Media Matters for America

Following a report that a forthcoming book purportedly identifies former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage as columnist Robert D. Novak's original source for the identity of former CIA operative Valerie Plame, several media figures have asserted that this report proves that White House senior adviser Karl Rove and former vice presidential chief of staff I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby were not involved in the leak. However, as Media Matters for America has noted, the revelation that Armitage was Novak's original source is not inconsistent with Rove's and Libby's involvement in the leak, as both ...   more »

Media Matters for America

During his August 29 interview with President Bush, portions of which aired on various NBC and MSNBC programs on August 29 and 30, Nightly News anchor Brian Williams allowed Bush to falsely claim that "we delivered" on the promises Bush made during a September 2005 address to the nation in New Orleans. In fact, only one of Bush's three proposals to help "rebuild" the Gulf Coast has been implemented to date. Additionally, Williams did not challenge Bush's false suggestion that Saddam "had the capacity to make" weapons of mass destruction prior to the U.S.-led invasion of ...   more »

Media Matters for America

In recent days, several media figures have claimed, or let Republicans claim, that the White House "rejects" the policy that the United States should "stay the course" in Iraq, even though President Bush and White House press secretary Tony Snow have continued to use that term to describe the Bush administration's Iraq policy.

For example, in an August 31 Washington Post article, staff writers Peter Baker and Jim VandeHei reported that "[m]any Democrats accuse the president of advocating 'stay the course' in Iraq, but the White House rejects the phrase and regularly emphasizes that it ...   more »

News Hounds

Once again Fox and President Bush manage to blur the lines between the war on terror and the war with Iraq. Finally, after a whole week of virtually ignoring the war in Iraq in place of it's one year anniversary coverage on Katrina, Studio B with Shepard Smith covered the war in Iraq somewhat.

However, blurring that line seemed the purpose of this report.

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News Hounds

Fox presented five - yes, five - segments on Iran today (August 31, 2006) during its "business news" program, Your World w/Cavuto.

The show's opening segment featured Fox reporter James Rosen at the State Department. The chyron that ran during Rosen's segment summed up his report: "Defiant Iran Blows Off U.N. Nuke Deadline."

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