http://mediamatters.org/tools/syndication/tag_rss/msnbc This link is for use by RSS-enabled software to retrieve Media Matters items matching the term: MSNBC en-US Copyright 2008, Media Matters for America http://mediamatters.org/items/200810110006 On <em>MSNBC Live</em>, McClatchy's Steven Thomma asserted that Sen. John McCain will likely attack Sen. Barack Obama "as a tax-raiser, someone who'll take money out of your pocket at the very moment you don't want it to happen." Neither Thomma nor <em>Politico</em>'s David Mark, who agreed with Thomma's assessment, noted that claims that Obama will raise taxes and "take money out of your pocket" misrepresent Obama's tax plan. http://mediamatters.org/items/200810110006 Sat, 11 Oct 2008 15:40:39 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200810110004 On <em>MSNBC Live</em>, Chris Jansing uncritically aired Gov. Sarah Palin's false claim that Sen. Barack Obama was talking about abortion when he said of his two daughters: "I don't want them punished with a baby." However, Jansing did not note that Obama was discussing sex education, not abortion, when he made his comment. <em>Time</em>'s Mark Halperin also uncritically reported Palin's attack without pointing out it was false. http://mediamatters.org/items/200810110004 Sat, 11 Oct 2008 15:12:46 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200810100021 On <em>MSNBC Live</em>, after citing a <em>New York Times</em> article reporting that voters are being removed from rolls or being blocked from registering, Contessa Brewer asserted that at a campaign stop, Sen. John McCain "was talking about the importance of making sure that voters who register get a chance to go vote." But in the clip she aired, McCain was not talking about alleged voter disenfranchisement or allegations that people were being illegally barred from voting; rather, he was criticizing alleged efforts to register people who are not eligible to vote. http://mediamatters.org/items/200810100021 Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:45:37 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200810090020 MSNBC's Alex Witt falsely suggested that Sen. Barack Obama concealed the fact that William Ayers hosted an event for him when he referred to Ayers as "a guy who lives in my neighborhood" during an April Democratic primary debate. In fact, in those remarks, Obama was responding to a question about the "organizing meeting" that Ayers hosted for him, and did not deny that the event took place. http://mediamatters.org/items/200810090020 Thu, 9 Oct 2008 19:31:55 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200810090011 MSNBC.com's First Read again falsely claimed that Sen. John McCain "opposed, but did not vote," on a 2007 troop-funding appropriations bill. In fact, while McCain did not vote on a later version of the appropriations bill, he voted against the measure on March 29, 2007, and said at the time that he was opposing it, in part, because it "would establish a timeline" for U.S. withdrawal from Iraq. <br /> http://mediamatters.org/items/200810090011 Thu, 9 Oct 2008 13:11:53 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200810090006 <em>The New York Times</em>, <em>The Washington Post</em>, and <em>Morning Joe</em> reported Cindy McCain's attack on Sen. Barack Obama that his "vote to not fund my son while he was serving sent a cold chill through my body." However, none of their reports noted that Sen. John McCain himself voted against legislation to fund the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. http://mediamatters.org/items/200810090006 Thu, 9 Oct 2008 12:23:31 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200810080024 On MSNBC's <em>Morning Joe</em>, Mika Brzezinski asserted that "people overwhelmingly thought [Gov. Sarah Palin] won her debate," while Willie Geist suggested that Palin won by a smaller margin than Brzezinski claimed. However, most polls conducted on the days following the vice presidential debate found that Sen. Joe Biden won. In fact, a <em>Media Matters </em>review of polling sites did not find any national polls that found Palin won the debate. http://mediamatters.org/items/200810080024 Wed, 8 Oct 2008 19:14:28 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200810070016 MSNBC's David Gregory reported Gov. Sarah Palin's assertion that Sen. Barack Obama has been "palling around with terrorists" without noting Palin's distortion of <em>The New York Times</em> article she used to make her claim, or that the Obama campaign issued a statement rebutting the claim. http://mediamatters.org/items/200810070016 Tue, 7 Oct 2008 15:29:21 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200810060014 MSNBC's Tamron Hall asserted that Sen. John McCain "was accused of corruption, although he was later cleared by a Senate committee" in the Keating Five scandal. But Hall did not note that the Senate ethics committee concluded that McCain's conduct "reflected poor judgment." http://mediamatters.org/items/200810060014 Mon, 6 Oct 2008 15:15:07 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200810060005 MSNBC.com's First Read and MSNBC's <em>Morning Joe</em> uncritically reported Gov. Sarah Palin's misquote of remarks by former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, while ignoring Albright's actual quote and her reported elaboration on her remarks. http://mediamatters.org/items/200810060005 Mon, 6 Oct 2008 11:08:22 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200810040006 On <em>MSNBC Live</em>, RNC press secretary Alex Conant claimed that "<em>The New York Times</em> today has a 2,000-word story about Barack Obama's friendship with an unrepentant terrorist." However, Alex Witt did not challenge Conant's claim that the article was about their "friendship" by pointing out that the <em>Times</em> in fact reported that Obama and Ayers "do not appear to have been close." http://mediamatters.org/items/200810040006 Sat, 4 Oct 2008 18:07:48 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200810030010 In reports on the vice presidential debate, CBSNews.com, MSNBC.com, and FactCheck.org all falsely claimed that Sen. Joe Biden's statement that Sen. John McCain "voted against funding the troops" in a 2007 appropriations bill was wrong. In fact, while McCain did not vote on a later version of the appropriations bill, he voted against the measure on March 29, 2007, and said at the time that he was opposing it, in part, because it "would establish a timeline" for U.S. withdrawal from Iraq. http://mediamatters.org/items/200810030010 Fri, 3 Oct 2008 12:01:42 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200810020029 On <em>Hardball</em>, Chuck Todd falsely claimed that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit "wants to get rid of the Pledge" of Allegiance. In fact, in <em>Newdow v. U.S. Congress</em>, a 9th Circuit panel did not decide that the <em>entire</em> Pledge of Allegiance was unconstitutional, but rather "h[e]ld that ... the 1954 Act adding the words 'under God' to the Pledge ... violate[s] the Establishment Clause" of the First Amendment. http://mediamatters.org/items/200810020029 Thu, 2 Oct 2008 22:39:52 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200810020015 MSNBC's Chris Matthews and <em>The New York Times'</em> Katharine Q. Seelye asked whether Sen. Joe Biden will "help" Gov. Sarah Palin "with her chair" at the beginning of the vice-presidential debate. The question is one that presumably would not be asked if the two candidates were the same gender, and the premise of the question itself is false, as the debate format rules state that Biden and Palin will be "standing at podiums" -- a fact Seelye later acknowledged. http://mediamatters.org/items/200810020015 Thu, 2 Oct 2008 16:58:10 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200810020007 On MSNBC's <em>Hardball</em>, Chuck Todd said that Sen. Barack Obama "was judged as not winning" the first presidential debate, asserting that "it was somewhat of a draw." But national post-debate polls contradict Todd's assertion, with Obama receiving higher marks from respondents than Sen. John McCain. http://mediamatters.org/items/200810020007 Thu, 2 Oct 2008 11:15:45 EST