from a long week raising $7 billion for all over again,” said Matthews. “Whack back at the his Clinton Global Initiative. Republicans before they Swift Boat you!” That initiative, incidentally, was given extensive touchy- Washington Post television critic Tom Shales was feely coverage on numerous media, including CNN’s Larry downright giddy. He defended Clinton’s rant against King Live and NBC’s Meet the Press. Some of the attendees Wallace as an “exhilarating kind of tension,” and at the initiative included ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, Tom denounced Wallace as a “baby” who “behaved like a sissy- Brokaw, CBS’s and ABC’s Diane Sawyer. Clinton pants” when attacked. has the liberal media guns in his hip pocket, as do the liberal MSNBC’s , host of ratings-in-the-cellar elites of this country who are constantly working to advance Countdown, went on an anti-Fox-anti-Wallace tear for days. an agenda that is contrary to the America envisioned by the Olbermann railed that Clinton had been “sandbagged by a Founding Fathers. monkey posing as a newscaster.” As for Fox, “The nation’s The MRC battles against the liberal media hydra everyday. marketplace of ideas is being poisoned by a propaganda The following pages of this edition of The Watchdog detail company so blatant that Tokyo Rose would’ve quit.” some of that work, which is made possible only because of The NBC Today show was a joke. To “discuss” the topic, your generous fi nancial support. I thank you, again, for your left-wing co-host Meredith Vieira interviewed Democratic help, and call on you to stick with us in this mission. operatives and Paul Begalla. That’s it— Sincerely no moderate or conservative presence was allowed to provide balance. Carville praised Clinton and denounced Fox and then falsely claimed that “everything that the President said was factual. Not one assertion of fact has L. Brent Bozell III been challenged.” Founder and President The OCTOBER 2006 Watchdog 3 The MRC Fights Liberal Media Bias on Many Fronts!

The Media Research Center in a lengthy televised speech on battles liberal media bias every day, the Senate fl oor on Sept. 25. The on the Web, on radio, on TV, and in Senator quoted extensively from print. It is a monumental task, given the report, Fire & Ice, and it is the liberal media leviathan. Yet a now part of the Congressional few highlights from September show Record. To read the speech, the widespread effectiveness of the go to http://inhofe.senate.gov/ MRC and confi rm why the MRC is fl oorspeeches.htm. “America’s Media Watchdog.” BMI’s director and Boone For example, in response to Pickens Fellow, Dan Gainor, was the liberal media coverage of the Brent Bozell on MSNBC’s interviewed on CNN’s Pope’s remarks on Islam, the MRC Scarborough Country. NOW on Sept. 22 about gas price issued a press release denouncing conspiracies. Mr. Gainor lucidly the liberal media’s near-blackout explained how an oil industry of coverage about radical Islam conspiracy to manipulate gas and the Islamists’ call for the prices to help Republicans get re- assassination of the Pope. That elected was ludicrous given the generated much media attention, realities of the global marketplace including an interview of MRC (and the ineffi ciencies of govern- President Brent Bozell on MSNBC’s ment bureaucracies). This crazy Scarborough Country. During the talk of conspiracies is to be segment, liberal Joan Walsh of Dan Gainor on CNN’s Paula Zahn NOW. expected of the radical left. But Salon.com sparred with Mr. Bozell, it’s also being advanced by some ironically claiming that he was an in the “news” media—including “extreme Christian conservative” CNN’s own Jack Cafferty! who wanted “to stifl e debate,” In early September, MRC Director and equating him to al Qaeda. of Media Analysis Tim Graham was In early September, the MRC re- interviewed about the ABC movie leased a Special Report, The Media vs. “Path to 9/11,” making appearances the War on Terror: How ABC, CBS, and on Fox’s Your World w/Neil Cavuto NBC Attack America’s Terror-Fighting and CNN’s Showbiz Tonight. CNN’s Tactics as Dangerous, Abusive and A.J. Hammer tried to spin the Illegal. This also sparked tremendous Rich Noyes on MSNBC Live! interview in the favor of President media attention and its author, Clinton and liberal Democrats but Research Director Rich Noyes, was Mr. Graham kept to the facts, coyly interviewed on numerous radio shows, noting that “it’s not libelous to make in print, and on MSNBC Live. During a movie that leaves the impression the interview, Mr. Noyes explained that Bill Clinton did not get Osama how the liberal media were cherry- bin Laden.” picking from the National Intelligence In two other September high- Estimate to cast the war on terror lights, on his national radio show in the most negative light. He also Rush Limbaugh twice cited items noted how the government sources posted by MRC staffers on the leaking Intelligence information to Tim Graham on Fox’s Your World MRC blog, NewsBusters.org, and with Neil Cavuto. the liberal media were subverting provided links to the blog from his U.S. national security policy. Web site, Rush Limbaugh.com. A report issued by the MRC’s Business & Media Not bad. The MRC is always on the offensive against Institute in May about liberal media coverage of liberal media bias, and our presence among friends and global warming was used by Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) enemies in the media is testimony to that fact. The 4 Watchdog October 2006

the identity of “Carlos” by using a fake name and putting him in shadow. “I cannot show you my face tonight because if I were identifi ed I could be deported,” he said. The college-age “Carlos,” whose family came in on a tourist visa when Bits & Pieces he was 11 and overstayed their visas, asserted: “Almost from the beginning my parents paid taxes, and two years Clinton Lies Again CNN ‘Big Oil’ Conspiracy after we arrived here, they applied In his Sept. 24 attack against CNN’s Bill Schneider just can’t for legal residency. Believe it or not, Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace a c c e p t g o o d n e w s w i t h o u t a R e p u b l i c a n our application is still pending. That for asking about his failure to stop conspiracy behind it. In a Sept. 15 means my parents and sister and I Osama bin Laden, President Clinton report on The Situation Room, anchor can still be deported even though we made dubious claims about his anti- stated that the price of did everything we were supposed to terrorist efforts that the liberal oil would likely fall because special do to try to become legal.” Except media are refusing to question. For chemicals used in gasoline during the follow the rules for their visa. So far, instance, Clinton repeatedly cited summer were being discontinued. CBS has not run a commentary from -adviser Richard Clarke However, Schneider saw something anyone advocating a crackdown on sinister. “The drop in prices may last illegal aliens. a couple of months, long enough to get through the November election,” he said. “Could that be what the oil Bush Exposes Lauer’s Bias companies want?” Today’s Matt Lauer pushed the Leaning further left, Schneider liberal talking points on Sept. 11 in cited Tyson Slocum, a member of the his interview of President Bush, but Naderite group Public Citizen, who he pushed so hard the President was chimed: “I cannot say for sure whether able to expose Lauer’s loopy liberal or not they are infl uencing prices to bias. “Do you know of any Democrats that, in your opinion, are trying to or would like to appease terrorists?” asked Lauer. President Bush answered: Chris Wallace listens as President Clinton “I know Democrats who want to leave peddles half-truths and lies about his before the job is done and that attempts to kill Osama bin Laden. would be a terrible mistake.” as one who confi rms that Clinton Lauer pounced: “But those Demo- tried to get Osama bin Laden. crats don’t see the war in Iraq as However, Fox’s Inside Report with inseparable from the overall war on reported: “Clark himself terror!” Bush refreshingly responded: told the 9/11 Commission he vigorously recommended the Clinton administration strike bin Laden after CNN’s political analyst Bill Schneider the attack on the U.S.S Cole.” Clarke strongly implies that oil companies are also advised bombing “all of the conspiring to push down gas prices to Taliban and al Qaeda infrastructure, help Republicans get elected. whether or not it would succeed in assure that outcome, but it is, I think, killing bin Laden.” more than just a coincidence that we’re Clarke further “proposed an seeing an easing of prices at a time of ongoing bombing of al Qaeda training running up to a very, very important facilities in Afghanistan to stop election.” what he called the conveyor belt NBC’s Matt Lauer pushed too far and of terrorists emerging from them.” President Bush easily exposed the Today National security offi cial Bryan CBS Airs ‘Illegal’ co-host’s liberal media bias. Cunningham said: “That document, CBS is so biased in favor of illegal by Richard Clarke’s own account, was immigration that it aided and abetted “You can justify what they say — I’m rejected by all of the principles in the a criminal by allowing an illegal to just telling you that if this country Clinton administration. So from 1998 promote his agenda nationally on the leaves Iraq before the job is done, if to 2001, when they left offi ce, they “freeSpeech” segment of the Sept. we abandon those 15 million people didn’t take any action on that plan.” 21 CBS Evening News. CBS concealed who said we want to live freely we will The October 2006 Watchdog 5 have given the enemy a tremendous victory.” Note to Lauer: Gotcha! “I was trying to bring the Cold War, help Olbermann Overheats bring it to an end with the Goodwill On the fi fth anniversary of 9/11, Minibits Games and a bunch of our initiatives MSNBC’s ever-leftist Keith Olbermann that we worked on with the Russians, and it worked,” boasts the used Countdown’s “Special Comment” ■ segment to rail endlessly against the humble Ted Turner, taking credit for ending the Cold War. President, accusing him of “lying by Ted also prophecies “that men all over the world should be barred implication” to get America into a from holding public offi ce at any level for a hundred years [and] “fraudulent war” with “needless death” you’d have a much kinder, gentler world almost immediately.” ■ in Iraq, the latter which Olbermann referred to as “an impeachable offense.” NBC’s Matt Lauer seriously asks New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin,” There are still people in the black community...who believe that the day after Katrina struck New Orleans the levees were breached intentionally. That they were blown, if you will, to fl ood black and poor neighborhoods to spare middle-class white neighborhoods.” ■ “I mean, if the defi cit continued to grow, it’s not responsible to say you’re never going to raise taxes,” lectures ABC’s George Stephanopoulos. ■ Concerning the , “I think most sane people thought really this would make matters worse and it’s made matters worse,” declares NPR’s Nina MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann accuses ■ Bloombergs’s President Bush of “lying” and causing Totenberg. David “needless death” in Iraq, which, says Shifl ett writes that former CBS reporter Olbermann, is an “impeachable offense.” Phil Jones has disclosed that Katie Couric “The polite phrase for how so many is “a liberal Democrat who is so in love of us were duped into supporting a war with Hillary Clinton that it could pose a on the false premise that it had some- problem if Clinton runs for President.” ■ George Stephanopoulos thing to do with 9/11 is lying by argues that raising implication,” screeched Olbermann. CNN’s Jack “The Genius” Cafferty taxes is the “responsible” “The impolite phrase is ‘impeachable supposes on national television, “You thing for government to do. offense.’” He went on to blame Presi- know, if you were a real cynic, you could dent Bush for the delays in building also wonder if the oil companies might not be pulling the price of a memorial at Ground Zero, and branded Bush’s apparent “reprehens- gas down to help the Republicans get re-elected in the midterm ible inaction” as a “crime against elections a couple of months away.” ■ After would-be terrorists every victim here and every patriotic were nabbed in Britain, MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann ponders, sentiment you [Bush] mouthed but “Could it just be coincidence that the President fi nds out about did not enact, you have done nothing about it.” After accusing the President this plot, then his vice president and the Republican chairman of “forgetting the lessons of 9/11,” start slamming Democrats for being soft on terror, then the public Olbermann obnoxiously concluded: is informed about the plot? Could it really be just coincidence?” “May this country forgive you.” ■ CBS’s Harry Smith pleads to Senator Joe Liebermann, “You will run as an independent at risk of losing the seat to the Republicans? You understand that risk? By splitting the Democratic vote.” Get the latest liberal media bias ■ news. Sign up for the CyerlAlert. Finally, some fresh air: On Imus in the Morning, Congressional Medal of Honor winner Col. John Jacobs explains President Clinton’s IT’S FREE! diatribe against interviewer Chris Wallace: “Clinton was just responding To subscribe, just e-mail the best way he knew. I mean, he’s basically a junkyard dog with a little [email protected] bit of polish and a lot of hair. His response, Clinton’s response, is pure Mention that you read about the fi ction. I mean, he didn’t do anything” to stop Osama bin Laden. offer in The Watchdog. The 6 Watchdog October 2006

The Immigration Story That’s Not Written by Rep. Lamar Smith • September 26, 2006 (as published in Human Events)

Immigrants helped build this great country. disagree with a temporary We welcome 1 million legal immigrants every worker program for illegal year. And America’s generosity toward legal immigrants.” In fact, the immigrants will continue regardless of the outcome poll found that 59% of all of the current debate on immigration policy. Americans disagreed with the temporary-worker But that debate simmers with emotion. For program, not just Republicans. the sake of our country, we must make decisions In addition, the networks were twice as likely based on facts. Unfortunately, facts are hard to to feature advocates of amnesty or a guest-worker fi nd in the news coverage of program as they were to this issue. feature advocates of increased A report by the Media border security. Research Center (MRC) reveals The disparity was most that the three major broadcast pronounced on the days of the networks, ABC, NBC and CBS, rallies for illegal immigrants. have greatly skewed the On the evening of one large immigration story. The MRC rally on April 10, the sound- examined 309 stories from bite count on the three major the networks from March 24 networks was 43 to 2 in favor through May 31. This time of the protesters. On the period stretches from the evening of another rally on time of the fi rst pro-illegal May 1, the sound-bite count immigration rallies to the passage of the Senate’s was 62 to 8. immigration bill. The results of MRC’s research are And while the networks aired plenty of sympathetic illuminating. stories portraying hard-working illegal immigrants, The networks argued that the protest rallies stories discussing the costs of illegal immigration to showed widespread support for “pro-immigrant” society were scarce. The networks carried only six reform. However, they ignored their own public stories that mentioned studies suggesting the illegal opinion polls that suggested otherwise. For immigrants cost taxpayers more than they contribute example, CBS never cited its own poll fi ndings that in tax dollars. Only six additional stories discussed the 87% (April 6-9) or 89% (May 4-8) of Americans said problem of criminal aliens. The Media Research Center report paints a clear The Media Research Center report picture. The three major networks favor the pro- paints a clear picture. The three amnesty or guest-worker program positions while shortchanging those who advocate tighter control major networks favor the pro- over our borders. amnesty or guest worker program The networks need to recognize that protests are an incomplete measure of public opinion. In positions while shortchanging addition, both sides of a debate should be given those who advocate tighter the opportunity to speak in news stories, and both control over our borders. sides of an argument should be part of any story. For now, though, the public should be on notice: They are not getting the full story on immigration. that the problem of illegal immigration was “very serious” or “somewhat serious.” ______On March 25, NBC cited a NBC/Wall Street Republican Congressman Lamar Smith represents Journal poll, claiming that “59% of Republicans the 21st District of Texas. The October 2006 Watchdog 7

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