http://mediamatters.org/tools/syndication/tag_rss/alan_colmes This link is for use by RSS-enabled software to retrieve Media Matters items matching the term: Alan Colmes en-US Copyright 2009, Media Matters for America http://mediamatters.org/items/200812100014 Disregarding U.S. attorney Patrick Fitzgerald's warning to "not cast aspersions on people for being named or being discussed" in the criminal complaint against Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, several in the media have used the scandal as an opportunity to engage in suggestions of guilt-by-association against President-elect Barack Obama, by rehashing Obama's purportedly "questionable associations," or suggesting that Obama is a product of corrupt "Chicago politics." http://mediamatters.org/items/200812100014 Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:43:11 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200810140011 On <em><em>Hannity &amp; Colmes, </em></em>Dick Morris falsely claimed that Sen. Barack Obama served as "general counsel" to the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN). In fact, while Obama was part of a team of attorneys that represented ACORN in a lawsuit against the State of Illinois, Obama was never "general counsel" to ACORN. http://mediamatters.org/items/200810140011 Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:19:32 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200809090009 On <em>Hannity &amp; Colmes</em>, Alan Colmes stated that "there are those who have said" that Sen. Barack Obama is a Muslim, but "it's not a Fox thing." On his radio show, Sean Hannity also said that "[n]o one has ever suggested that" Obama is a Muslim. In fact, Fox News hosts -- one of whom asked if an affectionate gesture by the Obamas was "a terrorist fist jab" -- have repeatedly promoted false reports about Obama's religion, including the false report that Obama was educated in a madrassa. http://mediamatters.org/items/200809090009 Tue, 9 Sep 2008 12:42:52 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200808270006 On August 26, Fox News aired just over two minutes of former Virginia Gov. Mark Warner's keynote address to the convention. After returning from a commercial, Alan Colmes stated, "In other election news, an independent group supporting John McCain released an ad last week attacking [Sen.] Barack Obama's ties to former Weather Underground leader Bill Ayers," and aired an ad from the Obama campaign responding to the independent ad. Colmes and Sean Hannity then interviewed Rudy Giuliani. http://mediamatters.org/items/200808270006 Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:22:19 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200808050007 On <em>Hannity &amp; Colmes</em>, Alan Colmes questioned David Freddoso's assertion in his new book that Sen. Barack Obama "thr[e]w all of his opponents off the ballot on a technicality, so that those voters have no choice but to elect him. This is precisely how he first won his state Senate seat in 1996." But Colmes pointed out that the "technicality" that Freddoso described included allegedly forged petitions and signatures reportedly from people who did not live within the district that the Senate seat represented. http://mediamatters.org/items/200808050007 Tue, 5 Aug 2008 16:38:52 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200802260008 On <em>Hannity &amp; Colmes</em>, Sean Hannity declared that Louis Farrakhan "had nice things to say" about Sen. Barack Obama, but did not mention that Obama responded to Farrakhan's remarks with a statement noting that "I have been ... a consistent denunciator of Louis Farrakhan." http://mediamatters.org/items/200802260008 Tue, 26 Feb 2008 18:52:50 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200801160007 On <em>Hannity &amp; Colmes</em>, Dick Morris claimed that the Federal Election Commission "won't let us run" <em>Hillary: The Movie</em>, a film about Sen. Hillary Clinton, "in movie theaters," adding that "[t]he Clinton appointees [on the FEC] are blocking it." But David Bossie, the film's executive producer, was recently quoted as saying, "I can put it in theaters, I just can't let anybody know it's there," referring to an FEC requirement that Citizens United, which released the film, comply with disclosure requirements under campaign finance law to advertise the film. http://mediamatters.org/items/200801160007 Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:27:29 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200801020003 Referring to a video clip of John Edwards discussing campaign finances at an appearance in Emmetsburg, Iowa, Republican pollster Frank Luntz stated: "But the problem with Edwards is, whenever he brings up money, people remember how wealthy he is, and they have a hard time listening to him complain about other candidates spending money when he himself is worth dozens and dozens of millions of dollars." But Edwards did not "bring[] up money" during his appearance in Emmetsburg; rather, he was responding to a question about campaign finances from an attendee at the event. <br /> http://mediamatters.org/items/200801020003 Wed, 2 Jan 2008 15:38:13 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200710190007 Discussing Graeme Frost and his family on <em>Hannity &amp; Colmes</em>, Rush Limbaugh claimed, "I never once attacked this family. I attacked the Democrats for exploiting them. I attacked the Democrats for putting lies into the head of a 12-year-old -- a 12-year-old they send out before microphones and cameras to sit there and say," and mimicking Graeme's voice, continued, " 'I only want health care for the rest of American children like I got, and George Bush is against it.' The 12-year-old can't write that garbage!" http://mediamatters.org/items/200710190007 Fri, 19 Oct 2007 16:33:46 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200707260007 http://mediamatters.org/items/200707260007 Thu, 26 Jul 2007 16:22:54 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200702060014 http://mediamatters.org/items/200702060014 Tue, 6 Feb 2007 18:05:11 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200606150004 Fox News host Alan Colmes noted that the Bush administration failed to eliminate former Al Qaeda leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi before the start of the Iraq war, despite having had at least three opportunities to do so. <em>Media Matters</em> previously documented that coverage of al-Zarqawi's June 8 death on major cable channels and the broadcast networks neglected to mention reports from 2004 that Zaraqwi could have been eliminated much earlier. http://mediamatters.org/items/200606150004 Thu, 15 Jun 2006 15:48:09 EST