Issue 7 - Media Research Center
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Issue 7 - Media Research Center
VOLUME 13 ISSUE 7 JULY 2006 www.MediaResearch.org The Media Research Center’s Monthly Members’ Report Left-Wing New York Times Endangering U.S. National Security Dear Friend, “Loose lips sink ships” was a phrase used As a result, at least three ongoing during World War I to remind people who investigations of terrorists were affected, the worked in sensitive or war-related positions ACLU has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. to keep their mouths shut about their work, government, several European countries are lest some information slip that could be used demanding oversight of the program and, by the enemy. overall, a powerful weapon in the war against It was good advice, and America won terrorism has been taken away from America. World War I and World War II, in part, because The program is now in turmoil and American Americans and government officials, by and lives are at greater risk. This is exactly what large, kept their mouths the New York Times was shut when necessary. warned would happen. Unfortunately, that’s not If this had happenthe case today. ed during World War On June 23, the II, the New York Times New York Times publikely would have been lished a story that shut down. And its disclosed a secret antipublisher, editors, and terrorist program that the reporters responsitracks global money ble would have been transfers. The program interred until war’s end was legal and working and then investigated On CBS’s Face the Nation, New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller – several terrorists had and prosecuted for been caught and some arrogantly defends his decision to publish treason, for providing a story that revealed and, thus, scuttled of the financial netaid and comfort to the a secret anti-terrorist program vital to works of terrorist enemy. No less should U.S. national security. groups had been dishappen with the New mantled. The New York Times had been York Times and its executives today. repeatedly warned by the Department of Here at the Media Research Center and Justice, the leaders of the bi-partisan 9-11 in our TimesWatch division we monitor the Commission, and leaders of both political parties liberal bias of the NYT every day. The liberal not to run the story because it would jeopardize media do not police themselves nor hold any the war against terrorism. The NYT, headed of their own, especially the “Gray Lady” NYT, by its arrogant executive editor, Bill Keller, and accountable. But we do. We are America’s stuck-in-the-1960s publisher Arthur media watchdog. Your generous financial Sulzberger, decided it knew better and ran support makes this possible. And in this case, Continued on page 2 the story. MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER INSIDE PAGE 3 The “Worst” of MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann ● PAGE 4 Bits & Pieces: Top Media Push John Dean’s Conservative-Bashing Book; Dan Rather Still in Liberal Denial; Newsweek’s Eleanor Clift Calls Bush a “Dictator” ● PAGE 6 L. Brent Bozell’s Syndicated Column ● PAGE 7 MRC In The News ● PAGE 8 About Your Estate America’s Media Watchdog FLASH • JULY 2006 Continued from page 1 the actions by the NYT are so egregious, so reckless, we are America’s war effort? Would that have been in the “public pushing as hard as we can to expose this newspaper’s destructive interest”? No. It would have helped the Nazis. Today, the actions and America-loathing actions for all of America to see. of the NYT are helping terrorists. After the NYT story ran, the MRC distributed a CyberAlert Of course, when Keller’s spin didn’t wash well, he tried to more than 10,000 conservative leaders across America and to blame conservatives. As he told CBS’s Bob Schieffer on posted the alert on our www.MRC.org website. Our analysis Face the Nation, which naturally gave him a warm welcome, was also posted on our blog, NewsBusters.org, which is read “It’s an election year, beating up on the New York Times is red by more than 50,000 people daily. Then, meat for the conservative base. … And we issued a press release warning that the making this kind of clamor, I suspect, NYT would stop at nothing to propel its they hope will silence people who do liberal agenda, not even jeopardizing talk to the press and maybe intimidate America’s national security. Further, our reporters.” TimesWatch division distributed its analysis, No, the point is to silence left-wing “Times Cripples Another Terrorist radicals who expose national security Surveillance Program,” which has been secrets during wartime, who put supplemented by several follow-up American lives at risk and then rap reports. Also, our grassroots program, themselves in the First Amendment MRC Action, sent e-mails to hundreds claiming they’re the real patriots. of thousands of Americans alerting them In a May 21 commencement speech, NYT Neither Bill Keller nor Arthur Publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. says that to the NYT’s treachery. Sulzberger, nor the scribblers who wrote America is “fighting a misbegotten war Thousands of Americans responded the story, Eric Lichtblau and James in a foreign land” and that he’s sorry to our efforts and sent e-mails and letters Risen, are honest journalists. They are America’s youth still must struggle for and made phone calls to the NYT and to political operatives who disagree with “the rights of gays to marry” and for public leaders. MRC experts were the current policy to fight terrorism and “the rights of women to choose.” interviewed on dozens of talk radio shows are doing everything they can to and Fox & Friends invited me on to discuss the explosive issue. undermine that policy. And they don’t care who might get By now we were reaching millions of Americans. At the same hurt, or killed, in the process. time, several congressmen called for an investigation of the NYT Feeling the heat from the public, conservative leaders, and, if the evidence warranted, a prosecution of the newspaper. members of Congress, and a few brave journalists, the New To be sure, numerous conservative leaders (and some media York Times turned to its friends in the liberal media for help. folks) stepped up to the plate and demanded a full accounting of They obliged. Keller was given warm receptions and platforms the New York Times. But the MRC’s leadership and unparalleled to spin his line on CBS, CNN and PBS. Ever the liberal coward, research and analysis complemented the work of those Keller refused to be interviewed by conservative talk radio host conservatives and continues to hold the NYT’s feet to the fire. Hugh Hewitt. For instance, confronted by outrage nationwide, the NYT’s The New York Times is hoping this “controversy” will go Bill Keller tried to defend his decision to run the financialaway. The MRC is not going to let that happen. We know that tracking story as “a matter of public interest.” But as the MRC loose lips do sink ships. And thanks to your financial and moral and other conservatives noted and publicized, the secret support, we are ever on the watch. program was not illegal, did not infringe on civil rights, and Sincerely, had been reviewed by Congress. It was not a matter of “public interest.” But it was of interest to terrorists. Ask yourself this question: What if, during World War II, L. Brent Bozell III the New York Times had revealed a secret program to track the Founder and President financial transactions of Nazis and, as a result, compromised ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ SAVE THE DATE! MARCH 29, 2007 THE MRC’S 20TH ANNIVERSARY GALA The Grand Hyatt • Washington, D.C. ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER 2 FLASH • JULY 2006 The “Worst” of MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann BY RICH NOYES AND BRAD WILMOUTH MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann claims he’s not Olbermann uses his podium to attack his nonbiased. He says he likes to “go after power,” not liberal media competitors, especially Fox News “after a Republican or a Democrat.” Not true. The Channel host Bill O’Reilly, whom Olbermann record shows that on his Countdown show Olbermann disparages as “the big giant head” or “Ted Baxter,” repeatedly and consistently bashes conservatives and the dim anchor from The Mary Tyler Moore Show. conservative policies, including the MRC and its O’Reilly has been a target 42 times; in contrast, founder, Brent Bozell. In fact, Olbermann slams Olbermann has only bad-mouthed Saddam Hussein conserva-tives on a nearly eight-to-one basis through twice. Olbermann’s other media his “Worst Person in the World!” targets include: segments. A new study by the MRC Rush Limbaugh (11 times) looked at Olbermann’s “Worst” Ann Coulter (9) segments from the show ’s Brit Hume (4) debut on June 30, 2005 L. Brent Bozell (3) through June 23, 2006. While many of his targets weren’t Neal Boortz (3) political, about a third of the Glenn Beck (3) time Olbermann’s wrath was New York Post (2) aimed at a notable liberal or a Michelle Malkin (2) conservative, or someone flailed for an ideological Olbermann’s Enemies List Olbermann rudely called stance. And then, Olbermann “Worst in the World,” 2005-2006 columnist Michelle Malkin threw nearly all of his punches “crazier and dumber than we 180 at conservatives. all thought” and a “nitwit.” 150 For instance, of the 197 Shortly after the MRC study 120 politically-salient designees, 174 was released, Olbermann 90 nearly nine out of ten (174, or Conservatives lashed out at the Center, 60 23 88%) attacked conservative describing it as a “rabid right30 Liberals targets or ideas, compared wing spin group.” On that June 0 with 23 nominees (12%) in 28 show, Olbermann also which liberals were on the tagged MRC President Brent receiving end of Olbermann’s ire. Bozell the “Worst Person in the World!” because the Center issued e-mails to hundreds of thousands Among those attacked by Olbermann: of Americans about weapons of mass destruction Bill Frist in Iraq. Donald Rumsfeld Antonin Scalia Sneering at conservatives may make Rick Santorum Olbermann popular among left-wing bloggers, but Tom DeLay his bias makes him the obvious choice for “Worst Pat Robertson (four times). Anchorman in the World!” Never targeted: Hillary Clinton Howard Dean Michael Moore MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER Rich Noyes is director of research at the Media Research Center. Brad Wilmouth is an MRC research analyst. To view the complete report, visit www.MRC.org, Media Reality Check, June 27, 2006. 3 FLASH • JULY 2006 Bits John Dean, Again The liberal media are once again praising John Dean and helping promote his new conservative-bashing book, Conservatives Without Conscience. The treatment by MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann gives John Dean a national platform to promote his new conservative-bashing book, Conservatives Without Conscience. on July 10 was typical. On Countdown, Olbermann nodded endlessly as Dean ranted that modern conservatives are moving the Republican Party toward “authoritarianism” and that people such as George W. Bush and Dick Cheney have an “authoritarian personality.” Dean also labeled 23 percent of the population as “right-wing authoritarian followers” who are willing to “march over the cliff.” The left-wing Olbermann did not challenge Dean’s bizarre claims. He instead made references to Nazi Germany Want to stay on top of media bias? Sign up for the CyberAlert e-mail report. It’s FREE! To subscribe, just e-mail [email protected] Mention that you read about the offer in FLASH. MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER & and, quoting a passage from Dean’s book, brought up the possibility that conservatives might intentionally “provoke potential terrorists” in an effort to “maintain influence and control of the presidency.” Rather in Denial Former CBS icon Dan Rather still believes that his 60 Minutes story on George W. Bush’s National Guard service, although based on forged memos, “absolutely” is “the truth.” The story has been endlessly discredited by innumerable experts and news outlets – and Rather even apologizes for it on CBS — yet Rather, who was disgraced by it and forced out of CBS because of it, now wants to re-write history. He told Larry King Live on July 12 that “we had a lot, a lot of corroboration, of what we broadcast about President Bush’s military record. It wasn’t just the documents.” Dan Rather tells Larry King Live that he believes the Bush National Guard story, based on fake memos, is “absolutely” the “truth.” Instead of owning up to the truth, Rather blamed his critics for his ouster. “It’s a very old technique that when those who don’t like what you’re reporting believe it can be hurtful, then they look for the weakest spot and attack it, which is fair enough. It’s a diversionary technique.” When asked about CBS’s liberalism, Rather replied, “They call you names when you insist on being independent.” Rooney Slams Rather The agnostic and liberal Andy Rooney revealed what every conservative has long 4 Andy Rooney reveals that Dan Rather is a liberal and that his reporting at the CBS Evening News was infused with liberalism. known about Dan Rather: He is a liberal and his liberalism was projected through his reporting. On the June 22 Imus in the Morning, Rooney revealed, “My problem with Dan was always that you knew where he stood politically. And the fact that he stood on my side didn’t have anything to do with it. I thought he was a bad representative of the liberal side because he was so obvious with his opinions. There were just little words he used when he was on the air that made it apparent to everyone that he was a liberal Democrat.” Rooney then incredulously insisted that while Walter Cronkite “had just the same liberal Democratic opinions as Dan,” it was something “you would never know” because he kept it off the air. Press Corps Nabobs Fox reporters Fred Barnes and Morton Kondracke blasted the White House press corps for its unwavering left-wing questions of the President during a June 14 press conference. “These questions tell you what reporters are interested in and not what is really important or what the American people would like to hear about,” snapped Barnes on Fox’s Special Report with Brit Hume. “The President just went on a trip to Iraq to demonstrate that he’s not pulling out the troops right away. If you couldn’t realize that that’s what that trip was partially about, you’re an idiot. FLASH • JULY 2006 Pieces And yet the first question was about a troop pullout. The second question was about getting out of Guantanamo. I mean, it just went on and on. “Two questions about Karl Rove. Karl Rove has just been vindicated …. Come on. These are obsessions of reporters that don’t match the feelings of the American people.” Kondracke added, “What’s interesting, though, is that there was hardly any question, critical question from the right ….” Bush, Dictator! Newsweeek’s loony Eleanor Clift revealed her true colors, yet again, by describing Russian President Vladimir Putin as “an effective dictator” and President Bush “a dictator who’s ineffective.” The leftist Clift made her comment on the July 15 edition of The McLaughlin Group. When challenged by Financial Times editor Chrystia Freeland, who has written a book on Coulter Bad, Franken Good Newsweek’s Eleanor Clift, ever off the deep end, declares President Bush is “a dictator who’s ineffective.” Putin, that the word “dictator” should not be used “so loosely,” Clift backtracked, saying, “Well we have an authoritarian President who is ineffective.” To her credit, Ms. Freeland did not give in, stating the obvious to the looselipping Clift: “No, he’s not authoritarian. … You guys, you guys can elect your Presidents and there can be a free choice. That’s not the case in Russia.” NBC’s Matt Lauer laughs when liberals criticize conservatives but he is outraged – outraged ! — when conservatives criticize liberals. This was obvious on the June 6 Today show, when Lauer went nearly apoplectic in reaction to comments by conservative author Ann Coulter about several 9/11 widows who have used their situations to promote liberal politicians and liberal policies. Lauer repeatedly challenged Coulter along the lines of “if you lose a husband you no longer have the right to have a political point of view?” And so on. Yet when Lauer interviewed liberal author Al Franken back in October, he laughed along with all the barbs and nasty remarks and never challenged Franken. When Franken snidely commented that Karl Rove and Scooter Libby would be executed for treason, Lauer smiled and laughed and kept the apparent “joke” rolling along. ☛ It’s a Conspiracy! “The White House has deliberately inflated its own deficit projections in the past few years to score political points when the actual numbers came in lower,” claims NBC’s Brian Williams on the Nightly News. ☛ “You might get a burn if you rub these weapons directly onto your skin. They are WMD: Weapons of Minor Discomfort,” smirks Countdown’s Keith Olbermann after a declassified Army report confirmed WMD were uncovered in Iraq. ☛ MSNBC’s Brian Unger exclaims “the Swift-Boating of the 2006 election has begun” with “vicious personal attacks” against anti-Iraq war Rep. John Murtha. NBC Nightly News anchor ☛ More CBS spin: Katie Couric is “tough, she’s fair, she’s a straight-shooter.... Brian Williams, citing unnamed sources, claims She’ll be terrific. Just watch,” says CBS’s liberal Bob Schieffer. ☛ NBC’s Matt the White House conspired “Doomsday” Lauer lectures “the stark reality is that there are simply too many to make the budget deficit of us, and we consume too much …. It will take a massive global effort to make numbers look positive. things right, but the solutions are not a secret: control population, recycle, reduce consumption, develop green technologies.” ☛ Good Morning America’s Bill Blakemore cheers for Gore: “Many scientists say that it [the Western wildfires] fits exactly into the pattern predicted for global warming. … That fact about forest fires is something that Al Gore also points out in his new book, and that book is now near the top of the bestseller list. It seems that people are really starting to pay attention to global warming.” (Reality check: While a majority of Americans agree that global warming is happening, according to a Fox poll, 45 percent think there is nothing humans can do to stop it.) ☛ On HBO’s Real Sports, Bryant Gumbel snidely remarks, “Finally tonight, a few words about World Cup soccer. Please spare me the stifled yawns....Yes, I know that in soccer they score about as often as Ann Coulter makes sense.” MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER 5 FLASH • JULY 2006 Brent Bozell’s July 12, 2006, Nationally Syndicated Column The New Gay Times BY L. BRENT BOZELL III There was the expected wailing and gnashing of teeth from the left when New York’s state Court of Appeals ruled against installing so-called “gay marriage” by judicial fiat, as they had in the People’s Republic of Massachusetts. The New York Times, as expected, was stunned that the judges could find a “rational basis” for traditional marriage, and that judges would defer to elected legislators. This outrage was plastered at the top of the Times with two “news” stories. One was a front-page editorial (they call it a “news analysis”) by Patrick Healy, who focused on the “gay rights advocates” and their disappointment. “Nowhere did gay marriage seem more like a natural fit than New York,” he complained, where “a history of spirited progressivism” should have made the victory of the marriage-manglers inevitable. Inside the Times, the slant continued with two large photographs of gay activists protesting and consoling one another arm in arm about the court decision. Why not a photo of a traditional marriage supporter celebrating the ruling? Because it seems to be in every national-media rulebook that the “gay marriage” story must be accompanied by gay activists protesting, kissing, cheering, or “marrying.” Only one side matters. This Gray Lady slant to the libertine left is no surprise. After all, then-Times ombudsman Daniel Okrent stunned insiders with a column two years ago that publicly admitted the Times was a liberal newspaper, and on the social issues, like gays, guns, and abortion, “if you think The Times plays it down the middle on any of them, you’ve been reading the paper with your eyes closed.” But the Times isn’t just rooting for the homosexual revolution on the outside and inside of the newspaper. It has actively spread the gay gospel by funding the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association, and adorning its conventions with recruitment booths. The Times also is a proud corporate sponsor of New York’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center, a gay-activist hub which boasts of being the birthplace of both the radical ACT UP and the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. This month, The New York Times has taken another dramatic corporate step toward taking sides in America’s culture clash. The newspaper is a “global sponsor” of the seventh “Gay Games” taking place in Chicago from July 15 to 22. Yes, you read that correctly. The Gay Games. Who would sponsor this stupidity? The New York Times is not alone; it is joined by other “objective” news outlets. The Chicago Sun-Times and WMAQ-TV, the local NBC-owned and operated affiliate, are also “global MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER sponsors.” They share the Gay Games goals, to “foster and augment the self-respect of lesbians and gay men throughout the world and to engender respect and understanding from the nongay world.” Got that, nongayers? Whatever happened to “objective” media outlets at least pretending to avoid taking sides? This is the essence of political correctness: it is better to violate openly your commitment to journalism standards than assist the “bigots” by attempting to appear fair and neutral. And it gets zanier still. The New York Times is not only sponsoring the Gay Games, it’s having a pro-gay event there as well. As part of the “Times Talks” series, the newspaper will host a panel discussion on July 17 at the Chicago Public Library titled (so help me, I’m not making this up) “Brokeback Locker Room.” Times contributor Robert Lipsyte will discuss with a panel of six gay athletes (and no opposition) how the “climate of acceptance” has changed in professional sports, and “What can be done to reduce the level of homophobia in the locker room and the media?” These gay-friendly “Times Talks” are nothing new. They’ve been a regular series since 1999. The Times has attracted corporate sponsors like Audi to support the chats in New York as well as San Francisco. Just a few weeks ago, a “Times Talks” panel on the 25th anniversary of the first New York Times article on AIDS included radical activist Larry Kramer, who distributed his wild remarks in advance, claiming among other things that “the gay population of the world has been and continues to be targeted for extinction.” His written remarks also called for “Nuremberg trials” to hold not only the late Ronald Reagan, but the owners and editors of – how’s this for gratitude? – The New York Times to be tried like Nazi war criminals for the AIDS holocaust. That’s just crazy. But by placing its famous name squarely on the side of the gay left, the New York Times is sending a message to America’s solid majority against putting thousands of years of tradition through the shredder. It says: you’re all intolerant bigots on the wrong side of history. And you will be defeated, even if we have to make utter asses of ourselves in the process. L. Brent Bozell’s weekly column is nationally syndicated For more columns, visit www.MRC.org. 6 FLASH • JULY 2006 AMERICA’S MEDIA WATCHDOG Documenting, Exposing and Fighting Media Bias MRC IN THE NEWS The experts at the Media Research Center are interviewed almost every day on stories of national importance, often reaching millions of Americans daily. They provide analysis and commentary on radio, TV, the Internet, in magazines, books and in newspapers, always striving to help restore political balance to the major media. Some of the MRC’s latest media appearances include the following: PRINT TELEVISION ☛ FNC, The O’Reilly Factor, July 24 ☛ FNC, Fox & Friends, July 22 ☛ MSNBC, Tucker Carlson, July 12 ☛ CBN, The 700 Club, July 10 ☛ CBN, NewsWatch, July 10 ☛ MSNBC, Countdown, June 28 ☛ RNN, Frank Rich Live, June 28 ☛ FNC, Fox & Friends, June 27 ☛ FNC, Hannity & Colmes, June 27 RADIO Sean Hannity Show, July 7 G. 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Lauderdale, June 26 KTRS, St. Louis, MO, June 27 WLW, Cincinnati, OH, June 27, July 14 MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER KFTK, St. Louis, MO, July 17 WBT, Charlotte, NC, July 22 WAAM, Detroit, MI, July 19 WCLO, Madison, WI, July 25 KFNN, Phoenix, AR, July 26 On The O’Reilly Factor, MRC President Brent Bozell details how some of the top media, especially CNN, tilt their coverage against Israel in reporting from the Middle East. Business & Media Institute Director Dan Gainor discusses the MRC Special Report, Bad Company: For the American Businessman, Primetime is Crimetime, on FNC’s Fox & Friends. 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