News Hounds Media Digest # 183
3/31/08 to 4/06/08
Brave New Films: Why won't John McCain sign the new G.I. Bill?
http://therealmccain.com/gibill/
Melanie:
80,000 Jobs Lost � the website of the editor of Fox "business" news
says the "Economy Sees Good Job Growth." That's Fox: Edit, edit,
edit until it looks good for the
GOP.
http://tinyurl.com/4quxv5 Ellen: Hannity & Colmes called on Ann Coulter, of all people, to judge the appropriateness of Air America's suspension of Randi Rhodes for her profane comments about Hillary Clinton
and Geraldine Ferraro. While Rhodes was repeatedly vilified by the
H&C panel, there was little opprobrium for Coulter when she likened
Barack Obama to Hitler later in the same discussion.
Ellen: We were pleased to learn that Hannity's appearance at Rev. Al Sharpton's
commemoration of the death of Martin Luther King was canceled. We felt
that Hannity's record of animosity toward African Americans was
inappropriate and anathema to any event that bore the King mantle.
http://tinyurl.com/5t7zfm
Deborah: Bill O'Reilly would rather feed the idea of Democratic chaos with Al
Gore speculation than focus on some real issues like, for instance, the
global climate crisis.
http://tinyurl.com/6652dw
Deborah: It's hard to believe that Bill O'Reilly is still ridiculing Al Gore and
global warming. Well actually, Bill played the innocent role, 4/2/08,
letting Dennis Miller do the Gore bashing.
http://tinyurl.com/45eg4l
Donna: This week Shepard Smith did a segment
on Chinese spying. He ended up making a racially insensitive remark while
his guest, a former CIA operative, said we should take the guy out back and
shoot him and that would send a message to
the Chinese
http://tinyurl.com/6rxvdj
Donna: Fox and Friends finally talked about John McCain. Wouldn't you know it- it was all good. No fair and balanced here.
http://tinyurl.com/6z72n8
Chrish: What to do with an ad that is 80% spot-on and equates
your candidate with the unpopular lame duck? If you're FOX News, you
highlight the 20% that is arguable and dismiss the rest.
http://tinyurl.com/6owxnb
Chrish: FOX is creating its own echo, repeating the talking point
that the possibility of recession is a "media myth," analysts and
Bernanke be damned.
http://tinyurl.com/66d97n
Pricilla: FOX pimps McCain?
http://tinyurl.com/6xxlen
Outrageous Quote: Sean Hannity won big in our latest poll for saying "What if (Obama) deep down in his heart thinks like (his controversial
pastor) Wright?... Is that dangerous for this country? I think that
would be dan… That would mean we would have, if he agreed with Wright
and I don't know that does, but if he did, that would mean a racist and
an anti-Semite would be president of the United States." Vote in this week's poll at
http://tinyurl.com/563lzb
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