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• Krauthammer mischaracterized new FISA law as limited to foreign-to-foreign communications

  Published: August 7, 2007, 6:06 pm

  Tags: Charles Krauthammer, Fox News Channel, Special Report Brit Hume, The New York Times

  6 edition of Fox News' Special Report with Brit Hume: BAIER: The other thing they [Congress] did was pass a modernization of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. But it has, Charles, a six-month sunset on it, something that the White House really didn't want to see. KRAUTHAMMER: Well, that means it will become an issue early

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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

  6 edition of Fox News' Special Report with Brit Hume: BUSH: I'm confident that with actionable intelligence, we will be able to bring top Al Qaeda to justice. We're in constant communications with the Pakistan government. It's in their interest that foreign fighters be brought to justice. After all, these are the same ones

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• Fox's Angle misrepresented NASA correction to claim 1934 is now "hottest year" on record

  Published: August 12, 2007, 3:49 pm

  Tags: Jim Angle, Fox News Channel, Special Report Brit Hume, Global Warming, Science Environment

  10 edition of Fox News' Special Report with Brit Hume, guest host and chief Washington correspondent Jim Angle reported that NASA was forced "to admit it was wrong when it said that 1998 was the hottest year on record" and that NASA "now says 1934 was the hottest year, followed by 1998, then 1921." But Angle did not inform

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• Fox News' Angle, Wash. Post editorial misrepresented upcoming Iraq report as "Petraeus' report"

  Published: August 16, 2007, 9:20 pm

  Tags: Jim Angle, Fox News Channel, Special Report Brit Hume, The Washington Post, National Security Foreign Policy, War In Iraq

  A Positive Progress Report In Iraq Clyburn: "[It Would Be] A Real Big Problem For Us." (Dan Balz and Chris Cillizza, "Clyburn: Positive Report By Petraeus Could Split House Democrats On War," The Washington Post, 7/30/07) From the August 15 edition of Fox News' Special Report with Brit Hume: ANGLE: And now

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• Reporting on Pentagon IG finding that officers violated ethics rules, Fox's Griffin ignored officer's alleged actions

  Published: August 16, 2007, 9:00 pm

  Tags: Jennifer Griffin, Fox News Channel, Special Report Brit Hume, Ethics, Government Elections

  edition of Fox News' Special Report with Brit Hume: JIM ANGLE (guest anchor and Fox News chief Washington correspondent): Seven current or former U.S. military officers have been found in violation of ethics rules for appearing in uniform in a promotional video for a Christian evangelical group. The Defense Department

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• On Special Report, Hume told the truth on warrantless wiretaps, then corrected himself

  Published: August 22, 2007, 2:07 pm

  Tags: Brit Hume, Fox News Channel, Special Report Brit Hume, Domestic Spying, National Security Foreign Policy

  edition of Fox News' Special Report, host Brit Hume reported: "The Senate Judiciary Committee's latest deadline for the White House to comply with its subpoena for documents relating to warrantless -- allegedly warrantless wiretaps has come and gone." Contrary to Hume's assertion that the administration has only

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• Hume misrepresented study on the link between solar activity and global warming

  Published: August 24, 2007, 1:26 pm

  Tags: Brit Hume, Fox News Channel, Special Report Brit Hume, Global Warming, Science Environment

  edition of Fox News' Special Report with Brit Hume: HUME: And now the most interesting two minutes in television, the latest from the "Political Grapevine." Many media outlets, such as the recent Newsweek magazine cover story, portray man-made global warming as a certified fact and those who deny it as conspirators. But

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• Fox's Vogel misrepresented Democrats' CA ballot measures as "protect[ing] the current process"

  Published: August 24, 2007, 3:30 pm

  Tags: Anita Vogel, Fox News Channel, Special Report Brit Hume, 2008 Elections, Government Elections

  In Vogel's segment on Special Report, Eckery and Swiller were identitifed as "initiative supporter" and "initiative opponent," respectively. From the August 23 edition of Fox News' Special Report with Brit Hume: HUME: A controversial political reform plan, so called, headed for California's state ballot next June would

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• Hannity is Olbermann's "Worst Person" for defending Nugent's comments

  Published: August 28, 2007, 3:31 pm

  Tags: Brit Hume, Keith Olbermann, Sean Hannity, Countdown Keith Olbermann, Fox News Channel, Hannity Amp Colmes, Msnbc, Special Report Brit Hume, 2008 Elections, Global Warming, Government Elections, Science Environment

  warming.' Come on, Brit, don't make these so easy for me." From the August 27 edition of MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann: OLBERMANN: The runner-up, good old Brit Hume of Fixed News. New Scientist magazine reporting University of Washington mathematics and atmospheric science Professor Ka-Kit Tung's very

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• Sabato, Sanchez dismissed as "politics" likely Dem objections to potential Chertoff nomination

  Published: August 29, 2007, 1:07 pm

  Tags: Larry Sabato, Leslie Sanchez, Cnn, Fox News Channel, Special Report Brit Hume, The Situation Room, Government Elections, Nominations

  edition of Fox News' Special Report with Brit Hume: BAIER: The president said Solicitor General Paul Clement will serve as acting attorney general after Gonzales leaves September 17th. With solid conservative credentials, Clement could be in the running as a permanent replacement. Republican strategists are pushing the White

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• TV news outlets focused on Clinton fundraiser Hsu but ignored Romney finance co-chair Fabian's indictment for fraud

  Published: August 31, 2007, 9:24 pm

  Tags: American Morning, Cnn, Cnn Newsroom, Fox News Channel, Hannity Amp Colmes, Lou Dobbs Tonight, Nbc, Nbc Nightly News, Special Report Brit Hume, The Big Story John Gibson, The Situation Room, Today Show, 2008 Elections, Government Elections, Hillary Clinton, Mitt Romney

  the following shows included reports on or discussions about Hsu, but none reported or discussed Fabian: CNN Newsroom, August 31 CNN's American Morning, August 31 CNN's The Situation Room, August 30 NBC's Nightly News with Brian Williams, August 30 CNN's Lou Dobbs Tonight, August 30 Fox News'

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• Fox News' Hume, Baier uncritically aired Bush's claim on troop withdrawals

  Published: September 5, 2007, 5:06 pm

  Tags: Bret Baier, Brit Hume, Fox News Channel, Special Report Brit Hume, National Security Foreign Policy, War In Iraq

  4 edition of Fox News' Special Report with Brit Hume, chief White House correspondent Bret Baier uncritically aired President Bush's statement during a September 3 speech in Iraq that "[i]f the kind of success we are now seeing continues, it will be possible to maintain the same level of security with fewer American forces."

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• Fox News' Wilson, CBS affiliate misrepresented Couric's claims about Fallujah, Anbar

  Published: September 6, 2007, 6:43 pm

  Tags: Brian Wilson, Fox News Channel, Special Report Brit Hume, Wcbs, National Security Foreign Policy, War In Iraq

  Office progress report on Iraqi benchmarks, "[i]t is unclear whether sectarian violence in Iraq has decreased." The report also stated that "the average number of daily attacks against civilians remained about the same over the last six months [February to July 2007]." During the "Political Grapevine" segment of Special

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• Olbermann awarded Hume a Worst Person "bronze" for claiming Al Qaeda was in Iraq "before we got there"

  Published: September 11, 2007, 2:36 pm

  Tags: Brit Hume, Countdown Keith Olbermann, Fox News Channel, Msnbc, Special Report Brit Hume, National Security Foreign Policy, War In Iraq

  not under his control now. Brit just thought it was OK to make all that stuff up." From the September 10 edition of MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann: OLBERMANN: The bronze to Brit Hume of Fox Noise, host of its newscast of record. He has asked the rhetorical question now about Iraq, "Who are we fighting there now? Al

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• Krauthammer's claims about Bush's "steely" resolve against Al Qaeda conflict with reported facts

  Published: September 12, 2007, 8:49 pm

  Tags: Charles Krauthammer, Fox News Channel, Special Report Brit Hume, Homeland Security, National Security Foreign Policy, Terrorism, Torture

  edition of Fox News' Special Report with Brit Hume: KRAUTHAMMER: We can never know how safe we are because we can be hit tomorrow, as we were unexpectedly on 9-11. What we can say is we've gone six years, and nobody expected we would go six weeks or six months. Then people spoke about Al Qaeda has a cycle of a year or two

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