News Hounds Media Digest # 202
8/11/08 to 8/17/08
Chris: After attacking authors Richard Clarke, Paul O'Neill, and Scott McClellan for books critical of the Bush administration, FOX rushes to the rescue of Jerome Corsi when his latest attack "bestseller" smearing Barack Obama is roundly denounced.
http://tinyurl.com/5nv9g2
Chris: FOX "straight news man" Smith quickly yanks the platform from Ossetian woman and child who praise Russia and denounce Georgia as aggressors.
http://tinyurl.com/6dmnz4
Ellen: Alan Colmes set off a firestorm when he demanded that a panel of FOX News conservatives explain why, if John Edward's infidelity made him unfit to be president, McCain's did not.
http://tinyurl.com/56xpxz
Ellen: FOX News contributor Karl Rove defended FOX News' attacks on Michelle Obama by saying, essentially, that she deserved them.
http://tinyurl.com/57rnv
Melanie: On Tuesday, August 12, Fox's Carl Cameron reported - as fact - that John McCain has known Mikheil Saakashvili, the president of Georgia, since Saakashvili was 16 years old. Really? Is this another McExaggeration and why isn't the "liberal media" talking about it?
http://tinyurl.com/57vvjpMelanie: Ed Rendell joins the likes of Democratic "leaders" like Lanny Davis and Howard Wolfson and proclaims Fox "News" is the "fairest" of them all. What?!
http://tinyurl.com/6q4l8l
Deborah: Bill O'Reilly's
Talking Points, 8/13, was a message to Barack Obama about what might happen is he decides not to appear on
The Factor.
http://tinyurl.com/5s8cr6
Deborah: Bill O'Reilly tried to promote the idea that conservatives are black-listed in Hollywood during an interview with Jon Voight.
http://tinyurl.com/5jrodu
Priscilla: "Grapevine" provides news and affirmation for the religious right.
http://tinyurl.com/5actl9
Priscilla: "Campaign Carl" Cameron spins McCain's abortion views and makes us very dizzy.
http://tinyurl.com/6emkk4
: Last week Greg Gutfeld took top honors for saying "This week Barack Obama, otherwise known as the messiah, our lord saver
(sic) and black baby Jesus, greeted voters in a diner in St.Paul,
Minnesota." Vote for this week's worst at