http://mediamatters.org/tools/syndication/tag_rss/the_drudge_report This link is for use by RSS-enabled software to retrieve Media Matters items matching the term: The Drudge Report en-US Copyright 2008, Media Matters for America http://mediamatters.org/items/200811040016 Media critics have recently postulated that while Matt Drudge may have once set the media's agenda, his influence has waned and his efforts to inject himself in the media's coverage of the presidential election have largely fallen flat. This election season, Drudge has posted a long series of items that were false on their face or turned out to be false, making the strong case that, if his influence is not in fact waning, it should be. http://mediamatters.org/items/200811040016 Tue, 4 Nov 2008 16:12:56 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200810280021 Joe Scarborough falsely claimed that, during a 2001 radio interview, Sen. Barack Obama said that "the Warren Court was not, quote, 'radical enough.' " In fact, Obama didn't say the Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren was not "radical enough." Scarborough also falsely claimed that during the interview Obama said "the Warren Court did not go far enough, that actually one of the great tragedies was there was no redistribution of wealth." In fact, the "traged[y]" Obama identified during the interview was that the civil rights movement relied too much on the courts in its efforts to bring about political and economic justice. http://mediamatters.org/items/200810280021 Tue, 28 Oct 2008 19:19:21 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200810270008 On-screen text on Fox News echoed the Drudge Report in falsely claiming that Sen. Barack Obama said it is a "tragedy" that the Supreme Court has not addressed wealth redistribution. In fact, the "tragedy" Obama identified during the interview was in what he said was the civil rights movement's overreliance on the courts to pursue political and economic justice. http://mediamatters.org/items/200810270008 Mon, 27 Oct 2008 13:47:45 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200810170015 MSNBC's <em>Morning Joe </em>echoed the Drudge Report by displaying the on-screen text "Gallup shock" and selectively citing only one of three findings from an October 13-15 Gallup daily tracking poll of the presidential race -- the one that showed Sen. Barack Obama holding his smallest lead over Sen. John McCain. http://mediamatters.org/items/200810170015 Fri, 17 Oct 2008 17:48:52 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200807010003 The Drudge Report and the <em>National Review's</em> Rich Lowry falsely claimed that Sen. Barack Obama didn't vote to condemn MoveOn.org's 2007 newspaper advertisement critical of Gen. David Petraeus. In fact, Obama did vote for an amendment by Sen. Barbara Boxer that condemned the ad, as well as other attacks on past and present members of the armed forces, as the <em>USA Today</em> blog post to which the Drudge Report linked points out. http://mediamatters.org/items/200807010003 Tue, 1 Jul 2008 14:29:03 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200803030004 A Drudge Report headline linking to a <em>60 Minutes</em> interview of Sen. Hillary Clinton read, "Hillary: Obama Not Muslim <em>'As Far As I Know' ...,</em>" falsely suggesting that Clinton characterized the issue of Sen. Barack Obama's religion as unresolved. In fact, she did the opposite. http://mediamatters.org/items/200803030004 Mon, 3 Mar 2008 14:33:57 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200802110007 While discussing the news that Sen. Hillary Clinton had replaced her campaign manager, MSNBC's Contessa Brewer asked Kathleen Kennedy Townsend: "[T]he Drudge Report has a headline that reads, quote, 'Adi&oacute;s: Clinton's Top Latina Sidelined.' Are you concerned at all about the way Hispanic voters might interpret this shakeup heading into Texas?" Neither the Drudge Report nor MSNBC offered any reason why Solis Doyle's replacement as campaign manager might have anything to do with her being Latina or any reason why Latino voters might react in any way to the staff change. http://mediamatters.org/items/200802110007 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:03:50 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200801310009 In a blog post, ABC News' Jake Tapper wrote: "In a long, and interesting speech, [Bill Clinton] characterized what the U.S. and other industrialized nations need to do to combat global warming this way: 'We just have to slow down our economy and cut back our greenhouse gas emissions 'cause we have to save the planet for our grandchildren.' " But Clinton did not say that is what has to be done to combat global warming. http://mediamatters.org/items/200801310009 Thu, 31 Jan 2008 17:24:43 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200801220010 A January 22 headline on the Drudge Report baselessly suggested that the children's psychiatric unit at Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center closed because Sen. Hillary Clinton was "neglecting" New York. The <em>Buffalo News</em> article that the headline linked to contained no mention of Clinton; rather, it reported that hospital officials attributed the closure to problems surrounding the way Medicaid is administered by Niagara County. http://mediamatters.org/items/200801220010 Tue, 22 Jan 2008 19:53:13 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200711150004 In an article about a report from CNN's <em>Out in the Open</em> on Sen. John McCain's recent exchange with a supporter in Hilton Head, South Carolina, <em>The Hill</em> reported that McCain's "campaign laments that CNN portrayed the event as though McCain did not defend [Sen. Hillary] Clinton forcefully enough. The senator, in the short video clip, expressed his respect for the former first lady." But the article did not note that McCain described the question -- "How do we beat the bitch?" -- as "excellent." http://mediamatters.org/items/200711150004 Thu, 15 Nov 2007 12:24:50 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200711130003 Despite the <em>Politico</em>'s correction of its claim that Democrats were "Zero for 40" on legislation "limiting President Bush's war policy" -- though the <em>Politico</em> did not acknowledge that it had made a mistake in the corrected article -- several in the media, including the <em>Politico</em>'s own Mike Allen, Matt Drudge, and ABC's The Note, highlighted the false statistic without noting that it is inaccurate. http://mediamatters.org/items/200711130003 Tue, 13 Nov 2007 15:33:50 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200710220005 Several media outlets seized on an article in <em>The Atlantic</em> that mentioned that former President Bill and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton gave their family cat, Socks, to Betty Currie -- with one outlet questioning whether Currie's adoption of Socks reveals Hillary Clinton to be "cold and calculating." But these media outlets made no mention of Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney's reported treatment of his own family pet, Seamus, an Irish setter, whom Romney reportedly placed "in a dog carrier" that was "attached ... to the station wagon's roof rack" during the Romney family's "annual 12-hour family trek from Boston to Ontario." http://mediamatters.org/items/200710220005 Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:15:37 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200710060001 Several media outlets -- following the lead of Internet gossip Matt Drudge -- have presented Obama's comments on not wearing an American flag pin as a recent decision made by the candidate, and not an explanation of something he chose to do several years ago. CNN, ABC, and Fox News have reported on the "controversy," providing a platform for several conservatives to attack Obama's patriotism. As NBC News' Chuck Todd put it, "this was the media getting a classic case of the Drudges." <br /> http://mediamatters.org/items/200710060001 Fri, 5 Oct 2007 20:01:14 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200710040003 http://mediamatters.org/items/200710040003 Wed, 3 Oct 2007 21:29:04 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200709290001 The Drudge Report and ABCNews.com both highlighted an Associated Press article that cited an NBC/<em>Wall Street Journal</em> poll that, the article said, "found that fully one-quarter of all Americans said that the prospect of having at least 24 straight years of a President Clinton or Bush would be a consideration in their vote for president in 2008." But the AP left out the data on other responses to the question -- that a majority of respondents, 54 percent, said it would "not be a consideration at all." Nor did the AP report that the poll also found that 42 percent of respondents "feel positive" that former President Bill Clinton is Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's (D-NY) husband, while only 28 percent "feel negative" about it. http://mediamatters.org/items/200709290001 Fri, 28 Sep 2007 20:09:49 EST