http://mediamatters.org/tools/syndication/tag_rss/cal_thomas This link is for use by RSS-enabled software to retrieve Media Matters items matching the term: Cal Thomas en-US Copyright 2009, Media Matters for America http://mediamatters.org/items/200801110003 In his nationally syndicated column, echoing Rush Limbaugh's assertion that "if you look" at Sen. Barack Obama's legislative record, "you won't find a Senate bill with this name on it," Cal Thomas wrote that Obama has "no legislation he can point to that has his name on it." In fact, Obama was the primary sponsor of a bill in the 109th Congress to "promote relief, security, and democracy in the Democratic Republic of Congo," signed into law by President Bush in December 2006, was a key co-sponsor of the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act, and has so far introduced 55 bills in the current session of Congress. http://mediamatters.org/items/200801110003 Fri, 11 Jan 2008 11:48:03 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200708040001 http://mediamatters.org/items/200708040001 Fri, 3 Aug 2007 20:03:09 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200707100003 http://mediamatters.org/items/200707100003 Tue, 10 Jul 2007 13:02:36 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200705310007 http://mediamatters.org/items/200705310007 Thu, 31 May 2007 15:10:44 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200703200009 On <em>Fox News Watch</em>, Cal Thomas asserted that questions surrounding the Bush administration's firing of eight U.S. attorneys "didn't surface in October [2006]" because "the left in the media -- but I repeat myself -- had enough scandal going with Mark Foley and a bunch of other stuff, they didn't need this." In fact, by October 2006, only one of the U.S. attorneys had been dismissed; the other seven were not dismissed until December 7, 2006, a month after the November midterm elections. http://mediamatters.org/items/200703200009 Tue, 20 Mar 2007 16:45:08 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200702050001 http://mediamatters.org/items/200702050001 Mon, 5 Feb 2007 13:33:39 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200702020015 Cal Thomas is the latest conservative figure to use the TV show <em>24</em> to forecast a nuclear attack on the United States. Conservatives have also looked to the TV series for justification of aggressive interrogation procedures. http://mediamatters.org/items/200702020015 Fri, 2 Feb 2007 16:10:34 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200701300007 On January 17, InsightMag.com posted a story stating that Sen. Barack Obama attended a madrassa as a boy and that this information had originated from Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's camp. With the aid of the conservative media, InsightMag.com's anonymously sourced report turned into 11 days of baseless accusations against two leading contenders for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination. <br /> http://mediamatters.org/items/200701300007 Tue, 30 Jan 2007 15:14:03 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200610160006 http://mediamatters.org/items/200610160006 Mon, 16 Oct 2006 16:17:50 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200609280002 In his column, Cal Thomas wrote that the website FactCheck.org had "looked into the substance" of a recent ad criticizing Sen. George F. Allen (R-VA) and "found none." But <em>Media Matters</em> has documented errors in FactCheck's analysis of the ad. http://mediamatters.org/items/200609280002 Thu, 28 Sep 2006 10:56:37 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200608210001 http://mediamatters.org/items/200608210001 Mon, 21 Aug 2006 11:41:50 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200608100014 In his column, Fox News' Cal Thomas claimed that Ned Lamont's victory over Sen. Joe Lieberman in the Connecticut Democratic Senate primary "completes the capture of the Democratic Party by its Taliban wing." Thomas explained that they are called the "Taliban Democrats because they are willing to 'kill' one of their own, if he does not conform to the narrow and rigid agenda of the party's kook fringe." http://mediamatters.org/items/200608100014 Thu, 10 Aug 2006 18:19:48 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200607110001 Many of the same media conservatives who continually attacked <em>The New York Times</em> for publishing details of the Treasury Department's bank-tracking program have remained silent about the <em>New York Daily News</em>' decision to report that FBI officials thwarted an alleged terrorist plot in New York City, despite apparent objections from intelligence and law enforcement officials that the disclosure impeded further arrests. http://mediamatters.org/items/200607110001 Tue, 11 Jul 2006 10:32:10 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200606280010 Numerous conservative commentators joined the Bush administration in arguing that, in detailing a secret Treasury Department program designed to monitor terrorists' international financial transactions, a June 23 <em>New York Times</em> article tipped off terrorists to the U.S. government's ability to track their financial activities -- some going so far as to accuse the newspaper of treason. But the <em>Times</em> report was hardly the first indication of U.S. efforts to monitor terrorists' financial transactions: President Bush himself repeatedly touted the government's capability to track and shut down terrorists' international financial networks. http://mediamatters.org/items/200606280010 Wed, 28 Jun 2006 19:48:25 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200606270005 Cal Thomas characterized the newly elected leader of the U.S. Episcopal Church, Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, as a "heretic[]" for asserting that "homosexual practice is not sin," adding that she might as well "let everyone into the church, including unrepentant prostitutes, murderers, liars, thieves and atheists." http://mediamatters.org/items/200606270005 Tue, 27 Jun 2006 15:38:12 EST