Right-wing media continue to repeat false claim that Castro endorsed Clinton and Obama |
| Published: August 30, 2007, 6:58 pm |
| Tags: glenn beck, cnn headline news, fox news channel, the washington times, 2008 elections, barack obama, government elections, hillary clinton, national security foreign policy, terrorism |
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On the August 29 edition of his CNN Headline News program, Glenn Beck falsely claimed that Cuban dictator Fidel Castro had given an "endorsement" to Sens. Barack Obama (D-IL) and Hillary Clinton (D-NY) in an August 28 column in the Cuban newspaper Granma. Beck's guest, radio talk show host and former Texas state Sen. Dan Patrick, echoed Beck's assertion, claiming that Castro "thinks" Clinton or Obama "would be a good president." Similarly, on the August 29 edition of Fox News' Your World, guest host Dagen McDowell falsely claimed that Obama and Clinton "rack[ed] up another endorsement today, this one coming straight from Cuba's Fidel Castro." In fact, as Media Matters for America has noted, at no point in his column did Castro endorse Clinton or Obama; to the contrary, he attributed to Clinton and Obama a pro-democratic view that he called an "error," and he said of Clinton and Obama, "They are not making politics: they are playing a game of cards on a [ Full article ] |
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