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VOLUME 8 ISSUE 1 JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2003

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The Liberal Media’s Double Standard INSIDE PAGE 3 screamed in an MSNBC.com piece on Limbaugh & Ingraham Dear Member, December 13. “’s ‘Southern Cite the MRC Leftwing columnists and politicians, like Al Strategy’ set the poisonous tone, and Republican ■ Gore, have recently been complaining about a candidates continue to exploit racial fears for PAGE 3 nasty “conservative” bias in the media. Yes, the political gain.” Best NQ: A Big media are unfair, partisan and mean-spirited. NBC’s David Gregory repeated the claim on Hit With the Media They’re also liberal to the core. his network. “Since the days of ■ Nothing quite proves this Nixon, it’s been known as the PAGE 4 point like the contrasting ‘Southern Strategy,’ an appeal The Best Notable coverage of liberal and con- to frustrated Southern whites Quotables of 2002 servative politicians. And no opposed to civil rights gains,” ■ example better illustrates it than the correspondent chirped on PAGE 6 the coverage of recent com- December 23. “That strategy, Hogie Notes: ments by Senators Trent Lott perceived by some to be subtly CNSNews.com Radio: and Patty Murray. The contrasting coverage of racist, has been a big reason Ask For It! We have all heard about Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.) and why the GOP enjoys a political ■ Lott. He ignited a firestorm in Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) lock on the South.” PAGE 7 proved once again that the early December with his No evidence was required The MRC: comments about Strom Thur- media have different rules for to prove that Republican gains conservatives and liberals. Always on Their Mind mond and his 1948 Presidential were tied to racist campaign- ■ campaign. Lott’s speech was ing, of course. Innuendo and PAGE 8 made at Thurmond’s 100th opinion work just fine for the Editor’s Corner: birthday party, was full of the liberal media. A Few Things the hyperbole politicians love and it “Former President Bill Media Didn’t Tell Us was never intended to be taken Clinton acidly, but not inaccur- as a policy pronouncement. All ately, observed that Lott had just the same, it was a stupid thing made the mistake of saying to say and Lott’s defense – if what too many Republicans still you can call it a defense – was indefensible. feel,” Newsweek liberals Evan Thomas and Clift But the media’s coverage was truly wrote in a tag-team article in the magazine’s disgusting. Rather than treat the misstep as one December 30 issue. The feeling extended all the man’s shortcoming – exactly as journalists did way to the White House, according to these two when Democratic Sen. Robert Byrd used the “N” judgmental journalists. “Like his father before him, word on in 2001 – liberal journalists George W. Bush stooped to win the GOP saw the opportunity and pounced. They treated nomination by appealing to the Southern redneck Lott’s statement as the smoking gun that linked vote in 2000 (by, for instance, declining to stand America’s Media conservatives to racism. against state capitols’ flying the Confederate Watchdog “The modern GOP is built on a legacy of flag.),” they wrote. racism,” Newsweek columnist Eleanor Clift Continued on page 2 HURRY! This is the LAST reminder you’ll The Media Research Center’s Third Annual see before the event! DISHONORS AWARDS Roasting the Most Outrageously Biased Liberal Reporters of The Year!

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Continued from page 1 How wonderful to be a journalist at “[Osama bin Laden] has been in many Murray gaffe? The same goes for U.S. Newsweek, where it’s perfectly acceptable countries that are riddled with poverty... News and World Report. to make unjust accusations against an He’s been out in these countries for decades Internet sites, , the entire party (if it’s the GOP) and an entire building roads, building schools, building Washington Times and Fox News picked group of people can be categorized and infrastructure, building day care facilities, up the Murray story as expected. The insulted with impunity (if they’re building health care facilities, and the people only mainstream media outlet that even conservatives). are extremely grateful,” Murray claimed. noticed or commented was the Washing- As I pointed out in my nationally Murray also compared America to the ton Post, which ran a short piece and an syndicated column on this topic, liberals murderer and found the U.S. wanting. editorial on it. The long and short of the and Democrats never have to worry about “We haven’t been out in many of these coverage was simple, a politician made this sort of treatment. They get a complete countries helping them build infra- up facts and praised America’s worst pass on controversial racial remarks – the structure,” she said. enemy but because she’s a liberal, the lack of media outrage over Sen. Byrd’s Where were all those national media media yawned and ignored it. KKK past is proof – and, regardless of the outlets that used the Lott comment to The unfair treatment of conservatives issue, comments by liberals and Democrats attack all conservatives? If the same is why we exist and why you support us. are never used to stereotype or brand either standard were applied to liberals, one We are increasingly making headway in the party or the movement. would think the magazines and news the long and constant struggle against The comments of Murray, the programs would have been full of stories liberal bias and I want to thank you for Democratic Senator from Washington claiming Democrats were unpatriotic, your consistent support. state, provides the latest proof of this hateful “blame America first” types. It is simply not possible without you. double standard. Murray spoke to But ABC, CBS, and NBC reported Until next month, students at a Vancouver, Wash. high nothing on Murray’s remarks. Nothing. Nor school on December 18 and spat out this was there anything in , unbelievable tripe about Osama bin Laden. the Los Angeles Times, or USA Today. They If you don’t know what I’m talking could devote their covers and countless about, it’s because the liberal press has pages to Trent Lott, but Time and Newsweek L. Brent Bozell III refused to report it. What did she say? had no room anywhere for a story on the

MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER 2 FLASH JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2003 Best Notable Quotables AAA MediaMediaMedia HitHitHit The Best Notable Quotables of 2002, the MRC’s 15th Annual Awards for the Year’s Worst Reporting, was released in late December. Again, it’s a hit. As of the first week of January, several major media outlets had showcased the awards. The dedicated its December MRC Cited by 31 editorial “Hoist on Their Own Petard” to this year’s edition and stories or columns appeared in the Boston Globe, Online, Limbaugh and Ingraham Washington Times, FNC’s After Hours with Cal Thomas, Rocky Mountain An MRC item about CBS Evening News’ use News, TulsaToday.com, World magazine, Mona Charen dedicated her of a Democratic CPA as an “objective” source .com column to the subject, as did several others. on the Bush tax cuts got nationwide play from The Best NQ is an annual compilation of the worst statements Rush Limbaugh in early January. made by supposedly objective journalists over the past year. A panel A January 6 CBS News story by of 52 judges from around the country selected the “winners.” The featured CPA Avery Neumark pounding away panel included prominent journalists and commentators such as Kate on an adding machine and delivering an almost O’Beirne, , Michael Reagan, William Rusher and Cal perfect, anti-tax cut soundbite: “If you want to Thomas. The “Quote of summarize this tax proposal as we see it today, the Year” came from the winners are the wealthy.” Neumark, as a former Lyndon Johnson check of the campaign contribution website aide and current PBS host OpenSecrets.org revealed, has given money to Bill Moyers, who deliver- both the Democratic National Committee and ed this angry – and tax- liberal Democratic Congressman Jerrold Nadler payer funded – diatribe of New York. after the Republican On January 9, Limbaugh told his audience victory in November. of 14 million listeners about the CBS misstep “The entire federal and credited “our old buddies at the Media government – the Con- gress, the executive, the PBS’s Bill Moyers won the Research Center” for the information. “Quote of the Year” for a hateful, Limbaugh wasn’t the only conservative courts – is united behind long-winded blast at conservatives. personality to recently cite the work of the MRC. a right-wing agenda for Radio talk show host , in a which George W. Bush believes he now has a mandate,” Moyers January 4 discussion with liberal Washington claimed. “That agenda includes the power of the state to force pregnant Post columnist E.J. Dionne on CNN’s Reliable women to surrender control over their own lives. It includes using Sources, suggested to Dionne that “you’ve got the taxing power to transfer wealth from working people to the rich. to read MRC’s reports” on . It includes giving corporations a free hand to eviscerate the environment The continuing use of MRC information by and control the regulatory agencies meant to hold them accountable. such leading conservatives is yet another indication And it includes secrecy on a scale you cannot imagine. of how we continue to serve as a valuable tool for Above all, it means judges with a political agenda appointed for the entire conservative movement. life. If you like the Supreme Court that put George W. Bush in the White House, you will swoon over what’s coming. And if you like God in government, get ready for the Rapture....” While Moyers may have had the worst quote, he certainly wasn’t alone. The Best NQ had 16 categories and 68 quotes. It included comments from media stars like Phil Donahue, who told Tom Brokaw that he was proud the NBC anchor wasn’t wearing a flag, and from the often insufferable White House reporter Helen Thomas, who admitted that she often awakens in the morning and asks “who do I hate today?” Members with Internet access can view the Best NQ on the MRC web site at www.mrc.org/notablequotables/bestof/2002/welcome.asp.

MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER 3 FLASH JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2003 Best Notable Quotables of 2002 The 15th Annual Awards for the Year’s Worst Reporting

EDITOR’S NOTE: We couldn’t fit all 16 Blame America categories into this issue, but we wanted to First Award share as many of these outrageous quotes as “I think very definitely that foreign policy could possible. So here are 10 of this year’s have caused what has “winners.” (To read the rest of the winners happened [September 11, and some of the nominees, just log onto 2001]....It certainly should www.MediaResearch.org) be apparent now – it should be, for goodness sakes understood now, but it is not – that the problem is this great division between the rich and the poor in Media Hero Award the world. We represent the rich....Most of these other nations of “For Castro, freedom Africa, Asia and South America and Central America are very, starts with education. And very poor....This is a revolution in effect around the world. A if literacy alone were the revolution is in place today. We are suffering from a revolution of yardstick, Cuba would rank the poor and have-nots against the rich and haves and that’s us.” as one of the freest nations – Former CBS Evening News anchor Walter Cronkite on CNN’s on Earth. The literacy rate Larry King Live, September 9. is 96 percent.” – Barbara Walters narrating her interview with Fidel Castro on Barbra Streisand Political IQ Award for ABC’s 20/20, October 11. Celebrity Pontificating “I despise him [President George W. Bush]. I despise his General Phil “Cheap Shot” Donahue Award administration and everything they stand for....To my mind the (for Swipes at the War on Terrorism) election was stolen by “This is interesting news that we get now, and it may put George Bush and we have the President under a lot of heat today as the public learns that been suffering ever since he knew, through his daily CIA intelligence briefings, that bin under this man’s leader- Laden had potential terror attack plans under way....It also calls ship... And I think this latest into question what happened when Andy Card, Andrew Card, thing with Iraq is absolute the White House chief of madness and I’m stunned staff, that morning went and that there is not opposition whisper-ed in the on a much more global scale President’s ear, as the to what he’s talking about....There has to be a movement now President was talking to a to really oppose what he is proposing because it’s unconstitutional, group of school students in it’s immoral and basically illegal....It is an embarrassing time to be Florida [on September 11, an American. It really is. It’s humiliating.” 2001]. Was the President – Actress Jessica Lange at a September 25 press conference in really surprised?” San Sebastian, Spain. Her remarks were shown in the U.S. on the – Charles Gibson’s question to White House correspondent syndicated show Inside Edition on October 4. on ABC’s , May 16. Politics of Meaninglessness Award for the Ashamed of the Red, White & Blue Award Silliest Analysis “Let me tell you what “Seven years ago, when is impressive. You’re not the last referendum took wearing a flag. Well, I don’t place, Saddam Hussein won want to damn you with my 99.96 percent of the vote. praise, but I say hip-hip- Of course, it is impossible hooray for that...” to say whether that’s a true – Phil Donahue to Tom measure of the Iraqi Brokaw on MSNBC’s people’s feelings.” Donahue, July 25. – ABC’s David Wright, World News Tonight, October 15.

MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER 4 FLASH JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2003 See No Liberal Give Appeasement a Chance Award Media Bias Award “The President disclosed that he has been reading Supreme If I were biased, I don’t Command, a new book by Eliot A. Cohen, a neoconservative believe I would have gotten hardliner on Iraq.... the job.” “In his reading choice, Bush seems to be following the – to advice of , the arch-neoconservative who has been Newsday’s Verne Gay, June using his Weekly Standard 19. magazine to chide Bush for being too soft on Saddam Begala & Carville War Room Award for Hussein....Kristol, sus- Bush Bashing pected of playing puppeteer “I mean, let’s face it. ExxonMobil – I think this is a real to a number of hawkish group of bad guys, considering that they have funded all the officials in the Bush Penta- anti-global-warming gon and National Security propaganda out there in the Council, appears to have world. And Bush is just not added the marionette-in-chief to his act.” going to go against guys like – Washington Post reporter Dana Milbank in his “White House that. They are bad, bad guys Notebook” column, August 20. – because of what they are Damn Those Conservatives Award doing in fighting the science “The [President’s Council on Bioethics] will be navigating a of global warming.” scientific and ethical land-scape significantly more complex than – New York Times columnist the one that existed...last summer. In November, researchers Thomas Friedman in an interview in the October 17 Rolling Stone. Thomas Friedman in an interview in the October 17 Rolling Stone. announced that they had made the first human embryo clones, giving immediacy to warnings by religious conservatives and others Mount St. Helen Award for Helen Thomas that science is no longer serving the nation’s moral will. At the Eruptions same time, the was fighting a war to free a faraway “I censored myself for nation from the grip of religious conservatives who were denounced 50 years....Now I wake up for imposing their moral code on others.” – Washington Post and ask myself, ‘Who do I reporter Rick Weiss in a January 17 “Federal Page” article. hate today?’...I have never covered a President who actually wanted to go to war. Special MRC Member Promotion! Bush’s policy of pre-emptive war is immoral – such a Decades Most Outrageous FREE policy would legitimize Pearl Harbor. It’s as if they learned none VIDEO of the lessons from Vietnam.... Where is the outrage?” Liberal Media Bias – Helen Thomas, Hearst Newspapers columnist and former UPI reporter, speaking at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Subscribe to Notable Quotables and receive a (MIT) on November 4 and quoted on MIT’s Web site two days later. FREE video of the Decades Most Outrageous Liberal Media Bias! It’s the hilarious video that Fourth Reich Award (for Portraying John started it all. Watch as the MRC roasts the most Ashcroft as a Fascist) liberal members “They were leaving of the national trails and clues all over the “news” media. place – if we’d really been Join the audience in booing Bryant watching and paying Gumbel as he attention we could have blamed Rush headed off 9/11. But the Limbaugh and German prosecutorial sys- other conserva- tem was pretty laid back tives for the bombing in Oklahoma City, and as and didn’t want to be John columnist Julianne Malveaux says she wished Ashcroft, you know, they didn’t want to be the SS, they had would die of heart disease. that worry there, no Gestapos. And so it was a great place for Get NQ de-livered to your door at the mem-ber terrorists to operate.” rate of just $30 per year and receive the video for – Newsweek Assistant Evan Thomas on the FREE! Call Donna Gould at (800) 672-1423 August 31 Inside Washington. ext. 122122.

MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER 5 FLASH JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2003 Cybercast News Service

By Scott Hogenson CNSNews.com Executive Editor CNSNews.com Radio: Ask For It! Aside from reporting ‘The Right News, Right Now,’ one of mouse. From individual radio news- the prime directives for CNSNews.com has always been to find rooms, broadcasters can record news new ways of expanding our reach to more people across the stories from CNSNews.com and re- country and around the world. broadcast them to their local listeners in minutes. Beginning with a single website less than five years ago, Even though this project is in its infancy, we’re already CNSNews.com, the Internet newswire of the Media Research getting a remarkable response from broadcasters around the Center, greatly expanded its reach last year with our Cybercast country expressing their thanks for finally having a source of Service, a unique process that automatically sends our news to quality radio news without the liberal bias. other websites around the world. There are more than 12,000 radio stations across the country, This harnessing of the Internet means that every single and reaching every one of them is no small task. We’re doing weekday, hundreds of thousands of people worldwide are able our best to accomplish this while being frugal with your to read CNSNews.com via our Cybercast subscribers. contributions, but we hope to get some help on this front from a This month, we further harnessed the power of the World secret weapon: you. Wide Web by launching our most recent effort to expand our You and the tens of thousands of MRC supporters can help reach with Cybercast Radio, a new broadcast service offering us propel this new effort with something as quick and simple as radio station news directors an alternative to more liberal radio a phone call or e-mail to your local radio station. news services. Wherever you live, contact your local radio station by Cybercast Radio includes pre-recorded radio news stories telephone and by e-mail; tell them you listen and tell them you and radio news sound bites that broadcasters can use in their want CNSNews.com on the air. local and network radio newscasts. Just think what you and your fellow MRC supporters could Before the dawn of the Internet, delivering news stories to do: tens of thousands of phone calls and e-mails to radio stations radio stations was a costly proposition requiring satellite uplink around the country, asking for radio news without the liberal and downlink facilities, leasing time on orbiting satellites, and bias. Think that would have an impact? intricate electronic routing equipment to get radio news from Call it a hunch, but I suspect you are part of a force to be Point A to Point B. reckoned with. With your help, we can get CNSNews.com on Today, we utilize a single page at CNSNews.com to deliver the air coast-to-coast. broadcast-quality audio to radio stations with the click of a

CNS.com Exposes Ramsey Clark’s Anti-Christian Statements

When radical, America-bashing Ramsey Clark – hard to believe the man was once Attorney General – made a speech at the National Press Club and claimed Muslims could call Jesus Christ a terrorist because “he was pretty tough on money lenders a time or two,” the mainstream media ignored it. But CNSNews.com didn’t. Staff writer Mike Betsch wrote a story highlighting Clark’s insulting comment and it was picked up by both Fox News and . The Journal even praised CNSNews.com for reporting news that the major media ignored. “Though representatives from a number of major media all heard the remark, the only one to report it was the Cybercast News Service (CNSNews.com),” the Fox News and the Wall Street Journal cited the Journal noted in an editorial in its January 17 issue. MRC’s newswire, CNSNews.com

MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER 6 FLASH JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2003 THETHE MRC:MRC: Inside Always On Their Mind The MRC The Media Research Center is having Hall was third prominent liberal media an impact on the liberal media. We know personality to trumpet the MRC’s impact. Mike Betsch this because they’re saying so. As reported in last month’s FLASH, The latest example took place on columnist E.J. Dionne and December 14 Fox Newswatch when panelist Time.com columnist Jack White both Jim Pinkerton of Newsday claimed a left-wing credited the MRC with neutralizing liberal group had pressured the New York Times and bias during the November elections. White Washington Post into covering anti-war claimed the MRC should declare victory protests. Former Los over liberal bias, while Angeles Times reporter Dionne claimed the and current American MRC and other con- University professor servative organiza- Mike Betsch is a staff writer Jane Hall, a fellow tions have been so at CNSNews.com with the panelist on the show, successful that the responsibility for tracking claimed these groups media now have a con- down and reporting those were not the only ones servative bias. stories the mainstream media applying pressure. While we appreci- either underreport or choose “Wait a minute,” ate the vote of con- to ignore. As part of Mike’s Hall said. “They [the fidence from these work, he conducts a daily review of the web sites of Times and the Post] Add former Los Angeles Times reporter liberal journalists, it’s national newspapers, interest Jane Hall to the list of commentators misreported the facts. clear that there’s still groups and political organiza- who say the MRC is successfully You don’t think the much more work to be tions to find news that is of Media Research Center countering the liberal media. Thanks, done. But we are Jane, but we’re just doing our job...and interest to CNSNews.com’s has mau-mau’d people there’s a lot left to do! moving the ball, and worldwide readership. Mike into stuff?” Pinkerton they do have every posts the most interesting maintained that the Time and the Post don’t reason to be nervous. And sorry, Messrs. stories on CNSNews.com’s respond to MRC criticism. “Oh, baloney,” White and Dionne, but we’re not stopping. News on the Web site. Hall retorted. A native of Long Island, N.Y., Mike attended Villanova University in Pennsylvania and Showing your support has never been so fun....or hot! graduated with a degree in political science. He started his professional career in adver- America’s Media Watchdog tising, working for Young & Rubicam in “See no balance” “See no balance” before migrating to Los Coffee Cup Blue Travel Koozie Angeles, where he worked for $10.95 / $8.95* $9.95 / $7.95* Petry Television. Mike also worked for President Bush’s Broward County, Fla. recount team during the 2000 election before coming to the MRC. Mike enjoys his work at CNSNews.com. “Combating the scourge of liberal media To order bias by providing conserva- call toll free: tive leaders and groups with an opportunity to have their (800) 672-1423 ext.122 voices heard,” is especially “See no balance” fulfilling, according to Mike. * Mention this offer in T-SHIRT Mike was married in FLASH to receive your November 2002. He and his $16.95/ *$14.95 -- lg, xlg MEMBER DISCOUNT RATE! $14.95/ *$12.95 -- sm, md wife Stacey enjoy spending (Gray with navy print) Plus Shipping & Handling time with their two dogs, POTUS and Rummy.

MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER 7 FLASH JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2003 EDITOR’S CORNER TIM JONES A Few Things The Media Didn’t Tell Us

Here’s some shocking news. The liberal media are concerned facing significant budget problems, increased its spending by 32 that President Bush’s plan to allow Americans to keep more of their percent during the decade. own money is going to “cost” government. It would have been a much better story if ABC had included a According to a January 8 ABC World News Tonight story by few of these facts, but their agenda was attacking the Bush tax cut correspondent Betsy Stark, the states are facing “their worst fiscal proposal, not grilling state crisis in more than 50 years” and the Bush economic stimulus plan officials as to why they had been isn’t going to help them a bit. “In fact, the centerpiece of the irresponsible with the public’s President’s plan, the elimination of the tax on stock dividends, could money. cost the states several billion dollars,” Stark said. The state spending story The segment mentioned Kentucky, which let 500 prisoners out wasn’t the only January story of jail early in a budget-cutting move, and claimed that several other where a few facts were left out, states are considering doing the same. States, according to an however. When Sen. John “expert” from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities – it’s a Edwards (D-N.C) announced his liberal budget group Stark didn’t bother to label – also suggested presidential candidacy, the media claimed he had all the requirements to that states might have to close health clinics. Cuts alone won’t be be a strong candidate. The youthful looking Edwards has brains, money, enough to balance the budgets, Stark added. political savvy and looks, we’re told. And a press corps that refuses to As often occurs, it was what wasn’t mentioned that was accurately identify him as a liberal. important. What ABC neglected to point out is that states have Time online made Edwards it’s “Person of the Week” after his drastically increased their spending and that’s why they have budget announcement and stated he has “built a reputation for moderate messes. According to a study from the Cato Institute, a political views.” Fox News Channel reporter James Rosen also called think tank, state spending rose 39 percent from 1996 to 2001. If that him a moderate in a January 2 story. sounds ridiculous, it is. Moderate? The North Carolinian received a 95 rating from the Cato also pointed out that the federal government, an entity liberal Americans for Democratic Action in 2001 - the same score the that’s never been known for tight-fisted management, increased its group gave Sen. Hillary Clinton. Edwards lifetime rating from the spending by 19 percent during that same five-year period, meaning American Conservative Union, meanwhile, is a measly 12. the states were increasing their budgets more than twice as fast as So John Edwards might be good-looking, articulate and bright. the feds. Kentucky, where the prisoners were freed, increased its But he’s as liberal as they come and that’s another thing the media spending by 44 percent during the 90s. California, another state didn’t bother to tell us.

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