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Tuesday, 9-6-05
1. CBS Commentator Charges Bush Doesn't Give "a Damn" About Blacks
CBS News Sunday Morning "contributor" Nancy Giles, in the only commentary aired on the show on Sunday, delivered a blistering diatribe in which she charged that "if the majority of the hardest hit victims of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans were white people, they would not have gone for days without food and water" and insisted that "the real war is not in Iraq, but right here in America. It's the War on Poverty, and it's a war that's been ignored and lost." She complained that "we've repeatedly given tax cuts to the wealthiest and left our most vulnerable American citizens to basically fend for themselves." Giles scolded Bush for finding photo-ops with some "black folks to hug" while he skipped "the messy parts of New Orleans." She castigated Bush for how he "has put himself at risk by visiting the troops in Iraq, but didn't venture anywhere near the Superdome or the convention center, where thousands of victims, mostly black and poor, needed to see that he gave a damn."
2. Race-Baiting by Blitzer & Brown; Race Raised by Williams & Koppel
CNN's Wolf Blitzer on Friday afternoon repeatedly prodded reluctant Congressional Black Caucus member Elijah Cummings to blame racism for delays in rescuing hurricane victims in New Orleans. When Cummings demurred from such a blanket accusation, Blitzer wouldn't give up: "There are some critics who are saying, and I don't know if you're among those, but people have said to me, had this happened in a predominantly white community, the federal government would have responded much more quickly. Do you believe that?" Later, on CNN's NewsNight, Aaron Brown took up the same agenda with Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones, lecturing her: "Now, look, here's the question, okay? And then we'll end this. Do you think the reason that they're not there or the food is not there or the cruise ships aren't there or all this stuff that you believe should be there, isn't this a matter of race and/or class?" ABC's Ted Koppel charged on Nightline that "the slow response to the victims of Hurricane Katrina has led to questions about race, poverty and a seemingly indifferent government."
3. Moran Hits Bush on "Resources" for Iraq Over Hurricane Victims
ABC's Terry Moran on Friday afternoon put politics at the forefront in hurricane disaster coverage when, on a storm-ravaged Biloxi street, he confronted President Bush about how "one of the things you hear here is people saying 'there's a lot of resources being devoted to Iraq. Now this country needs them.' And they're frustrated about that. What do you say to the people who say there's too much money being spent on Iraq and it's time to bring it home?" ABC News led its 1:22pm EDT special with anchor Dan Harris insisting that spending on Iraq is "a common complaint -- what we're hearing from many people about the resources being spent in Iraq." Friday's World News Tonight featured Moran's question.
4. Totenberg Blames Tax Cuts for Flood Disaster in New Orleans
Sounding like a parody of a liberal, but in all seriousness, NPR and ABC reporter Nina Totenberg charged on Inside Washington, at the end of a discussion about how National Guard equipment deployed to Iraq is supposedly impairing rescue efforts, that "for years, we have cut our taxes, cut our taxes and let the infrastructure throughout the country go and this is just the first of a number of other crumbling things that are going to happen to us." An astounded Charles Krauthammer pleaded: "You must be kidding here." But Totenberg reaffirmed: "I'm not kidding."
5. Damon on Kanye West's Anti-Bush Outburst: "I Let Out a Cheer"
Monday's Access Hollywood teased with a clip of rapper Kanye West's blast on Friday's Concert for Hurricane Relief broadcast on several NBC channels, "George Bush doesn't care about black people," followed by a clip of actor Matt Damon: "I let out a cheer." The program also featured a clip of this ludicrous claim from West on the fund-raising show: "We already realize a lot of the people that could help are at war right now fighting another way and they've given them permission to go down and shoot us." A few minutes later on Access Hollywood, co-host Nancy O'Dell touted how "it was Kanye West's anti-Bush remarks that caught the attention of Matt Damon and Susan Sarandon in Italy" at the Venice Film Festival. Viewers then heard this from actress Susan Sarandon: "I don't think that's an original thought, but it's probably true." Immediately after Sarandon, Access Hollywood played a longer soundbite from Damon who claimed the White House press corps is too nice to Bush and thus "not one of them's an honest journalist."
6. Network Reporters Assess Rehnquist Through a Liberal Prism
The death of Chief Justice William Rehnquist on Saturday night didn't get as much media attention as such a passing normally would, but I did notice that network reviews of his career approached his views negatively from the left. Instead of saying he championed the rights of crime victims, religious expression and of treating all equally without regard to race, CBS reporter Jim Stewart fretted that "under Rehnquist, criminals found it hard to get multiple appeals in federal court. The line between church and state became more porous. Affirmative action became more difficult to implement." CNN's Jeffrey Toobin trumpeted the survival of liberal policies: "Against the Chief Justice's wishes, the Constitution still protects a woman's right to choose abortion and a homosexual's right to have private consensual sex. Affirmative action survives. States may no longer execute the mentally retarded." ABC's Manuel Medrano relayed how "Rehnquist critics charged he was hostile to the rights of women and minorities, and accused him of harassing black voters."
Courtesy, MRC
1. CBS Commentator Charges Bush Doesn't Give "a Damn" About Blacks
CBS News Sunday Morning "contributor" Nancy Giles, in the only commentary aired on the show on Sunday, delivered a blistering diatribe in which she charged that "if the majority of the hardest hit victims of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans were white people, they would not have gone for days without food and water" and insisted that "the real war is not in Iraq, but right here in America. It's the War on Poverty, and it's a war that's been ignored and lost." She complained that "we've repeatedly given tax cuts to the wealthiest and left our most vulnerable American citizens to basically fend for themselves." Giles scolded Bush for finding photo-ops with some "black folks to hug" while he skipped "the messy parts of New Orleans." She castigated Bush for how he "has put himself at risk by visiting the troops in Iraq, but didn't venture anywhere near the Superdome or the convention center, where thousands of victims, mostly black and poor, needed to see that he gave a damn."
2. Race-Baiting by Blitzer & Brown; Race Raised by Williams & Koppel
CNN's Wolf Blitzer on Friday afternoon repeatedly prodded reluctant Congressional Black Caucus member Elijah Cummings to blame racism for delays in rescuing hurricane victims in New Orleans. When Cummings demurred from such a blanket accusation, Blitzer wouldn't give up: "There are some critics who are saying, and I don't know if you're among those, but people have said to me, had this happened in a predominantly white community, the federal government would have responded much more quickly. Do you believe that?" Later, on CNN's NewsNight, Aaron Brown took up the same agenda with Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones, lecturing her: "Now, look, here's the question, okay? And then we'll end this. Do you think the reason that they're not there or the food is not there or the cruise ships aren't there or all this stuff that you believe should be there, isn't this a matter of race and/or class?" ABC's Ted Koppel charged on Nightline that "the slow response to the victims of Hurricane Katrina has led to questions about race, poverty and a seemingly indifferent government."
3. Moran Hits Bush on "Resources" for Iraq Over Hurricane Victims
ABC's Terry Moran on Friday afternoon put politics at the forefront in hurricane disaster coverage when, on a storm-ravaged Biloxi street, he confronted President Bush about how "one of the things you hear here is people saying 'there's a lot of resources being devoted to Iraq. Now this country needs them.' And they're frustrated about that. What do you say to the people who say there's too much money being spent on Iraq and it's time to bring it home?" ABC News led its 1:22pm EDT special with anchor Dan Harris insisting that spending on Iraq is "a common complaint -- what we're hearing from many people about the resources being spent in Iraq." Friday's World News Tonight featured Moran's question.
4. Totenberg Blames Tax Cuts for Flood Disaster in New Orleans
Sounding like a parody of a liberal, but in all seriousness, NPR and ABC reporter Nina Totenberg charged on Inside Washington, at the end of a discussion about how National Guard equipment deployed to Iraq is supposedly impairing rescue efforts, that "for years, we have cut our taxes, cut our taxes and let the infrastructure throughout the country go and this is just the first of a number of other crumbling things that are going to happen to us." An astounded Charles Krauthammer pleaded: "You must be kidding here." But Totenberg reaffirmed: "I'm not kidding."
5. Damon on Kanye West's Anti-Bush Outburst: "I Let Out a Cheer"
Monday's Access Hollywood teased with a clip of rapper Kanye West's blast on Friday's Concert for Hurricane Relief broadcast on several NBC channels, "George Bush doesn't care about black people," followed by a clip of actor Matt Damon: "I let out a cheer." The program also featured a clip of this ludicrous claim from West on the fund-raising show: "We already realize a lot of the people that could help are at war right now fighting another way and they've given them permission to go down and shoot us." A few minutes later on Access Hollywood, co-host Nancy O'Dell touted how "it was Kanye West's anti-Bush remarks that caught the attention of Matt Damon and Susan Sarandon in Italy" at the Venice Film Festival. Viewers then heard this from actress Susan Sarandon: "I don't think that's an original thought, but it's probably true." Immediately after Sarandon, Access Hollywood played a longer soundbite from Damon who claimed the White House press corps is too nice to Bush and thus "not one of them's an honest journalist."
6. Network Reporters Assess Rehnquist Through a Liberal Prism
The death of Chief Justice William Rehnquist on Saturday night didn't get as much media attention as such a passing normally would, but I did notice that network reviews of his career approached his views negatively from the left. Instead of saying he championed the rights of crime victims, religious expression and of treating all equally without regard to race, CBS reporter Jim Stewart fretted that "under Rehnquist, criminals found it hard to get multiple appeals in federal court. The line between church and state became more porous. Affirmative action became more difficult to implement." CNN's Jeffrey Toobin trumpeted the survival of liberal policies: "Against the Chief Justice's wishes, the Constitution still protects a woman's right to choose abortion and a homosexual's right to have private consensual sex. Affirmative action survives. States may no longer execute the mentally retarded." ABC's Manuel Medrano relayed how "Rehnquist critics charged he was hostile to the rights of women and minorities, and accused him of harassing black voters."
Courtesy, MRC
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