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1. CNN Defends Hit on McCain Over 'Bitch,' Kurtz Chastises Sanchez A night after CNN host Rick Sanchez decided to try to create a scandal over John McCain's failure to rebuke a supporter who referred to Hillary Clinton as a "bitch," Sanchez on Wednesday declared McCain "should have distanced himself" from the remark and, since he didn't, the incident was newsworthy; McCain castigated CNN for its "biased reporting" and CNN's own media critic, Howard Kurtz agreed "his campaign has a point. That little incident was pretty badly hyped by Rick Sanchez." ABC got into the hype too as anchor Charles Gibson introduced a story on "another bit of controversy in the presidential race" which "involves the reaction of Senator John McCain when a lady at a town meeting asked him a question that contained a derogatory reference to Hillary Clinton." CNN's Sanchez whined about how in criticizing CNN's news judgment, McCain is "shooting the messenger, blaming me personally and CNN for his present plight." Sanchez laid bare his agenda as he excoriated McCain for not acting as Sanchez wanted: "His staff has put out several statements today. None of them offers an apology to women in general or to Hillary Clinton specifically." 2. NBC Catches Up With ABC to Highlight Safer, Better Life in Iraq Three weeks after ABC's World News aired the first of three stories then and since about significant declines in violence and improving living conditions in Iraq, NBC Nightly News caught up Wednesday night as anchor Brian Williams acknowledged: "We are all hearing more and more these days about a significant drop in violence and deaths in Iraq, even though 2007 some time ago became the bloodiest year of the war, yet for U.S. forces these new stats show a different trend." From Iraq, reporter Tom Aspell illustrated how life has improved: "A few months ago, Ali Hamid could not have sold balloons here on Jadriyah Street. He might have been kidnaped or killed. A few blocks away, Azar Habud might have been shot for giving Western-style haircuts in his barbershop. And nearby, Mohammed Hassan's ice cream shop is still busy, even though it was bombed twice in April, killing nine customers. Back then, explosions were a horrifying part of everyday life. Now, the U.S. military says rocket and mortar attacks in Iraq have dropped sharply in the last few months from 1,000 in June to fewer than 400 in October. And so have civilian deaths." 3. CBS Tribute to Mailer Avoids His Incendiary Left-Wing Theories On CBS's November 11 Sunday Morning, reporter Martha Teichner narrated a profile of recently deceased ultra left-wing author Norman Mailer, but managed to avoid reciting his more incendiary far-left claims. She described him as "a hell of a big man for a short guy, scrappy, brilliant, controversial. Slugging away at life and letters until the very end." Of course, this was the same Norman Mailer that said of the World Trade Center in October 2001: "Everything wrong with America led to the point where the country built that tower of Babel, which consequently had to be destroyed." Later Teichner remarked that "Mailer was unapologetically liberal, anti-war, anti-Nixon, anti-establishment." Well, he certainly was "anti-establishment" when he said to a London Telegraph reporter in February 2002: "America has an almost obscene infatuation with itself...The right wing benefitted so much from September 11 that, if I were still a conspiratorialist, I would believe they'd done it." At another point, Teichner observed that "Norman Mailer loved playing the political provocateur." That proved true when in 2003 Mailer asserted in a Times of London op-ed: "Bush thought white American men needed to know they were still good at something. That's where Iraq came in...." 4. Behar to Rain-Starved Georgians: Pray to Al Gore Not God The View's Joy Behar considers prayer a "distraction" from achieving scientific results which would be better achieved by praying for a fix for global warming. On the November 14 show, the co-hosts discussed Georgia Governor Sonny Purdue's prayer service for drought relief. Whoopi Goldberg, surprisingly defended the Governor, but Joy Behar fretted about the "separation of church and state," and hinted the Georgia residents should be praying to Al Gore instead: "Well, they need to be praying to people who will fix global warming and take care of the environment because that's more realistic." 5. Schedule of Bozell's Radio Interviews on His Hillary/Media Book Brent Bozell, President of the MRC, will be interviewed on a bunch of talk radio shows over the next several days about his new book published by Crown Forum, 'Whitewash: What the Media Won't Tell You About Hillary Clinton, But Conservatives Will.' A list of his scheduled interviews:
Kurtz Chastises Sanchez A night after CNN host Rick Sanchez decided to try to create a scandal over John McCain's failure to rebuke a supporter who referred to Hillary Clinton as a "bitch," Sanchez on Wednesday declared McCain "should have distanced himself" from the remark and, since he didn't, the incident was newsworthy; McCain castigated CNN for its "biased reporting" and CNN's own media critic, Howard Kurtz agreed "his campaign has a point. That little incident was pretty badly hyped by Rick Sanchez." ABC got into the hype too as anchor Charles Gibson introduced a story on "another bit of controversy in the presidential race" which "involves the reaction of Senator John McCain when a lady at a town meeting asked him a question that contained a derogatory reference to Hillary Clinton." On CNN's The Situation Room, Brian Todd informed viewers how on "Tuesday evening CNN anchor Rick Sanchez takes about six minutes at the very top of his prime time show, Out in the Open, raising questions about why Senator McCain didn't immediately chastise the woman for insulting Mrs. Clinton like that." Later, on Out in the Open, Sanchez whined about how in criticizing CNN's news judgment, McCain is "shooting the messenger, blaming me personally and CNN for his present plight." Sanchez laid bare his agenda as he excoriated McCain for not acting as Sanchez wanted: "His staff has put out several statements today. None of them offers an apology to women in general or to Hillary Clinton specifically." Sanchez devoted two segments Wednesday night to "John McCain & the B-Word." After looking at McCain's reaction to CNN and re-hashing what McCain did and should have done, Sanchez brought aboard left-wing radio talk show host Stephanie Miller to examine when it's okay to use the "B-word." Not surprisingly, MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann devoted a segment to the Monday exchange, at a South Carolina restaurant, between a woman in the audience -- who asked "how do we beat the bitch?" -- and McCain, an incident being pushed by liberal activists. The story in the 6 PM EST hour of The Situation Room highlighted this line from an e-mail sent to supporters by the McCain campaign: "We need you to stand with John McCain against Rick Sanchez and his friends at CNN and their biased reporting." [This item was posted late Wednesday night on the MRC's blog, NewsBusters.org: newsbusters.org ] The Wednesday CyberAlert posting, "CNN's Sanchez Erupts Over McCain Not Rebuking Hillary as 'Bitch,'" recounted: Trying to create a scandal over Republican presidential candidate John McCain's failure to rebuke a woman supporter who called Hillary Clinton a "bitch," CNN's Rick Sanchez led Tuesday night's Out in the Open with what he insisted was the "relevant and newsworthy" topic as he seriously asked: "Is John McCain done as a result of this?" He later speculated: "Is his campaign dead in the water?" Betraying the skew of those at CNN, Sanchez told guest Amy Holmes: "He could be in trouble for this from women, especially the ones that've been talking to me today in our newsroom who heard this and were offended." Sanchez's spin matched that of left-wing bloggers, a story in Wednesday's New York Times revealed: "The clip began showing on Web sites like Salon.com, the liberal site TPM.com and others, with bloggers asking why Mr. McCain had not taken the questioner to task." Setting up the video, Sanchez haughtily intoned: "You're going to hear a McCain supporter. She refers to Hillary Clinton using really what is a horrible word that is used to do nothing but demean women. Well, at the time, it was a supporter who said that. It wasn't until later on, when we watched the whole tape, which is what you're about to see, that you see McCain's reaction, or lack thereof, that we decided that this is both relevant and newsworthy, and important information to this campaign." An older woman at an event in South Carolina had asked: "How do we beat the bitch?" An appalled Sanchez complained: "He says 'that's an excellent question,' after somebody refers to Hillary Clinton as a B-word which rhymes with witch." For the CyberAlert rundown in full: www.mediaresearch.org CNN's follow-up story during the 6 PM EST hour of the November 14 The Situation Room: WOLF BLITZER: Right now, John McCain's campaign is having to respond to something someone else said. It involves one woman's use of some foul language, Hillary Clinton, and criticism of CNN. Let's go to Brian Todd. He's following this story. Brian, this has ignited some controversy. Give us the background. BRIAN TODD: It sure has, Wolf. John McCain's campaign is brushing back hard on a CNN prime time segment, accusing the network of bias. It started with an impromptu campaign stop by John McCain Monday in Hilton Head, South Carolina. A woman uses offensive language in asking how McCain can stop Senator Hillary Clinton's campaign momentum. VIDEO ATTRIBUTED TO YOUTUBE: UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: How do we beat the bitch? (LAUGHTER) SENATOR JOHN MCCAIN: May I give the translation? (LAUGHTER) MCCAIN: The way that- UNIDENTIFIED MAN: Senator, I thought she was talking about my ex-wife. MCCAIN: But that's an excellent question. You might know that there was a, there was a poll yesterday, a Rasmussen poll identified that shows me three points ahead of Senator Clinton in a head to head match up. (APPLAUSE) MCCAIN: I respect Senator Clinton. I respect anyone who gets the nomination of the Democrat Party.
TODD: The exchange plays out over less than a minute. Tuesday evening, CNN anchor Rick Sanchez takes about six minutes at the very top of his prime time show, Out in the Open, raising questions about why Senator McCain didn't immediately chastise the woman for insulting Mrs. Clinton like that. Sanchez set up a segment on the November 14 Out in the Open:
Tonight, John McCain is not apologizing, not apologizing. Last night, we showed you a clip of one of his supporters calling Hillary Clinton the B-word that rhymes with witch. You know the word well. Well, the Senator, he laughs, and then he calls it a good question. All right. So maybe he made a mistake. And most people in this situation would normally come back the next day and say, you know, I probably should have distanced myself from that comment and I shouldn't have laughed, and maybe I shouldn't allow any woman to be called such a demeaning word. Nope! Instead, today Senator McCain is e-mailing the comment with the Hillary bash to donors and asking them to send more money to his presidential campaign. ABC got into the topic and the MRC's Brad Wilmouth corrected the closed-captioning against the video to provide this transcript of the piece on the November 14 edition of ABC's World News: CHARLES GIBSON: Well, there is another bit of controversy in the presidential race tonight. Not so much about what a candidate said, but what he didn't say. It involves the reaction of Senator John McCain when a lady at a town meeting asked him a question that contained a derogatory reference to Hillary Clinton. ABC's Kate Snow reports.
KATE SNOW: The question came at a quick meet and greet at Trinity Restaurant in Hilton Head, South Carolina.
Safer, Better Life in Iraq Three weeks after ABC's World News aired the first of three stories then and since about significant declines in violence and improving living conditions in Iraq, NBC Nightly News caught up Wednesday night as anchor Brian Williams acknowledged: "We are all hearing more and more these days about a significant drop in violence and deaths in Iraq, even though 2007 some time ago became the bloodiest year of the war, yet for U.S. forces these new stats show a different trend." From Iraq, reporter Tom Aspell illustrated how life has improved: "A few months ago, Ali Hamid could not have sold balloons here on Jadriyah Street. He might have been kidnaped or killed. A few blocks away, Azar Habud might have been shot for giving Western-style haircuts in his barbershop. And nearby, Mohammed Hassan's ice cream shop is still busy, even though it was bombed twice in April, killing nine customers. Back then, explosions were a horrifying part of everyday life. Now, the U.S. military says rocket and mortar attacks in Iraq have dropped sharply in the last few months from 1,000 in June to fewer than 400 in October. And so have civilian deaths." Aspell noted how Iraqis get electricity for only seven hours a day and that many don't have access to clean water, but concluded with how "despite the everyday hardships, there is a bright note -- wedding halls are back in business" and "Iraqi authorities say weddings have tripled in the past month." [This item was posted Wednesday night on the MRC's blog, NewsBusters.org: newsbusters.org ] On Monday night, only the CBS Evening News reported the drop in mortar and rocket attacks. See the November 13 CyberAlert: www.mrc.org
Previous CyberAlert articles on how, until NBC's piece Wednesday night, ABC's World News has been the only broadcast network evening newscast airing reports from Iraq on improving conditions: October 31 CyberAlert: "ABC: Iraqis Adapt to 'New Normal' as 'Violence on Downward Trend.'" See: www.mrc.org November 2 CyberAlert: "Only ABC Reports Military's Stats on Violence Plunging in Iraq." See: www.mrc.org The MRC's Brad Wilmouth corrected the closed-captioning against the video to provide this transcript of the November 14 story on the NBC Nightly News: BRIAN WILLIAMS: We are all hearing more and more these days about a significant drop in violence and deaths in Iraq, even though 2007 some time ago became the bloodiest year of the war, yet for U.S. forces these new stats show a different trend. When our own Tom Aspell went out in Iraq to report this story, he found there are, indeed, signs of change.
TOM ASPELL: A few months ago, Ali Hamid could not have sold balloons here on Jadriyah Street. He might have been kidnaped or killed. A few blocks away, Azar Habud might have been shot for giving Western-style haircuts in his barbershop. And nearby, Mohammed Hassan's ice cream shop is still busy, even though it was bombed twice in April, killing nine customers. The second time was right in front of the shop, he says.
Left-Wing Theories On CBS's November 11 Sunday Morning, reporter Martha Teichner narrated a profile of recently deceased ultra left-wing author Norman Mailer, but managed to avoid reciting his more incendiary far-left claims. She described him as "a hell of a big man for a short guy, scrappy, brilliant, controversial. Slugging away at life and letters until the very end." Of course, this was the same Norman Mailer that said of the World Trade Center in October 2001: "Everything wrong with America led to the point where the country built that tower of Babel, which consequently had to be destroyed." Later Teichner remarked that "Mailer was unapologetically liberal, anti-war, anti-Nixon, anti-establishment." Well, he certainly was "anti-establishment" when he said to a London Telegraph reporter in February 2002: "America has an almost obscene infatuation with itself...The right wing benefitted so much from September 11 that, if I were still a conspiratorialist, I would believe they'd done it." At another point, Teichner observed that "Norman Mailer loved playing the political provocateur." That proved true when in 2003 Mailer asserted in a Times of London op-ed: "Bush thought white American men needed to know they were still good at something. That's where Iraq came in...." None of these extremist statements by Mailer made it into the Sunday Morning segment. More on Mailer's October 2001 comments: www.mediaresearch.org More on Mailer's February 2002 comments: www.mediaresearch.org More on Mailer's 2003 comments: www.mediaresearch.org However, Teichner did devote a generous thirty seconds to an incident in which "Mailer was in real trouble after he got drunk at a party and stabbed his second wife with a pen knife." Teichner observed that "the incident left him shaken." [This item, by Kyle Drennen, was posted on Wednesday afternoon on the MRC's blog, NewsBusters.org: newsbusters.org ] Teichner devoted another thirty seconds to Mailer's crusade to free convicted murderer, Jack Abbot, and how "in 1981, six weeks after Abbot was freed, he attacked and killed a man." Teichner described how "Mailer was vilified and acknowledged his mistake." However, she followed that with, "But he was never afraid to try something new...He even tried acting, most recently in 2005...Appearing in the television show Gilmore Girls." Well, as long as Mailer was willing to try new things, letting the occasional murderer go free was no big deal. After all, even Mailer admitted about Abbott case that he was "willing to gamble with the safety of certain elements of society to save this man's talent...." Teichner ended the segment with a description of Mailer's final work: "He published his last book just three-and-a-half weeks before his death. It was called On God: An Uncommon Conversation. In it he wrote: 'I think that piety is oppressive. It takes all the air out of thought.' Pious, he was not." Here is the full transcript of the segment: CHARLES OSGOOD: As you very likely heard by now, Norman Mailer died yesterday morning at the age of 84. For almost 60 years, the life and writings of Mailer provoked, and shocked, and entertained. Summing up such a life is a daunting task. That's what we've asked of Martha Teichner.
MARTHA TEICHNER: He was a hell of a big man for a short guy, scrappy, brilliant, controversial. Slugging away at life and letters until the very end. He was married six times, fathered eight children, dabbled in politics, drugs, alcohol, counter-culture, TV and the movies. But managed along the way to write close to 40 books. He won the National Book Award, plus two Pulitzer Prizes, and was one of America's most outspoken literary voices.
to Al Gore Not God The View's Joy Behar considers prayer a "distraction" from achieving scientific results which would be better achieved by praying for a fix for global warming. On the November 14 show, the co-hosts discussed Georgia Governor Sonny Purdue's prayer service for drought relief. Whoopi Goldberg, surprisingly defended the Governor, but Joy Behar fretted about the "separation of church and state," and hinted the Georgia residents should be praying to Al Gore instead: "Well, they need to be praying to people who will fix global warming and take care of the environment because that's more realistic." Co-host Sherri Shepherd asked Behar what she would say if indeed there is rain, which is in the forecast. Behar gave a dismissive response stating she "would consider that a coincidence. But that's me because I'm the way I am." [This item was adopted from the NewsBusters post by Justin McCarthy: newsbusters.org ] Joy Behar continued her "distraction" line charging that prayer can distract us from advancements in the medical field. Shepherd and Whoopi responded that God provides to mankind this science for man to explore with Whoopi asking why we can't have both prayer and science. The entire discussion:
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: You know, yesterday, the Governor of Georgia held a prayer service outside on the mall-esque part of the, of the Capitol. He invited all denominations to come and pray, didn't make any, you know, say only you. He said everybody who wants to join in here can come and pray. And what they were praying for was praying for rain. Now, one of the things that I found astonishing is that, in watching different television programs, people seemed to have lost their mind that he would pray for rain. And I thought to myself, but the American Indians prayed for rain. Everyone prays for rain. What's the problem? And people said, well, he's on the Capitol. But he wasn't. He was not in the Capitol where so you can't have any discussion about separation of church and state. But we are in a very interesting time with religion because people are really frightened it seems to me. Do you feel the same way?
on His Hillary/Media Book Brent Bozell, President of the MRC, will be interviewed on a bunch of talk radio shows over the next several days about his new book published by Crown Forum, 'Whitewash: What the Media Won't Tell You About Hillary Clinton, But Conservatives Will.' A list of his scheduled interviews: THURSDAY, November 15: # WHO in Des Moines with Jan Mickelson at 9:05 AM CST. # WDUN in Gainesville, Georgia with Martha Zoller at 10:35 AM EST. # WBAP in Dallas/Ft. Worth with Mark Davis at 10:05 AM CST. # KEX in Portland, Oregon at 9:30 AM PST. # KDKA in Pittsburgh with Kevin Miller at 1:05 PM EST. # "Janet Parshall's America" on Salem Radio at 3:05 PM EST.*
# KVI in Seattle with Kirby Wilbur at 6:05 AM PST. # Laura Ingraham's nationally syndicated show at 11:15 AM EST.*
# WCBM in Baltimore with Tom Marr at 10:05 AM EST. # Mike Gallagher's show on Salem Radio at 11:05 AM EST.* # KOA in Denver with Mike Rosen at 10 AM MST. # KARN in Little Rock with Dave Elswick at 3:05 PM CST. # WBAL in Baltimore with Ron Smith at 4:05 PM EST.
# WJR in Detroit with Paul W. Smith at 8:20 AM EST. # Hugh Hewitt's show on Salem Radio at 3:20 PM PST.* # Michael Reagan's nationally syndicated show at 4:30 PM PST.*
# WLS in Chicago with Don Wade at 8:40 AM CST.
For Windows Media, Real or MP3 audio, check this node on the MRC's blog: newsbusters.org Bozell also appeared Monday night on FNC's Hannity & Colmes. For Flash video on You Tube of the segment with Bozell, as well as downloadable Real video, Windows Media video and MP3 audio, go to this page on the MRC's blog: newsbusters.org Bozell's book: Uncovering a Fifteen Year Love Affair How could America's presidential front-runner be a woman who has held only one elective office and had staggering numbers of personal, political, and financial scandals? How did the First Lady to a disgraced, impeached president become a presidential front-runner despite never having held elective office before 2001? And how did this happen given her staggering number of personal, political, and financial scandals -- and her leftist political agenda? Authors L. Brent Bozell and Tim Graham peel back the layers of Hillary Clinton's success to expose the real shocker -- not Travelgate or Whitewater -- but a fifteen year love affair by the liberal media, starting with Time magazine, who first introduced Hillary Clinton to the country as an "amalgam of Betty Crocker, Mother Teresa and Oliver Wendell Holmes." The elite media's continued and unprecedented favoritism is the key to Hillary's mythic political standing. They have downplayed or ignored her every scandal and recast her ultra-liberalism as being in the political center. What's even more stunning is the incredible number of stories that have been under-reported, excused and buried. To expose the truth, the authors interviewed dozens of leading conservatives who want Americans to hear the whole story, including Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, Mark Levin, Laura Ingraham, Cal Thomas, Newt Gingrich and many others. Whitewash: What the Media Won't Tell You About Hillary Clinton, But Conservatives Will Order your copy today! Go to: www.mrc.org
Or, to order from Amazon: www.amazon.com Tuesday, November 13 was the release date and so it should be in bookstores this week.
-- Brent Baker
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