News Hounds Media Digest #187

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News Hounds Media Digest #187
4/28/08 to 5/3/08


Melanie: On April 28, Neil Cavuto - speaking about Barack Obama - guaranteed that the Reverend Jeremiah Wright would be "the gift that keeps giving."

http://tinyurl.com/3sqbgs

- The next day Cavuto implied that the right would scrounge for dirt on Obama even if it had to interview the 6,000 congregants in Obama's church.

http://tinyurl.com/52h4lv

Donna:  Little mention was made of the Republicans in the story of the DC Madam's suicide last week.  We can be sure that if Democrats had been named, this story would go on forever.

http://tinyurl.com/5b2mqe

 
  After weeks of covering Reverend Wright on Studio B, I did this article saying that the story was, in fact boring.  The next show had no mention of Reverend Wright.  Was Fox worried that boring = ratings?

http://tinyurl.com/6al8s7

Deborah: FOX News went into a tizzy hyping Bill O'Reilly's interview with Hillary Clinton. In fact, Shepard Smith even had a little countdown box in the corner of his screen ticking off the minutes to the great confrontation.
http://tinyurl.com/5u95r4

After the interview with Hillary Clinton, Bill O'Reilly was so self absorbed that he thought the interview was about him instead of Clinton.

http://tinyurl.com/4tk45z

Priscilla: What's more important and scarier than the war in Iraq, the economy, the price of oil, home foreclosures, and American health care? For Fox News, it's Barack Obama's former pastor, the scary (and African American) Reverend Jeremiah Wright
http://tinyurl.com/4yd59g

Chris:  As anticipated, FOX News is using footage from the Bill O'Reilly interview, er, "major policy discussion," with Hillary Clinton to rebut the Democrat's views and advance right-wing talking points.

http://tinyurl.com/3wx3se

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Ellen: Sean Hannity graduated from smearing Barack Obama and his former pastor as black racists and is now presenting Obama's church as consisting of Unchristian Marxists who sanction murder.

http://tinyurl.com/5ma5oe

Outrageous Quote:  Sean Hannity won half the vote for his fear-mongering  "I gotta tell you something. This is frightening to me. That if you have Bill Ayers, the San Francisco statement that Barack Obama made, Michelle Obama's statement, Reverend Wright, connections to Louis Farrakhan, going to the Million Man March, I'm thinking, why is Sean Hannity doing a better job - and I mean this sincerely - in exposing some weaknesses I think for Barack Obama than Hillary Clinton's campaign?"    Vote in this week's poll at
http://www.newshounds.us/2008/05/05/outrageous_quote_of_the_week_5308.php

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News Hounds Media Digest #187

5/5/08 to 5/11/08

Donna: Is Michelle Malkin Ann Coulters's Queen of Hate twin?  She has the nerve to go after Michelle Obama, calling her his biggest deficit.

http://tinyurl.com/6eb6nc

Steve Doocy had his son on Fox and Friends, two weeks in a row. His son beat on the Democrats (using Rev. Wright a lot) during a forum of 20 students at Villanova University.  Nepotism at it's best.

http://tinyurl.com/5rmtnu

Priscilla: Is Fred Barnes an Elitist?
http://tinyurl.com/3ly7cs

Deborah: Bill O'Reilly claimed, 5/5/08,  he was tired of talking about Jeremiah Wright and it was time to move on to something else.
http://tinyurl.com/58zsol

Bill O'Reilly tried to look tough while going easy on McCain during the last portion of the interview, 5/9/08.
http://tinyurl.com/5ubclp

Chris:  FOX News gave a boost to Rush Limbaugh's effort to disrupt Democrats' nominating of a presidential candidate, instructing viewers with the radio clown's latest marching orders.
http://tinyurl.com/5tztg7

Bill O'Reilly has already begun his own election campaign, to make race a key issue from now until November.  Of course he denies responsibility, casting others as race-baiters and himself as merely "reporting."
http://tinyurl.com/6nraw6
http://tinyurl.com/6zh8nx

Ellen: Sean Hannity and FOX News blamed Al Gore for the global food crisis.
http://tinyurl.com/6q2fmy

Ellen: Dick Morris baselessly accused Barack Obama of wanting to provide taxpayer-funded health insurance to illegal immigrants.
http://tinyurl.com/5shx4z

Outrageous Quote:  Convicted felon Ollie North won in a landslide last week for saying "What (Rev. Jeremiah Wright) has become is a recruiting campaign for Al Qaeda and all the enemies of America."  Vote in this week's poll at  http://tinyurl.com/5f8cr5