Media Matters - Bill Sammon

Media Matters - Bill Sammon http://mediamatters.org/tools/syndication/tag_rss/bill_sammon This link is for use by RSS-enabled software to retrieve Media Matters items matching the term: Bill Sammon en-US Copyright 2009, Media Matters for America Fox News' Sammon ignores contrary evidence in suggesting that Rep. Frank allowed personal relationship to affect his oversight of Fannie Mae http://mediamatters.org/items/200810080023 On The O'Reilly Factor and in a FoxNews.com article, Bill Sammon suggested that Rep. Barney Frank allowed his relationship in the 1990s with Herb Moses, a Fannie Mae official at the time, to improperly influence his conduct as a member of the House Financial Services Committee. However, in his article, Sammon cited only an anonymous Republican congressional staffer and a member of the conservative Media Research Center. Sammon also misrepresented Frank's record by reporting that Frank "spent years blocking GOP lawmakers from imposing tougher regulations" on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac without noting that during the period in question, Frank supported legislation to increase regulation of Fannie Mae and create a government regulatory agency that would oversee some aspects of the company. http://mediamatters.org/items/200810080023 Wed, 8 Oct 2008 18:25:10 EST Fox News' Sammon dismissed "nature of" Corsi falsehoods as "relatively innocuous" http://mediamatters.org/items/200808180009 On Hannity & Colmes, Bill Sammon said of falsehoods in Jerome Corsi's The Obama Nation: "Well, the nature of those inaccuracies, I think, is relatively innocuous. ... The first thing on that 40-page document that the Obama camp points out is that the author got their wedding date wrong -- the year of their wedding wrong. OK. Well, that's not a good thing, but it doesn't go to the ideology of Obama." In fact, Corsi's book also includes a number of falsehoods about Obama's policy positions. http://mediamatters.org/items/200808180009 Mon, 18 Aug 2008 19:50:47 EST Sammon and Kondracke blamed state and local governments for Katrina response in Louisiana http://mediamatters.org/items/200710260001 During the "All-Star Panel" segment on Special Report, the Washington Examiner's Bill Sammon and Roll Call's Mort Kondracke blamed the Louisiana state and local governments for their handling of Hurricane Katrina while excusing or ignoring the failures of the federal government. Sammon concluded that "to the extent that anybody failed [during Katrina], I think it was state and local, and in this case [the California wildfires], the state and locals have stepped up." However, two congressional reports -- while not excusing the state and local governments -- extensively detailed the federal government's failures in its preparation for and response to Katrina. http://mediamatters.org/items/200710260001 Thu, 25 Oct 2007 21:09:51 EST Bill Sammon reported contrast in Obama, Bush positions on Pakistan, but not Bush flip-flops http://mediamatters.org/items/200708070010 On Special Report, The Washington Examiner's Bill Sammon asserted that, in contrast with Sen. Barack Obama's recent statement, President Bush said at a press conference, "[W]e'll go after terrorists in Pakistan, but we'll work with Musharraf to do that," as Sammon put it. In fact, Bush refused to give a direct answer about whether he would pursue terrorists in Pakistan without Musharraf's consent, and he has given conflicting statements on this issue in the past. http://mediamatters.org/items/200708070010 Tue, 7 Aug 2007 18:30:51 EST Will media ask if Specter had "conflict of interest" when he led Ruby Ridge investigation? http://mediamatters.org/items/200703210015 http://mediamatters.org/items/200703210015 Wed, 21 Mar 2007 18:51:34 EST Sammon: Like Nixon pardon, Iraq invasion may look better in future http://mediamatters.org/items/200701030017 http://mediamatters.org/items/200701030017 Wed, 3 Jan 2007 16:54:43 EST Reporting on terror arrests in Britain, numerous media outlets ask: Will the news help Bush? http://mediamatters.org/items/200608150008 In the wake of the recent thwarting of an alleged terrorist plot in Britain, numerous media outlets have posed the question of whether news of the event would benefit President Bush, often letting conservatives or Republican officials spin the news in favor of the administration. Many of the reports neglected to consider whether the news could actually hurt Bush politically. http://mediamatters.org/items/200608150008 Tue, 15 Aug 2006 17:23:15 EST Conservatives tout "combative" Snow's barrage of false attacks on the media http://mediamatters.org/items/200605150010 The White House released a series of statements, reportedly initiated by new press secretary Tony Snow, attacking specific media reports and editorials as misleading. Conservatives in the media have touted the statements as indicative of a new willingness on the part of the White House communications office, led by Snow, to call the press on its misinformation. But Media Matters for America has found that, of the six "Setting the Record Straight" releases issued from May 8 to May 11, at least four are highly misleading. http://mediamatters.org/items/200605150010 Mon, 15 May 2006 18:36:41 EST Special Report distorted significance of leak case correction http://mediamatters.org/items/200604140008 Fox News journalists and commentators repeatedly -- and baselessly -- cited a correction issued by CIA leak case special counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald as evidence that the Bush administration had not "hyp[ed]" prewar intelligence and that reporters had "wrongly accuse[d]" President Bush of directing I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby to provide false information to reporters about Iraq's supposed nuclear program to justify the decision to invade Iraq. http://mediamatters.org/items/200604140008 Fri, 14 Apr 2006 16:03:33 EST Fox pundits: Dems' culture of corruption campaign defunct with DeLay departure http://mediamatters.org/items/200604050012 On Fox News, numerous media figures asserted that Rep. Tom DeLay's (R-TX) decision to resign from Congress will hurt Democrats' ability to campaign against congressional Republicans' record of corruption -- and DeLay's part in it -- during the November 2006 midterm elections. But such predictions overlook the widening ethics scandals involving DeLay and the Republican Party. http://mediamatters.org/items/200604050012 Wed, 5 Apr 2006 18:16:28 EST Count the falsehoods: Sammon discussed 2000 election recount on C-SPAN's Washington Journal http://mediamatters.org/items/200603160002 On C-SPAN's Washington Journal, Washington Examiner senior White House correspondent Bill Sammon claimed that the U.S. Supreme Court halted the Florida recount in the 2000 presidential election by a 7-2 margin; and that a study of the 2000 presidential vote in Florida, commissioned by a consortium of major media outlets, "concluded essentially that [George W.] Bush would have won even if the Supreme Court hadn't stopped the counting." Both of these statements are false http://mediamatters.org/items/200603160002 Thu, 16 Mar 2006 10:27:11 EST Sammon misrepresented poll data to assign "the lion's share of the blame" for Katrina response to "local and state officials" http://mediamatters.org/items/200603060012 Author and Washington Examiner senior White House correspondent Bill Sammon, apparently citing a September 2005 Gallup poll, stated that only "[t]hirteen percent" of respondents "blamed the federal government" for the lackluster response to Hurricane Katrina and that "the lion's share of the blame falls on the local and state officials." In fact, 31 percent of those surveyed said either that "George W. Bush" or "federal agencies" were "most responsible for the problems in New Orleans after the hurricane," compared with 25 percent who assigned the most blame to "state and local officials." http://mediamatters.org/items/200603060012 Mon, 6 Mar 2006 17:55:22 EST Sammon called Cheney incident aftermath a "tempest in a teapot" http://mediamatters.org/items/200602130006 During Fox News' coverage of a February 13 White House press conference in which press secretary Scott McClellan was repeatedly asked about the administration's initial failure to inform the public of the incident in which Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot one of his hunting partners, Fox News political analyst Bill Sammon called the issue "a little bit of a tempest in a teapot." http://mediamatters.org/items/200602130006 Mon, 13 Feb 2006 15:43:20 EST