Media Matters - The War Room With Quinn & Rose

Media Matters - The War Room With Quinn & Rose http://mediamatters.org/tools/syndication/tag_rss/the_war_room_with_quinn___rose This link is for use by RSS-enabled software to retrieve Media Matters items matching the term: The War Room With Quinn & Rose en-US Copyright 2009, Media Matters for America Quinn to artist who submitted pro-impeachment Christmas ornament to White House: "Shut up, bitch" http://mediamatters.org/items/200812040006 In a discussion of Deborah Lawrence, an artist who submitted an ornament for the White House Christmas tree expressing support for a congressional resolution to impeach President Bush, Rose Tennent read a quote from Lawrence, who said of the attention surrounding her ornament: "It took on a life of its own, obviously. In a way, I'm speechless." Tennent responded: "Good, stay that way. Don't talk," to which co-host Jim Quinn added, "That's right, don't talk. Shut up, bitch." http://mediamatters.org/items/200812040006 Thu, 4 Dec 2008 12:14:04 EST Quinn defended suggestion that military response to India attacks is warranted regardless of whether "a lot of peaceful Muslims" are harmed or killed http://mediamatters.org/items/200812030011 Responding to a Media Matters item, radio host Jim Quinn defended his suggestion that a military response to the recent terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, is warranted regardless of whether "a lot of peaceful Muslims" are harmed or killed. Quinn responded, in part: "[I]f I'm in a room with a thousand people, and 999 of them love me, but one has a gun and wants to kill me, how relevant are the 999? They have no relevance whatever. I'm sorry, but peaceful Muslims will only be relevant insofar as they rise up against those who are not peaceful." http://mediamatters.org/items/200812030011 Wed, 3 Dec 2008 14:17:02 EST Conservative radio hosts continue to promote discredited claim that Obama has yet to prove he was born in the U.S. http://mediamatters.org/items/200812030008 Radio hosts Brian Sussman, Mark Davis, Lars Larson, Bob Grant, Jim Quinn, and Rose Tennent repeated the discredited claim that President-elect Barack Obama has not produced a valid birth certificate and is not eligible for the presidency because he is not a natural-born citizen. In fact, the Obama campaign posted a copy of Obama's birth certificate on its Fight the Smears website and reportedly provided the original to FactCheck.org, whose staff concluded that it "meets all of the requirements from the State Department for proving U.S. citizenship." A Hawaii Health Department official also reportedly confirmed that the birth certificate Obama's campaign posted is valid. http://mediamatters.org/items/200812030008 Wed, 3 Dec 2008 13:01:58 EST In response to Mumbai terrorism, Quinn suggested attacks regardless of whether "a lot of peaceful Muslims" are hit http://mediamatters.org/items/200812010013 On The War Room, Jim Quinn said: "We either wipe this scourge from the face of the Earth -- 'Well, you just can't say that, because there's a lot of peaceful Muslims out there.' Well, there was a lot of Germans that weren't Nazis either, but we still bombed Dresden. We either wipe this scourge from the face of the Earth, or we will be doomed to live under it." http://mediamatters.org/items/200812010013 Mon, 1 Dec 2008 17:13:00 EST Conservative media react to talk of Obama-led economic recovery by attacking FDR and New Deal http://mediamatters.org/items/200811260002 In recent weeks, several conservative media figures, echoed by Republican lawmakers, have responded to comparisons in the media of President-elect Barack Obama to FDR, or assertions in the media that a New Deal-level of government intervention will be necessary to resolve the current economic crisis, by asserting that the New Deal was a dismal failure, plunging the 1930s economy into a depression, an assertion that prominent progressive economists flatly reject. http://mediamatters.org/items/200811260002 Wed, 26 Nov 2008 09:07:47 EST Politico article on Obama's recent church attendance ignored Bush's sporadic attendance as president http://mediamatters.org/items/200811240019 In an article headlined "Obama skips church, heads to gym," Politico reported, "On the three Sundays since his election, Obama has instead used his free time to get in workouts at a Chicago gym," and also asserted, "Both President-elect George W. Bush and President-elect Bill Clinton managed to attend church in the weeks after they were elected." However, Politico ignored numerous reports that Bush attended church infrequently over the past eight years and did not belong to a Washington congregation. Politico's report was echoed by other media, including Fox News and the syndicated radio show The War Room with Quinn & Rose. http://mediamatters.org/items/200811240019 Mon, 24 Nov 2008 21:17:07 EST Quinn trivializes same-sex marriage effort, claiming: "[G]ays never wanted to get married until ... about five years ago" http://mediamatters.org/items/200811200013 Radio host Jim Quinn claimed that heterosexual opponents of Proposition 8 are "guilty straights" and suggested that "gays never wanted to get married until ... about five years ago." In fact, same-sex couples have brought court cases to overturn bans on same-sex marriage for decades. http://mediamatters.org/items/200811200013 Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:35:16 EST Quinn claims Mexicans will use subsidized Viagra to "father the next generation of illegals" in effort to "reconquer the Southwest" http://mediamatters.org/items/200811190020 Discussing the Mexico City government's reported plan to begin distributing free impotence drugs to men 70 and older, Jim Quinn said, "Viva Viagra. Well -- after all, who's gonna father the next generation of illegals to come swarming across the border in their effort to reconquer the Southwest?" http://mediamatters.org/items/200811190020 Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:02:38 EST Responding to Media Matters item, Quinn defended comparison of welfare recipients to slaves http://mediamatters.org/items/200811100005 On The War Room, Jim Quinn addressed his prior comments comparing "slave[s] in the old South" to welfare recipients today. Quinn said: "Now, naturally, the point that I was making was that there are two forms of servitude: There's the servitude that you can be forced into, and there's the servitude you can be coerced into, I mean, the horrors of slavery notwithstanding -- naturally, that was my point." He later added: "[W]hen you think about it, the slave had more personal nobility than the welfare recipient, because he or she had no say in their station in life. The welfare recipient actually volunteers for it. It is the liberal plantation." http://mediamatters.org/items/200811100005 Mon, 10 Nov 2008 11:00:45 EST Quinn: "Gay sex produces AIDS"; "They should charge homosexuals more for their ... health insurance" http://mediamatters.org/items/200811070005 Discussing the passage of a California ballot initiative to amend the state constitution to ban same-sex marriage, radio host Jim Quinn asserted: "[G]ay marriage doesn't produce anything that the state has an interest in. Gay sex produces AIDS, which the state doesn't have -- or should have an interest in. They should charge homosexuals more for their -- for their health insurance than they charge the rest of us." http://mediamatters.org/items/200811070005 Fri, 7 Nov 2008 13:01:19 EST Quinn stated that unlike welfare recipients, slaves "had to work" for food, housing http://mediamatters.org/items/200811060012 On The War Room with Quinn & Rose, Jim Quinn said: "You know, if you were a slave in the old South, what did you get as a slave? You got free room and board, you got free money, and you got rewarded for having children because that was just, you know, tomorrow's slave. ... Can I ask a question? How's that different from welfare? You get a free house, you get free food, and you get rewarded for having children. Oh, wait a minute, hold on a second. There is a difference: The slave had to work for it." http://mediamatters.org/items/200811060012 Thu, 6 Nov 2008 17:47:26 EST Quinn: "[T]he goal of the public school system -- the feminists in the public school system -- is to make male behavior illegal" http://mediamatters.org/items/200811060011 Jim Quinn cited as evidence of "the chickification of schools, the feminization of society, and the war on masculinity" the story of a teacher who reportedly informed the school principal and campus police that a picture of a vampire one of her students had drawn might contain gang symbols. Quinn added that "the goal of the public school system -- the feminists in the public school system -- is to make male behavior illegal, a crime." http://mediamatters.org/items/200811060011 Thu, 6 Nov 2008 16:39:41 EST It's not just Limbaugh and Hannity http://mediamatters.org/items/200811060005 Beyond the echelon of widely known conservative radio hosts with national audiences lies a vast network of lesser-known syndicated and regional radio hosts who have become key components of an echo chamber for conservative talking points and falsehoods. Like their better-known counterparts, these syndicated and regional radio hosts have played active roles this election season in promoting falsehoods and smears in an all-out effort to foment hate and distrust among their listeners for President-elect Barack Obama. While the hosts vary in the degree of vitriol they spew and in their ratio of rebuttable falsehoods to unbridled smears, Media Matters for America and Colorado Media Matters have identified common themes that many, if not all, have promoted over the past year. http://mediamatters.org/items/200811060005 Thu, 6 Nov 2008 12:37:03 EST Radio hosts echo Drudge's distortion of Obama's 2001 WBEZ interview http://mediamatters.org/items/200810280018 Numerous conservative radio hosts, including Chris Baker, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, Jim Quinn, Michael Savage and Brian Sussman, echoed the false claim, originating on the Drudge Report, that Sen. Barack Obama said in a 2001 interview that he regretted that the Supreme Court has not addressed the redistribution of wealth. In fact, the "traged[y]" Obama identified during the interview was that the civil rights movement "became so court-focused" in trying to bring about political and economic justice. http://mediamatters.org/items/200810280018 Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:30:56 EST Quinn: "Originally, if you didn't have land, you didn't vote, and there was a good reason for it" http://mediamatters.org/items/200810220012 Discussing the history of taxation and property rights in the United States, War Room with Quinn & Rose co-host Jim Quinn declared: "Originally, if you didn't own land, you didn't vote, and there was a good reason for it: because those without property will always vote away the property of other people unto themselves, and that's the beginning of the end." Quinn added: "But, oh no, that was -- that was just too mean-spirited." http://mediamatters.org/items/200810220012 Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:28:26 EST