http://mediamatters.org/tools/syndication/tag_rss/this_week This link is for use by RSS-enabled software to retrieve Media Matters items matching the term: This Week en-US Copyright 2008, Media Matters for America http://mediamatters.org/items/200811260002 In recent weeks, several conservative media figures, echoed by Republican lawmakers, have responded to comparisons in the media of President-elect Barack Obama to FDR, or assertions in the media that a New Deal-level of government intervention will be necessary to resolve the current economic crisis, by asserting that the New Deal was a dismal failure, plunging the 1930s economy into a depression, an assertion that prominent progressive economists flatly reject. http://mediamatters.org/items/200811260002 Wed, 26 Nov 2008 09:07:47 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200808260020 ABCNews.com falsely asserted that an Obama campaign ad questioning why Sen. John McCain is "trying to link [Sen.] Barack Obama to radical Bill Ayers" is "incorrect in insinuating that John McCain himself has brought up Ayers," adding, "[I]t is in fact McCain's campaign that has sought to use the Ayers association against Obama." In fact, McCain himself brought up Ayers unprompted during an April interview on ABC's <em>This Week</em>. Further, ABCNews.com gave no indication that McCain has repudiated or in any way distanced himself from his aides' comments linking Ayers to Obama. http://mediamatters.org/items/200808260020 Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:06:49 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200808240006 On <em>Late Edition</em>, Wolf Blitzer and John King both cited an August 15-18 <em>Wall Street Journal</em>/NBC News poll in which 52 percent of Sen. Hillary Clinton's supporters said they will support Sen. Barack Obama, but neither noted <strong><strong>that</strong></strong> an August 19-22 <em>Washington Post</em>/ABC News poll found that 70 percent of Clinton supporters "back Obama," according to the <em>Post<em>.</em></em> http://mediamatters.org/items/200808240006 Sun, 24 Aug 2008 19:12:34 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200807280006 <em>The New York Times</em> reported that during an interview on <em>This Week</em>, Sen. John McCain criticized Sen. Barack Obama "for proposing to withdraw American forces from Iraq within 16 months," but did not mention that only days earlier, McCain told CNN's Wolf Blitzer that 16 months is "a pretty good timetable." The <em>Times</em> not only failed to mention McCain's comment about a timetable, it did not report that McCain denied having used the word "timetable" when asked about it by George Stephanopoulos. http://mediamatters.org/items/200807280006 Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:44:43 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200807030008 On <em>This Week</em>, Hugh Hewitt claimed that a comment he made during the June 25 edition of his show -- that the September 13 Ohio State-USC football game will "probably [be] the last football game we'll ever get to see before the United States gets blown up by the Islamists under Obama" -- was distorted by Arianna Huffington. http://mediamatters.org/items/200807030008 Thu, 3 Jul 2008 18:13:00 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200806080002 On <em>This Week</em>, George Stephanopoulos did not challenge Sen. Lindsey Graham's false suggestion that Sen. Barack Obama "borrow[ed] money" from Antoin "Tony" Rezko "to build his house." In fact, the Obamas established a land trust to purchase the property and took out a $1.32 million mortgage on the home, financed through the Northern Trust Co. And the Obamas did not "build" the house -- they purchased an existing home. http://mediamatters.org/items/200806080002 Sun, 8 Jun 2008 15:14:27 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200805210007 <em>Newsweek</em> has corrected George Will's false assertion in his <em>Newsweek</em> column that Social Security taxes are levied based on household income. Will made the same assertion on ABC's <em>This Week</em>, but ABC has yet to issue a correction on the show. http://mediamatters.org/items/200805210007 Wed, 21 May 2008 16:32:14 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200805020007 In his <em>Newsweek</em> column, George Will falsely claimed that Social Security taxes are levied on household income. He had similarly falsely asserted on ABC's <em>This Week </em>that Sen. Barack Obama "wants to raise taxes on a lot of people, beginning with those earning about $100,000 a year, a household." In fact, Social Security taxes are levied based on individual income, and contrary to his assertion in <em>Newsweek</em>, a married couple with each spouse making less than $102,000 would not face a payroll tax increase if the income cap was raised, even if combined they made more than the current cap. http://mediamatters.org/items/200805020007 Fri, 2 May 2008 19:09:58 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200804220005 <em>This Week</em>'s George Stephanopoulos did not challenge Sen. John McCain's assertion that "history shows every time you have cut capital gains taxes, revenues have increased -- going back to Jack Kennedy." Stephanopoulos did not note that, notwithstanding a potential short-term revenue increase, many economists have challenged the claim that revenue goes up over the long term as a result of capital gains tax rates being cut. http://mediamatters.org/items/200804220005 Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:17:31 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200804220001 On <em>This Week</em>, Sen. John McCain asserted that Sen. Barack Obama's reference to Sen. Tom Coburn when Obama was asked about William Ayers was an "incredible statement" that "borders on outrageous." However, at no point during the exchange did George Stephanopoulos point out the actual comments Coburn made that elicited Obama's reference to Coburn, much less confront McCain with the issue of whether he agreed with Coburn's comments. http://mediamatters.org/items/200804220001 Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:34:07 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200804130001 Discussing on ABC's <em>This Week</em> former President Jimmy Carter's planned meeting with a Hamas leader and the "two schools of thought about how America should deal in the world," <em><em>Time</em></em> magazine senior political analyst Mark Halperin -- citing former House Speaker Newt Gingrich -- said of Sen. Barack Obama: "Obama's position: Talk to your enemies." But Halperin did not mention that Obama has repeatedly said his willingness to meet with international adversaries "does not include Hamas." <strong><br /> </strong> http://mediamatters.org/items/200804130001 Sun, 13 Apr 2008 16:34:39 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200804070009 On ABC's <em>This Week</em>, while discussing the latest <em>New York Times</em>/CBS News poll, Cokie Roberts asserted that Sen. John McCain is "even or winning in the polls." On <em>MSNBC Live</em>, Reuters' Jon Decker similarly stated that McCain is "running either ahead of both" Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama "or running even with both of them." But neither Roberts nor Decker mentioned that in that same poll, both Clinton and Obama beat McCain in hypothetical head-to-head match-ups. http://mediamatters.org/items/200804070009 Mon, 7 Apr 2008 18:26:01 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200803300001 On ABC's <em>This Week,</em> Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman claimed that Sen. John McCain "actually stepped out and was much more forward-leaning on immigration reform than Barack Obama was -- Senator Clinton wasn't involved in those negotiations." Host George Stephanopoulos did not point out that McCain abandoned his previous support for comprehensive immigration legislation during his campaign for the Republican nomination. http://mediamatters.org/items/200803300001 Sun, 30 Mar 2008 16:01:57 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200803230003 <em>The Washington Post</em>'s George Will asserted that Sen. John McCain's admittedly false claim that Iran is training Al Qaeda is "[n]ot damaging at all" to McCain, "because people say it's a given that this man knows what he's talking about." Similarly, <em>The Chicago Tribune</em>'s Jill Zuckman asserted that "I don't think many people believe" "the argument that McCain doesn't know what he's talking about when it comes to foreign policy." But neither Will nor Zuckman noted that McCain has made that error more than once. http://mediamatters.org/items/200803230003 Sun, 23 Mar 2008 17:42:10 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200802190010 On ABC's <em>This Week, </em>George Will falsely asserted that "in the primaries," Sen. John McCain "has achieved more independent voters than [Sen. Barack] Obama." In fact, in calculations based on exit polls, in each of the nine states that have held open or semi-open primaries contested by both Obama and McCain, Obama received more votes from voters who identified themselves as "independent" than McCain. http://mediamatters.org/items/200802190010 Tue, 19 Feb 2008 21:20:24 EST