http://mediamatters.org/tools/syndication/tag_rss/nominations This link is for use by RSS-enabled software to retrieve Media Matters items matching the term: Nominations en-US Copyright 2009, Media Matters for America http://mediamatters.org/items/200901060013 Discussing President-elect Barack Obama's choice of Leon Panetta to head the CIA, Michael Savage asserted, "[M]aybe Bill Ayers picked Leon Panetta." He later asked, "Is it Bill Ayers and his crowd in Chicago who said 'Pick Panetta. He's a man we can trust'?" http://mediamatters.org/items/200901060013 Tue, 6 Jan 2009 16:04:11 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200812160015 On <em>MSNBC Live</em>, discussing political diversity in President-elect Barack Obama's administration, Jonathan Allen said that Obama had chosen "Robert Gates as defense secretary, and that's something that I think [Obama's] people will point to." Tamron Hall responded, "Gates is not a registered Republican." Hall did not note that Gates himself has said, "I felt, when I was at CIA, that as a professional intelligence officer, like a military officer, I should be apolitical, and so I didn't register with a party. I consider myself a Republican," and noted that until his selection by Obama, "all of my senior appointments have been under Republican presidents." http://mediamatters.org/items/200812160015 Tue, 16 Dec 2008 20:58:36 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200812120014 An AP article on "the back-and-forth over when to hold a confirmation hearing for Eric Holder" quoted several Republican senators -- including Ranking Senate Judiciary Committee Republican Arlen Specter -- objecting to chairman Patrick Leahy's scheduling of the hearing for January 8. But the AP did not report Leahy's response to their objections, including his noting that previous hearings for attorney general nominees have been held in less time than Holder's scheduled hearing and, as with his plans for Holder's hearing, have been held pre-inauguration. http://mediamatters.org/items/200812120014 Fri, 12 Dec 2008 18:41:18 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200812020018 On <em>Hardball</em>, Christopher Hitchens repeated an unsubstantiated claim he has made in the past: that Hillary Clinton "got" her husband to visit Pakistan in 2000 after a Pakistani-American PAC held a fundraiser that brought in $50,000 for her Senate race. http://mediamatters.org/items/200812020018 Tue, 2 Dec 2008 21:37:14 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200811210015 In a <em>Washington Times </em>article, Jerry Seper repeated accusations in a House Republican report of wrongdoing by Eric Holder -- reportedly President-elect Barack Obama's choice for attorney general -- in the 2001 pardon of Marc Rich. In doing so, Seper falsely suggested that Holder was the author of an email telling Rich's attorney that "the 'timing is good' for Mr. Rich's request for a pardon," and did not report the refutation of the allegations by House Democrats. http://mediamatters.org/items/200811210015 Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:03:26 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200811190015 MSNBC's David Gregory claimed that "everybody is talking about" Christopher Hitchens' recent comments on why, in Gregory's words, Hitchens "believes picking Hillary Clinton for secretary of state would be a, quote, 'ludicrous embarrassment' for President Obama." In fact, not "everybody" is talking about Hitchens, who has smeared Clinton before -- not CNN, not Fox News, at least not during prime time, not major newspapers, and not even NBC's <em>Nightly News</em>. http://mediamatters.org/items/200811190015 Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:18:58 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200811180018 Amid reports that President-elect Barack Obama has decided to nominate Clinton Justice Department veteran Eric Holder to be attorney general, Chris Matthews criticized Obama on <em>Hardball</em>: "You could do this in any bureaucratic state, you could do it in the old Soviet Union. ... You don't need elections for this crap." But in 2001, Matthews said of George W. Bush's Cabinet picks, which included veterans of past administrations: "There's some real heavyweights in terms of experience." http://mediamatters.org/items/200811180018 Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:10:54 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200805190003 In reporting on former Justice Department lawyer Hans von Spakovsky's decision to withdraw from consideration as a nominee to the FEC, <em>The Washington Post</em>'s Paul Kane wrote that "Senate Democrats had refused for a year to confirm von Spakovsky, torpedoing the nominations of three other nominees." But later in the same article, Kane contradicted his own suggestion that Democrats were responsible for "torpedoing" the other nominations, reporting that Republican Mitch McConnell "had demanded that the entire slate of bipartisan nominees be considered at once or that they be voted on in bipartisan packages of two nominations." http://mediamatters.org/items/200805190003 Mon, 19 May 2008 14:23:52 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200805070005 A Reuters article on President Bush's nominations for the Federal Election Commission did not note that President Bush withdrew the renomination of FEC chairman David Mason, who told Sen. John McCain that he needed the FEC's permission to opt out of the public financing system in the presidential primary. http://mediamatters.org/items/200805070005 Wed, 7 May 2008 14:54:29 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200709190006 <em>The</em> <em>New York Times </em>stated that attorney general nominee Michael B. Mukasey "has repeatedly spoken out to support the administration's claim to broad powers in pursuing terrorist threats, especially in conducting electronic surveillance of terrorism suspects and in imprisoning them before trial." But Mukasey's ruling as a district court judge on the detention of terrorism suspects went beyond what the <em>Times </em>reported. In the case of Jose Padilla, Mukasey ruled that the government had the legal authority to imprison Padilla, a U.S. citizen arrested within the United States, <em>without</em> trial. http://mediamatters.org/items/200709190006 Wed, 19 Sep 2007 15:56:08 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200708290002 Discussing replacements for outgoing Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, Larry Sabato asserted that if President Bush nominates Michael Chertoff, "[u]ndoubtedly, the Democrats are going to revisit Katrina. They're going to use the nomination hearings ... to talk about something that happened two years ago in a completely different realm, but that's politics." Similarly, Republican strategist Leslie Sanchez, apparently referring to a potential Chertoff nomination, stated that the "Democrats have already announced this is going to be another piece of political theater," adding that they "want to rehash Katrina, different allegations, start more investigations." <br /> http://mediamatters.org/items/200708290002 Wed, 29 Aug 2007 12:07:23 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200701090007 <em>Time</em>'s Mike Allen wrote that President Bush's intention to appoint Fred Fielding to replace Harriet Miers as White House counsel is "a signal that [Bush] could be open to working more closely with congressional Democrats rather than stonewalling." But Allen quoted no Democrats offering their reaction to a Fielding appointment and made no mention of criticism by prominent Senate Democrats over Fielding's involvement in the evaluation of a Bush appeals court nominee. http://mediamatters.org/items/200701090007 Tue, 9 Jan 2007 14:59:14 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200508030004 http://mediamatters.org/items/200508030004 Wed, 3 Aug 2005 15:43:34 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200508020009 http://mediamatters.org/items/200508020009 Tue, 2 Aug 2005 18:09:07 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200508020008 http://mediamatters.org/items/200508020008 Tue, 2 Aug 2005 17:51:31 EST