Today's Fresh Blogs...

• Debate's "brightest moment"? Few media note that even while attacking Obama, Romney agreed on substance

  Published: August 6, 2007, 7:20 pm

  Tags: Associated Press, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Usa Today, 2008 Elections, Barack Obama, Government Elections, Mitt Romney, National Security Foreign Policy, Rudy Giuliani

  In covering the August 5 Republican presidential debate on ABC's This Week, many print media outlets reported former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney's attack -- in what the Associated Press' Mike Glover referred to as one of the debate's "brightest moments" -- on Sen. Barack Obama's (D-IL) recent foreign policy statements:

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• NBC's Mitchell uncritically aired Romney's "Dr. Strangelove" attack on Obama

  Published: August 6, 2007, 3:39 pm

  Tags: Andrea Mitchell, Nbc, Today Show, 2008 Elections, Barack Obama, Government Elections, Mitt Romney, National Security Foreign Policy, Rudy Giuliani

  During a segment on the August 6 broadcast of NBC's Today, NBC senior foreign correspondent Andrea Mitchell uncritically aired Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney's claim during an August 5 debate aired on ABC's This Week that Sen. Barack Obama "went from going to sit down to tea with our

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• Fox News Sunday is latest program to call Iraq invasion proponents "critics" of the war

  Published: August 5, 2007, 5:38 pm

  Tags: Chris Wallace, Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox News Sunday, National Security Foreign Policy, War In Iraq

  absent serious moves towards national reconciliation, does the surge make

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• Conservatives continue to distort Clyburn's remarks to attack Democrats for being "invested in defeat in Iraq"

  Published: August 3, 2007, 9:03 pm

  Tags: Cal Thomas, Laura Ingraham, Neal Boortz, Sean Hannity, Abc Radio Networks, Cox Radio Syndication, Talk Radio Network, The Laura Ingraham Show, The Neal Boortz Show, The Sean Hannity Show, National Security Foreign Policy, War In Iraq

  Washington."In his August 2 nationally syndicated column, headlined "What if We Win?" Thomas pointed to Clyburn's comments as evidence that "[m]ost Democrats seem so invested in defeat in Iraq that they apparently have no 'Plan B,' which would be success."During the August 3 broadcast of her nationally syndicated radio show, Laura

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• Ingraham falsely asserted NY Times said "we should not update [FISA] to meet current advances in technology"

  Published: August 3, 2007, 8:30 pm

  Tags: Laura Ingraham, Fox Amp Friends, Fox News Channel, Domestic Spying, National Security Foreign Policy

  to make it easier for the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on some purely foreign telephone calls and e-mail. Such a step now requires court approval." The New York Times editorial endorsed Rockefeller's approach as well as an alternate approach by Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI): Senator Jay Rockefeller, the chairman of the Senate

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• MSNBC's Carlson claimed Obama "sounds so much like Bush" that "they appear identical"

  Published: August 3, 2007, 8:03 pm

  Tags: Tucker Carlson, Msnbc, Tucker, 2008 Elections, Barack Obama, Government Elections, National Security Foreign Policy, Terrorism, War In Iraq

  9-11 attacks, while a recent National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) -- which Obama cited in his August 1 speech -- indicated that Al Qaeda, which did attack the United States on 9-11, is gaining strength along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. Notably, Carlson's guests for the segment, Weekly Standard staff writer Matthew Continetti and

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• York column compounded Wash. Post reporters' misrepresentation of their own interview

  Published: August 3, 2007, 7:49 pm

  Tags: Byron York, The Hill, National Security Foreign Policy, War In Iraq

  news for Democrats, such as National Review's Cliff May, who misrepresented Clyburn's remarks in an op-ed titled "Good News Is Bad News: At least it is for politicians who have bet on America's defeat." From Byron York's August 3 column in The Hill: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and House Speaker Nancy

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• The State (SC) joins other media in misreporting Clyburn comments

  Published: August 3, 2007, 6:47 pm

  Tags: The Washington Post, National Security Foreign Policy, War In Iraq

  An August 3 article in the South Carolina newspaper The State began by declaring that "U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn, D-S.C., has been sharply criticized this week by Republicans for saying that a positive progress report from the war in Iraq could divide congressional Democrats on a timetable for withdrawal." In fact, Clyburn was responding to a

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• On Hardball, Cillizza asserted Democrats "need to prove" they can keep Americans "as safe as Republicans can"

  Published: August 3, 2007, 3:27 pm

  Tags: Chris Cillizza, Hardball, Msnbc, National Security Foreign Policy

  major parties" -- including national security, taxes, abortion, economy, immigration, education, war in Iraq, Social Security, ethics and corruption, and health care. Specifically, Democrats lead Republicans 47 percent to 35 percent on the war in Iraq and 42 percent to 40 percent on national security. A July 25-26 Rasmussen Reports survey

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• CLIPS: O'Reilly named "Worst Person" for claiming Americans don't want Mexicans "clustering in neighborhoods"

  Published: August 3, 2007, 3:07 pm

  Tags: Bill O Reilly, Keith Olbermann, Rush Limbaugh, Countdown Keith Olbermann, Fox News Channel, Msnbc, Premiere Radio Networks, The O Reilly Factor, The Rush Limbaugh Show, National Security Foreign Policy, Terrorism

  On the August 2 edition of MSNBC's Countdown, host Keith Olbermann named Fox News host Bill O'Reilly the "winner" of his nightly "Worst Person in the World" segment for comments he made about Mexican immigrants during the July 30 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor, which Media Matters for America documented. Olbermann quoted

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• NY Times quoted Crocker on benchmarks as inadequate indicies of progress, but didn't note Bush endorsed them

  Published: August 3, 2007, 12:39 pm

  Tags: The New York Times, National Security Foreign Policy, War In Iraq

  of benchmarks for improved security, political reconciliation and governance that the Iraqis have set for themselves. I agree, so does the Congress, and the bill reflects that recommendation. Upon release of the interim benchmarks report, Bush claimed that "[t]hose of us who believe the battle in Iraq can and must be won see the satisfactory

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• Is this foreign policy?

  Published: August 5, 2007, 4:21 pm

  Tags: National Security, Middle East

  Hugh Fitzgerald words on this. Fitzgerald: Throw in a copy of Slut The Bush Administration announces in the same breath that “over ten years” Israel will receive “$30 billion in weapons,” and that Saudi Arabia will get “$20 billion” in weapons to stave off Iran (over what time period? 10 years, like the

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• Only a matter of time

  Published: August 4, 2007, 8:54 am

  Tags: National Security, Terrorism, Middle East

  becoming a dominant international power in the Middle East. Moreover, these jihad depredations targeting America antedated the earliest vestiges of the Zionist movement by a century, and the formal creation of Israel by 162 years exploding the ahistorical canard that American support for the modern Jewish state is a prerequisite for

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• The Opinionator: A blog at the NY Times by Tobin Harshaw & Chris Suellentrop

  Published: August 7, 2007, 12:44 am

  Tags: Justice Dept, Tamm Thomas, National Security, Harshaw Tobin, Times Select

  Tags: Justice Department, National Security, wiretapping While President Bush's signing of the new wiretap law is the big news on the national security front, a lesser but related story is gaining a bit of attention on the Web. Newsweek was first with the news: The controversy over President Bush's warrantless surveillance program took

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• MSNBC's Reid aired "Strangelove" attack, but didn't note Romney's agreement with Obama on substance

  Published: August 7, 2007, 1:16 pm

  Tags: Chip Reid, Msnbc, Msnbc Live, 2008 Elections, Barack Obama, Government Elections, Mitt Romney, National Security Foreign Policy, Rudy Giuliani

  During an interview with Barbara Comstock -- an adviser to Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney -- on the August 7 edition of MSNBC Live, congressional correspondent Chip Reid uncritically aired Romney's claim during an August 5 Republican presidential debate that Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) "went from going to sit down to tea with

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