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Vol. 18 • Issue 10 • October 2011 Liberal Media Target Conservative Rick Perry for Character Assassination To Protect Obama in 2012 Election

The liberal media will do whatever presidential nomination, Perry, a South- it takes to help Barack Obama and the ern Baptist, attended a fast and prayer MRC Headquarters • Alexandria, Va Democrats in the 2012 elections. They rally in Texas. That might seem like a will not tolerate any retreat from their normal thing to do for a regular Chris- ever-expanding socialist welfare state. tian in America, even a very nice thing INSIDE So they smear and the Tea to do. But ABC’s World News saw it Party as yahoos and closeted racists. They differently. They ran a story headlined PAGE 3 attack Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) “Prayer Controversy: Is Rick Perry Going CNSNews.com Launches as a wild-eyed, Christian Too Far?” New, Expanded extremist. They call Her- ABC’s David Kerley Multimedia Site man Cain an Uncle Tom reported that “some and tar as mainstream Christians” PAGE 4 a gay-bashing bully. — unnamed, naturally Bits & Pieces: Ranting Jack, What Poll? Now that Texas Gov. —“are concerned about Wanted: Cheney, Civility, Rick Perry has entered the event, which is being Anyone?, Racist GOP the GOP presidential paid for by the American nomination race — and Family Association, which PAGE 6 is beating Obama in the MSNBC’s Chris Matthews has been called anti-gay, New MRC Study: By 20 to 1, a cultural warrior.” Yes, Networks Label Republicans polls — the leftists in the smeared Texas Gov. Rick ‘Conservative’ vs. Labeling media are savaging him. Perry as racist, charging that AFA has been called that his “attack on Obama isn’t Democrats ‘Liberal’ It’s Perry’s turn to be fed … by leftist gay groups. just policy. It’s about the through the liberal media Three days after Perry PAGE 7 nature of the person who’s smear grinder. We pre- president. This could be Bull entered the race, ex- MRC in the News dicted back in 2007 that Connor with a smile.” Newsweek Editor How- PAGE 8 the leftist “news” media ard Fineman went on Join More than would resort to character assassination The Chris Matthews Show and claimed 500,000 Members of to protect their agenda in that election — again, without naming names — that the MRC Action Team! cycle. Here they go again, but in 2012 it “some people, especially the Bush peo- will be worse, believe me. ple, think that Rick Perry is shallow,” At the Media Research Center — and “when proponents of George Bush through our News Analysis Division, are accusing Rick Perry of being shal- NewsBusters blog, Business & Media Insti- low, you’ve got some questions to ask, tute, and MRC TV — we are documenting, okay?” exposing, and neutralizing the slanted Then, Perry had the audacity to “news” attacks against Perry. But more claim that the Fed printing more money assaults are occurring every day and they — the national debt is over $14 trillion will grow more vicious as the campaign — was “almost treacherous or treason- races advance. Let’s take a look at some ous, in my opinion.” CBS Evening News of what’s happened so far. pounced, with anchor Scott Pelley re- www.MRC.org In early August, a couple days before porting that Perry “appears to threat- he announced he would seek the GOP Continued on page 2 The 2 Watchdog OCTOBER 2011

Continued from page 1 gas into the atmosphere than any other state in the country and on the campaign trail, yesterday, perhaps we found out why.” Avila went on to warn that — horrors! — Perry “has a close relationship with guns, carries one while jogging.” Avila didn’t mention that Perry, an avid runner, carries the gun for protection and once shot a too-nosy coyote on one of his cross-country jogs. A week later on HLN’s The Joy Behar Show, CNN’s sat in as guest host and prodded Jay Bakker to raise the scary Christian image about Perry and Bachmann. Bakker, as if on cue, obliged, lecturing that MRC President Brent Bozell discusses the numerous liberal the two conservative Republicans were “playing to a media attacks against GOP nominee contender Rick Perry group of people who deal a lot with fear and using fear with Sean Hannity on Fox’s Hannity program. to control folks,” adding that, “I feel like they’ve kind of hijacked Christianity.” en the Federal Reserve.” ABC’s also took Then the liberal media’s favorite RINO Republican, a jab, lifting from a Democratic Party talking point: Joe Scarborough, railed on his Aug. 31 MSNBC Morning “Democrats say that until Perry came along, they never Joe show: “Of course, [Rick Perry] can’t get elected in thought they’d meet a candidate who made the other the general election. Republican candidates look responsible.” He can’t. He can get The same day that ABC tagged Perry as irresponsible, elected in the Repub- MSNBC’s Chris Matthews smeared him as racist, saying lican primary, but he that Perry’s “attack on Obama isn’t just policy. It’s can’t get elected in about the nature of the person who’s president. This the general election.” could be Bull Connor with a smile.” S c a r b o r o u g h ’s The next day, Matthews piled on, ranting that journalistic sidekick Perry would not have supported Eisenhower’s efforts On his liberal MSNBC show, Mika Brzezinski, nod- to desegregate the public schools. “Do you think Rick Morning Joe, Republican-In-Name- ded her head in agree- Only Joe Scarborough railed that Perry would be for that?” mocked Matthews. “Do you ment and added, “the presidential contender Rick Perry think he’d be cheering for Ike today if he brought the Republican field is “can’t get elected in the general troops in to desegregate the schools in Little Rock? I election. He can’t.” don’t think so!” just pathetic.” After Perry raised the point that not all scientists The left-wing news attacks against Perry are just agree with the theory that global warming is man-made the latest in a string of journalistic assaults against and that some liberal scientists actually use the issue conservatives and any Republican who dares to to get government grants, ABC hit the roof. On Good challenge the almighty Obama. The smear machine is Morning America on Aug. 18, reporter Jim Avila ran a running at full speed and will not stop, regardless of story entitled “Rick Perry Unplugged,” and lectured that what happens on Election Day 2012. Perry “does not care about the overwhelming scientific The liberal media are hell-bent on stopping not evidence that global warming is largely produced by just conservative leaders, but also conservative ideas humans burning fossil fuels.” because those ideas are the ones that built this country Ignoring Texas’s strong record of job creation, Avila and which give every American the guidance to live his whined, “Rick Perry’s Texas pours more greenhouse or her own life, in liberty and in pursuit of happiness. We defend those beliefs and specifically fight Reporting from the Iowa against the media left-wingers who spin and lie to keep Caucus, ABC’s Jake Tapper followed Democratic the truth from the American people. We are America’s Party talking points media watchdog. We are on the prowl. And we thank saying: “Democrats say you for your vital support in this mission. that until Perry came along, they never thought Sincerely, they’d meet a candidate who made the other Republican candidates L. Brent Bozell III look responsible.” Founder and President OCTOBER 2011 EXTRA! EXTRA! CNSNews.com Launches New, Expanded Multimedia Site

CNSNews.com, which regularly leads the news cycle on the Web bringing you the stories the liberal media ignore, re- launched on Sept. 8 with an expansive, multimedia site that is resetting the standard for online journalism. The Media Research Center’s CNSNews.com was launched in 1998. In the last several years, it has aggressively broad- ened its coverage of the issues and Capitol Hill through sharp editorial leadership and courageous reporters armed with video cameras asking tough questions of lawmakers and policy leaders. CNSNews.com led the pack in asking members of Congress whether they had read the Obamacare bill and where in the Constitution they got the authority to mandate that people buy health insurance. That very issue has been ruled on in several federal courts and is headed to the Supreme Court. CNSNews.com helped make that happen. With its new site, www.CNSNews.com is more visually appealing and reader-interactive with numerous color photos and videos on its homepage. Visitors can watch, hear, and read the most important news in nearly real-time. Reports, videos, and updates are posted throughout the day. In addition to the prominent headline and Washington news coverage on the homepage, there are five CNSNews.TV channels on the site, filled with reports on the scene, one- on-one interviews, and humorous takes on tough issues with our Golden Hookah, The Schein and NewsBusted programs. There are also new cartoons every day. CNSNews.com also now features a blog — The Right Views, Right Now — overflowing with incisive conservative commentary and analysis from some of the leading conserva- tive thinkers in the nation: Brent Bozell, Terry Jeffrey, Pat Buchanan, Dana Loesch, Ken Blackwell, Walter Williams, Michelle Malkin, Ben Shapiro, and many other leaders. The new site also now includes expanded coverage of sports, business, entertainment, and health through news feeds provided by the Associated Press. CNSNews.com editors pick the best stories from those feeds and highlight them. Readers can subscribe to CNSNews.com’s Daily E-Brief and Breaking News Alerts on the new site, send in news tips, com- ment on stories and opinion pieces, donate online to support CNSNews.com and spread the hottest news from the site to their friends and family through Facebook and Twitter. CNSNews.com’s new site is being advertised daily on Salem Radio, WMAL, and the nationally syndicated Mark Levin Show. Mark regularly uses CNSNews stories on his program, as does Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Neal Boortz, , Bill O’Reilly, Lars Larson and Matt Drudge at the ever-influential Drudge Report. CNSNews.com stories have been linked at Drudge 81 times in the last 3 months alone, reaching approximately 2 million readers each time. That, in turn, has driven hundreds of thousands of readers to CNSNews.com. So check out the new site, visit www.CNSNews.com and bookmark it, or, better yet, make it your homepage so you don’t miss the news that matters to conservatives and which makes the liberals boiling mad. The 4 Watchdog OCTOBER 2011 Bits & Pieces Ranting Jack CNN’s Jack Cafferty went on another rant on Aug. 24, smearing GOP presidential contenders Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry, and possible candidate Sarah Palin as “intellectual lightweights” and the “Curly, Moe, and Larry” of politics. Bachmann and Perry “have been sucking up most of the media’s attention, mostly for saying stupid stuff,” such as Bachmann’s claim that we can return to $2-a-gallon gas and Perry’s warning that the Fed printing more money was borderline “treasonous,” whined Cafferty. As for Palin, the CNN host sarcastically smacked that she could be “another On CNN, Jack Cafferty rants that MENSA candidate to join Bachmann and Perry.” Winding down a little, Cafferty conservatives Michele Bachmann, applauded Ron Paul who “continues to talk sense” and who is “a Rick Perry, and Sarah Palin are very bright man,” and then lauded liberal Jon Huntsman’s “intellect.” Cafferty “intellectual lighweights” and the concluded: “But I venture to say none of the three has a prayer against Curly, “Curly, Moe and Larry” of politics. Moe and Larry. And that’s a sad commentary on the state of our politics, isn’t it?”

What Poll? A Gallup Poll on Aug. 22 showed all the top GOP presidential contenders — Mitt Romney, Rick Perry, Michele Bachmann and Ron Paul — either beat- ing or tying Obama if the election were that day. That’s huge news. But CBS and NBC ignored the poll and ABC barely touched it. The Gallup survey showed Obama losing 46-48 against Romney, and tied 47-47 against Perry. In the other match-ups, it was 47 Obama to 45 Paul, and 48 Obama to 44 MSNBC’s Ron Reagan, left, lectures that is Bachmann, but in those cases the margin was +/- 4 “a war criminal.” points, making them even-steven. While CBS and NBC ignored the Gallup poll, Wanted: Cheney ABC’s George Stephanopoulos — during an unre- Former Vice President Dick Cheney is a bona fide lated story about Sarah Palin “war criminal” because he supports waterboarding in — hastily remarked on Aug. the battle against radical Islamic terrorists, says MSNBC’s 23: “There is a brand-new leftist warbler Ron Reagan. As guest host on MSNBC’s Gallup poll showing that Hardball, Aug. 25, little Ron quoted Cheney still support- the four top Republican ing waterboarding and then prattled to guest Clarence candidates are all beat- Page: “You see, Clarence, he never backs off of that sort ing or tied with President of thing. I guess, we don’t expect him to. But the fact Obama.” of the matter is, and people know my feelings about this ... And that pretty surely, he’s a war criminal. Torture is a crime and was it for the this is a guy who can’t travel to Europe anymore for fear coverage. of being — ending up in the Hague.” Page, citing no facts to back his claim, remarked, “I think in real life he probably is avoiding trips to Europe, I imagine, like Henry Kissinger and others on the lam from that branch of international justice, if you will.” The OCTOBER 2011 Watchdog 5

Civility, Anyone? Racist GOP Here we go again. The major liberal media just don’t care about hate House Republicans opposed speech when it comes from the left. This was clear when neither ABC, President Obama giving his na- NBC, nor CBS reported the vile comments of Rep. Andre Carson (D-Ind.), tionally televised jobs speech on who smeared the Tea Party as a racist lynch mob. At a Congressional Sept. 8 not because it conflicted Black Caucus with a GOP presidential debate meeting on Aug. 22 on that same day but because — documented by Republicans are racist, according Politico and a video to MSNBC’s Richard Wolfe. loaded onto YouTube In the kerfluffle over the scheduling of Obama’s speech — Carson railed that before Congress, Wolfe went Tea Party members of on the Aug. 31 edition of The Congress are trying to Last Word and lectured, “The reimpose “Jim Crow.” interesting question is: What is “Some of these it about this president that has folks in Congress right stripped away the veneer of now would love to respect that normally accompa- see us as second-class nies the office of the president? citizens,” thundered “Why do the Republicans think Carson. “Some of this president is unpresidential them in Congress and shouldn’t dare to request right now of this Tea Party would love to see you and me hanging on a this kind of thing? It strikes me tree. Some of them right now in Congress are comfortable with where that it could be the economic we were 50 and 60 years ago.” The networks didn’t report Carson’s racist times, it could be that he won so comments because they keep the race card in play, which is what the big in 2008, or it could be, let’s liberal media want. face it, the color of his skin.”

n Newsweek’s Dan Stone weirdly comments on Minibits Dick Cheney’s memoir, “This book is very focused on rehashing. It’s very based on the past, from what I can tell.” n MSNBC’s Ed Schultz slams another conservative, “I’ll tell you what’s weakening our people, political hacks like Marco Rubio, who want to get rid of social safety nets.” n And MSNBC’s Contessa Brewer whines that “the Republican Party seems to have been taken over by the Tea Party movement, by these sort of patriotic anarchists.” n Newsweek’s Lois Romano lets loose: Michele “Bachmann has become the living CNN’s embodiment of the Tea Party. She and her allies have been called a maniacal grills President gang of knife-wielding ideologues.” n Former NBC News President Michael Gartner Obama, pressing to shares his wisdom: “I think people have a fondness for him [Obama] and I don’t know what present think people blame him for anything that’s wrong in this country.” n NYT’s Nicholas he will get his kids if re-elected in 2012. Kristof opines, “Wake up to the national security threat. Only it’s not coming from abroad, but from our own domestic extremists. The blunt truth is that the biggest threat to America’s national security this summer doesn’t come from China, Iran or any other foreign power. It comes from budget machinations, and budget maniacs, at home.” n Fellow NYT fanatic Thomas Friedman rants, ““If sane Republicans do not stand up to this Hezbollah faction in their midst, the Tea Party will take the GOP on a suicide mission.” n Salon’s Joan Walsh whines, “These people, the Tea Partiers and their friends and their enablers and their corporate friends like Dick Armey, they have created this shrieking on the right.” n CNN’s Wolf Blitzer grills President Obama: “The last time you were elected, you got Sasha and Malia a cute little puppy, Bo. What are you going to get them the next time, if you’re re-elected?” The 6 Watchdog OCTOBER 2011

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NEW MRC STUDY: By 20 to 1, Networks Label Republicans ‘Conservative’ vs. Labeling Democrats ‘Liberal’

In what is a clear double standard and blatant example of liberal media bias, the news shows at ABC, CBS, and NBC labeled the Republican presidential candidates “conservative” on 62 occasions so far this year while during the same period in 2007 they labeled the Democratic presidential candidates “liberal” on only 3 occasions. That’s a 20-to-1 disparity! And it’s all documented in an MRC Media Real- ity Check produced by our News Analysis Division. The report was covered by many news outlets, including extensive coverage on The O’Reilly Factor, Fox and Friends, and Fox News’ Special Report. In the study, MRC Research MRC spokesmen and research from the Director Rich Noyes looked at the study appeared on Fox and Friends, morning and evening news shows The O’Reilly Factor, Hannity and Special on ABC, CBS, and NBC between Report with Bret Baier. It was also dis- Jan. 1 and July 31, 2011 for how cussed on numerous talk radio shows. the networks covered the GOP never labeled Barack Obama as an nominee candidates and com- open-minded liberal with a history of pared that with their coverage pot smoking and cocaine use. of the Democratic candidates in In fact, neither CBS nor NBC January-July 2007. labeled Obama as “liberal” in 2007. In this year’s first seven They also, along with ABC, did not months, the networks tagged label John Edwards and Hillary Clinton the Republicans “conservative” as liberal. 62 times with Michele Bachmann ABC’s Jake Tapper tagged Obama getting labeled most often -- 23 as liberal once, on Jan 16, 2007, gush- times. Typical was ABC World ing, “Obama has drawn raves for pre- News’ describing senting fairly traditional liberal views Bachmann on June 14 as “one of as fresh and inspiring.” NBC Nightly Congress’ most conservative mem- News’ marked Chris Dodd as part of bers.” His ABC comrade Jonathan “a small group of liberal Democrats.” Karl said that Bachmann is a The only other time a network used “take-no-prisoners conservative,” the word liberal was on Jan. 15, when while CBS Evening News’ Jan left-winger Chris Matthews went on Crawford smacked Bachmann as NBC’s Today and laughably claimed of “unapologetically conservative.” Clinton: “People think she’s a liberal, As for Rick Perry, ABC’s Ron even though she’s hawkish.” Claiborne reported that he “has The left-wing networks go to end- strong conservative credentials,” less lengths to avoid the “liberal” while Rick Santorum, according to CBS’ Crawford, is label when covering Democratic presidential candidates the “strongest social conservative in the bunch.” for one simple reason: The word does not sit well with World News’ John Hendren described Newt American voters who the polls show are still a majority Gingrich as “a family values conservative who’s had conservative/right of center. three wives since he last held office.” Alas, Hendren To read the full MRC study, visit www.MRC.org. The OCTOBER 2011 Watchdog 7 MRC in the News MRC • CNSNEWS.COM • NEWSBUSTERS.ORG • CULTURE & MEDIA INSTITUTE • BUSINESS AND MEDIA INSTITUTE

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