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MRC Alert Special: MSNBC's Liberal Agenda at Both Debates--5/7/2007-- Media
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***Media Research Center CyberAlert Special***
3:20pm EDT, Monday May 7, 2007
Media Reality Check. "The Two Debates: MSNBC's Liberal Agenda;
MSNBC's Matthews Emphasizes Liberal Questions at GOP Debate: Is Bill
Clinton Good for America?"
Below is the text of a Media Reality Check, by the MRC's Rich
Noyes, which was faxed and posted this afternoon.
For the PDF version of the Media Reality Check which matches the
hard copy:
http://www.mediaresearch.org/realitycheck/2007/pdf/fax0507.pdf
The HTML version:
http://www.mediaresearch.org/realitycheck/2007/fax20070507.asp
Now, the text of the May 7 Media Reality Check:
The Two Debates: MSNBC's Liberal Agenda
MSNBC's Matthews Emphasizes Liberal Questions at GOP Debate:
Is Bill Clinton Good for America?
On Friday's Today show, MSNBC's Chris Matthews defended his ludicrous
decision to ask the GOP candidates if it would "be good for America
to have Bill Clinton back living in the White House?" Matthews
explained the sociological insight: "They all sort of guffawed. Well,
that's a particularly Republican response. If I offered that same
question up to Democrats...they would be cheering like mad."
So Matthews proved that the ten Republican debaters are not Democrats
-- was there any doubt? The weird Clinton question was symptomatic of
how MSNBC and debate co-sponsor ThePolitico.com spent valuable time
asking the GOP candidates questions that reflected the agenda of far-
left bloggers, not the concerns of GOP primary voters. A week
earlier, while moderator Brian Williams did pose a few right-leaning
questions to the Democratic field, most of that debate reflected
issues that rate high with Democratic voters. In other words, both
debates were dominated by liberal agenda questions.
# The Democratic Debate: Brian Williams started off with a
conservative-oriented question to Hillary Clinton about Harry Reid's
statement that the Iraq war is lost: "A letter to today's USA Today
calls his comments 'treasonous,' and says if General Patton were
alive today, Patton would 'wipe his boots' with Senator Reid. Do you
agree with the position of your leader in the Senate?" But by the
time Williams reached Dennis Kucinich, his Iraq questions were
skewing left: "Do you think one can be against the war and still fund
it?"
On universal health care, Williams asked the candidates to explain
how they would pay for it, not challenging them on the need for such
a huge new government expansion. On gun control, Williams tried to
embarrass New Mexico's Bill Richardson as too far right: "You are
currently, if our research is correct, the NRA's favorite
presidential candidate of either party....Did anything about the
massacre at Virginia Tech make you re-think any part of your position
on guns?"
Most questions posed from e-mails were ideologically neutral, such as
"What is the most significant political or professional mistake you
have made in the past four years?" While Mrs. Clinton was hit with a
question from the right -- "Would you defy the majority of American
citizens and offer a form of amnesty for illegal aliens?" -- John
Edwards enjoyed this liberal-oriented question: "Concerning the
astronomical windfall of major oil companies again in the first
quarter, why is gas still on the rise?"
# The GOP Debate: Matthews posed some important questions from the
right, asking each candidate "to mention a tax you'd like to cut,"
and whether "the day that Roe v. Wade is repealed [would] be a good
day for America?" But much of the debate was spent posing hostile
questions from the left. Matthews at one point asked Jim Gilmore
about the Left's favorite whipping boy: "Is Karl Rove your friend? Do
you want to keep him in the White House if you get elected
President?" He challenged Romney about "Roman Catholic bishops who
would deny communion to elected officials who support abortion
rights....Do you see that as interference in public life?"
Many of the e-mailed questions used liberal catch-phrases: "Will you
work to protect women's rights, as in fair wages and reproductive
choice?" And several e-mailers hoped to catch candidates in moments
of ignorance, asking Rudy Giuliani to explain the difference between
a Sunni and a Shiite, and asking Tommy Thompson to say how many
Americans have been killed or wounded in Iraq.
At their debate, none of the Democrats faced questions aimed at
showing their lack of knowledge. That such an approach was taken with
the GOP candidates shows the liberal agenda MSNBC brought to both
forums -- with the priorities of GOP voters left by the wayside.
END of Reprint of Media Reality Check
Friday's CyberAlert recounted:
In a debate packed with silly questions and ones matching left-wing
attack points on GOP candidates, in the first "Interactive Round" of
questions submitted by the public on Politico.com, a co-sponsor of
the debate, Mitt Romney got the most bizarre. The Politico Executive
Editor Jim VandeHei, a Washington Post political reporter before
jumping to The Politico earlier this year, found this one worth
posing: "Daniel Dekovnick [sp phonetic] from Walnut Creek, California
wants to know, 'What do you dislike most about America?'" Romney
responded: "Gosh, I love America. I'm afraid I'm going to be at a
loss for words..."
For audio/video of VandeHei posing the "what do you dislike most
about America?" question and Romney's response, go to:
http://www.mrc.org/cyberalerts/2007/cyb20070504.asp#1
The "Interactive Rounds" at the Republican presidential debate, from
the Ronald Reagan Library in California and carried live on MSNBC,
became an opportunity to raise hostile questions from a left-wing
agenda or meant to embarrass the candidates (What's the difference
between Shia and Sunni?, How many have been killed or injured in
Iraq? etc.)
Some of the other questions VandeHei chose to ask during the same
round, about 25 minutes into the debate, in which he posed the
whopper to Romney: To Rudy Giuliani, "Bradley Winter of New York
would like to know if there's anything you learned, or regret, during
your time as Mayor in your dealings with the African-American
community?"; to Mike Huckabee, "Thousands of reputable scientists
have concluded, with almost certainty, that human activity is
responsible for the warming of the Earth. Do you believe global
warming exists?" Later, to Tom Tancredo: "Will you work to protect
women's rights, as in fair wages and reproductive choice?"
END of Excerpt from CyberAlert
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