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Vol. 16 • Issue 12 • December 2009 White House Uses Liberal Media Smear Tactics To Attack Channel The liberal media went after conser- sistently beats its competition — CNN, MRC Headquarters • Alexandria, Va vative with a vengeance MSNBC — in the ratings game. In fact, in October, smearing him as a racist us- often its numbers are better than all its ing manufactured quotes and repeat- cable competitors combined! INSIDE ing the lie long enough to kill the talk- In addition to its popular news re- radio giant’s chance to bid on a football porting programs, such as Special Re- PAGE 3 team. It was a sleazy, dirty trick. That port with Brett Baier, Fox’s political MRC Special Report Quoted in Congress, same month, the White House took a commentary shows draw big audiences. CNSNews.com Interview page from the liberal media handbook and The O’Reilly Factor, for Sparks National Coverage to launch an attack against Fox News. example, both reach more than 3 mil- The White House cam- lion viewers per broad- PAGES 4 & 5 paign against Fox is no cast. BITS & PIECES: surprise. Several years The popularity of Joe Joke, ago I warned conserva- Glenn Beck soared af- Washington Com-Post, tives to prepare for this. What Defi cit? ter the show ran several CBS’s Harry ‘Marx’ Smith The left is out of ideas. hard-hitting reports on They have only one Obama’s green jobs , PAGE 6 weapon left: character , a self-avowed Brent Bozell’s Nationally assassination. I warned communist. After Beck Syndicated Column: then that anyone in their reported that Jones had The Censorious Sound path would be savaged. signed a petition calling on the Left It’s now happening to Fox News Channel, for an investigation into Rush and Fox News. which regularly uses MRC PAGE 7 the Bush administration’s That liberal chicanery research and interviews alleged complicity in MRC in the News MRC experts, is under attack continues every day. So 9/11, Jones was forced by the White House precisely PAGE 8 we document and ex- because of its fair and to resign. The liberal me- Want Year-End Tax Savings pose it for the country balanced reporting. dia had largely ignored and Some Tax-Free Income? to understand the left’s the story and then tried agenda. Fox News, which regularly uses to spin away the resignation as insignifi - our research and interviews our MRC ex- cant. perts, is in the crosshairs of the White After the ACORN scandal broke on House precisely because of its fair and Breitbart TV, Fox News ran numerous balanced reporting. Fox is a new media reports on the issue. It also documented powerhouse the Obama administration in detail ’s long-time as- cannot control and so the administra- sociation with the corrupt organization. tion is trying to marginalize it. Again, the liberal media had either ig- When the Fox News Channel started nored or downplayed the story, a fact back in 1996, it had 17 million subscrib- that we documented and exposed. www.MRC.org ers. Today, more than 100 million people subscribe. The cable news channel con- Continued on page 2 The 2 Watchdog DECEMBER 2009

“Several years ago I warned conservatives to prepare for this. The left is out of ideas. They have only one weapon left: character assassination. I warned then that anyone in their path would be savaged. It’s now happening to Rush and Fox News.”

Continued from page 1 The White House also set up a “Re- Not long after Fox News’ relentless ality Check” Web site page that posts reporting on those issues, among items supposedly geared to expose others, the administration pounced. “the lies of Fox News.” Hugo Chavez White House Communications Director and Fidel Castro would be proud. Anita Dunn went on CNN on Oct. 12 and The administration’s attacks on Fox declared that Fox News “really is more News mirror those of the liberal media, a wing of the Republican Party. They which repeatedly insult and smear the take their talking points, put them on cable channel and its viewers. CNN’s the air; take their opposition research, MSNBC’s Ed Schultz attacked , for example, has called put them on the air. And that’s fi ne. the MRC and personally railed against Fox News the “F-Word Network,” opined that “the dumb ones watch But let’s not pretend they’re a news its president, calling him “Bozo the Clown” and someone who engages Fox,” and described the station as a network the way CNN is.” in “psycho talk.” “safe haven” for Republicans. No, they’re not a network like CNN. MSNBC’s says that The Cable News Network runs a lot Fox News viewers are “tin foil hatters, of reporting that is favorable to the conspiracy theorists, paranoids and Obama administration. Fox News does racists.” Rick Sanchez at CNN actually not. However, several studies, including reported that the killer of three police our own, have documented that when offi cers in Pittsburgh was driven to it it comes to the political persuasion of “after no doubt watching Fox News news guests and the type of questions and listening to right-wing radio.” asked, Fox News is more fair and There are countless attacks, and balanced than its competition. we are not immune from them. The smear didn’t stop with Dunn. CNN’s Jack Cafferty regularly smears MSNBC regularly smears the MRC. Fox News, calling it the “F-word On his Oct. 27 broadcast, for exam- David Axelrod, the senior adviser to network,” and that only “the dumb President Obama, went on ABC’s This ones watch Fox.” ple, Ed Schultz put yours truly in his Week and told host George Stepha- “Psycho Talk” segment, ranting, “Hal- nopoulos (the former senior adviser loween week continues with ‘Bozo to President Clinton), that Fox News is the Clown,’ Brent Bozell. I tell you, “really not news.” this guy is a piece of work.” He went “It’s pushing a point of view, and on to mock the MRC and insult me for daring to claim that Fox News Channel the bigger thing is that other news reports the news correctly — in other organizations like yours,” lectured words, without a left-wing bias. For Axelrod, “ought not to treat them that, I engaged in “psycho talk.” that way. And we’re not going to treat This is what the liberal media are them that way. We’re going to appear MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann rants doing now: personal attacks, smears, on their shows and participate, but insults, lies. The White House is doing understanding that they represent a that Fox News viewers are “tin foil hatters, conspiracy theorists, some of the same in its assault on Fox point of view.” paranoids and racists.” News. In their left-leaning mind, the In other words, liberal media ends justify the means. outlets with liberal biases are legitimate and okay for Clearly, we are having an impact, as is Fox News the White House, but the tough questions and balanced and the new media in general. We must continue to reporting at Fox News are not okay. expose liberal media bias and spread the truth. With White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel your help, we can take the fi ght to them — and win. also attacked. He went on CNN and repeated the Sincerely, administration’s talking point that Fox News is “not a news organization so much as it has a perspective,” adding that CNN and other (read: liberal) media should L. Brent Bozell III not “be led and following Fox.” Founder and President The DECEMBER 2009 Watchdog 3

CNSNews.com Interview with Congressman Kennedy Sparks National Coverage and Sharp Denouncement from Bishop

Congressman Patrick Kennedy (D-R.I.), son of the late Ted Kennedy, put his foot in his mouth, as he is wont to do, when the MRC’s CNSNews.com interviewed him on video on Capitol Hill. Among MRC Special Report other incendiary things, Kennedy said that by not supporting the Democrats’ socialized health care Quoted on Floor of Congress plan, the Catholic Church was not really pro-life and An MRC Special Report about the liberal media’s was “fanning the fl ames of dissent and discord.” cheerleading for socialized medicine was quoted on Kennedy’s remarks trashing the Catholic the fl oor of the House of Representatives, proving once Church’s opposition to health care funding again that the MRC’s work is vital and effective in the of abortion sparked widespread coverage on national debate over an issue that affects literally every television, on radio, across the Internet and even American. in the establishment liberal media, such as the As Congressman Lamar Smith (R-Texas) said on and the Boston Globe. Millions of people heard the story and Kennedy’s House fl oor on Oct. 20: “Network news programs have own bishop in Rhode Island was so outraged he favored proponents of the administration’s health care issued a public statement denouncing Kennedy proposal over critics of the plan by a margin of more than as “irresponsible and ignorant” and a continuing 2-to-1, according to the [MRC’s] Business & Media Insti- “disappointment to the Catholic Church.” tute. The White House, like the national media, should You can watch the MRC’s interview of Kennedy let the American people make up their own minds — not from Oct. 22 by visiting the CNSNews.com Web site try to control what they hear.”Smith was quoting from and clicking on the CNS News TV section, or by just the MRC’s Business & Media Institute Special Report, “Un- searching for “Patrick Kennedy” on the MRC Web critical Condition: Network News Fails to Examine Cost site. and Proven Failures of Government-Run Health Care.” The story spread like wildfi re across the Internet, The study was written by BMI’s Julia Seymour, who docu- as well as on television and in print. A Google search mented how ABC, CBS, and NBC have slanted their morn- will pull up 718,000 links to the story, meaning that ing and evening news shows to promote ObamaCare. the story is either posted or cited on that many The study analyzed 224 news reports and proved that Web sites or blogs, reaching millions of people in stories on the networks favored supporters of Obama’s the United States and abroad. brand of so-called health care reform to its critics by a A short list of some of the media impact of this whopping margin of more than 2-to-1 (243 supporters to MRC/CNSNews.com exclusive includes: 104 critics). ABC, CBS, and NBC all downplayed the multi-trillion Rush Limbaugh Show NBC 2 TV News dollar costs of the Senate and House versions of Obam- Show Fox Nation aCare and also grossly infl ated the number of uninsured Show WPRI (Providence) Fox News Palm Beach Post to 50 million. The real number is 12 million. New York Times Washington Examiner ABC was the worst offender, relying on its paid .com correspondent Dr. Tim Johnson for “news” updates. Baltimore Sun New York Daily News Johnson is essentially a paid propagandist, an outspoken Boston Herald Catholic News Agency and long-time supporter of government-run, single-payer Boston Globe India Times health care a la Canada and Britain. He doesn’t have an Townhall.com objective bone in his body. Kansas City-Star The three networks did mention that the big Catholic News Service government health care being pushed by liberals in UPI Canadian Press Congress is “similar to Medicare” — but only in 11 Salon.com Providence Journal-Bulletin stories. On top of that, neither ABC, CBS, nor NBC noted LifeSiteNews.com Broadcast News that Medicare itself is bankrupt, with unfunded fi nancial GOPUSA.com Indianapolis Star outlays today of $38 trillion. ABC6 TV Daily Telegraph NBC 10 TV (Providence) ~ Partial Listing The 4 Watchdog DECEMBER 2009

“macaca” and then claiming, with- out evidence, that he once used the N-word in college in the 1970s and hearsay that he had stuffed deer heads into the mailboxes of black & folks. The Post never proved any- Bits Pieces thing, just milked the “macaca” word endlessly and smeared Allen Joe Joke all the way to the ballot box. Newsweek loves Vice President Joe Biden and proved it, once again, Sam-spin by running an Oct. 19 cover story How intellectually vapid and dis- entitled, “Why Joe is No Joke,” honest is Sam Tannenhaus, author of and then printing only positive The Death of Conservatism, which letters about him in the following the liberal media are frequently issue. Letters in the section hailed quoting? Well, Tannenhaus, who is Biden’s “valiant voice of sanity,” the editor of the New York Times and praised him for choosing “a While NBC hosts ignored a major story Book Review, was on PBS’s Charlie about an ethics investigation involving life of service to this nation.” But Rose show on Oct. 28, where he ar- then Newsweek ran a chart of its Democrats, it found time on Oct. 30 to dress up as “” fi gures. gued that former Trotskyite-turned- viewer mail, noting that, for the conservative was a Biden letters, only 25 percent were whose employees funneled cam- strong critic of excessive presiden- positive, 25 percent were neutral, paign contributions to some of the tial power — “Caesariam” — and and a whopping 50 lawmakers. then prophesied which Republican percent critical. But But not a word from ABC’s Good presidents probably were guilty of they didn’t print Morning America, CBS’s The Early this excess. any of the negative Show, or NBC’s Today. Instead, “We had three presidents in ones. This is the NBC’s hosts found time to dress up those three instances — Nixon, same “news” maga- as Star Wars characters. CBS’s Harry Reagan, and Bush — who commit- zine that publish- Smith dressed in drag as former TV impeachable offenses prob- ed an insulting chef Julia Child for a cooking seg- ably,” lectured Tannenhaus. “And cover story in ment. And, although it was October, we had Democratic presidents who 2005 on how ABC promoted a new version of A seemed to understand the limita- 50 percent of the President George Christmas Carol. tions of power.” letters on Joe W. Bush was iso- Biden received by Tannenhaus didn’t lated within a elaborate on why Newsweek were bubble of people Washington Com-Post critical, but The Washington Post labels it- the Republicans the magazine did who agreed with “probably” were self an “Independent Newspaper” not run a single him. guilty and he, no on its editorial page, but as the Nov. one. surprise, skip- 3 election approached The Post en- ped mentioning dorsed Democratic candidates in 25 the Democratic Shhhh! out of 29 races in Virginia. While news broke on Oct. 30 president who Yes, that seems reasonable, The about an ongoing ethics investiga- actually was tion of fi ve powerful Democrats and Post backing Democrats running for impeached: two Republicans, all three of the governor, lieutenant governor, at- . morning network news shows that torney general, as well as 22 other day ignored the controversy and in- slots in the House of Delegates. stead focused on Halloween. Power- This is the same Post that What Defi cit? ful Democrats such as John Murtha went after GOP senatorial can- When it was released on Oct. (Pa.), James Moran (Va.), and Marcy didate George Allen in 2006 for 7, CBS Evening News anchor Katie Kaptur (D-Ohio), for example, are calling a heckler “macaca.” Lead- Couric completely ignored the Con- under investigation for steering ing up to that election day, The gressional Budget Offi ce’s report $200 million in special projects to Post published 112 news stories that the federal defi cit had reached a lobbying fi rm, PMA Group, one of and editorials blasting Allen about $1.4 trillion since Barack Obama The DECEMBER 2009 Watchdog 5

in her report. However, the next day, the New York Times did note that Obama’s defi cit is much larger as a percentage of GDP than during the 1980s, when Democrats attacked Ronald Reagan’s tax cuts as fi scal- ly reckless. Note to : Obama’s defi cit is 10 percent of GDP, the highest since World War II. CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric On the Early Show, CBS’s Harry Smith did not report on Oct. 7 about the newly seriously asked whether the federal released Congressional Budget Offi ce Harry ‘Marx’ Smith government should create a pay czar numbers showing a $1.4 trillion defi cit, The Obama administration is to oversee the salaries of every person and two weeks later mentioned them but moving to unilaterally set the pay working in America. without noting the Obama administration. of executives in companies that re- ceived TARP funds and CBS’s Harry can industry” and CBS’s Smith fret- took offi ce in January. She did fi - Smith seems to like the idea. On the ted whether Wall Street is really nally catch up with the numbers on Oct. 22 Early Show, Smith prompted “listening to this.” Smith lectured Oct. 16, yet she somehow forget to TARP overseer Elizabeth Warren with on, “You know, you really begin to mention Obama. Instead, she said: a point that Sen. Chuck Schumer (D- wonder what it’s going to take to get “It’s the biggest IOU Uncle Sam has N.Y.) had made: “Why wouldn’t we the attention of the people in charge ever written. … The United States make this law across the board and of these very large corporations. You spent $1.4 trillion dollars more than put a governor on compensation for know, being charge also means being it took in.” everybody in private enterprise?” responsible.” No word yet if Smith No, Couric never mentioned Warren then chirped “that there supports having the government set Obama or the Obama administration is a compensation problem in Ameri- the wage for morning news anchors.

■ Former President George W. Bush hitting the circuit as a motivational speaker is a “Halloween prank, you know, Minibits like toilet-papering somebody’s house,” smirks MSNBC’s Chris Matthews. ■ The “Balloon Boy” wasted law enforcement resources but, huffs NYT’s Frank Rich, “at least it didn’t lead the country into fi asco the way George W. Bush’s fl yboy spectacle on an aircraft carrier helped beguile most of the Beltway press and too much of the public into believing that the mission had been accomplished in .” ■ As for the New York-23 race, Frank Rich also barked, “The battle for upstate New York confi rms just how swiftly the right has devolved MSNBC’s Chris Matthews into a wacky, paranoid cult that is as eager to eat its own as to destroy Obama.” smirks that former President George W. Bush ■ CBS’s Bob Scheiffer gushes, “Michelle Obama took it to another level as she set hitting the circuit as a records as the fi rst First Lady to run barefoot across the White House lawn. She motivational speaker is also became the fi rst to jump rope there.” ■ NPR’s Nina Totenberg whines that a “Halloween prank, you know, like toilet-papering the Bush White House “was much more like the Mob” toward the media, “just somebody’s house.” cut people dead, it froze them out.” ■ After criticized Obama on Afghanistan, MSNBC’s David Shuster intones, “What do you think he is after here, assuming that he is of some sort of rational, healthy mind?” ■ Former Washington Post Editor Leonard Downie Jr. lectures that “American society must now take some collective responsibility for supporting news reporting — as society has, at much greater expense, for public education, health care, scientifi c advancement and cultural preservation.” ■ MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann rants that is full of “fascistic hatred” and looks like a “mashed-up bag of meat with lipstick on it.” ■ Rush Limbaugh nailed it in : “There is a contempt in the news business, including the sportswriter community, for conservatives that refl ects the blind hatred espoused by Messrs. Sharpton and Jackson. ‘Racism’ is too often their sledgehammer.” The 6 Watchdog DECEMBER 2009

L. Brent Bozell III • October 20, 2009 • Nationally Syndicated Column The Censorious Sound on the Left Rush Limbaugh was convicted of racism in a kangaroo a falsehood, Sanchez fi nally court of “objective” media and dropped as a potential delivered an apology. owner of the St. Louis Rams football franchise. His MSNBC was even worse. They accusers claimed he once said slavery “had its merits” kept pushing the fake quotes and that the assassin of Martin Luther King deserved a even after it was apparent to “Medal of Honor.” The story circulated on the Internet everyone that they had not been substantiated. Their and was eventually picked up by the major media, on-screen citation for the slavery quote was even including both CNN and MSNBC. sillier. It wasn’t a newspaper. It was a linebacker: But no one bothered fact-checking. In fact, his “Cited by James Farrior, Pittsburgh Steelers.” After accusers and those media that repeated the accusations sliming Limbaugh from Monday to Thursday, on Friday never stopped to ponder there was no need to fact- MSNBC’s David Shuster fi nally acknowledged they check this, so obvious were the fabrications. needed to “clarify” their sloppiness: “MSNBC attributed Start with this reality: One could clearly dismiss that quote to a football player who was opposed to these quotes as fabrications based on the simple fact Limbaugh’s NFL bid. However, we have been unable to that Rush would never have uttered them, since he verify that quote independently. So, just to clarify.” doesn’t believe them. Period. No retraction, no apology. Add to it this second piece of common sense: Were Earth to MSNBC: the best time to verify your quotes Rush guilty of uttering this garbage back in 1998, would is before you broadcast them across the nation for four we really be discussing it for the fi rst time in October days. But that would have hurt MSNBC’s pressure on of 2009? Common sense tells us that if he made these the NFL to dump Rush. “Clarifi cations” can wait until comments on his show, his advertisers would dump him the damage is done. so quickly he’d be out of a job by sundown. These cable networks were not alone. Newspapers Let’s give the media a break and conclude that when from USA Today to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch published it comes to Rush Limbaugh, they just have no common these howlers from sports writers, and liberal talk-radio sense. Fine. That’s where fact-checking comes in. A hosts put the lies in heavy rotation. Washington Post couple of minutes on the computer would have proven sportswriter Michael Wilbon spewed the phony slavery that these quotes were pure fantasy, put forward by quote on his ESPN show “Pardon the Interruption.” That radical leftists, with no substantiation whatsoever, show could now be called “Pardon the Fabrication.” purely to assassinate this man’s character, as is their Now match this war on Limbaugh with the White wont. House’s war on Fox News, and what you see is a blatant But the Left — including many in the “news” media campaign by the Left to “delegitimize” conservative — is so blinded by its hatred of Rush Limbaugh that it talkers and alternative media outlets. Is there anything will accept any accusation as authentic, and the more that sounds more hermetically sealed in a liberal salacious, the better. bubble than claiming Fox News is not a “legitimate” Start with CNN. This network is so prideful of its news network because it reports information with a professionalism that it fact-checks comedy skits on “perspective”? If there’s anything more bizarre in the Saturday Night Live. Clearly it needs to focus less on last week than watching Al Sharpton attack anyone comedy shows on NBC and more on the “news” coming else for being “racially divisive,” it’s watching David from its own anchors. Axelrod complain to George Stephanopoulos that the On Monday October 12, afternoon anchor Rick news shouldn’t come with a partisan “perspective.” Sanchez showed his expertise at hit-and-run journalism Team Obama’s idea of “straight news” is that which by repeating the “slavery had its merits” quote as goes straight from Rahm Emanuel’s cellphone into fact, with no effort whatsoever to authenticate it Stephanopoulos’s mouth. Team Obama’s idea of news before moving on. When it was made clear that no without “perspective” is Brian Williams broadcasting authentication existed, and an apology was in order, publicity stunts like Obama buying hamburgers for his instead Sanchez made matters worse. The following staff and the “news” of the day is how many apples day again he read the offensive fabrication, but this can be spotted at the White House. time added Limbaugh’s denial, “to be fair to Rush,” The only thing in their way is the emerging thus keeping alive the possibility that the accusation alternative media, which is why they’re out to destroy was truthful. On Friday, four days after they broadcast Rush Limbaugh. The DECEMBER 2009 Watchdog 7 MRC in the News The experts at the are interviewed almost every day on stories of national importance, often reaching millions of Americans daily. They provide analysis and commentary on radio, TV, the Internet, in magazines, books On MSNBC’s Hardball, CNSNews. and in newspapers, always striving to help restore political balance to the major com Editor Terry Jeffrey detailed media. Some of the MRC’s latest media appearances include the following: why anti-Communists were right and won the Cold War, and why WHJJ, Providence, RI, Oct. 14 President George W. Bush and V.P. Televison KZIM, Cape Girardeau, MO, Oct. 26 Dick Cheney merited an award for WMUZ, Detroit, MI, Oct. 15 keeping America safe after 9/11. CBN: NewsWatch, Oct. 12 WFLA, Tallahassee, FL, Oct. 15 KFTK, St. Louis, MO, Oct. 15 CNN: The Situation Room, Oct. 16, 30 KBAR, Burley, ID, Oct. 15 FNC: Glenn Beck, Oct. 7 WCHS, Charleston, WV, Oct. 15 Hannity, Oct. 20 ~ PARTIAL LISTING Fox & Friends, Oct. 3, 8, 17 The O’Reilly Factor, Oct. 2 Special Report, Oct. 15 Print FBN: Fox Business Live, Oct. 20 Washington Times, Oct. 14, 15, 16, 19, MSNBC: Hardball, Oct. 23 20, 21, 26 On Fox & Friends, MRC President Kansas City-Star, Oct. 21 Brent Bozell explained why , Oct. 21 the liberal media resorted to Radio United News, Oct. 23 character assassination and Charleston Gazette, Oct. 18 smeared Rush Limbaugh with Washington Times Radio, Oct. 26 Washington Examiner, Oct. 11 manufactured quotes. Dennis Miller Show, Oct. 15 Canada Free Press, Oct. 9, 13 Dateline Washington, Oct. 19 Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Oct. 12, 24 Rusty Humphries Show, Oct. 19 Post-Chronicle, Oct. 14 American Family Radio, Oct. 22, 23 National Review, Nov. 2 Lars Larson Show, Oct. 23 Telegraph-Herald, Oct. 11 Thom Hartmann Show, Oct. 21 National Catholic Register, Oct. 5 Nothing But The Truth, Oct. 12 San Jose Mercury News, Oct. 28 Cable Radio Network, Oct. 26 ~ PARTIAL LISTING Glenn Beck Show, Oct. 7 Rusty Humphries Show, Oct. 14, 15 Chuck Wilder Show, Oct. 19 Internet MRC Communications Director USA Radio Network, Oct. 16 Seton Motley was interviewed on Daily, Oct. 6 Human Events Online, Oct. 22 Fox’s Glenn Beck about the liberal G. Gordon Liddy Show, Oct. 13 Medianite.com, Oct. 31 “Free Press” group’s agenda Washington City Paper, Oct. 5 FoxNews.com, Oct. 22 WIBA, Madison, WI, Oct. 12, 19, 20 HotAir.com, Oct. 13 to regulate conservative talk KFAX, , CA, Oct. 21 NBCSports.com, Oct. 12 radio into near-silence. KKTX, Corpus Christi, TX, Oct. 12, 14, 19 OneNewsNow.com, Oct. 13, 26 WTKF, Greenville, NC, Oct. 16, 23 Rush Limbaugh.com, Oct. 13 WBAL, Baltimore, MD, Oct. 19 The Atlantic Wire, Oct. 14 KSFO, San Francisco, CA, Oct. 27 WSJ.com, Oct. 14, 15 MichelleMalkin.com, Oct. 15 WSAU, Wausau, WI, Oct. 21 NRO “The Corner,” Oct. 15 KMED, Medford, OR, Oct. 21 ESPN.com, Oct. 14 KPDQ, Salem Media in Oregon, Oct. 21 Media News International, Oct. 16 WENY, Corning, NY, Oct. 14, 21 Townhall.com, Oct. 29 WDRC, Hartford, CT, Oct. 27 Gawker, Oct. 21 WBZ, Boston, MA, Oct. 23 Media Channel, Oct. 29 WEZS, Laconia, NH, Oct. 24 PoliGazette, Oct. 21 Fox News’ Special Report, which WTBN, Tampa, FL, Oct. 26 Washington Independent, Oct. 29 reaches nearly 3 million viewers, WIBC, Indianapolis, IN, Oct. 14 Catholic Online, Oct. 20 cited the MRC’s research on the KMED, Medford, OR, Oct. 16 Heritage.org, Oct. 19 liberal smear attacks against WJR, Detroit, MI, Oct. 16 ~ PARTIAL LISTING Rush Limbaugh. 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• SPECIAL REPORT • SPECIAL REPORT • SPECIAL REPORT • SPECIAL REPORT • SPECIAL REPORT • SPECIAL REPORT • Better Off Red? Twenty Years After the Fall of the Berlin Wall, Recalling the Liberal Media’s Blindness to the Evils of Communism Twenty years ago the Berlin Wall fell, tearing down the Iron Curtain that had sliced Europe in half since the end of World War II. Barely two years later, the Soviet Union itself disintegrated, ending the Cold War. Yet before, during and after those momentous events two decades ago, many in the liberal me- dia continuously whitewashed the true nature of communism, or suggested free-market capitalism was somehow worse. Check out the bias the MRC compiled over the last 22 years which demon- strates how some liberal journalists utterly failed to accurately depict com- munism as one of the worst evils of the 20th century, and often aimed their fi re at those who were fi ghting communism rather than those who were per- petuating it. Visit: www.mediaresearch.org/SpecialReports/welcome.asp

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