Can You Spell Potatoe?

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MRC NEWS REPORT FOR MAY 29, 2008
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From the Desk of:
Douglas Mills, Executive Vice President


5/29/2008

ABC reporter Jack Tapper, who follows politicians around for
a living, has dubbed Barack Obama a "one-man gaffe machine."

In Brent's latest column, he examines Obama's Quayle-isms--Obama
saying there are 58 states in the Union; Obama repeatedly using
the wrong name for the cities he campaigns in and Obama
acknowledging "fallen heroes" at a Memorial Day crowd as if
they were alive and standing in the audience -- and suggests
a media double standard. If John McCain made such gaffes,
Brent asks, wouldn't the media accuse him of having a
"senior moment?"  The answer: They already have.

Can we have just a little balance, here?

As Brent astutely points out, the same media that turned
Dan Quayle's name into a punch-line is the media that is
propping up Obama as Captain Competent.

Read Brent's latest column:

http://www.mrcaction.org/r.asp?U=7748... />
It consumes the nightly newscasts--America's failing economy.
All the major networks have hyped similarities to the Great
Depression (more than 40 times in the first 4 months of 2008).

But is the parallel true?

MRC's own Business and Media Institute just completed an exhaustive
analysis of two major weeks in America’s stock market history-the
week of the 1929 crash, and the week of the Bear Stearns collapse
of a few weeks ago. The difference between how the media handled a
crisis then and now was both profound and compelling...

For the complete Business and Media Special Report:

http://www.mrcaction.org/r.asp?U=7749... />
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***Brent Bozell's Syndicated Columns

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Prince Caspian's Appeal

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***CNSNews.com

Tax-Funded Law Firms Invested in Booze, $750,000 IT Guy

http://www.mrcaction.org/r.asp?U=7753... />
Conservatives Give Jindal Thumbs up as McCain's VP

http://www.mrcaction.org/r.asp?U=7754... />
'Deck Stacked Against' Israel Ahead of UN Racism Conference

http://www.mrcaction.org/r.asp?U=7755... />
GE to Cut Water Usage by 20 Percent

http://www.mrcaction.org/r.asp?U=7756... />
Lesbian's Lawsuit Against Christian Doctor Back in Court This Week

http://www.mrcaction.org/r.asp?U=7757... />
Feds Bust Owners of Calif. Medical Marijuana Shops

http://www.mrcaction.org/r.asp?U=7758... />
Amnesty International Condemns US and China in New Report

http://www.mrcaction.org/r.asp?U=7759... />

***MRC.org

NBC's Hapless Viewers: 'Burgers' Not Ribs, 'Next Year' Only Soup

http://www.mrcaction.org/r.asp?U=7760... />
NYTimes Reporter Ridicules Interest in Obama Not Wearing Flag Pin

http://www.mrcaction.org/r.asp?U=7761... />
Scant Media Attention for a Litany of Gaffes by Barack Obama

http://www.mrcaction.org/r.asp?U=7762... />
Time Mag Chief Stengel: 'Glee' in Press Over Hillary's Failures

http://www.mrcaction.org/r.asp?U=7763... />
CBS's Mitchell to JCC: Do Americans Have Right to Pessimism?

http://www.mrcaction.org/r.asp?U=7764... />
'Laura Dern Mesmerizing' as 'Legendarily Dense' Katherine Harris

http://www.mrcaction.org/r.asp?U=7765... />
Jessica Lange Decries Bush Era of Torture, Prison Camps and War

http://www.mrcaction.org/r.asp?U=7766... />

***Culture and Media Institute

Band Opening for Obama in Oregon Frequently Uses Soviet Anthem

http://www.mrcaction.org/r.asp?U=7767... />
Why Was Parsley a Problem for McCain?  Media PC

http://www.mrcaction.org/r.asp?U=7768... />
USA Today Spotlights Program to Honor World War II Vets

http://www.mrcaction.org/r.asp?U=7769... />
McCain's Media-Manufactured 'Pastor Problem'

http://www.mrcaction.org/r.asp?U=7770... />
Will Good Morning America Report THIS Sex and the City Story?

http://www.mrcaction.org/r.asp?U=7771... />

***TimesWatch.org

Cover-to-Cover Liberal Bias in the Sunday Book Review

http://www.mrcaction.org/r.asp?U=7772... />
Alessandra Stanley: "Legendarily Dense" GOP Official Katherine Harris

http://www.mrcaction.org/r.asp?U=7773... />
Reporter John Schwartz Lets His Liberal Flag Fly Defending Obama

http://www.mrcaction.org/r.asp?U=7774... />
Keller Blames Readers "Preoccupied" With Gas Prices,
Not Iraq -- But So Is the NYT

http://www.mrcaction.org/r.asp?U=7775... />
On Memorial Day Times Accuses Bush of "Having Squandered Soldiers'
Lives" in Iraq

http://www.mrcaction.org/r.asp?U=7776... />
"Conservative" Supreme Court Spooked by Public Backlash?

http://www.mrcaction.org/r.asp?U=7777... />

***Business and Media Institute - businessandmedia.org

Special Report -- The Great Media Depression

http://www.mrcaction.org/r.asp?U=7778... />
'Today' Fails to Define 'Average' in Food Bank Scare

http://www.mrcaction.org/r.asp?U=7779... />
'Nightly News' Bemoans School Funding Woes

http://www.mrcaction.org/r.asp?U=7780... />
CNN Pulls out 'D-Word' in Economy Speculation

http://www.mrcaction.org/r.asp?U=7781... />
'Early Show' Takes Jab at Oil Executives for Industry Profits

http://www.mrcaction.org/r.asp?U=7782... />
Wash. Post on Obese Children: 'Parent' Never Mentioned

http://www.mrcaction.org/r.asp?U=7783... />
BusinessWeek Dedicates Blog Exclusively to 'Recession in America'

http://www.mrcaction.org/r.asp?U=7784... />
Pressure Builds on Oil Companies - from Lawmakers, Media and Candidates

http://www.mrcaction.org/r.asp?U=7785... />

***NewsBusters.org

MSNBC.com on 'Sharing' Social Security Numbers w/ 'Undocumented
 Workers'

http://www.mrcaction.org/r.asp?U=7786... />
Newsbusted 169

http://www.mrcaction.org/r.asp?U=7787... />
CNN's Roberts: McClellan 'Finally Articulates What We All Came to
 Believe'

http://www.mrcaction.org/r.asp?U=7788... />
USNewser's Unconventional Take on Economy: Not As Bad As You Think

http://www.mrcaction.org/r.asp?U=7789... />
CBS 'Early Show': Scott McClellan's 'Bombshell Memoir'

http://www.mrcaction.org/r.asp?U=7790... />
Will Media Report Majority of Americans Against Bill Raising Energy
 Costs?

http://www.mrcaction.org/r.asp?U=7791... />
CBS’s Couric: Iraq War Coverage 'One of the Most Embarrassing
Chapters in American Journalism'

http://www.mrcaction.org/r.asp?U=7792... />
***Eyeblast.tv

http://www.mrcaction.org/r.asp?U=7793... />
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