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		<title>{ISSUES &gt; BIAS AND BALANCE} - O'Reilly's guest Hoenig again advocated military strikes on Iran while discussing economy</title>
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		<description>On the July 16 edition of Westwood
One's The Radio Factor with Bill
O'Reilly, guest Jonathan Hoenig --
regular panelist on Fox News' Cashin' In, managing
member of Capitalistpig Asset Management LLC, author, and financial commentator -- again advocated
military strikes against Iran in the context of discussing the U.S.
economy. While interviewing Hoenig, host Bill O'Reilly asserted that Americans can
be "[d]iscipline[d] to say we only have so many resources, let's use
them wisely, and sending $330 billion abroad is not a wise thing to do
geopolitically," to which Hoenig replied, "[I]f there's bad
guys out there, Bill, and you alluded to Iran and whatnot -- let's deal with
them militarily. You know, we didn't win -- win World War II by cutting
back on German sausages." O'Reilly said, "Now, look, come on.
Let's stay in the real world. You deal with them militarily, you're gonna have
to kill millions of people -- and I mean millions of people. That's
unacceptable. If we can strangle them economically, let's do so."
Hoenig responded, "[B]y that logic, we'd still have soldiers in Hiroshima and Nagasaki
right now," to which O'Reilly said: "No, that's not the
logic at all."

Later, Hoenig asserted: "[O]ur economy is going to be
killed by the conservation."

As Media
Matters for America has documented, Hoenig previously stated on the June 5, 2006, edition of
Fox News' Your World with Neil Cavuto:
"[F]rankly, if you want to see the Dow go up, let's get the bombers in
the air and neutralize this Iranian threat. We've gone to the negotiating
table, we have danced around with these people" and "[t]hat's not
going to help this country nor the stock market." On June 19, 2006, Hoenig
suggested that the United States should attack North Korea in order to prevent
"a major sell-off on Wall Street." Hoenig asserted: "We should
take preventative action here and take out their capacity to threaten us. I
think that's when you are going to see this market take the North Korean threat
off the table. Right now, I'm scared that this could become a real threat and a
catalyst for a major sell-off on Wall Street." During the July 11, 2006,
edition of Your World, after
Cavuto asked Hoenig, "[W]hat happens if we were to strike North Korea's
nuclear-strike capability? ... Then what happens to the market?"
Hoenig responded, "I think the market
rises. I would love to see us launch a pre-emptive attack on North Korea."

From the July 16 broadcast of Westwood
One's The Radio Factor with Bill
O'Reilly: 

O'REILLY:
Love convenience. There's a gas station, we pull in, put the noz in,
bang, we're ready to go. "On the road again" -- Willie
Nelson. So we like convenience. We love our cars. Therefore, if you mess with
that equation, you are not a popular person. You are not popular. All right,
now that is a truism. You can't argue with me on that. Over the years, we
have used more and more energy. Three percent of the world's population,
we use 25 percent of the world's fossil fuel. We are gluttons because we
love our cars and drive and drive and drive. And it's a big country. We
do a lot of commerce and all of that. OK. So we spend $330 billion on foreign
petroleum imports. We send $330 billion abroad every year. 

Think
about it. That's money out of this country, out of our pockets and into
the pockets of bad guys like [Venezuelan President] Hugo Chavez, the Saudi
sheikhs, the Iranians -- before he was overthrown, Saddam Hussein -- all of
these people taking our money. And because all that money is leaving our
economy, our economy is weaker. If we'd kept the $330 billion here,
we'd have much higher wages and much more employment because
there'd be more money floating around the 50 states. 

[...]


O'REILLY:
All right, the bottom line on President Bush is he's not a problem solver,
and this problem was apparent to many, many of us but, you know, everybody just
let it go for the reasons I stated. All right, let's bring in Jonathan
Hoenig of Capitalistpig Asset Management. Capitalistpig.com. Hey, at least
you're honest, Hoenig. You know what I'm talking about here?

HOENIG:
Hell, yes. Great to be with you, Bill.

O'REILLY:
He's coming to us on the Nextel Direct-Connect hotline. Am I making any
mistakes here?

HOENIG:
Ah, plenty of them, Bill. I think, to be honest --

O'REILLY:
All right.  

HOENIG:
-- kind of like you blaming the oil speculators. 

O'REILLY:
Right. I've --

HOENIG:
You're 100 percent wrong.

O'REILLY:
Of course. And -- and -- and the fact that all the airline chieftains are
blaming the speculators and Congress is going to pass laws against them really
don't matter, but go ahead.

HOENIG:
Well, Bill, what are you basically saying? I mean, are you saying that we
should conserve and consume less?

O'REILLY:
I am.

HOENIG:
Why?

O'REILLY:
Because -- 

HOENIGH:
Just to save money?

O'REILLY:
-- to make a cleaner planet, all right? Yeah -- less fossil fuel use is better
for the air. And if you use less and conserve you'll have more cash
yourself that you can spend and invest with you and your Capitalistpig
organization.

HOENIG:
Well, when you want to write an investment book or the president wants to write
an investment book, I guess I -- I'll buy that one, but I mean, Bill, the
only reason to conserve is to sacrifice. The whole philosophy of conservation
is sacrifice.

O'REILLY:
How about discipline?

HOENIG:
Discipline what? Discipline to live a less higher quality of life?

O'REILLY:
No. Discipline to say we only have so many resources, let's use them
wisely, and sending $330 billion abroad is not a wise thing to do geopolitically.

HOENIG:
Well, a couple of things going on here. For one thing is that if you -- if
there's bad guys out there, Bill, and you alluded to Iran and whatnot -- let's
deal with them militarily. You know, we didn't win -- win World War II --


O'REILLY:
Let's deal with -- 

HOENIG:
-- by cutting back on German sausages.

O'REILLY:
Now, look, come on. Let's stay in the real world. You deal with them --

HOENIG:
Yeah. 

O'REILLY:
-- militarily, you're gonna have to kill millions of people -- and I mean
millions of people. That's unacceptable. If we can strangle them
economically -- 

HOENIG:
Yeah.

O'REILLY:
-- let's do so.

HOENIG:
And if -- by that, you know, by that logic, we'd still have soldiers in Hiroshima and Nagasaki
right now. Bill -- 

O'REILLY:
No, that's not the logic at all.

HOENIG:
Well, we are consuming less. I mean the president actually is onto something.
We're buy -- driving less --

O'REILLY:
Yeah, we're driving -- now we are.

HOENIG:
Well, well -- 

O'REILLY:
But he didn't take the leadership position until we were into a very
painful situation.

HOENIG:
Well, I don't think it's the role of the government, Bill, to tell
me how much to drive.

O'REILLY:
You don't think it's the role of the government to promote national
security? It's like -- we're being hurt.

HOENIG:
By -- by telling me to buy a smaller car?

O'REILLY:
Yeah.

HOENIG:
Well, I don't -- 

O'REILLY:
Yeah. I'll tell you why. I'll tell you why. Because our economy is
our security. And our economy now is damaged greatly by higher oil prices. 

HOENIG:
Bill -- Bill, our economy is going to be killed by the conservation that you --
what has made America
great and so prosperous, Bill, is it self-sacrifice?

O'REILLY:
No, it's hard work. It's not gluttony --

HOENIG:
Yeah by --

O'REILLY:
No. It's not gluttony in an SUV.

HOENIG:
Well, you consider going to 7-Eleven and getting a Slurpee in an SUV to be
gluttony. I consider it to be the American -- the great American way of life.
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<td width="100%" style="font:9pt Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif;vertical-align:top;"><span style="color:#808080;font-variant:small-caps;">Mediamatters.Org</span> - On the July 16 edition of Westwood
One's The Radio Factor with Bill
O'Reilly, guest Jonathan Hoenig --
regular panelist on Fox News' Cashin' In, managing
member of Capitalistpig Asset Management LLC, author, and financial commentator -- again advocated
military strikes against Iran in the context of discussing the U.S.
economy. While interviewing Hoenig, host Bill O'Reilly asserted that Americans can
be "[d]iscipline[d] to say we only have so many resources, let's use
them wisely, and sending $330 billion abroad is not a wise thing to do
geopolitically," to which Hoenig replied, "[I]f there's bad
guys out there, Bill, and you alluded to Iran and whatnot -- let's deal with
them militarily. You know, we didn't win -- win World War II by cutting
back on German sausages." O'Reilly said, "Now, look, come on.
Let's stay in the real world. You deal with them militarily, you're gonna have
to kill millions of people -- and I mean millions of people. That's
unacceptable. If we can strangle them economically, let's do so."
Hoenig responded, "[B]y that logic, we'd still have soldiers in Hiroshima and Nagasaki
right now," to which O'Reilly said: "No, that's not the
logic at all."

Later, Hoenig asserted: "[O]ur economy is going to be
killed by the conservation."

As Media
Matters for America has documented, Hoenig previously stated on the June 5, 2006, edition of
Fox News' Your World with Neil Cavuto:
"[F]rankly, if you want to see the Dow go up, let's get the bombers in
the air and neutralize this Iranian threat. We've gone to the negotiating
table, we have danced around with these people" and "[t]hat's not
going to help this country nor the stock market." On June 19, 2006, Hoenig
suggested that the United States should attack North Korea in order to prevent
"a major sell-off on Wall Street." Hoenig asserted: "We should
take preventative action here and take out their capacity to threaten us. I
think that's when you are going to see this market take the North Korean threat
off the table. Right now, I'm scared that this could become a real threat and a
catalyst for a major sell-off on Wall Street." During the July 11, 2006,
edition of Your World, after
Cavuto asked Hoenig, "[W]hat happens if we were to strike North Korea's
nuclear-strike capability? ... Then what happens to the market?"
Hoenig responded, "I think the market
rises. I would love to see us launch a pre-emptive attack on North Korea."

From the July 16 broadcast of Westwood
One's The Radio Factor with Bill
O'Reilly: 

O'REILLY:
Love convenience. There's a gas station, we pull in, put the noz in,
bang, we're ready to go. "On the road again" -- Willie
Nelson. So we like convenience. We love our cars. Therefore, if you mess with
that equation, you are not a popular person. You are not popular. All right,
now that is a truism. You can't argue with me on that. Over the years, we
have used more and more energy. Three percent of the world's population,
we use 25 percent of the world's fossil fuel. We are gluttons because we
love our cars and drive and drive and drive. And it's a big country. We
do a lot of commerce and all of that. OK. So we spend $330 billion on foreign
petroleum imports. We send $330 billion abroad every year. 

Think
about it. That's money out of this country, out of our pockets and into
the pockets of bad guys like [Venezuelan President] Hugo Chavez, the Saudi
sheikhs, the Iranians -- before he was overthrown, Saddam Hussein -- all of
these people taking our money. And because all that money is leaving our
economy, our economy is weaker. If we'd kept the $330 billion here,
we'd have much higher wages and much more employment because
there'd be more money floating around the 50 states. 

[...]


O'REILLY:
All right, the bottom line on President Bush is he's not a problem solver,
and this problem was apparent to many, many of us but, you know, everybody just
let it go for the reasons I stated. All right, let's bring in Jonathan
Hoenig of Capitalistpig Asset Management. Capitalistpig.com. Hey, at least
you're honest, Hoenig. You know what I'm talking about here?

HOENIG:
Hell, yes. Great to be with you, Bill.

O'REILLY:
He's coming to us on the Nextel Direct-Connect hotline. Am I making any
mistakes here?

HOENIG:
Ah, plenty of them, Bill. I think, to be honest --

O'REILLY:
All right.  

HOENIG:
-- kind of like you blaming the oil speculators. 

O'REILLY:
Right. I've --

HOENIG:
You're 100 percent wrong.

O'REILLY:
Of course. And -- and -- and the fact that all the airline chieftains are
blaming the speculators and Congress is going to pass laws against them really
don't matter, but go ahead.

HOENIG:
Well, Bill, what are you basically saying? I mean, are you saying that we
should conserve and consume less?

O'REILLY:
I am.

HOENIG:
Why?

O'REILLY:
Because -- 

HOENIGH:
Just to save money?

O'REILLY:
-- to make a cleaner planet, all right? Yeah -- less fossil fuel use is better
for the air. And if you use less and conserve you'll have more cash
yourself that you can spend and invest with you and your Capitalistpig
organization.

HOENIG:
Well, when you want to write an investment book or the president wants to write
an investment book, I guess I -- I'll buy that one, but I mean, Bill, the
only reason to conserve is to sacrifice. The whole philosophy of conservation
is sacrifice.

O'REILLY:
How about discipline?

HOENIG:
Discipline what? Discipline to live a less higher quality of life?

O'REILLY:
No. Discipline to say we only have so many resources, let's use them
wisely, and sending $330 billion abroad is not a wise thing to do geopolitically.

HOENIG:
Well, a couple of things going on here. For one thing is that if you -- if
there's bad guys out there, Bill, and you alluded to Iran and whatnot -- let's
deal with them militarily. You know, we didn't win -- win World War II --


O'REILLY:
Let's deal with -- 

HOENIG:
-- by cutting back on German sausages.

O'REILLY:
Now, look, come on. Let's stay in the real world. You deal with them --

HOENIG:
Yeah. 

O'REILLY:
-- militarily, you're gonna have to kill millions of people -- and I mean
millions of people. That's unacceptable. If we can strangle them
economically -- 

HOENIG:
Yeah.

O'REILLY:
-- let's do so.

HOENIG:
And if -- by that, you know, by that logic, we'd still have soldiers in Hiroshima and Nagasaki
right now. Bill -- 

O'REILLY:
No, that's not the logic at all.

HOENIG:
Well, we are consuming less. I mean the president actually is onto something.
We're buy -- driving less --

O'REILLY:
Yeah, we're driving -- now we are.

HOENIG:
Well, well -- 

O'REILLY:
But he didn't take the leadership position until we were into a very
painful situation.

HOENIG:
Well, I don't think it's the role of the government, Bill, to tell
me how much to drive.

O'REILLY:
You don't think it's the role of the government to promote national
security? It's like -- we're being hurt.

HOENIG:
By -- by telling me to buy a smaller car?

O'REILLY:
Yeah.

HOENIG:
Well, I don't -- 

O'REILLY:
Yeah. I'll tell you why. I'll tell you why. Because our economy is
our security. And our economy now is damaged greatly by higher oil prices. 

HOENIG:
Bill -- Bill, our economy is going to be killed by the conservation that you --
what has made America
great and so prosperous, Bill, is it self-sacrifice?

O'REILLY:
No, it's hard work. It's not gluttony --

HOENIG:
Yeah by --

O'REILLY:
No. It's not gluttony in an SUV.

HOENIG:
Well, you consider going to 7-Eleven and getting a Slurpee in an SUV to be
gluttony. I consider it to be the American -- the great American way of life.
<blockquote style="background:#FAFAFA;border:1px dotted #E6E6E6;font:italic 10pt Times New Roman;padding:9px;">Media Matters - O&#39;Reilly&#39;s guest Hoenig again advocated military strikes on Iran while discussing economy {...} On Bill O&#39;Reilly&#39;s radio show, financial commentator Jonathan Hoenig said: "[I]f there&#39;s bad guys out there, Bill, and you alluded to Iran and whatnot -- let&#39;s deal with them militarily. You know, we didn&#39;t win -- win World War II by cutting back on German sausages." Hoenig has previously advocated military strikes on Iran and North Korea in appearances on Fox News&#39; Your World with Neil Cavuto .     {...}</blockquote><div style="font:8pt Verdana,Arial;vertical-align:top;"><span style="color:#808080;">Published:</span> July 18, 2008, 1:59 am - <span style="color:#808080;">Indexed:</span> July 19, 2008, 1:04 am - <span style="color:#808080;">Page Size:</span>&nbsp;24KB</div><div style="font:8pt Verdana,Arial;vertical-align:top;"><span style="color:#808080;">Category:</span> <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/society/">Society</a> &gt; <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/society/issues/">Issues</a> &gt; <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/society/issues/business/">Business</a> &gt; <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/society/issues/business/media/">Media</a> &gt;  <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/society/issues/business/media/bias-and-balance/"><b>Bias and Balance</b></a></div></td></tr></table>
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		<title>{NORTH AMERICA &gt; LODGING} - Ironstone Concerts Willie Nelson, Cherly Crow ...Sleeps 8-13 (brentwood / oakley) 3bd</title>
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		<description>Check Out the Summer Concert Series....

www.ironstonevineyards.com

This Fabulous Big Trees Beauty has everything you could want for a first class vacation. With sleeping for eight and the ability to increase occupancy to thirteen (at an extra per person charge), this cabin has three bedrooms, two baths and a loft game/play/sleep area along with a full-service kitchen; master suite with private access to the huge deck area which is perfect for easy entertaining. Our vacation home is fully equipped and situated on one acre that backs up to the National Forest.  



In the summer enjoy the beautiful outdoors at the cabin barbequing on the deck or sitting around the bon fire pit to roast marshmallows (if itÂs a burn day).  Get out and go for a hike through Calaveras Big Trees State Park; fish, kayak, canoe, or even pan for gold on the Stanislaus River. Or spend the day swimming and playing at Lake Alpine or Spicer.  Explore at California Cavern, climb, crawl and squirm through gooey, sticky mud, or take a tour at the Gold Cliff Mine, explore 2 historic gold mine sites; or at Moaning Cavern, rappel 165 feet by rope to the bottom of the main chamber, crawl and climb. If you enjoy the wine country head down to MurphyÂs a 30 minute drive to visit some of the sierraÂs most outstanding wineries. Ironstone Winery is stunning they have excellent wine and in a vault the largest piece of gold ever found in California. MurphyÂs downtown has charming shops and wonderful restaurants to dine in.  Arnold is closer to the cabin to spend the day golfing and drinking microbrews at The Snowshoe Brewery.



In the winter watch the family sled in front of the deck or build a big snow man. We are only a 30 minute ride to Bear Valley Ski Resort for some of the best skiing and snowboarding in the Sierras, without the crowds. This cabin is beautiful with vaulted ceiling and hardwood floors. It is fun to snuggle, relax in front of the fire place and watch the snow fall outside. If your family is like ours we love to play games and cards; we have a few for you to use.  



You will need to bring your own sheets, pillow cases and towels. Must have a 4x4 or chains to access the cabin. Everything else is provided. 



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Rates (in US Dollars ): Personal Currency AssistantÂ 
Credit Cards Accepted:   
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5 Nights-$765.00
6 Nights-$895.00
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Plus $125.00 Cleaning fee and 6% tax. Call for Holiday rates.
$200 refundable deposit required. All rates are subject to change.

Note: Until confirmed, rates are subject to change without notice.
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www.ironstonevineyards.com

This Fabulous Big Trees Beauty has everything you could want for a first class vacation. With sleeping for eight and the ability to increase occupancy to thirteen (at an extra per person charge), this cabin has three bedrooms, two baths and a loft game/play/sleep area along with a full-service kitchen; master suite with private access to the huge deck area which is perfect for easy entertaining. Our vacation home is fully equipped and situated on one acre that backs up to the National Forest.  



In the summer enjoy the beautiful outdoors at the cabin barbequing on the deck or sitting around the bon fire pit to roast marshmallows (if itÂs a burn day).  Get out and go for a hike through Calaveras Big Trees State Park; fish, kayak, canoe, or even pan for gold on the Stanislaus River. Or spend the day swimming and playing at Lake Alpine or Spicer.  Explore at California Cavern, climb, crawl and squirm through gooey, sticky mud, or take a tour at the Gold Cliff Mine, explore 2 historic gold mine sites; or at Moaning Cavern, rappel 165 feet by rope to the bottom of the main chamber, crawl and climb. If you enjoy the wine country head down to MurphyÂs a 30 minute drive to visit some of the sierraÂs most outstanding wineries. Ironstone Winery is stunning they have excellent wine and in a vault the largest piece of gold ever found in California. MurphyÂs downtown has charming shops and wonderful restaurants to dine in.  Arnold is closer to the cabin to spend the day golfing and drinking microbrews at The Snowshoe Brewery.



In the winter watch the family sled in front of the deck or build a big snow man. We are only a 30 minute ride to Bear Valley Ski Resort for some of the best skiing and snowboarding in the Sierras, without the crowds. This cabin is beautiful with vaulted ceiling and hardwood floors. It is fun to snuggle, relax in front of the fire place and watch the snow fall outside. If your family is like ours we love to play games and cards; we have a few for you to use.  



You will need to bring your own sheets, pillow cases and towels. Must have a 4x4 or chains to access the cabin. Everything else is provided. 



Call Kristine @ 925-240-0051 Go to WWW.VRBO.COM/148183 or visit my website www.messaloans.com   

Rates (in US Dollars ): Personal Currency AssistantÂ 
Credit Cards Accepted:   
2 Nights-$390.00     
3 Nights-$515.00
4 Nights-$635.00
5 Nights-$765.00
6 Nights-$895.00
7 Nights-$1020.0
Plus $125.00 Cleaning fee and 6% tax. Call for Holiday rates.
$200 refundable deposit required. All rates are subject to change.

Note: Until confirmed, rates are subject to change without notice.
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		<title>{NORTH AMERICA &gt; RENTALS} - ***BEAUTIFUL 1BR @ ANDANTE EMERYVILLE for $1575*** (emeryville) $1575 1bd</title>
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		<description>Available August 1, 2008

The Andante is EmeryvilleÂs premiere urban style condo development.  It is located near Bay StreetÂs shopping center, shops (Ikea, Home Depot, Best Buy, Trader JoeÂs), entertainment (AMC Theatres, Willie Mays Sky Box), and restaurants (PF ChangÂs, Elephant Bar, Miyozen).

This modern style condo was built in 2005 and is the perfect combination of convenient location and understated elegance.  It showcases a desirable open floor plan with stainless steel appliances, private patio, and amenities such as an exercise room, Jacuzzi, and free wireless internet.

Features:
 Granite kitchen and bath countertops
 Custom built-in desk
 Laminate wood flooring 
 Stainless steel appliances (refrigerator, microwave, oven &amp; dishwasher)
 Barbeque friendly private patio
 Recessed lighting
 Over-sized soaking bathtub
 Washer &amp; dryer inside unit
 Fitness room &amp; Jacuzzi
 Gated resident only parking garage
 Restaurant &amp; retail shops on ground floor
 One stop away from MacArthur BART station on the FREE Emerygoround or a 10     
 minute walk to BART
 Convenient to freeways I-580, I-880, I-80, CA-24 and Bay Bridge
 3 miles to UC Berkeley

Rent includes garbage, wireless internet and parking spot.  YOU PAY for your own water, utilities, and cable.  Deposit is one monthÂs rent ($1,575).
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The Andante is EmeryvilleÂs premiere urban style condo development.  It is located near Bay StreetÂs shopping center, shops (Ikea, Home Depot, Best Buy, Trader JoeÂs), entertainment (AMC Theatres, Willie Mays Sky Box), and restaurants (PF ChangÂs, Elephant Bar, Miyozen).

This modern style condo was built in 2005 and is the perfect combination of convenient location and understated elegance.  It showcases a desirable open floor plan with stainless steel appliances, private patio, and amenities such as an exercise room, Jacuzzi, and free wireless internet.

Features:
 Granite kitchen and bath countertops
 Custom built-in desk
 Laminate wood flooring 
 Stainless steel appliances (refrigerator, microwave, oven & dishwasher)
 Barbeque friendly private patio
 Recessed lighting
 Over-sized soaking bathtub
 Washer & dryer inside unit
 Fitness room & Jacuzzi
 Gated resident only parking garage
 Restaurant & retail shops on ground floor
 One stop away from MacArthur BART station on the FREE Emerygoround or a 10     
 minute walk to BART
 Convenient to freeways I-580, I-880, I-80, CA-24 and Bay Bridge
 3 miles to UC Berkeley

Rent includes garbage, wireless internet and parking spot.  YOU PAY for your own water, utilities, and cable.  Deposit is one monthÂs rent ($1,575).
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		<title>{SCIENCE &gt; ENVIRONMENT} - Letters: Plane stupidity</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 01:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
		<description>Letter: Willie Walsh's case for a third runway at Heathrow appears to be disappearing down the chute</description>
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		<title>{ISSUES &gt; BIAS AND BALANCE} -   Harwood ignored his own paper's reporting on Obama's work as community organizer as Scarborough mocked community organizing  </title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 23:30:44 GMT</pubDate>
		<description>During the July 9 edition of
MSNBC's Morning Joe, co-host Joe Scarborough mocked Sen.
Barack Obama's work as a community organizer for the Chicago-based Developing Communities Project (DCP),
where he rose to the level of executive director before leaving to attend law
school. Scarborough said: "Barack Obama's campaign ad is great, but he says 'I was a community
organizer.' Most people are like, 'what's a -- what's a
-- get a job -- what's a community organizer?' " Later in the
segment, Scarborough asked New York Times
political writer and CNBC chief Washington correspondent John Harwood,
"What did you do when you were a young man, John Harwood? Were you a
community organizer?" But rather than note that two days earlier,
his own newspaper published a front-page article providing details that
answered Scarborough's question about what Obama did as a community
organizer, Harwood responded by saying that he
"played Little League baseball," "played tennis," "was a
Cub Scout," and "saw a Beatles concert." 

In a front-page July 7 New York Times article
-- part of its series "The Long Run," described by the Times as
"a series of articles about the lives and careers of contenders for the
2008 Republican and Democratic presidential nominations" -- reporter
Serge Kovaleski described Obama's work getting churches to join the DCP,
setting up and preparing residents for meetings with public officials, and
working on issues such as employment, water contamination, and asbestos in public
housing.

Kovaleski also reported that Obama has
referred to his career as a community organizer as "the best education I ever
had, better than anything I got at Harvard
Law School"
and noted that Obama "devoted about one-third of the 442 pages in his
memoir, 'Dreams From My Father,' to chronicling that Chicago organizing
period." 

During a later Morning Joe segment, Scarborough
said, "You know, I was a community organizer." Co-host Willie Geist
then asked, "You were?" When Scarborough
replied, "Yeah. I was," Geist said: "Wow, you remind me of Lincoln that way."
NBC News chief foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell then asked Scarborough, "What did you organize?" Scarborough replied: "Communities." Moments
later Scarborough said: "That's my
story, and I'm sticking to it. You know, next time I run for any office
at all, I'm just going to -- 'he was a community organizer.'
" Geist said, "It works, apparently." Scarborough
then said, "Yeah, it's great. Not exactly sure what that
means." After Mitchell asked, "In your case?" Scarborough replied, "Yeah, in my case, exactly. It means nothing. It means something in Barack Obama's case." 

From the July 9 edition of MSNBC's Morning Joe:

SCARBOROUGH: John McCain
has such a better narrative in a 30-second ad. I mean, Barack Obama's is
great, but he says "I was a community organizer." 

BUCHANAN:
Right.

SCARBOROUGH: Most
people are like, "what's a -- "

BUCHANAN:
Exactly.

SCARBOROUGH:
"What's a -- get a job -- what's a community
organizer?" Where you have McCain, and the grand, epic sweep of all these
years. So, you look at the -- we were talking yesterday about the teleprompter
-- you look at the advantages on each side: the 30-second ads, the town hall
meetings.

BUCHANAN:
Right.

SCARBOROUGH :
McCain's great there. Those grand speeches -- and I mean, it seems like
this is how it's going to be breaking down.

MITCHELL:
Well, this is the -- this is -- 

BUCHANAN:
But that's where McCain -- see that ad goes right to those people in
central Pennsylvania.
They will look at that McCain ad and they'll say, "this was a
serious guy even as a young man. He's doing serious things." And
this other fella, it suggests he's sort of, yeah, he gives good speeches,
community organizer, and he's not deadly serious. He's going after
the Hillary Democrats, McCain is. That's directed right at them.

SCARBOROUGH: And
what did you do when you were a young man, John Harwood? Were you a community
organizer?

HARWOOD:
Played Little League baseball. 

SCARBOROUGH: Yeah?

HARWOOD:
Uh, played tennis.

MITCHELL:
Boy Scouts? Cub Scouts? 

HARWOOD:
I was a Cub Scout. Pack 76.

SCARBOROUGH: Hey,
John, we're going to have leave it there, OK? You really saved the world,
didn't you? John, I love you. Thank you. Please come back -- 

HARWOOD:
I saw a Beatles concert when I was in the fourth grade. 

SCARBOROUGH: You
know what? It wasn't a misspent youth after all. That's all that
matters. All right, John Harwood, as always, we love having you on. 

[...]

GEIST:
One of you will come to Denver.
One of you will come to Minneapolis.
I don't know what you're going to do. Maybe you're going to
hang out with us. 

SCARBOROUGH: Hang
out -- we're gonna hang out.

GEIST:
You'll report for us, but more importantly, you'll socialize with
us. 

MITCHELL:
At the coffee shop.

GEIST:
Will hit the -- with Joe.

SCARBOROUGH: Not
with me. I will of course be -- I will do my job, and then I will do what I do
when I'm on the road. I will go -- 

GEIST:
What is that?

SCARBOROUGH: --
into the hotel room and have my Bible study -- 

GEIST:
Mm-hmm.

SCARBOROUGH: --
and then I will -- we have the orphans. We help the orphans in the morning.
That's what I do. Willie, you would -- 

MITCHELL:
Community service.

SCARBOROUGH: You
know, I was a community organizer.

GEIST:
You were?

SCARBOROUGH: Yeah.
I was.

GEIST:
Wow, you remind me of Lincoln
that way.

MITCHELL:
What did you organize?

SCARBOROUGH:
Communities. 

GEIST:
Get your videos up. 

SCARBOUROUGH:
That's my story, and I'm sticking to it. You know, next time I run
for any office at all, I'm just going to -- "he was a community
organizer."

GEIST:
It works, apparently.

SCARBOROUGH: Yeah,
it's great. Not exactly sure what that means, but -- 

MITCHELL:
In your case?

SCARBOROUGH: Yeah,
in my case, exactly. It means nothing. It means something in Barack
Obama's case. Well, Willie, thanks for nothing. 

GEIST: I
thought that was -- nothing.



SCARBOROUGH: It
was a short nothing, but it was good. </description>
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<td width="100%" style="font:9pt Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif;vertical-align:top;"><span style="color:#808080;font-variant:small-caps;">Mediamatters.Org</span> - During the July 9 edition of
MSNBC's Morning Joe, co-host Joe Scarborough mocked Sen.
Barack Obama's work as a community organizer for the Chicago-based Developing Communities Project (DCP),
where he rose to the level of executive director before leaving to attend law
school. Scarborough said: "Barack Obama's campaign ad is great, but he says 'I was a community
organizer.' Most people are like, 'what's a -- what's a
-- get a job -- what's a community organizer?' " Later in the
segment, Scarborough asked New York Times
political writer and CNBC chief Washington correspondent John Harwood,
"What did you do when you were a young man, John Harwood? Were you a
community organizer?" But rather than note that two days earlier,
his own newspaper published a front-page article providing details that
answered Scarborough's question about what Obama did as a community
organizer, Harwood responded by saying that he
"played Little League baseball," "played tennis," "was a
Cub Scout," and "saw a Beatles concert." 

In a front-page July 7 New York Times article
-- part of its series "The Long Run," described by the Times as
"a series of articles about the lives and careers of contenders for the
2008 Republican and Democratic presidential nominations" -- reporter
Serge Kovaleski described Obama's work getting churches to join the DCP,
setting up and preparing residents for meetings with public officials, and
working on issues such as employment, water contamination, and asbestos in public
housing.

Kovaleski also reported that Obama has
referred to his career as a community organizer as "the best education I ever
had, better than anything I got at Harvard
Law School"
and noted that Obama "devoted about one-third of the 442 pages in his
memoir, 'Dreams From My Father,' to chronicling that Chicago organizing
period." 

During a later Morning Joe segment, Scarborough
said, "You know, I was a community organizer." Co-host Willie Geist
then asked, "You were?" When Scarborough
replied, "Yeah. I was," Geist said: "Wow, you remind me of Lincoln that way."
NBC News chief foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell then asked Scarborough, "What did you organize?" Scarborough replied: "Communities." Moments
later Scarborough said: "That's my
story, and I'm sticking to it. You know, next time I run for any office
at all, I'm just going to -- 'he was a community organizer.'
" Geist said, "It works, apparently." Scarborough
then said, "Yeah, it's great. Not exactly sure what that
means." After Mitchell asked, "In your case?" Scarborough replied, "Yeah, in my case, exactly. It means nothing. It means something in Barack Obama's case." 

From the July 9 edition of MSNBC's Morning Joe:

SCARBOROUGH: John McCain
has such a better narrative in a 30-second ad. I mean, Barack Obama's is
great, but he says "I was a community organizer." 

BUCHANAN:
Right.

SCARBOROUGH: Most
people are like, "what's a -- "

BUCHANAN:
Exactly.

SCARBOROUGH:
"What's a -- get a job -- what's a community
organizer?" Where you have McCain, and the grand, epic sweep of all these
years. So, you look at the -- we were talking yesterday about the teleprompter
-- you look at the advantages on each side: the 30-second ads, the town hall
meetings.

BUCHANAN:
Right.

SCARBOROUGH :
McCain's great there. Those grand speeches -- and I mean, it seems like
this is how it's going to be breaking down.

MITCHELL:
Well, this is the -- this is -- 

BUCHANAN:
But that's where McCain -- see that ad goes right to those people in
central Pennsylvania.
They will look at that McCain ad and they'll say, "this was a
serious guy even as a young man. He's doing serious things." And
this other fella, it suggests he's sort of, yeah, he gives good speeches,
community organizer, and he's not deadly serious. He's going after
the Hillary Democrats, McCain is. That's directed right at them.

SCARBOROUGH: And
what did you do when you were a young man, John Harwood? Were you a community
organizer?

HARWOOD:
Played Little League baseball. 

SCARBOROUGH: Yeah?

HARWOOD:
Uh, played tennis.

MITCHELL:
Boy Scouts? Cub Scouts? 

HARWOOD:
I was a Cub Scout. Pack 76.

SCARBOROUGH: Hey,
John, we're going to have leave it there, OK? You really saved the world,
didn't you? John, I love you. Thank you. Please come back -- 

HARWOOD:
I saw a Beatles concert when I was in the fourth grade. 

SCARBOROUGH: You
know what? It wasn't a misspent youth after all. That's all that
matters. All right, John Harwood, as always, we love having you on. 

[...]

GEIST:
One of you will come to Denver.
One of you will come to Minneapolis.
I don't know what you're going to do. Maybe you're going to
hang out with us. 

SCARBOROUGH: Hang
out -- we're gonna hang out.

GEIST:
You'll report for us, but more importantly, you'll socialize with
us. 

MITCHELL:
At the coffee shop.

GEIST:
Will hit the -- with Joe.

SCARBOROUGH: Not
with me. I will of course be -- I will do my job, and then I will do what I do
when I'm on the road. I will go -- 

GEIST:
What is that?

SCARBOROUGH: --
into the hotel room and have my Bible study -- 

GEIST:
Mm-hmm.

SCARBOROUGH: --
and then I will -- we have the orphans. We help the orphans in the morning.
That's what I do. Willie, you would -- 

MITCHELL:
Community service.

SCARBOROUGH: You
know, I was a community organizer.

GEIST:
You were?

SCARBOROUGH: Yeah.
I was.

GEIST:
Wow, you remind me of Lincoln
that way.

MITCHELL:
What did you organize?

SCARBOROUGH:
Communities. 

GEIST:
Get your videos up. 

SCARBOUROUGH:
That's my story, and I'm sticking to it. You know, next time I run
for any office at all, I'm just going to -- "he was a community
organizer."

GEIST:
It works, apparently.

SCARBOROUGH: Yeah,
it's great. Not exactly sure what that means, but -- 

MITCHELL:
In your case?

SCARBOROUGH: Yeah,
in my case, exactly. It means nothing. It means something in Barack
Obama's case. Well, Willie, thanks for nothing. 

GEIST: I
thought that was -- nothing.



SCARBOROUGH: It
was a short nothing, but it was good. <blockquote style="background:#FAFAFA;border:1px dotted #E6E6E6;font:italic 10pt Times New Roman;padding:9px;">Media Matters -   Harwood ignored his own paper&#39;s reporting on Obama&#39;s work as community organizer as Scarborough mocked community organizing   {...} On Morning Joe , Joe Scarborough mocked Sen. Barack Obama&#39;s work as a community organizer, saying, "Most people are like, &#39;what&#39;s a -- what&#39;s a -- get a job -- what&#39;s a community organizer?&#39; " and later asked The New York Times &#39; John Harwood, "What did you do when you were a young man, John Harwood? Were you a community organizer?" Rather than note that two days earlier, his own newspaper had published a front-page article providing details that answered Scarborough&#39;s question about what Obama did as a community organizer, Hardwood responded that he "played Little League baseball" and "saw a Beatles concert."    {...}</blockquote><div style="font:8pt Verdana,Arial;vertical-align:top;"><span style="color:#808080;">Published:</span> July 9, 2008, 11:30 pm - <span style="color:#808080;">Indexed:</span> July 10, 2008, 10:31 am - <span style="color:#808080;">Page Size:</span>&nbsp;24KB</div><div style="font:8pt Verdana,Arial;vertical-align:top;"><span style="color:#808080;">Category:</span> <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/society/">Society</a> &gt; <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/society/issues/">Issues</a> &gt; <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/society/issues/business/">Business</a> &gt; <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/society/issues/business/media/">Media</a> &gt;  <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/society/issues/business/media/bias-and-balance/"><b>Bias and Balance</b></a></div></td></tr></table>
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		<title>{ISSUES &gt; BIAS AND BALANCE} - CBS Evening News aired portion of Floyd Brown's anti-Obama attack ad, failing to report Obama is not a Muslim    </title>
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		<description>On the June 30 edition of the CBS Evening
News, correspondent Dean Reynolds aired a clip of an attack ad
against Sen. Barack Obama in which the narrator says, "Obama was enrolled in school
as a Muslim while living in Indonesia."
Nowhere in his report did Reynolds note that Obama is in fact not a Muslim but, rather, a practicing
Christian. Earlier in the report, Reynolds stated that Obama "has faced
such questions [about his patriotism] for months, mostly on the
Internet," adding, "It's a campaign to sow doubts about
him."

Previously, the editor of CBS' now-defunct Public Eye
blog criticized an April
2007 video by Evening News anchor
Katie Couric in which, as Media Matters for
America noted, Couric asserted
that Obama's "background sparked rumors that he had studied at a radical
madrassa, or Quranic school" without noting that the rumors were false. Couric's "Notebook" was
later updated to note that
the madrassa "rumors [were] later disproved" and that the source for
the claim that Obama "grew up praying in a mosque" later backed off
that assertion.  

According to a March 25, 2007, Chicago Tribune article, Obama attended
a Catholic elementary school and then a public school during the four years he
spent in Indonesia
as a child. As Media Matters previously
documented, a January 24, 2007,
Associated Press article reported that
while enrolling at Fransiskus Assisis (St. Francis of Assisi), the Catholic
school Obama attended for grades 1 through 3, Obama was "required" to
"choose one of five state-sanctioned religions when registering -- Muslim,
Hindu, Buddhist, Catholic or Protestant." The AP reported that
"documents showed [Obama] enrolled as a Muslim, the religion of his
stepfather" and that Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs "said he wasn't
sure why the document had Obama listed as a Muslim." The article also quoted
Gibbs as stating, "Senator Obama has never been a Muslim." The Tribune article further reported on
Obama's enrollment status:

At the
time, the school most likely registered children based on the religion of their
fathers, said Darmawan, Obama's former teacher. Because Soetoro was a Muslim,
Obama was listed as a Muslim, she said.

The
enrollment form from the Catholic school, which has been cited as evidence that
Obama was a Muslim in Indonesia,
also was rife with errors. It listed Obama as an Indonesian, listed his
previous school incorrectly and failed to list his mother, Ann, at
all.

A May 15, 2007, Los Angeles Times article reported that
"[a]fter St. Francis, Obama completed third and fourth grades in what is
now called Model Primary School Menteng 1 in central Jakarta. Opened by Indonesia's former Dutch colonial
rulers, the public school screens for the best students with writing tests and
interviews. Several of its students have gone on to join Indonesia's elite." According
to the Times, "Bugs have
eaten Obama's file in the school's archive, said Vice Principal
Hardi Priyono. But two of his teachers, former Vice Principal Tine Hahiyari and
third-grade teacher Effendi, said they remember clearly that at this school
too, he was registered as a Muslim, which determined what class he attended
during weekly religion lessons." The Tribune also reported: "Interviews
with dozens of former classmates, teachers, neighbors and friends show that
Obama was not a regular practicing Muslim when he was in Indonesia."

Obama has said in speeches that his father
"was Muslim but as an adult became an atheist," and Obama's
Indonesian stepfather, Lolo Soetoro, was described in the Tribune
article as "much more of a free spirit than a devout Muslim, according to
former friends and neighbors." 

During the CBS report, the attack ad was
identified as a "YouTube" video from
"ExposeObama.com." But Reynolds did not note that ExposeObama.com is run by Floyd Brown, the
creator of the infamous Willie Horton ad that ran against then-Democratic presidential candidate Michael Dukakis in 1988.
ExposeObama.com describes itself as a "project of the National Campaign Fund," of which
Brown is the "Founder and President."

From the January 24, 2007 AP
article:

Obama's mother, divorced
from Obama's father, married a man from Indonesia named Lolo Soetoro, and the
family relocated to the country from 1967-71. At first, Obama attended the
Catholic school, Fransiskus Assisis, where documents showed he enrolled as a
Muslim, the religion of his stepfather.

The document required
that each student choose one of five state-sanctioned religions when
registering -- Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Catholic or Protestant. Gibbs said he
wasn't sure why the document had Obama listed as a Muslim. 

"Senator Obama has
never been a Muslim," Gibbs said. "As a six-year-old in Catholic
school, he studied the catechism." 

The Illinois senator is a member of the United
Church of Christ. 

From the March 25, 2007, Chicago Tribune article:

Obama's stepfather, Lolo
Soetoro, was much more of a free spirit than a devout Muslim, according to
former friends and neighbors. And the school described as an Islamic madrassa
in media reports actually was a public school, so progressive that teachers
wore miniskirts and all students were encouraged to celebrate Christmas.

[...]

At the time, the school
most likely registered children based on the religion of their fathers, said
Darmawan, Obama's former teacher. Because Soetoro was a Muslim, Obama was
listed as a Muslim, she said.

The enrollment form from
the Catholic school, which has been cited as evidence that Obama was a Muslim
in Indonesia,
also was rife with errors. It listed Obama as an Indonesian, listed his
previous school incorrectly and failed to list his mother, Ann, at all.

From the June 30 broadcast of the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric:

COURIC: Now, turning to
the presidential campaign. Today, John McCain returned fire after a surprising attack
on one of his biggest strengths. This as Barack Obama tried to shore up what
some believe is one of his biggest weaknesses. Here's Dean Reynolds.

[begin video
clip]

REYNOLDS: For Barack
Obama, his speech today in Missouri
was the latest attempt to rebut insinuations that he is less than loyal to the
country.

OBAMA: I will never
question the patriotism of others in this campaign. [video break] And I will not stand
idly by when I hear others question mine.

REYNOLDS: But he has
faced such questions for months, mostly on the Internet. It's a campaign
to sow doubts about him.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE:
Obama was enrolled in school as a Muslim while living in Indonesia.

REYNOLDS: Obama now
wears an American flag pin in his lapel and is often at events where Old Glory
is prominent. He clearly believes patriotism should be off the table.



OBAMA: No party or
political philosophy has a monopoly on patriotism. [video break] And surely we can arrive at
a definition of patriotism that, however rough and imperfect, captures the best
of America's
common spirit.</description>
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<td width="100%" style="font:9pt Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif;vertical-align:top;"><span style="color:#808080;font-variant:small-caps;">Mediamatters.Org</span> - On the June 30 edition of the CBS Evening
News, correspondent Dean Reynolds aired a clip of an attack ad
against Sen. Barack Obama in which the narrator says, "Obama was enrolled in school
as a Muslim while living in Indonesia."
Nowhere in his report did Reynolds note that Obama is in fact not a Muslim but, rather, a practicing
Christian. Earlier in the report, Reynolds stated that Obama "has faced
such questions [about his patriotism] for months, mostly on the
Internet," adding, "It's a campaign to sow doubts about
him."

Previously, the editor of CBS' now-defunct Public Eye
blog criticized an April
2007 video by Evening News anchor
Katie Couric in which, as Media Matters for
America noted, Couric asserted
that Obama's "background sparked rumors that he had studied at a radical
madrassa, or Quranic school" without noting that the rumors were false. Couric's "Notebook" was
later updated to note that
the madrassa "rumors [were] later disproved" and that the source for
the claim that Obama "grew up praying in a mosque" later backed off
that assertion.  

According to a March 25, 2007, Chicago Tribune article, Obama attended
a Catholic elementary school and then a public school during the four years he
spent in Indonesia
as a child. As Media Matters previously
documented, a January 24, 2007,
Associated Press article reported that
while enrolling at Fransiskus Assisis (St. Francis of Assisi), the Catholic
school Obama attended for grades 1 through 3, Obama was "required" to
"choose one of five state-sanctioned religions when registering -- Muslim,
Hindu, Buddhist, Catholic or Protestant." The AP reported that
"documents showed [Obama] enrolled as a Muslim, the religion of his
stepfather" and that Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs "said he wasn't
sure why the document had Obama listed as a Muslim." The article also quoted
Gibbs as stating, "Senator Obama has never been a Muslim." The Tribune article further reported on
Obama's enrollment status:

At the
time, the school most likely registered children based on the religion of their
fathers, said Darmawan, Obama's former teacher. Because Soetoro was a Muslim,
Obama was listed as a Muslim, she said.

The
enrollment form from the Catholic school, which has been cited as evidence that
Obama was a Muslim in Indonesia,
also was rife with errors. It listed Obama as an Indonesian, listed his
previous school incorrectly and failed to list his mother, Ann, at
all.

A May 15, 2007, Los Angeles Times article reported that
"[a]fter St. Francis, Obama completed third and fourth grades in what is
now called Model Primary School Menteng 1 in central Jakarta. Opened by Indonesia's former Dutch colonial
rulers, the public school screens for the best students with writing tests and
interviews. Several of its students have gone on to join Indonesia's elite." According
to the Times, "Bugs have
eaten Obama's file in the school's archive, said Vice Principal
Hardi Priyono. But two of his teachers, former Vice Principal Tine Hahiyari and
third-grade teacher Effendi, said they remember clearly that at this school
too, he was registered as a Muslim, which determined what class he attended
during weekly religion lessons." The Tribune also reported: "Interviews
with dozens of former classmates, teachers, neighbors and friends show that
Obama was not a regular practicing Muslim when he was in Indonesia."

Obama has said in speeches that his father
"was Muslim but as an adult became an atheist," and Obama's
Indonesian stepfather, Lolo Soetoro, was described in the Tribune
article as "much more of a free spirit than a devout Muslim, according to
former friends and neighbors." 

During the CBS report, the attack ad was
identified as a "YouTube" video from
"ExposeObama.com." But Reynolds did not note that ExposeObama.com is run by Floyd Brown, the
creator of the infamous Willie Horton ad that ran against then-Democratic presidential candidate Michael Dukakis in 1988.
ExposeObama.com describes itself as a "project of the National Campaign Fund," of which
Brown is the "Founder and President."

From the January 24, 2007 AP
article:

Obama's mother, divorced
from Obama's father, married a man from Indonesia named Lolo Soetoro, and the
family relocated to the country from 1967-71. At first, Obama attended the
Catholic school, Fransiskus Assisis, where documents showed he enrolled as a
Muslim, the religion of his stepfather.

The document required
that each student choose one of five state-sanctioned religions when
registering -- Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Catholic or Protestant. Gibbs said he
wasn't sure why the document had Obama listed as a Muslim. 

"Senator Obama has
never been a Muslim," Gibbs said. "As a six-year-old in Catholic
school, he studied the catechism." 

The Illinois senator is a member of the United
Church of Christ. 

From the March 25, 2007, Chicago Tribune article:

Obama's stepfather, Lolo
Soetoro, was much more of a free spirit than a devout Muslim, according to
former friends and neighbors. And the school described as an Islamic madrassa
in media reports actually was a public school, so progressive that teachers
wore miniskirts and all students were encouraged to celebrate Christmas.

[...]

At the time, the school
most likely registered children based on the religion of their fathers, said
Darmawan, Obama's former teacher. Because Soetoro was a Muslim, Obama was
listed as a Muslim, she said.

The enrollment form from
the Catholic school, which has been cited as evidence that Obama was a Muslim
in Indonesia,
also was rife with errors. It listed Obama as an Indonesian, listed his
previous school incorrectly and failed to list his mother, Ann, at all.

From the June 30 broadcast of the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric:

COURIC: Now, turning to
the presidential campaign. Today, John McCain returned fire after a surprising attack
on one of his biggest strengths. This as Barack Obama tried to shore up what
some believe is one of his biggest weaknesses. Here's Dean Reynolds.

[begin video
clip]

REYNOLDS: For Barack
Obama, his speech today in Missouri
was the latest attempt to rebut insinuations that he is less than loyal to the
country.

OBAMA: I will never
question the patriotism of others in this campaign. [video break] And I will not stand
idly by when I hear others question mine.

REYNOLDS: But he has
faced such questions for months, mostly on the Internet. It's a campaign
to sow doubts about him.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE:
Obama was enrolled in school as a Muslim while living in Indonesia.

REYNOLDS: Obama now
wears an American flag pin in his lapel and is often at events where Old Glory
is prominent. He clearly believes patriotism should be off the table.



OBAMA: No party or
political philosophy has a monopoly on patriotism. [video break] And surely we can arrive at
a definition of patriotism that, however rough and imperfect, captures the best
of America's
common spirit.<blockquote style="background:#FAFAFA;border:1px dotted #E6E6E6;font:italic 10pt Times New Roman;padding:9px;">Media Matters - CBS Evening News aired portion of Floyd Brown&#39;s anti-Obama attack ad, failing to report Obama is not a Muslim     {...} The CBS Evening News aired a clip of an attack ad against Sen. Barack Obama in which the narrator says, "Obama was enrolled in school as a Muslim while living in Indonesia." Nowhere did the report note that Obama is in fact not a Muslim but, rather, a practicing Christian.   {...}</blockquote><div style="font:8pt Verdana,Arial;vertical-align:top;"><span style="color:#808080;">Published:</span> July 2, 2008, 2:01 am - <span style="color:#808080;">Indexed:</span> July 2, 2008, 4:45 pm - <span style="color:#808080;">Page Size:</span>&nbsp;25KB</div><div style="font:8pt Verdana,Arial;vertical-align:top;"><span style="color:#808080;">Category:</span> <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/society/">Society</a> &gt; <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/society/issues/">Issues</a> &gt; <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/society/issues/business/">Business</a> &gt; <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/society/issues/business/media/">Media</a> &gt;  <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/society/issues/business/media/bias-and-balance/"><b>Bias and Balance</b></a></div></td></tr></table>
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		<title>{NEWS &gt; ALTERNATIVE} - Revisiting the Execution of Willie Francis: Race, Murder and the Search for Justice</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 08:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
		<description>It took two trips to the electric chair to kill murder suspect Francis, whose unfair trial catapulted racial justice into public consciousness.</description>
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<td width="100%" style="font:9pt Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif;vertical-align:top;"><span style="color:#808080;font-variant:small-caps;">Www.Alternet.Org</span> - It took two trips to the electric chair to kill murder suspect Francis, whose unfair trial catapulted racial justice into public consciousness.<blockquote style="background:#FAFAFA;border:1px dotted #E6E6E6;font:italic 10pt Times New Roman;padding:9px;">Revisiting the Execution of Willie Francis: Race, Murder and the Search for Justice | Reproductive Justice and Gender | AlterNet {...} </blockquote><div style="font:8pt Verdana,Arial;vertical-align:top;"><span style="color:#808080;">Published:</span> July 1, 2008, 8:00 am - <span style="color:#808080;">Indexed:</span> July 2, 2008, 3:45 pm - <span style="color:#808080;">Page Size:</span>&nbsp;39KB</div><div style="font:8pt Verdana,Arial;vertical-align:top;"><span style="color:#808080;">Category:</span> <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/news/">News</a> &gt;  <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/news/alternative/"><b>Alternative</b></a></div></td></tr></table>
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		<title>{ISSUES &gt; BIAS AND BALANCE} - Ben Smith ignored Politico 's own reporting in claiming "the only outside attack ads to run this cycle have been financed by Obama allies"  </title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2008 01:35:45 GMT</pubDate>
		<description>In a
June 19 Politico article, senior political writer Ben
Smith reported that Sen. Barack Obama "has complained that [Sen. John] McCain
said he couldn't control attack ads from outside groups -- though the only
outside attack ads to run this cycle have been financed by Obama allies and
directed at McCain." In fact, as Media
Matters for America noted when Smith made a similar claim in
a June 19 post on his Politico blog, the Vets for Freedom
political action committee launched two Internet ads in May attacking
Obama over issues related to the Iraq war. Moreover, in the run-up to two
special congressional elections in Louisiana and Mississippi on May 3 and 13,
the independent group Freedom's Watch ran television ads linking Democratic
congressional candidates Don Cazayoux (LA) and Travis Childers (MS) to Obama. On
April 22, Politico writer Josh
Kraushaar reported on the ads in
an article titled "GOP uses Obama to attack Democrats."

Media
Matters noted that two McCain
"allies" and frequent McCain campaign surrogates -- Sen. Lindsey
Graham (R-SC), a general co-chairman of McCain's campaign, and Sen. Joe Lieberman
(I-CT), a co-chairman of McCain's
Connecticut Leadership Team -- served on the Vets for Freedom Policy Board of
Advisors. But the day the group's PAC released the first Obama attack ad, they
sent a letter to the
group's president, Pete Hegseth, in which they "request[ed] a
leave" from their positions "[d]ue to McCain campaign guidelines." Smith noted
Graham and Lieberman's departure from Vets for Freedom in a May 29 blog entry.

Additionally, Smith wrote regarding attacks on Obama,
"Pressed to name an independent effort, Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs
cited Floyd Brown, an obscure Republican operative who has produced Web videos
attacking Obama's religion and his record, but had not raised enough money to air
them." However, although he characterized Brown as an "obscure
Republican operative," Smith and Politico
writer Mike Allen have written multiple items on Brown, creator of the infamous
Willie Horton ad and
leader of the conservative activist group ExposeObama.com. In an April 24 blog post, Smith noted that
although ExposeObama.com's recent ad "has no money behind
it," cable networks have willingly aired the ad even while acknowledging, as
MSNBC anchor Contessa Brewer did, that the tactic is a "new way
to get your ad covered without buying any time." In a June 11 blog post, Smith noted
another ad by
Brown smearing Obama. Smith wrote: "If
there's an upside for Obama, it's that what had been a faceless viral
whispering campaign now gets the face of a Republican operative explicitly
working to elect McCain." In
addition, Allen also noted the efforts of
Brown in his May 11 "Playbook," in which he called Brown an
"experienced attack artist[]" and reported on remarks Brown made in
a Newsweek article.

Allen wrote: 

Indeed,
two of the most experienced attack artists are already gearing up. Floyd Brown,
who produced the infamous 'Willie Horton' commercial that used race and fear of
crime to drive voters away from Democratic presidential candidate Michael
Dukakis in 1988, produced an ad before the North Carolina primary accusing Obama of
being soft on crime. 

"[Floyd
Brown] tells NEWSWEEK that Obama is 'extremely vulnerable' to questioning about
his ties to Chicago
fixer Tony Rezko, who has been indicted for political corruption. (Obama is not
linked to any wrongdoing.) Another target is former Weather Underground member
Bill Ayers, whose association with Obama will remind voters of bomb-throwing
student radicals of the 1960s. 'There's plenty of stuff out there,' says Brown.
'I'm kinda like in a candy store in this election.'

From Ben Smith's June 19 Politico article:

Sen.
Barack Obama's announcement Thursday that he would finance his campaign with
private contributions was the final step of a slow walk away from public
financing that began almost as soon as his campaign started 17 months ago. 

Obama said he would
pursue public financing "aggressively." He committed to it in a
written questionnaire. He even said, repeatedly, that he would meet with Sen.
John McCain to discuss a deal.

Instead,
his campaign never even asked the Republican's aides for a meeting on the
subject. And Obama himself, both campaigns said, never asked for a face-to-face
meeting with McCain. 

"It
was clear that there was no point," said Obama spokesman Bill Burton. 

Obama
has offered a variety of reasons for opting out. He has cited the fact that
McCain has, in some eyes, already skirted campaign finance rules. He has complained
that McCain said he couldn't control attack ads from outside groups --though
the only outside attack ads to run this cycle have been financed by Obama
allies and directed at McCain. More plausibly, Obama has argued that his
reliance on small contributions is consonant with the central goal of campaign
finance reform, which is liberating politicians from moneyed patrons. 

[...]

McCain
is "not going to stop the smears and attacks from his allies running
so-called 527 groups, who will spend millions and millions of dollars in
unlimited donations," Obama said. 

Ironically,
there are no major Republican independent efforts attacking Obama, though the
left-leaning MoveOn.org has put more than $500,000 behind an advertisement
showing a mother telling McCain that he can't take her infant son to war. 

Pressed
to name an independent effort, Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs cited Floyd Brown,
an obscure Republican operative who has produced Web videos attacking Obama's
religion and his record, but had not raised enough money to air them. 

McCain's
aides also mocked Obama's suggestion that he would "aggressively"
seek an agreement with the Republican who had opted into the public financing,
in the absence of his own torrent of online donations. 





"I
don't think he pursued it at all -- never mind aggressively," said the
McCain campaign counsel, Trevor Potter. </description>
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<td width="100%" style="font:9pt Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif;vertical-align:top;"><span style="color:#808080;font-variant:small-caps;">Mediamatters.Org</span> - In a
June 19 Politico article, senior political writer Ben
Smith reported that Sen. Barack Obama "has complained that [Sen. John] McCain
said he couldn't control attack ads from outside groups -- though the only
outside attack ads to run this cycle have been financed by Obama allies and
directed at McCain." In fact, as Media
Matters for America noted when Smith made a similar claim in
a June 19 post on his Politico blog, the Vets for Freedom
political action committee launched two Internet ads in May attacking
Obama over issues related to the Iraq war. Moreover, in the run-up to two
special congressional elections in Louisiana and Mississippi on May 3 and 13,
the independent group Freedom's Watch ran television ads linking Democratic
congressional candidates Don Cazayoux (LA) and Travis Childers (MS) to Obama. On
April 22, Politico writer Josh
Kraushaar reported on the ads in
an article titled "GOP uses Obama to attack Democrats."

Media
Matters noted that two McCain
"allies" and frequent McCain campaign surrogates -- Sen. Lindsey
Graham (R-SC), a general co-chairman of McCain's campaign, and Sen. Joe Lieberman
(I-CT), a co-chairman of McCain's
Connecticut Leadership Team -- served on the Vets for Freedom Policy Board of
Advisors. But the day the group's PAC released the first Obama attack ad, they
sent a letter to the
group's president, Pete Hegseth, in which they "request[ed] a
leave" from their positions "[d]ue to McCain campaign guidelines." Smith noted
Graham and Lieberman's departure from Vets for Freedom in a May 29 blog entry.

Additionally, Smith wrote regarding attacks on Obama,
"Pressed to name an independent effort, Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs
cited Floyd Brown, an obscure Republican operative who has produced Web videos
attacking Obama's religion and his record, but had not raised enough money to air
them." However, although he characterized Brown as an "obscure
Republican operative," Smith and Politico
writer Mike Allen have written multiple items on Brown, creator of the infamous
Willie Horton ad and
leader of the conservative activist group ExposeObama.com. In an April 24 blog post, Smith noted that
although ExposeObama.com's recent ad "has no money behind
it," cable networks have willingly aired the ad even while acknowledging, as
MSNBC anchor Contessa Brewer did, that the tactic is a "new way
to get your ad covered without buying any time." In a June 11 blog post, Smith noted
another ad by
Brown smearing Obama. Smith wrote: "If
there's an upside for Obama, it's that what had been a faceless viral
whispering campaign now gets the face of a Republican operative explicitly
working to elect McCain." In
addition, Allen also noted the efforts of
Brown in his May 11 "Playbook," in which he called Brown an
"experienced attack artist[]" and reported on remarks Brown made in
a Newsweek article.

Allen wrote: 

Indeed,
two of the most experienced attack artists are already gearing up. Floyd Brown,
who produced the infamous 'Willie Horton' commercial that used race and fear of
crime to drive voters away from Democratic presidential candidate Michael
Dukakis in 1988, produced an ad before the North Carolina primary accusing Obama of
being soft on crime. 

"[Floyd
Brown] tells NEWSWEEK that Obama is 'extremely vulnerable' to questioning about
his ties to Chicago
fixer Tony Rezko, who has been indicted for political corruption. (Obama is not
linked to any wrongdoing.) Another target is former Weather Underground member
Bill Ayers, whose association with Obama will remind voters of bomb-throwing
student radicals of the 1960s. 'There's plenty of stuff out there,' says Brown.
'I'm kinda like in a candy store in this election.'

From Ben Smith's June 19 Politico article:

Sen.
Barack Obama's announcement Thursday that he would finance his campaign with
private contributions was the final step of a slow walk away from public
financing that began almost as soon as his campaign started 17 months ago. 

Obama said he would
pursue public financing "aggressively." He committed to it in a
written questionnaire. He even said, repeatedly, that he would meet with Sen.
John McCain to discuss a deal.

Instead,
his campaign never even asked the Republican's aides for a meeting on the
subject. And Obama himself, both campaigns said, never asked for a face-to-face
meeting with McCain. 

"It
was clear that there was no point," said Obama spokesman Bill Burton. 

Obama
has offered a variety of reasons for opting out. He has cited the fact that
McCain has, in some eyes, already skirted campaign finance rules. He has complained
that McCain said he couldn't control attack ads from outside groups --though
the only outside attack ads to run this cycle have been financed by Obama
allies and directed at McCain. More plausibly, Obama has argued that his
reliance on small contributions is consonant with the central goal of campaign
finance reform, which is liberating politicians from moneyed patrons. 

[...]

McCain
is "not going to stop the smears and attacks from his allies running
so-called 527 groups, who will spend millions and millions of dollars in
unlimited donations," Obama said. 

Ironically,
there are no major Republican independent efforts attacking Obama, though the
left-leaning MoveOn.org has put more than $500,000 behind an advertisement
showing a mother telling McCain that he can't take her infant son to war. 

Pressed
to name an independent effort, Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs cited Floyd Brown,
an obscure Republican operative who has produced Web videos attacking Obama's
religion and his record, but had not raised enough money to air them. 

McCain's
aides also mocked Obama's suggestion that he would "aggressively"
seek an agreement with the Republican who had opted into the public financing,
in the absence of his own torrent of online donations. 





"I
don't think he pursued it at all -- never mind aggressively," said the
McCain campaign counsel, Trevor Potter. <blockquote style="background:#FAFAFA;border:1px dotted #E6E6E6;font:italic 10pt Times New Roman;padding:9px;">Media Matters - Ben Smith ignored Politico &#39;s own reporting in claiming "the only outside attack ads to run this cycle have been financed by Obama allies"   {...} The Politico &#39;s Ben Smith reported that Sen. Barack Obama "has complained that [Sen. John] McCain said he couldn&#39;t control attack ads from outside groups -- though the only outside attack ads to run this cycle have been financed by Obama allies and directed at McCain." In fact, the Vets for Freedom political action committee launched two Internet ads in May attacking Obama over issues related to the Iraq war, and the independent group Freedom&#39;s Watch ran television ads attacking Obama and two Democratic congressional candidates.   {...}</blockquote><div style="font:8pt Verdana,Arial;vertical-align:top;"><span style="color:#808080;">Published:</span> June 21, 2008, 1:35 am - <span style="color:#808080;">Indexed:</span> June 21, 2008, 12:19 pm - <span style="color:#808080;">Page Size:</span>&nbsp;23KB</div><div style="font:8pt Verdana,Arial;vertical-align:top;"><span style="color:#808080;">Category:</span> <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/society/">Society</a> &gt; <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/society/issues/">Issues</a> &gt; <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/society/issues/business/">Business</a> &gt; <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/society/issues/business/media/">Media</a> &gt;  <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/society/issues/business/media/bias-and-balance/"><b>Bias and Balance</b></a></div></td></tr></table>
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		<title>{ISSUES &gt; BIAS AND BALANCE} - Wash. Post ignored attack ads on Obama, asserting, "To date, no conservative 527 groups have materialized"  </title>
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		<description>In a June 20 article, The
Washington Post reported
that "[t]o date, no conservative 527 groups have materialized" to
oppose Sen. Barack Obama, repeating a June 19 assertion by
washingtonpost.com's Chris Cillizza that "no ... 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 McCain's commitment to campaign finance
reform." Cillizza added: "The thinking goes that even if a pro-GOP 527 helped McCain win
the White House, there would be more anger than thanks from the new president
due to his distaste for groups like that." While Cillizza limited his assertion to
527s, other outside conservative groups -- including state Republican Party groups
-- have attacked Obama, and McCain has not limited his denunciations to the
activities of 527s. 

Less than a month prior to the Post's article, the Vets for
Freedom political
action committee (which is, in fact, also registered under
Section 527 of the Internal Revenue Code)
launched two Internet ads attacking Obama over issues related to
the war in Iraq. Moreover, in the run-up to two special congressional elections in Louisiana and Mississippi on May
3 and 13, the 501(c)(4) independent group Freedom's
Watch ran television ads linking Democratic
congressional candidates Rep. Don Cazayoux (LA) and Rep. Travis Childers (MS)
to Obama, claiming that Obama and Childers would levy "a $2,600 tax
increase" on "many Mississippi families" and stating that Obama and
Cazayoux are behind "a big government scheme" for health care that
would "cost[] up to $65 billion." In advance of the May 6 North Carolina primary,
the state's Republican Party ran an attack ad against Obama.

Additionally, as Media
Matters for America has previously noted,
Floyd
Brown, creator of the infamous Willie
Horton ad, released
an ad through the National Campaign
Fund PAC that attacked Obama. 

Despite Cillizza's claim that the
"thinking" from those considering independent attack groups "goes that even if a pro-GOP 527 helped
McCain win the White House, there would be more anger than thanks from the new
president due to his distaste for groups like that," given the
opportunity to stop the attacks against Obama, McCain did not do so. When the
North Carolina GOP released its attack ad against Obama, McCain denounced the
ad but, as Media Matters noted, gave no indication that he
intended to force the hand of state GOP officials, even though some of them worked
with his campaign. Media Matters has
also noted that two McCain supporters and frequent
McCain campaign surrogates -- Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), a general co-chairman
of McCain's campaign, and Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT), a co-chairman of McCain's Connecticut Leadership Team
-- served on the Vets for Freedom Policy Board of Advisors. However, they
"request[ed]
a leave"
from their positions the day the group's PAC released the first Obama attack
ad, "[d]ue to McCain campaign guidelines" that include the following:
"No person with a McCain Campaign title or position may participate in a
527 or other independent entity that makes public communications that support
or oppose any presidential candidate."

Cillizza's reference to "more anger than
thanks" repeats a common
theme in the media that McCain strongly disapproves of negative attacks made on
his behalf. As some have noted, this image, which the media
foster, allows McCain to have it both ways: he can take the moral high ground
by denouncing negative attacks even
as he reaps their benefits. Indeed, while McCain has spoken out against attack
ads by 527 groups and others, he has since stated that he will not
"referee" independent organizations, and McCain strategist, Charlie
Black, recently told Newsweek, "Look, there's
nothing we can do about the 527s."

From the June 20 Washington
Post article:

Obama's announcement was not
unexpected. Months ago, he began to shift away from an early pledge to "pursue
an agreement with the Republican nominee to preserve a publicly financed
general election." 

After securing the Democratic
nomination this month, Obama moved quickly to impose his own stringent
fundraising restrictions on the Democratic National Committee, ordering it to
stop accepting donations from federal lobbyists and political action
committees, and he has discouraged his donors from contributing to liberal
independent political organizations, called 527 groups, that are expected to
hammer McCain in the fall. 

"John McCain's campaign and the
Republican National Committee are fueled by contributions from Washington lobbyists and
special interest PACs," Obama said in his message to supporters yesterday.
"And we've already seen that he's not going to stop the smears and attacks
from his allies running so-called 527 groups, who will spend millions and
millions of dollars in unlimited donations." 

To date, no
conservative 527 groups have materialized. But Obama portrayed his call as a
preemptive strike. 

"From the very beginning of
this campaign, I have asked my supporters to avoid that kind of unregulated
activity and join us in building a new kind of politics -- and you have,"
Obama said. "... I'm asking you to try to do something that's never
been done before."

From Cillizza's June 19 post on
washingtonpost.com's The Fix:

Barack Obama's decision to opt out of public financing for the presidential election,
the first candidate to ever do so, marks a significant moment in the 2008
general election.

The
move, which Obama announced in a video and an e-mail to supporters this
morning, means that the presumptive Democratic nominee will be free to raise and
spend as much money as he likes in the runup to the November election, rather
than limit himself to the $80 million (or so) that would have been available to
him if he accepted public financing.

It also
means that Obama will open himself up to criticism from Republicans, e.g. the
Democrat talks a big game on reform, but his actions don't match his words.

In
announcing the decision, Obama sought to cast it as necessary for two reason:
First, that Republicans have figured out how to game the current "broken"
system to their advantage; and, second, that his grassroots support from small
donors has already fundamentally changed the way campaigns are funded in this
country.

On the
first point, Obama said: "The public financing of presidential elections
as it exists today is broken, and we face opponents who've become masters at
gaming this broken system. ... we've already seen that he's not going to stop
the smears and attacks from his allies running so-called 527 groups, who will
spend millions and millions of dollars in unlimited donations."

His
point is simple: John McCain and his Republican
allies are only giving lip service to playing within the rules while doing
everything they can to bend them. By raising the specter of 527s in his
statement, Obama is seeking to subtly remind Democrats of the damage done to
John Kerry by Swift Boat Veterans for Truth in the 2004 election. It's worth
noting, however, that no such 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 McCain's
commitment to campaign finance reform. (The thinking goes that even if a
pro-GOP 527 helped McCain win the White House, there would be more anger than
thanks from the new president due to his distaste for groups like that.)</description>
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<td width="100%" style="font:9pt Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif;vertical-align:top;"><span style="color:#808080;font-variant:small-caps;">Mediamatters.Org</span> - In a June 20 article, The
Washington Post reported
that "[t]o date, no conservative 527 groups have materialized" to
oppose Sen. Barack Obama, repeating a June 19 assertion by
washingtonpost.com's Chris Cillizza that "no ... 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 McCain's commitment to campaign finance
reform." Cillizza added: "The thinking goes that even if a pro-GOP 527 helped McCain win
the White House, there would be more anger than thanks from the new president
due to his distaste for groups like that." While Cillizza limited his assertion to
527s, other outside conservative groups -- including state Republican Party groups
-- have attacked Obama, and McCain has not limited his denunciations to the
activities of 527s. 

Less than a month prior to the Post's article, the Vets for
Freedom political
action committee (which is, in fact, also registered under
Section 527 of the Internal Revenue Code)
launched two Internet ads attacking Obama over issues related to
the war in Iraq. Moreover, in the run-up to two special congressional elections in Louisiana and Mississippi on May
3 and 13, the 501(c)(4) independent group Freedom's
Watch ran television ads linking Democratic
congressional candidates Rep. Don Cazayoux (LA) and Rep. Travis Childers (MS)
to Obama, claiming that Obama and Childers would levy "a $2,600 tax
increase" on "many Mississippi families" and stating that Obama and
Cazayoux are behind "a big government scheme" for health care that
would "cost[] up to $65 billion." In advance of the May 6 North Carolina primary,
the state's Republican Party ran an attack ad against Obama.

Additionally, as Media
Matters for America has previously noted,
Floyd
Brown, creator of the infamous Willie
Horton ad, released
an ad through the National Campaign
Fund PAC that attacked Obama. 

Despite Cillizza's claim that the
"thinking" from those considering independent attack groups "goes that even if a pro-GOP 527 helped
McCain win the White House, there would be more anger than thanks from the new
president due to his distaste for groups like that," given the
opportunity to stop the attacks against Obama, McCain did not do so. When the
North Carolina GOP released its attack ad against Obama, McCain denounced the
ad but, as Media Matters noted, gave no indication that he
intended to force the hand of state GOP officials, even though some of them worked
with his campaign. Media Matters has
also noted that two McCain supporters and frequent
McCain campaign surrogates -- Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), a general co-chairman
of McCain's campaign, and Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT), a co-chairman of McCain's Connecticut Leadership Team
-- served on the Vets for Freedom Policy Board of Advisors. However, they
"request[ed]
a leave"
from their positions the day the group's PAC released the first Obama attack
ad, "[d]ue to McCain campaign guidelines" that include the following:
"No person with a McCain Campaign title or position may participate in a
527 or other independent entity that makes public communications that support
or oppose any presidential candidate."

Cillizza's reference to "more anger than
thanks" repeats a common
theme in the media that McCain strongly disapproves of negative attacks made on
his behalf. As some have noted, this image, which the media
foster, allows McCain to have it both ways: he can take the moral high ground
by denouncing negative attacks even
as he reaps their benefits. Indeed, while McCain has spoken out against attack
ads by 527 groups and others, he has since stated that he will not
"referee" independent organizations, and McCain strategist, Charlie
Black, recently told Newsweek, "Look, there's
nothing we can do about the 527s."

From the June 20 Washington
Post article:

Obama's announcement was not
unexpected. Months ago, he began to shift away from an early pledge to "pursue
an agreement with the Republican nominee to preserve a publicly financed
general election." 

After securing the Democratic
nomination this month, Obama moved quickly to impose his own stringent
fundraising restrictions on the Democratic National Committee, ordering it to
stop accepting donations from federal lobbyists and political action
committees, and he has discouraged his donors from contributing to liberal
independent political organizations, called 527 groups, that are expected to
hammer McCain in the fall. 

"John McCain's campaign and the
Republican National Committee are fueled by contributions from Washington lobbyists and
special interest PACs," Obama said in his message to supporters yesterday.
"And we've already seen that he's not going to stop the smears and attacks
from his allies running so-called 527 groups, who will spend millions and
millions of dollars in unlimited donations." 

To date, no
conservative 527 groups have materialized. But Obama portrayed his call as a
preemptive strike. 

"From the very beginning of
this campaign, I have asked my supporters to avoid that kind of unregulated
activity and join us in building a new kind of politics -- and you have,"
Obama said. "... I'm asking you to try to do something that's never
been done before."

From Cillizza's June 19 post on
washingtonpost.com's The Fix:

Barack Obama's decision to opt out of public financing for the presidential election,
the first candidate to ever do so, marks a significant moment in the 2008
general election.

The
move, which Obama announced in a video and an e-mail to supporters this
morning, means that the presumptive Democratic nominee will be free to raise and
spend as much money as he likes in the runup to the November election, rather
than limit himself to the $80 million (or so) that would have been available to
him if he accepted public financing.

It also
means that Obama will open himself up to criticism from Republicans, e.g. the
Democrat talks a big game on reform, but his actions don't match his words.

In
announcing the decision, Obama sought to cast it as necessary for two reason:
First, that Republicans have figured out how to game the current "broken"
system to their advantage; and, second, that his grassroots support from small
donors has already fundamentally changed the way campaigns are funded in this
country.

On the
first point, Obama said: "The public financing of presidential elections
as it exists today is broken, and we face opponents who've become masters at
gaming this broken system. ... we've already seen that he's not going to stop
the smears and attacks from his allies running so-called 527 groups, who will
spend millions and millions of dollars in unlimited donations."

His
point is simple: John McCain and his Republican
allies are only giving lip service to playing within the rules while doing
everything they can to bend them. By raising the specter of 527s in his
statement, Obama is seeking to subtly remind Democrats of the damage done to
John Kerry by Swift Boat Veterans for Truth in the 2004 election. It's worth
noting, however, that no such 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 McCain's
commitment to campaign finance reform. (The thinking goes that even if a
pro-GOP 527 helped McCain win the White House, there would be more anger than
thanks from the new president due to his distaste for groups like that.)<blockquote style="background:#FAFAFA;border:1px dotted #E6E6E6;font:italic 10pt Times New Roman;padding:9px;">Media Matters - Wash. Post ignored attack ads on Obama, asserting, "To date, no conservative 527 groups have materialized"   {...} In a June 20 article, The Washington Post reported that "[t]o date, no conservative 527 groups have materialized" to oppose Sen. Barack Obama. The day before, washingtonpost.com&#39;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&#39;t appear to be significant impetus to form one given [Sen. John] McCain&#39;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.   {...}</blockquote><div style="font:8pt Verdana,Arial;vertical-align:top;"><span style="color:#808080;">Published:</span> June 20, 2008, 10:00 pm - <span style="color:#808080;">Indexed:</span> June 21, 2008, 12:19 pm - <span style="color:#808080;">Page Size:</span>&nbsp;25KB</div><div style="font:8pt Verdana,Arial;vertical-align:top;"><span style="color:#808080;">Category:</span> <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/society/">Society</a> &gt; <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/society/issues/">Issues</a> &gt; <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/society/issues/business/">Business</a> &gt; <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/society/issues/business/media/">Media</a> &gt;  <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/society/issues/business/media/bias-and-balance/"><b>Bias and Balance</b></a></div></td></tr></table>
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mc0617377<blockquote style="background:#FAFAFA;border:1px dotted #E6E6E6;font:italic 10pt Times New Roman;padding:9px;">MOVING NOW? DON'T WASTE ANOTHER MINUTE SEARCHING... {...} </blockquote><div style="font:8pt Verdana,Arial;vertical-align:top;"><span style="color:#808080;">Published:</span> June 17, 2008, 5:14 pm - <span style="color:#808080;">Indexed:</span> June 17, 2008, 5:41 pm - <span style="color:#808080;">Page Size:</span>&nbsp;10KB</div><div style="font:8pt Verdana,Arial;vertical-align:top;"><span style="color:#808080;">Category:</span> <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/regional/">Regional</a> &gt; <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/">North America</a> &gt; <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/">United States</a> &gt; <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/california/">California</a> &gt; <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/california/metro-areas/">Metro Areas</a> &gt; <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/california/metro-areas/san-francisco-bay-area/">San Francisco Bay Area</a> &gt; <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/california/metro-areas/san-francisco-bay-area/business-and-economy/">Business and Economy</a> &gt; <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/california/metro-areas/san-francisco-bay-area/business-and-economy/real-estate/">Real Estate</a> &gt;  <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/california/metro-areas/san-francisco-bay-area/business-and-economy/real-estate/rentals/"><b>Rentals</b></a></div></td></tr></table>
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