http://mediamatters.org/tools/syndication/tag_rss/washingtonpost_com This link is for use by RSS-enabled software to retrieve Media Matters items matching the term: Washingtonpost.com en-US Copyright 2009, Media Matters for America http://mediamatters.org/items/200808150005 <em>The Denver Post</em>, ABC News, and <em>The Washington Post</em> all uncritically reported that Sen. John McCain, during an August 14 appearance in Aspen, Colorado, responded to criticism that he had changed his position on President Bush's tax cuts by stating he originally opposed them because they were not accompanied by spending reductions. None of these outlets noted that when McCain voted against the tax cuts in 2001, the reason he gave in his Senate floor statement was not that they were not accompanied by spending cuts but, rather, that "so many of the benefits go to the most fortunate among us, at the expense of middle class Americans who most need tax relief." http://mediamatters.org/items/200808150005 Fri, 15 Aug 2008 15:22:19 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200807100007 Washingtonpost.com's Chris Cillizza falsely suggested that Sen. John Kerry's call for Sen. John McCain to "cut ties" with retired Col. George "Bud" Day stemmed from Day's defense of McCain's military service in Vietnam. In fact, Kerry's statement called for McCain to sever ties with Day after Day described the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth attacks on Kerry in 2004 -- attacks Cillizza noted McCain denounced at the time -- as "revelation of the truth." http://mediamatters.org/items/200807100007 Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:59:49 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200807080010 Washingtonpost.com's The Trail blog, CNN, and CBSNews.com each repeated Sen. John McCain's false claim that "[i]f you are one of the 23 million small business owners in America who files as an individual rate payer, Senator [Barack] Obama is going to raise your tax rates." In fact, Obama has proposed rolling back President Bush's tax cuts only on "people who are making 250,000 dollars a year or more"; according to the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center, only 481,000 small businesses fall into the tax brackets that would be affected by those increases. http://mediamatters.org/items/200807080010 Tue, 8 Jul 2008 19:39:57 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200807010005 Several media reports falsely claimed that Wesley Clark criticized Sen. John McCain's military service during a June 29 appearance on CBS' <em>Face the Nation</em>, including CNN anchor John Roberts, who said that "Clark took a weekend hit at McCain, targeting his history as a war hero and his possible future as president." In fact, Clark praised McCain as "a hero to me and to hundreds of thousands of millions of others in the Armed Forces as a prisoner of war." http://mediamatters.org/items/200807010005 Tue, 1 Jul 2008 16:42:51 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200806200003 In a June 20 article, <em>The Washington Post</em> reported that "[t]o date, no conservative 527 groups have materialized" to oppose Sen. Barack Obama. The day before, washingtonpost.com's Chris Cillizza had similarly asserted: "[N]o ... national 527 with an eye on the presidential election has emerged yet on the Republican side, and there doesn't appear to be significant impetus to form one given [Sen. John] McCain's commitment to campaign finance reform." In fact, both 527s and other outside conservative groups have attacked Obama, and McCain has not limited his denunciations to the activities of 527s. http://mediamatters.org/items/200806200003 Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:00:34 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200805150007 <em>The Washington Post</em>'s Michael Shear falsely suggested that Sen. Barack Obama has changed his position on U.S. troop withdrawal from Iraq since September 2007, writing that when Obama was "[a]sked to make a withdrawal timeline pledge during a debate last September," he "declined, saying that 'it's hard to project four years from now,' " but that Obama now says "he will remove all combat brigades from Iraq within 16 months of becoming president and will leave 'some troops' in Iraq to protect U.S. embassy personnel there and carry out targeted strikes on terrorists." But contrary to Shear's suggestion, Obama did not make contradictory statements. http://mediamatters.org/items/200805150007 Thu, 15 May 2008 17:35:12 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200804070010 On <em>America's Election HQ</em>, Chris Cillizza repeatedly and falsely referred to Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman as a Democrat. Even though an on-screen graphic identified Lieberman as an independent, Cillizza stated of the possibility that Sen. John McCain would pick a Democrat as a running mate: "[T]he Democrat that I think makes the most sense -- though I would say I think it's very unlikely John McCain picks a Democrat -- but the Democrat that makes the most sense is Joe Lieberman." http://mediamatters.org/items/200804070010 Mon, 7 Apr 2008 19:22:59 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200801100006 Responding to an online commenter who said that a lot of women are "getting incredibly angry about the progressively dismissive way" Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton "gets treated by the [<em>New York Times</em> columnist Maureen] Dowds and [MSNBC host Chris] Matthews of the world," <em>The Washington Post</em>'s Anne E. Kornblut asserted, "I think there is something to that" and "certainly Chris Matthews has taken her on quite aggressively over the last few weeks." http://mediamatters.org/items/200801100006 Thu, 10 Jan 2008 13:11:14 EST