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

  Obama's (D-IL) recent foreign policy statements: "[I]n one week, he went from saying he's going to sit down, you know, for tea, with our enemies, but then he's going to bomb our allies. I mean, he's gone from Jane Fonda to Dr. Strangelove in one week." Romney was referring to Obama's statement in an August 1 speech that

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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

  Barack Obama for his recent foreign policy statements." Mitchell did not report what those statements were. Nor did she note that during the course of the debate, both Giuliani and Romney acknowledged their agreement with the substance of Obama's "foreign policy statement." ABC's chief Washington correspondent George

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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 improve collection of foreign intelligence in a manner that doesn't compromise civil liberties of U.S. citizens.' " The New York Times reported on August 1 that "Democratic leaders have expressed a new willingness to work with the White House to amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to make it easier for the National

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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

  Obama's (D-IL) August 1 foreign policy speech -- in which Obama stated that "[i]f we have actionable intelligence about high-value terrorist targets and [Pakistani] President [Pervez] Musharraf won't act, we will" -- MSNBC host Tucker Carlson labeled Obama "the former peace candidate" and claimed that Obama "sounds so much like Bush

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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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• 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

  attacking Barack Obama's foreign policy, accusing the Illinois senator of being wildly inconsistent." Reid did not report Obama's actual statement regarding terrorists in Pakistan, nor did he note that during the course of the debate, both Giuliani and Romney acknowledged their agreement with the substance of Obama's "foreign

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• Couric ignored Bush dodge on Pakistan during joint press conference with Afghanistan's Karzai

  Published: August 7, 2007, 4:57 pm

  Tags: Katie Couric, Cbs, Cbs Evening News, National Security Foreign Policy, Terrorism

  in their interest that foreign fighters be brought to justice. After all, these are the same ones who were plotting to kill President Musharraf. We share a concern. And I'm confident, with real actionable intelligence, we will get the job done. By contrast, both ABC's World News with Charles Gibson and NBC's Nightly News with

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• Bill Sammon reported contrast in Obama, Bush positions on Pakistan, but not Bush flip-flops

  Published: August 7, 2007, 7:30 pm

  Tags: Bill Sammon, Fox News Channel, Special Report Brit Hume, 2008 Elections, Barack Obama, Government Elections, National Security Foreign Policy, Terrorism

  week?" During an August 1 foreign policy speech, Obama said, "If we have actionable intelligence about high-value terrorist targets [in Pakistan] and President Musharraf won't act, we will." Sammon replied: "I think that was the president putting some distance between himself and Barack Obama, saying, 'Look, we'll go after

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• CNN reported Army's recruiting goal without noting previous CNN report on new recruiting incentives

  Published: August 8, 2007, 5:15 pm

  Tags: Suzanne Malveaux, Cnn, The Situation Room, National Security Foreign Policy

  that a change in Pentagon policy may have assisted the Pentagon in meeting these numbers. CNN Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr reported on the July 30 edition of The Situation Room that "the Army has been having trouble signing up new recruits. So, it has got a new idea: a $20,000 bonus if you sign up and you agree to ship out for

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