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Thursday, January 31

McCain crosses picket line to appear on Leno.
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Radio Left Review
on Thu 31 Jan 2008 10:48 PM CST
Think Progress
Today, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani crossed a Writers Guild of America picket line for a joint appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Former Massachusetts Mitt Romney, Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX), and former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee also crossed the WGA picket line in the past month for apperances on Leno.
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Fox News political contributor Karl Rove.
by
Radio Left Review
on Thu 31 Jan 2008 10:48 PM CST
Think Progress
President Bush’s close political adviser Karl Rove will reportedly be joining Fox News as an on-air contributor to be “used throughout Super Tuesday coverage.”
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Hours After Siding With States On Emissions Waiver, Romney Flips And Backs The White House
by
Radio Left Review
on Thu 31 Jan 2008 10:48 PM CST
Think Progress
Last month, EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson denied California a waiver that would have allowed 16 states to implement landmark automobile greenhouse emissions reductions.
In last night’s Republican presidential debate, all four candidates said they supported California’s efforts. Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney emphasized that states should “be able to make their own regulations with regards to emissions.” He confirmed again later in the debate:
Q: Just so I’m clear, you said you side with the states. That means you side with Governor Schwarzenegger —
ROMNEY: I side with states being able to make their own decisions, even if I don’t always agree with the decisions they make.
Watch it:
But Romney didn’t want to side with the environment for too long. The AP reports that “[a]fter the debate,” — and after Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R-CA) endorsed Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) — “Romney’s campaign issued a statement in which he said that the federal government, not individual states, should set limits on carbon emissions.”
Romney’s alleged support of California’s emissions waiver is further discredited by the fact that on Jan. 4, he was skeptical of states’ efforts in an interview with the Detroit News Editorial Board:
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Glenn Becks Rants Against Juan McCain Would Not Be Welcome At RedState.com
by
Radio Left Review
on Thu 31 Jan 2008 10:48 PM CST
Think Progress
Discussing last night’s GOP debate on his radio show today, Glenn Beck and fill-in host Pat Gray mocked Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) by derisively calling him “Juan McCain.” Beck, who considers McCain’s sponsorship of a comprehensive immigration bill and the Mexican background of his national director of Hispanic outreach to be “an audacious slap in the face to the American people,” proudly advertised the segment in his daily e-mail to listeners today:
During the segment, Beck also commented on a new campaign by the National Council of La Raza that targets him and Lou Dobbs for their rhetoric, which La Raza believes “demonizes immigrants and Hispanic Americans.” Beck suggested that La Raza’s campaign to get him off the air “before the election” may be “connected” to McCain. Listen to the segment:
La Raza isn’t the only group that doesn’t appreciate Beck’s brand of Latino-phobic humor. On the conservative community blog RedState.com today, Leon H. Wolf posted a message to “commenters,” that it is “not fine, okay, or within the bounds of the rules” to “use Latino names as an insult.” Wolf says users will be “banned for doing it” at Red ... more »

NY Times failed to note Giustra reportedly involved in Kazakhstan mining deals more than a decade ago
by
Radio Left Review
on Thu 31 Jan 2008 10:48 PM CST
Media Matters for America
In a January 31 New York
Times article reporting
on former President Bill Clinton's September 2005 trip to Kazakhstan with
Canadian mining financier Frank Giustra, staff writers Jo Becker and Don Van
Natta Jr. reported that "[w]ithin two days, corporate records show that
Mr. Giustra also came up a winner when his company signed preliminary
agreements giving it the right to buy into three uranium projects controlled by
Kazakhstan's state-owned uranium agency, Kazatomprom." Throughout
the article, the Times suggested
that Giustra would not have been able to win the agreements without his
connection to Clinton.
For instance, the article stated in its second paragraph: "Unlike more
established competitors, Mr. Giustra was a newcomer to uranium mining in Kazakhstan, a
former Soviet republic. But what his fledgling company lacked in experience, it
made up for in connections. Accompanying Mr. Giustra on his luxuriously
appointed MD-87 jet that day was a former president of the United States,
Bill Clinton." At no point in the article, however, did the Times note that Giustra was reportedly involved
in Kazakh mining deals at least as far back as the mid-1990s, undermining the
article's suggestion that Giustra needed to tap his Clinton
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Echoing Drudge and ABC's Tapper, Fox News' Hill falsely asserted Clinton said "we need to slow" economy to fight global warming
by
Radio Left Review
on Thu 31 Jan 2008 10:48 PM CST
Media Matters for America
During the January 31 edition of Fox
News' America's Pulse, host
E.D. Hill echoed a blog post by ABC's Jake Tapper in falsely asserting that former President Bill Clinton said "we need to
slow" the economy in order to combat global
warming. Hill cropped Clinton's comments to assert that Clinton said: "We just have to slow down our economy and cut our
greenhouse gas emissions, because we've got to save the planet for our
grandchildren." But Clinton did not say that we "have to
slow down our economy" to fight global warming.
Introducing the quote, Hill noted
"fears the economy is slowing and a recession could be nearing" and
pronounced Clinton's
statement "puzzling." After playing the truncated version of Clinton's quote, Hill asked Fox News contributor Charles Payne,
"[W]hat would the results of slowing down the economy be?" Hill
added: "You know, I was baffled by this, because when it seems Democrats and
Republicans have finally united on one thing, and that is that our economy is
slowing and we need to kick it into gear, Bill Clinton comes out and says,
'No, we need to slow it.' "
Hill noted that "in all fairness,
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