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NEWS2U Worldwide News: November 2006: “Where is Nancy Pelosi?
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How a Bogus Claim from a GOP Organization Ended Up on MSNBC

Media Matters
Nov. 3, 2006
Washington, DC

The Republican noise machine is at it again. In a last-ditch effort to distract voters, Republicans are playing pickup game of ‘Where is Nancy Pelosi?’ It began with a widely distributed email, obtained by Media Matters for America (see below), claiming that House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (CA) is almost entirely absent from the campaign trail. The email landed on the Internet gossip site Drudge Report, and the story reached a peak today when MSNBC’s Norah O’Donnell asked NBC correspondent Mike Viqueira where Pelosi has ‘been in the last week.’

In fact as the blog ThinkProgress.org noted, on November 1, ‘Pelosi appeared at a sold-out rally at the Warfield Theater with former President Clinton. Portions of the rally were broadcast on television.’ On the same day CNN aired a feature interview with Pelosi.

Jamison Foser, Managing Director of Media Matters for America, called the media out for participating in the GOP’s election-year stunt.

‘This is a textbook example of a journalist mindlessly repeating false Republican spin designed to muddy the waters and distract the public. The media have a responsibility to check the facts instead of simply parroting GOP operatives,’ Foser said. ‘Better yet, they should focus on substantive issues that matter to real people instead of these increasingly absurd efforts to change the subject.’

The Freedom Project sent out the email, titled ‘Where is Nancy Pelosi?’ on October 31, claiming that Pelos”

Russert seemed to play gotcha with Dean. Why shouldn’t Dems see double standards?: “WHERE ARE STANDARDS (PART 2)! Russert seemed to play gotcha with Dean. Why shouldn’t Dems see double standards?

MONDAY, JUNE 30, 2003
EXTRA! CRANBERG SPEAKS! AGAIN! Kudos to the Post “Outlook” section for publishing Gilbert Cranberg’s piece on Colin Powell. We’ll have more on this topic by midweek. Of course, Colin Powell is King Untouchable; Cranberg’s report was completely ignored the first time it ran in a major paper (see THE DAILY HOWLER, 2/25/03). Maybe timorous pundits will even dare to ask Powell what happened this time.
RUSSERT PLAYS GOTCHA: Was Tim Russert trying to sandbag Dean with that question about the size of the military? Here at THE HOWLER, we can’t read minds, but it’s certainly hard not to wonder (see THE DAILY HOWLER, 6/27/03). Here’s the exchange from Meet the Press that ended with Dean, the Dem White House hopeful, displaying his woeful ignorance:
RUSSERT: Let’s talk about the military budget. How many men and women would you have on active duty?
DEAN: I can’t answer that question. And I don’t know what the answer is. I can tell you one thing, though. We need more troops in Afghanistan. We need more troops in Iraq…
RUSSERT: But how many troops—how many men and women do we now have on active duty?
DEAN: I can’t tell you the answer to that either. It’s—
RUSSERT: But as commander in chief, you should know that!
Bingo! Russert got to lecture Dean about what he should know as commander in chief. (When Dean told Russert his question was silly, his host only lectured him more.) But take a look at that exchange, and tell us why Dems shouldn”

BTC News » John Harris begs Mark Halperin to shut up: “John Harris begs Mark Halperin to shut up
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Mark Halperin and John Harris, co-authors of The Way to Win, are participating this week in Slate’s “Breakfast Club” feature. Halperin is the political director at ABC News; Harris is his opposite number at the Washington Post. The “Breakfast Club” is a feature in which two or more luminaries in one field or another politely agree or disagree with one another on, with few exceptions, various irrelevancies. This week’s edition is mildly exceptional in that they’re discussing an issue of some import — the impact of the national political press on elections — and that Harris keeps telling Halperin, politely, to shut up about their book.
The reason Harris wants Halperin to shut up is that during the course of his promotion tour for the book, Halperin has courted right-wing talk and radio hosts and in so doing has disintegrated into a 10-year-old boy begging the bullies to like him. Glenn Greenwald has the awful details of Halperin’s behavior with right-wing talker Hugh Hewitt — the worst example to date, but not the only — which Billmon likens to the desperate self-criticism sessions common in Soviet Russia and vividly described by Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
It isn’t just Halperin’s character or his ability to provide rational coverage of politics in this country that his courtship of Hewitt, and Sean Hannity before, calls into question: it’s his mental acuity. At one point he tells Hewitt that “I am beginning to think you are intellectually dishonest on a few points.” He is, mind you, writing to a man whose very trade is intellectual dishonesty”

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Sidney Blumenthal

18 – 10 – 2006

The tangled story of investigative journalist Bob Woodward’s relationship with the Bush administration reveals the White House’s subtle entrapment of his form of reportage, says Sidney Blumenthal.

As soon as President Bush finished the first-year commemoration of Hurricane Katrina he turned to the fifth-year anniversary of the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks in order to restore his faltering popularity and set the themes for the Republican Party in the campaign for the mid-term elections on 7 November 2006.
Through a series of speeches he proclaimed that he would ‘stay the course’ in Iraq, which he conflated with his war on terror. Polls, after all, showed that his standing on Iraq was sliding while his standing on terror was steady. His effort to merge one into the other, as he had done since before the invasion, was an act of political alchemy. Speaking at a Republican fundraiser on 28 September, he proclaimed: ‘The party of FDR and the party of Harry Truman has become the party of cut and run.’
But on 5 October, an unimpressed Senator John Warner, Republican chairman of the armed services committee, declared that Iraq was ‘drifting sideways,’ and that if Bush’s policy was to continue it was time to ‘change the course.’
On 8 October, James A Baker III, the former secretary of state, a close associate of the elder Bush and now the chairman of the bi-partisan Iraq Study Group that will report its recommendations in early 2007 to the president, declared his support for Senator Warner’s call to ‘change the course’ – ‘Yes, absolutely. And we’re taking a look at other alternatives.’
On 10 October, a New York Times/CBS News poll reported, according to the NYT”