FYI: Right-wing lies, Faux News suck up to old and senile McCain

** Media Matters for America **

Touting report on Clinton aide's connection to subprime lender, Fox News ignored report on McCain's aides' lobbying for "notorious lender"

Faux News have constantly attacked Senator Clinton from the start with their unsubstantiated lies and it's high time that the American people finally woke up and realized they were being feed what to believe.

Read about it here at
http://mediamatters.org/items/200803310015

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NY Times reported McCain's "reluctan[ce]" to support "bailout for greedy lenders and reckless buyers" -- but he reportedly approved of Bear Stearns aid

It would be nice to see the New York Times keep things in perspective. And it would be better if old and senile McCain could for once in his pathetic life not appear to be a hypocrite.

Read about yet another case of flipflopping for old and senile McCain here at
http://mediamatters.org/items/200803310014

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Charlie Rose falsely asserted McCain "call[ed] for the firing of Secretary Rumsfeld"

On the March 28 edition of his Public Broadcasting Service program, during an interview with Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE), Charlie Rose falsely asserted that Sen. John McCain "early on call[ed] for the firing of [former Defense] Secretary [Donald] Rumsfeld." In fact, McCain did not call for Rumsfeld to be fired, nor did he call for his resignation. Indeed, the McCain campaign itself reportedly admitted the falsehood when The Washington Post reportedly contacted the campaign challenging McCain's campaign stump claim "that he was 'the only one' who called for Donald H. Rumsfeld's resignation as defense secretary." While McCain expressed "no confidence" in Rumsfeld in 2004, the Associated Press reported at the time that McCain "said his comments were not a call for Rumsfeld's resignation." Further, when Fox News host Shepard Smith specifically asked McCain, "Does Donald Rumsfeld need to step down?" on November 8, 2006 -- hours before President Bush announced Rumsfeld's resignation -- McCain responded that it was "a decision to be made by the president." Indeed, on the October 31, 2005, edition of Rose's program, McCain said of Rumsfeld: "I don't have confidence in him," but later added: "I don't go out and seek a confrontation with the secretary of defense. And I won't. He serves at the pleasure of the president. I want to do whatever I can to help win this conflict."

Read more about the suck-ups here at
http://mediamatters.org/items/200803310001