MMFA Items
• Washington Post ombudsman: readers angry over Lewinsky story morning after Clinton DNC speech
• “Media Matters,” week of July 30
• FOX's Barone said Kerry audience was “silent” on military-strength line -- but they cheered
• FOX “hard news” host: Kerry's Senate record “really is an area of great vulnerability”
• NYT article on discredited Drudge story failed to report paper's own executive editor had debunked it
• Carlson attempted to downplay Republican attacks on Cleland
• Deficit deceit: Matthews falsely claimed “deficit is not being caused by tax cuts”
• FOX talking heads obsessed with Democratic “hate”
• CNN amnesia: Forgot TNR report on Bush plans when Al Qaeda suspect arrested during Dem Convention
• Cables, right-wing radio ran with debunked Drudge charges on Kerry combat films
• Savage commentary on Dem Convention: “Obergrupenführer Clinton,” “Grupenführer Carter,” “Brigadeführer Daschle,” “dirtbag” Maya Angelou
• Limbaugh's snow job on the Dem Convention
• Mitchell and Fineman mimicked GOP talking points on Edwards's foreign policy experience
• In “World Exclusive,” Drudge dredged up discredited charge that Kerry filmed reenacted combat scenes for future political career
• O'Reilly on Michael Moore's “power”: "[T]his happened in Nazi Germany"
• Tucker Carlson's amnesia: “Nobody prevented anyone from voting” in Florida
• Savage rant: Compared Feldt to Goebbels; falsely claimed “illegal aliens” have voting rights
• O'Reilly questioned if Kennedy would show up to convention ... as Kennedy spoke behind him
• On CNN, Boortz falsely claimed Dems barred Carter from prior conventions
• FOX hosts ridiculed Heinz Kerry speech; referenced Eva Perón; said Heinz Kerry “got off on a weird foot”
• O'Reilly misled convention week audience about education spending
• CNN anchor Kagan to retired Marine Dem Convention speaker: “Why are you not a Republican?”
• Goldberg distorted poll of DNC delegates
• Hannity echoed GOP claim that Kerry is “out of the mainstream”; facts show otherwise
• Evita's Andersen and FOX's Hill: Hillary Clinton's 2008 aspirations shown through convention speech
• Bozell repeated lie that Lay slept in Lincoln Bedroom during Clinton years
• CNN's Miles O'Brien wants to see if Howard Dean “melts down or something”
• FOX & Friends played up “shove it” flap; Heinz Kerry corrected the record on editor's remarks
• O'Reilly lied about Howard Dean's Iraq position
• Coulter spiked from USA Today: Why was she hired in the first place?
• Carlson falsely claimed Clinton called half the country “wackos” in convention speech
• Matthews won't take no for an answer: Continued “Hillary '08” obsession with seven consecutive questions
• Cable news networks obsess over Teresa Heinz Kerry comment; downplay Tribune-Review's right-wing history
• Frustrated by GOP guest's response, FOX's Jarrett answered his own leading questions
• CNN's Bill Schneider painted misleading picture of Democratic delegates
• Novak on Gore's “rants,” “mean” Hillary Clinton, and “flesh-eating” DNC delegates
• Carr lied about Dem Convention's impact on Boston's pregnant women, cancer patients
• Pre-convention Clinton smears
• On eve of Dem Convention, FOX News Sunday gave final say to Kerry-basher Howie Carr
• O'Reilly's Dem Convention preview: Daschle's “no good”; Pelosi's a “nut”; Cleland's “strange”

• CJR: CNN slavishly imitates FOX's “most dubious ploys and policies” at convention
• Lewis in Salon.com: Hume “moved” by Edwards speech
• Max Blumenthal: “Shove it” reporter is part of Scaife's longtime “Smother Teresa” campaign
• Salon: USA Today kills ludicrous Ann Coulter story!
• Confessore on the “FOXification-of-CNN”
• CJR: “like a game of telephone,” AP morphs Teresa Heinz Kerry incident into “factually incorrect” account
• Washington Post's Kurtz: FOX News “blew off” Gore and Carter speeches -- “the kind of thing that makes critics question whether Fox has a Republican agenda”
• Salon: TV coverage of Boston, day one, slanted skeptically against the Democrats
• CJR: NYT doesn't back up assertion of Democratic “anger”
• CAP: FNC at the DNC
• LA Times: Dems wonder if FNC will give them a “fair shake”
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