http://mediamatters.org/tools/syndication/tag_rss/national_review This link is for use by RSS-enabled software to retrieve Media Matters items matching the term: National Review en-US Copyright 2008, Media Matters for America http://mediamatters.org/items/200810080025 In a National Review Online column, Lisa Schiffren claimed that "[i]n personal conversations," Sen. Barack Obama "asked that the Iraqi leadership wait for the next administration (his) to begin serious troop withdrawals -- as Amir Taheri has documented." In fact, a Bush administration official has reportedly said that Taheri's assertion was not true. Schiffren also repeated other false and baseless claims in her column providing "suggestions" to the McCain campaign. http://mediamatters.org/items/200810080025 Wed, 8 Oct 2008 19:15:07 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200809260013 In a blog post on National Review Online, Mark Krikorian asked if diversity policies touted by Washington Mutual, which was seized by federal regulators and sold to another bank on September 25, were the "[c]ause" of the bank's collapse. http://mediamatters.org/items/200809260013 Fri, 26 Sep 2008 15:00:37 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200808300007 National Review Online's Greg Pollowitz falsely claimed that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin visited troops in Kuwait "a year before Senator [Barack] Obama felt the need to go." In fact, Obama first visited troops in Kuwait in January 2006, a year and a half before Palin's visit. http://mediamatters.org/items/200808300007 Sat, 30 Aug 2008 18:02:12 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200808200003 In <em>The Case Against Barack Obama</em>, David Freddoso misrepresents findings by the Illinois state government to claim that a statement by Sen. Barack Obama explaining his opposition to a bill that amended the Illinois Abortion Law of 1975 was "not true." Obama asserted that "measures mandat[ing] lifesaving measures for premature babies" were "already the law" in Illinois. Freddoso falsely asserts that the Illinois Department of Public Health and a letter from the Illinois attorney general's office refute Obama's statement. They do not; indeed, a reported statement by the Public Health Department supports it. http://mediamatters.org/items/200808200003 Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:27:33 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200808060008 In separate blog posts on National Review Online, Peter Kirsanow and Victor Davis Hanson each falsely asserted that Sen. Barack Obama has not further explained what he meant when he stated at the UNITY '08 Convention: "I've consistently believed, when it comes -- whether it's Native American issues, whether it's African-American issues and reparations, that the most important thing for the U.S. government to do is not just to offer words, but offer deeds." Later in his remarks, Obama said: "I have said in the past, and I'll repeat again, that the best reparations we can provide are good schools in the inner city and jobs for people who are unemployed." http://mediamatters.org/items/200808060008 Wed, 6 Aug 2008 15:50:51 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200807080008 National Review Online blogger Jim Geraghty wrote that a new ad for Sen. Barack Obama cites as a source the " 'Congressional Quarterly 2007 Voting Study.' This is the same study that called Obama the most liberal lawmaker in the Senate. By citing this study, the Obama campaign seems to be dropping their objections to that characterization, or of CQ's calculation methods." In fact, Obama was "the most liberal lawmaker" according to the <em>National Journal's </em>2007 Vote Ratings, not according to <em>CQ</em>, which measured how often senators voted with their party rather than assessing "liberal" or "conservative" votes and found that "[t]en Democrats had higher scores" on the "party unity" measure in 2007 than Obama, as PolitiFact.com has noted. http://mediamatters.org/items/200807080008 Tue, 8 Jul 2008 19:13:56 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200802270010 In recent days, members of the media asserted that Sen. Hillary Clinton displayed "mood swings," "could be depressed," "[r]esembl[ed] someone with multiple personality disorder," and "has turned into Sybil." http://mediamatters.org/items/200802270010 Wed, 27 Feb 2008 20:21:25 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200802140003 In an email to readers encouraging recipients to read the <em>National Journal</em> article on the magazine's 2007 vote ratings, the National Journal Group wrote: "In 2004, President Bush invoked Senator John Kerry's liberal Vote Ratings score repeatedly on the campaign trail and at their head-to-head debates. We anticipate similar attention for our Vote Ratings across the 2008 election cycle." Numerous media did follow suit and tout the <em>Journal</em>'s 2003 rating of Kerry. And once again, the media are giving the 2007 ratings the "similar attention" the National Journal Group anticipated -- despite the <em>Journal</em>'s acknowledgment that the methodology it used to rate Kerry was flawed. http://mediamatters.org/items/200802140003 Thu, 14 Feb 2008 12:56:48 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200802010006 National Review Online blogger Kevin D. Williamson called <em>Media Matters </em>"hysterical ninnies" over a column by <em>Media Matters</em>' Eric Boehlert that predicted "a very rough 2008" for Fox News. http://mediamatters.org/items/200802010006 Fri, 1 Feb 2008 14:04:22 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200801300010 In a column about Rudy Giuliani's speech following his "resounding defeat in the Florida primary," <em>National Review</em> White House correspondent Byron York wrote: "[I]t is hard not to think of Fabrizio Quattrocchi, the courageous Genoan who, taken hostage by Islamic terrorists in Iraq in 2004 cried out, 'Now I will show you how an Italian dies!' just before he was shot." http://mediamatters.org/items/200801300010 Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:56:48 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200710290008 In a post on the NRO military blog The Tank, W. Thomas Smith Jr. asserted that he had been to Iraq, spent "[d]ays -- sometimes weeks -- at a time" with units in action, and would be "hard-pressed to find one American Marine or soldier (or a Brit) who would say to me 'it's not going well.' " However, there are several examples of active-duty or retired service members expressing discontent with progress in Iraq through media outlets. <br /> http://mediamatters.org/items/200710290008 Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:00:08 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200710030010 Reporting on Rush Limbaugh's explanation of his "phony soldiers" comments, Byron York wrote that "[a]s part of that explanation" Limbaugh "played a tape of the original September 26 program [and] cut some extraneous material out -- 'for space and relevance reasons, not to hide anything,' he told me." In fact, Limbaugh said that he was airing "the entire transcript, in context, that led to this so-called controversy" and gave no indication that he cropped the audio or the transcript. <br /> http://mediamatters.org/items/200710030010 Wed, 3 Oct 2007 16:35:14 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200710010006 http://mediamatters.org/items/200710010006 Mon, 1 Oct 2007 15:32:41 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200709210012 http://mediamatters.org/items/200709210012 Fri, 21 Sep 2007 17:36:06 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200709210006 In a blog post on National Review Online's The Corner, Michael Ledeen wrote that it "was under [retired Army Gen. John] Abizaid that the copious evidence of Iranian activity was suppressed, and we, let's say, took it easy on the thousands of Revolutionary Guards killers running all over the country." While several NRO contributors criticized MoveOn.org for its "General Betray Us" ad and Democrats for not condemning it, no NRO contributor has similarly condemned Ledeen's criticism of an American general. <br /> http://mediamatters.org/items/200709210006 Fri, 21 Sep 2007 14:10:06 EST