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  2008-11-08 06:37:32

• Make Money Online By Drinking The Green

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  2008-11-08 04:00:07

• How safety first culture takes risk out of adventure sports

  The idea is to test the body and mind against the harshest of conditions, to give everything in the attempt to cross the finishing line but also to have the guts to call it a day when the going gets too tough. However, at a time when adventure sports are booming, enthusiasts say they face an even tougher test of their resolve - over-regulation, bureaucracy and public suspicion. It emerged this week that the venerable 280-mile North Sea yacht race from Scotland to Norway had been cancelled because not enough crews could afford the safety certificates. Fell-running clubs, which have never been busier, are taking a long look at how they organise their events after the outcry over the Lake District Original Mountain Marathon that went ahead in awful weather a fortnight ago. The North Sea race between Macduff in north-east Scotland and Stavanger in Norway was introduced 25 years ago to give experienced coastal and fjord sailors a chance to race in difficult ocean conditions. The organiser, Tony Brown, said safety was paramount but crews were now balking at paying up to &amppound;200 for an international offshore safety certificate. Only 10 crews entered this summer. Brown said: "Twenty years ago all you needed was insurance and away you went." This weekend hundreds of fell runners will line up in Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Staffordshire and north Wales to compete in races rejoicing in names such as the Shepherds' Skyline, in Calderdale, West Yorkshire, and the Leg It Around Lathkill in the Peak District. The Fell Runners Association boasts 6,000 members and the number is rising, but its secretary, Alan Brentnall, said there was concern that after the ill-fated Original Mountain Marathon health and safety officials would be taking a closer look at the sport and that landowners might hesitate to give permission for races. "That would be worrying," he said.Richard Asquith, a fell runner and author of the admired book on the sport Feet in the Clouds, said organisers were under pressure to tone down their events to fit the "risk assessment culture". He added: "The whole onus of society is on safety first. Who would be an organiser"Martin Stone, who runs a marathon called the LAMM in the Scottish Highlands, said: "It's so important for people who are so regimented in everyday life to have a way of escaping. We've got to fight the regulation and the dumbing down." The premise of events such as the Lakeland race is that competitors, not the organisers, assess the conditions and decide if they should go ahead. David Munn, 39, who has taken part in 19 Original Mountain Marathons, said competitors did not expect someone else to take responsibility for their actions. "This is a hugely refreshing view in a world where everything always seems to have to be someone else's fault," he said. The charge levelled at the competitors that they are a burden on the emergency services, including the voluntary mountain rescue service, are roundly rejected. Mike Park, who took part in the race and is also team leader of Cockermouth Mountain Rescue, said that mountain marathon runners were almost always better prepared than normal hikers. Mike Parsons, the organiser of the Lakeside marathon, pointed out that out of the 1,427 people who entered only 14 were injured, none seriously.But some events have already changed. Youngsters who compete in the army-organised Ten Tors expedition on Dartmoor in Devon every summer can carry mobile phones for an emergency after the death of a 14-year-old girl while training for the challenge. The event spokesman David Harris said: "Ten Tors is all about risk, but acceptable risk." Other sports are feeling the pressure. Sand yacht enthusiasts have found it harder to stage events since a woman was killed after being hit by a sand yacht while walking on a beach in Lancashire. Families who went canoeing on the River Wye in south Wales this summer found hire companies on tenterhooks about health and safety after the death of a nine-year-old girl. Caving bodies, gliding clubs, even rollerskating groups have reported that they have struggled to cope with increased insurance premiums. Ian Anderson, chairman of the International Coasteering Association - whose bag is climbing, scrambling and leaping around sea cliffs - said some landowners saw enthusiasts as irresponsible risk-takers. "Is it going to get to the point where we have to wear a helmet to walk to the shops" he asked. Julian Brazier MP, the co-chair of the all-party parliamentary group on adventure and recreation in society, called for Britain to follow the example of the US and Australia and make it harder for organisers of sport and leisure pursuits to be sued. He said: "Society needs to accept that accidents happen without it always being someone's fault."Case studyAnne Jago, retired teacher, 64, veteran of 30 mountain marathonsIt's not just a physical challenge, it's a mental challenge as well. It can be very hard. You go up and up. Your lungs are bursting, your calves are burning but you don't give up. When I finish the event I'm glowing with pride because you've tested your self-sufficiency in the wild - and I am very proud of beating men who are a lot younger than me. It's really all about self-reliance. You are away from civilisation and you are self-sufficient in the wilderness. You've got everything you need in your rucksack. I had an accident one year. I fell forward on slippery rock. I was slightly concussed, there was blood everywhere. What was amazing was that immediately there were people all around. I was wrapped in a space blanket. I was given Ibuprofen and jelly babies. I didn't want to retire so I carried on. It's so important. There's so many people who would rather I just drove to the shopping centre and home. But it's such a healthy pastime. You have to keep your weight down and do all the things the government wants you to do. I feel much more in danger when I'm driving down the motorway. If one car goes everyone goes.I'm determined to go on and on as long as I can. At the end of an event I always think I can do another one.guardian.co.uk &ampcopy; Guardian News & Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
  2008-11-08 02:26:40

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  2008-11-07 20:23:25

• Discussing death of Obama's grandmother, Savage continued to promote discredited birth-certificate rumors

  <pÏ­uring the November 3 broadcast ofhis nationally syndicated radio show, Michael Savage ÏŠ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200810230020f=s_search"Ϫgain revived discredited"rumors" about Sen. Barack Obama's È«irth certificatenot being valid" --this time while discussing the ÏŠ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/03/obamas-grandmother-dies/">recent death ofObama's grandmother, Madelyn Dunham. Savage stated: Ȫnd, oh yes,our condolences to his grandmother who raised him, who he so bravely visitedlast week -- shockingly, out of nowhere, in the, in the last days of a campaign-- while the rumors of his birth certificate not being valid were circulatingthroughout the Internet. Shockingly, Obama goes to Hawaii, and again, not one of the emptyskirts in the media asks him about his birth -- his birth certificate, theKenyan relatives. Not one of the empty skirts in the media raises the question.And today she dies, poor lady dies, poor lady dies today; the woman who raisedhim -- the white grandmother who raised him."MediaMatters for America ÏŠ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200810230020f=s_search"Ï­ocumented, on October 22, Savagejoined other conservative commentators in suggesting that the true purpose ofObama's October 25 ÏŠ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-obama25-2008oct25,0,5747613.story">trip to Hawaii wasnot to visit his ailing grandmother, as Obama stated, but rather to address charges-- widely debunked -- that Obama has failed to produce a valid U.S. birthcertificate. As ÏŽm>ÏŽm>MediaMatters ÏŠ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200810140015">noted, well before Savage invokedthe discredited birth certificate rumors, the Obama campaign posted a copy ofObama's ÏŠ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://fightthesmears.com/articles/5/birthcertificate" target="_blank"Ï«irthcertificate on its Fight the Smears website and reportedlyprovided the original document to FactCheck.org, whose staff concluded in anAugust 21 ÏŠ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/born_in_the_usa.html" target="_blank">postthat it "meets all of the requirements from the State Department forproving U.S. citizenship." Even the right-wing website WorldNetDailyreported in an August 23 ÏŠ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.phpfa=PAGE.view&pageId=73214" target="_blank"Ϫrticlethat a "WND investigation into Obama's birth certificate utilizing forgeryexperts also found the document to be authentic."<pϪ Hawaii Health Department officialalso reportedly ÏŠ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2008/jun/27/obamas-birth-certificate-part-ii/" target="_blank"Ϭonfirmedto PolitiFact.com in June that Obama's birth certificate is valid. However,following numerous references to the birth certificate rumors by conservativemedia figures such as ÏŽm>Obama Nation Jerome Corsi -- who said he was ÏŠ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200810230020#20081103">traveling to Hawaii to do someÈ­igging" on the issue and ÏŠ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.phpfa=PAGE.view&pageId=79174">requested a copyof Obama's original birth certificate -- the Hawaii Department of Healthreleased the following ÏŠ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://hawaii.gov/health/about/pr/2008/08-93.pdf">statement on October 31 by HealthDepartment ÏŠ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://hawaii.gov/health/about/admin/director.html"Ï­irector ChiyomeFukino: Ï‹lockquote>"There have been numerous requests for Sen.Barack Hussein Obama's official birth certificate. State lawHawai'i Revised Statutes §338-18 prohibits the release of a certifiedbirth certificate to persons who do not have a tangible interest in the vitalrecord. "Therefore, I as Director of Health for theState of Hawai'i, along with the Registrar of Vital Statistics who hasstatutory authority to oversee and maintain these type of vital records, havepersonally seen and verified that the Hawai'i State Department of Healthhas Sen. Obama's original birth certificate on record in accordance withstate policies and procedures. "No state official, including Governor LindaLingle, has ever instructed that this vital record be handled in a mannerdifferent from any other vital record in the possession of the State ofHawai'i." Talk Radio Network, which syndicatesSavage's show, ÏŠ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.talkradionetwork.com/pg/jsp/general/host.jspchartID=3&position=18" target="_new" title="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.talkradionetwork.com/pg/jsp/general/host.jspchartID=3&position=18http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.talkradionetwork.com/pg/jsp/general/host.jspchartID=3ɪmp;position=17This external lin"Ϭlaims that Savageis heard on more than 350 radio stations. ÏŽm>ÏŽm>The Savage Nation reaches atleast 8.25 million listeners each week, according to ÏŽm>ÏŽm>ÏŠ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.talkers.com/main/index.phpoption=com_content&task=view&id=17&Itemid=34" title="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.talkers.com/main/index.phpoption=com_content&task=view&id=17&Itemid=34">Talkers Magazine,making it one of the most listened-to talk radio shows in the nation, behindonly ÏŽm>ÏŽm>The Rush LimbaughShow and ÏŽm>ÏŽm>The Sean Hannity Show.The Savage Nation: Ï‹lockquote>SAVAGE: And, oh yes, our condolencesto his grandmother who raised him, who he so bravely visited last week -- shockingly,out of nowhere, in the, in the last days of a campaign -- while the rumors ofhis birth certificate not being valid were circulating throughout the Internet.Shockingly, Obama goes to Hawaii,and again, not one of the empty skirts in the media asks him about his birth --his birth certificate, the Kenyan relatives. Not one of the empty skirts in themedia raises the question. And today she dies, poor lady dies, poor lady diestoday; the woman who raised him -- the white grandmother who raised him.
  2008-11-06 03:08:36

• ✈ SHOCK: Drudge still smearing, distorting quotes, and touting fake allegations

  In the past few weeks, ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/columns/200810210005">mediacritics havepostulated that Matt Drudge'sinfluence in setting the media's agenda -- which the ώm>Politico's John F. Harris and ώm>Time's Mark Halperin argue in ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdhttp://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperlisbn=9781400064472">ώm>The Way to Win:Taking the White House in 2008 hasbeen great --has waned this election cycle. In his continuingefforts to drive media coverage, this election season, Drudge has posted along series of items that were false on their face, misrepresented reports helinked to, or were subsequently exposed as false. As reporter and blogger GregSargent wrote in an October 31 ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/10/media_figures_admitting_that_d.php" title="http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/10/media_figures_admitting_that_d.php">post at TalkingPoints Memo, "Multipletimes this cycle, Drudge has pushed stories that have gone belly-up." Whether or not Drudge's influence isin fact waning, these items, examples of which ώm>MediaMatters for America has compiled below, make a strong case that itshould be. ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2008/10/29/20081029_153437.htm" title="http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2008/10/29/20081029_153437.htm">October 29 --World Seriesϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/static/images/item/drudge_001.jpg">suggestion that Sen. Barack Obamawas ⋞laying the World Series" with his purchase of 30 minutes ofnetwork airtime on October 29. In fact, as ώm>MediaMatters ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200810290008" title="http://mediamatters.org/items/200810290008"ϭocumented, ώm>The New York Timesreported in an October 28 ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/29/us/politics/29obama.html"Ϫrticle thatȯox executives have said that they, and not the Obama campaign, hadinitially asked Major League Baseball to move the start of Wednesday's game to8:35 p.m. from 8:20, to make way for his infomercial. But as it turns out, sucha delay was not necessary anyway; none of the World Series games has startedbefore 8:30, and two started after 8:35." ώm>Politico's Ben Smith also ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1008/Fox_exec_Obama_didnt_delay_baseball.htmlshowall">quoted a Fox broadcasting executivewho reportedly "negotiated the ad buy" as saying: ȫy nomeans did they the Obama campaign push to get us to accommodate them withGame Six of the World Series. ... We'rejust missing the pregame, which isn't a big deal for us. It was a businessdecision."ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2008/10/27/20081027_062345.htm" title="http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2008/10/27/20081027_062345.htm">October 27 --Supreme Court "tragedy"Drudge featured the following false ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2008/10/27/20081027_134124.htm" title="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2008/10/27/20081027_134124.htm">headline:� OBAMA: TRAGEDY THAT 'REDISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH' NOT PURSUED BYSUPREME COURT":ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/static/images/item/drudge_002.jpg">ϋr />In fact, as the YouTube ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.youtube.com/watchv=iivL4c_3pck" title="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.youtube.com/watchv=iivL4c_3pck"Ϫudio that Drudgelinked to demonstrates, during a 2001 ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.chicagopublicradio.org/audio_library/od_rajan01.asp" title="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.chicagopublicradio.org/audio_library/od_rajan01.asp">interview onChicago Public Radio station WBEZ, Obama did not say it is a"tragedy" that the Supreme Court has not pursued wealthredistribution. The "tragedy" Obama identified was that the civilrights movement �me so court-focused" in trying to effectpolitical and economic justice. Obama stated: Ȫnd one of the -- I thinkthe tragedies of the civil rights movement was, because the civil rightsmovements became so court-focused, I think that there was a tendency to losetrack of the political and community organizing, and activities on the groundthat are able to put together the actual coalitions of power through which youbring about redistributive change."ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200810270008f=s_search" title="http://mediamatters.org/items/200810270008f=s_search">Numerous ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200810300018f=s_search" title="http://mediamatters.org/items/200810300018f=s_search">media ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200810290005f=s_search" title="http://mediamatters.org/items/200810290005f=s_search"ϯigures ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200810280018f=s_search" title="http://mediamatters.org/items/200810280018f=s_search"㻬hoedDrudge's false headline about Obama's 2001 remarks.ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2008/10/23/20081023_202828.htm" title="http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2008/10/23/20081023_202828.htm">October ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2008/10/23/20081023_195410.htm" title="http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2008/10/23/20081023_195410.htm"㸣 -- PittsburghȪttack"<pϭuring the afternoon of October 23, Drudge seized on McCaincampaign volunteer Ashley Todd's allegations that a black man mugged herand, after seeing a McCain bumper sticker on her car, carved a ȫ"into her cheek. At 2:54 p.m. ET, Drudge reported Todd's allegationsas fact, posting on his website: "SHOCK: MCCAIN CAMPAIGN VOLUNTEERATTACKED AND MUTILATED IN PITTSBURGH,"along with another headline reading: " ɻ' CARVED INTO20-YEAR OLD WOMAN'S FACE... DEVELOPING..."Drudge did not initially link to a news report for thisclaim. From the Drudge Report at ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2008/10/23/20081023_195410.htm" title="http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2008/10/23/20081023_195410.htm"Ϣ:54 p.m. ET onOctober 23: ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/static/images/item/drudge_003.jpg"> by WTAE-TV in Pittsburgh about the alleged attack. From theDrudge Report on October 23 at ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2008/10/23/20081023_202828.htm" title="http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2008/10/23/20081023_202828.htm"ϣ:28 p.m. ET:ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/static/images/item/drudge_004.jpg">He later ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2008/10/23/20081023_234003.htm" title="http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2008/10/23/20081023_234003.htm">posted a pictureof Todd with her purportedinjuries. From the Drudge Report on October 23 at ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2008/10/23/20081023_234003.htm" title="http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2008/10/23/20081023_234003.htm"Ϧ:40 p.m. ET:ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/static/images/item/drudge_005.jpg">Todd's claims were proven to be false on ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/10/report_mccain_volunteer_who_cl.php" title="http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/10/report_mccain_volunteer_who_cl.php">October 24, whenTodd reportedly told police she made up her story. The ώm>Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08299/922849-53.stm" title="http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08299/922849-53.stm">reported on October 25 that"almost from the start, Pittsburgh police were skeptical about a youngwoman's claim that she had been mugged and a ɻ' carved into hercheek by an attacker who was provoked by the sight of a John McCain bumpersticker on her car."Theώm> Post-Gazetteadded that Todd's story "quickly became political fodder on theInternet and spread around the world, fueled by the presidential campaign andMs. Todd's political connections as a field representative for the CollegeRepublican National Committee and McCain volunteer. But in less than a day, theinternational story of a McCain volunteer being attacked, traumatized anddisfigured for her political beliefs deflated into a sad tale of a troubledwoman with a history of mental problems." The ώm>Post-Gazette wrote of Drudge: ϋlockquote>Todd's friend Dan Garcia took the widely published picture ofMs. Todd with her injuries. He said he took several photographs with a digitalcamera to document what had happened. He said he only gave copies of the photosto police and Ms. Todd's employer, the College Republicans. One photo appearedon The Drudge Report on Thursday, setting off a storm of media attention.Theώm> Post-Gazettewrote in an October 30 ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08304/923935-192.stm" title="http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08304/923935-192.stm"㻭itorial that the ȭrudgeReport made 20-year-old Ashley Todd an object of political fascination aroundthe country." ώmϯinancial Timesassociate editor John Gapper wrote in an October 29 ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://us.ft.com/ftgateway/superpage.ftnews_id=fto102920081546279076&page=1" title="http://us.ft.com/ftgateway/superpage.ftnews_id=fto102920081546279076ɪmp;page=1"Ϫrticle: "Itwas a shocker in the tradition of Mr Drudge's scare stories and hyped-up triviaabout Democratic candidates in USpresidential campaigns, to go with past items about former Sen. John Edwards'$400 haircut and Sen. John Kerry's windsurfing. This time, however, it wasnot merely tendentious but false." Gapper ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://us.ft.com/ftgateway/superpage.ftnews_id=fto102920081546279076&page=2"�:"The Ashley Todd affair was the latest in a series of failures by MrDrudge to recapture the magic of the past, when the Drudge Report had anunrivalled grip on the media agenda." ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200810170015" title="http://mediamatters.org/items/200810170015">October 16 -- Gallup shockDrudge displayed the following lead ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2008/10/16/20081016_205808.htm">headline:"GALLUP SHOCK: 49 OBAMA, 47 MCCAIN WITH LIKELY VOTERS":ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/static/images/item/drudge_006.jpg">However, as ώm>Media Mattersϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200810170015" title="http://mediamatters.org/items/200810170015">noted, Drudge selectively cited onlyone of three findings from an October 13-15 Gallup daily tracking ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.gallup.com/poll/111211/Gallup-Daily-Obama-49-McCain-43.aspx" title="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.gallup.com/poll/111211/Gallup-Daily-Obama-49-McCain-43.aspx">poll of thepresidential race -- the result that showed Obama holding his smallest leadover McCain. MSNBC's ώm>Morning Joeechoed Drudge by displaying the on-screen text "Gallup shock." ώm>New Republic contributorand statistician Nate Silver noted in an October 16 blog ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/10/todays-polls-1016.html" title="http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/10/todays-polls-1016.html">post that Drudgehad Ȭherry-picked" polling results: ϋlockquote>With seven different daily trackingpolls to work with -- one of which releases three separate versions of itsmodel each day -- there is a lot to choose from for those who might seek tocherry-pick results.Slow news day, Matt If this is atwo-point race right now, I'll eat Drudge's fedora. None of the ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.pollster.com/polls/us/08-us-pres-ge-mvo.php" title="http://www.pollster.com/polls/us/08-us-pres-ge-mvo.php"ϭozen or so other pollsthat were in the field this week shows a race that close. Nor do either of the ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.gallup.com/poll/111211/Gallup-Daily-Obama-49-McCain-43.aspx" title="http://www.gallup.com/poll/111211/Gallup-Daily-Obama-49-McCain-43.aspx"Ϫlternate versions of Gallup's model,including the so-called Likely Voters II model that I find most credible.Drudge, of course, had no interest in featuring the ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.zogby.com/" title="http://www.zogby.com/">Zogby poll, as he had for the pastseveral of days on his site, but which today showed Obama gaining ground.September 9-10 -- Lipstick on a pig<pϭrudge falselysuggested in lead headlines from September 9 through September 10 that Obamawas referring to Gov. Sarah Palin when he said: "You can put lipstick on apig; it's still a pig." As ώm>Media Mattersϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200809090026f=s_search">noted, onSeptember 9, Drudge ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2008/09/10/20080910_010122.htm" title="http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2008/09/10/20080910_010122.htm">placed the words"OBAMA: 'LIPSTICK ON A PIG, STILL A PIG' " under a picture of Palin.Then, on September 10, Drudge ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2008/09/10/20080910_140342.htm" title="http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2008/09/10/20080910_140342.htm">posted the leadheadline, "HOLY SOW!" under a picture of Palin:ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/static/images/item/drudge_007.jpg">ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/static/images/item/drudge_008.jpg"><pϬontrary to Drudge's suggestion, Obama did not mentionPalin in at least the 65 words preceding his "lipstick on a pig"comment, as ώm>Media Matters ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200809090026f=s_search" title="http://mediamatters.org/items/200809090026f=s_search">noted. Indeed, Obama'spreceding comments consisted of what he described as a "list" ofMcCain's policies that Obama said were no different from President Bush's.Moreover, the expression "lipstick on a pig" is ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200809100035" title="http://mediamatters.org/items/200809100035"Ϭommonpolitical rhetoric -- Obama hadreportedly used the expression in the past, and McCain himself used it in 2007in reference to Sen. Hillary Clinton's health-care proposal. of CNN's ώm>Reliable Sources, host Howard Kurtz said:"I seriously thought about passing up entirely this ridiculous,trumped-up, phony lipstick controversy. No one really seriously believes thatBarack Obama was talking about Sarah Palin when he used the well-worn barnyardphrase. Just about everyone knows it was essentially pushed along and made upby Drudge, Sean Hannity, and the ώm>New YorkPost, which endorsed McCain, by the way, in a front-pageeditorial." Kurtz, CNN special correspondent Frank Sesno, and ώm>Houston Chronicle White Housecorrespondent Julie Mason then ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200809140003" title="http://mediamatters.org/items/200809140003">went on to criticize the media for their reporting on the"lipstick" remarks. ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2008/07/24/20080724_235353.htm" title="http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2008/07/24/20080724_235353.htm">July 24-ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2008/07/26/20080726_235636.htm">July 26"Obama scraps visit to wounded troops"Drudge furthered the myth that Obama did not visit woundedtroops on his trip to the Middle East and Europein July. A Drudge headline stated "Obama scraps visit to wounded troops..." and linked to a July24 Associated Press ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.breitbart.com/article.phpid=D924E4KO0&show_article=1" title="http://www.breitbart.com/article.phpid=D924E4KO0ɪmp;show_article=1"Ϫrticle that reported "Obamascrapped plans to visit wounded members of the armed forces in Germany as partof his overseas trip, a decision his spokesman said was made because theDemocratic presidential candidate thought it would be inappropriate on acampaign-funded journey." From the Drudge Report on July 24 at ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2008/07/24/20080724_235353.htm"Ϧ:53 p.m. ET:<p𾫝itionally, a July 26 Drudge Report headline read"McCain camp: Obama shortchanged injured troops..." and linked to a July 26 AP ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/07/26/mccain_camp_obama_shortchanged_injured_troops/"Ϫrticle that reported "McCain'scampaign on Saturday sharply criticized Democratic rival Barack Obama forcanceling a visit to wounded troops in Germany. ...A new McCain ad that began airing Saturday in selected markets also chidesObama as disrespectful for making 'time to go to the gym' duringhis European visit while at the same time canceling the visit with woundedtroops." From the Drudge Report on July 26 at ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2008/07/26/20080726_235636.htm"Ϧ:56 p.m. ET:However, as ώm>Media Mattersϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200807280003" title="http://mediamatters.org/items/200807280003"ϭocumented, while Obama did not goto Landstuhl RegionalMedical Centerin Germany,Obama did visit wounded troops earlier in his trip overseas. Indeed, the July26 AP article Drudge linked to reported that the Obama campaign "notedthat the Illinois senator had visited troopsin Iraq and Afghanistan last week and had made numeroustrips to Washington's Walter Reed Army Medical Center." Obama also reportedly made phone calls to wounded soldiersat Landstuhl.ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2008/06/30/20080630_185545.htm" title="http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2008/06/30/20080630_185545.htm">June 30 -- Obama, MoveOn.orgAs ώm>Media Mattersϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200807010003" title="http://mediamatters.org/items/200807010003"ϭocumented,Drudge ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200804090007f=s_search" title="http://mediamatters.org/items/200804090007f=s_searchblocked::http://mediamatters.org/items/200804090007f=s_search">revivedthe ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200709270007f=s_search" title="http://mediamatters.org/items/200709270007f=s_searchblocked::http://mediamatters.org/items/200709270007f=s_search"㻺lsehoodthat Obama did not condemn MoveOn.org's "General Betray Us" ad about Gen. David Petraeus. Drudge ran the followingstring of headlines -- "Obama: I will never question others'patriotism..." Ȭriticizes MoveOn.org for 'General Betray Us'Ad..." "ώm>ώmϫUTDIDN'T VOTE TO CONDEMN AD..." From the DrudgeReport at ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2008/06/30/20080630_185545.htm"ϡ:55 p.m.ET on June 30:ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/static/images/item/drudge_011.jpg">The "ώm>ώmϫUT DIDN'T VOTE TO CONDEMN AD..." headlinelinked to a September 20, 2007, ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://blogs.usatoday.com/onpolitics/2007/09/clinton-dodd-vo.html" title="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://blogs.usatoday.com/onpolitics/2007/09/clinton-dodd-vo.html">post on ώm>ώm>USA Today'sOn Politics blog, which noted that Obama ȭid not vote on" an ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdhttp://cornyn.senate.gov/public/index.cfmFuseAction=Files.Viewɪmp;FileStore_id=14e59d63-b0af-4842-b741-2055d5a15fea" title="http://mediamatters.org/rdhttp://cornyn.senate.gov/public/index.cfmFuseAction=Files.Viewɪmp;FileStore_id=14e59d63-b0af-4842-b741-2055d5a15feahttp://cornyn.senate.gov/public/index.cfmFuseAction=Files.Viewɪmp;FileStore_id=14e59d63-b0af-4842-b741-2055d5a15fea"Ϫmendment by Sen.John Cornyn R-TX that, in the words of the amendment, "repudiates theunwarranted personal attack on General Petraeus by the liberal activist groupMoveon.org." However, while Obama ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfmcongress=110&session=1&vote=00344" title="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfmcongress=110&session=1&vote=00344"ϭid not vote on Cornyn'samendment, which passed, the ώm>ώm>USA Today blog post also reported: "The APsaid Obama did not vote on the resolution even though he had voted 'minutesearlier' for an alternative that condemned the MoveOn ad as an 'unwarrantedpersonal attack,' but also condemned attack ads that questioned the patriotismof Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., and former Sen. Max Cleland, D-Ga., both Vietnamveterans." Indeed, Obama ώm>ώmϭid ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfmcongress=110&session=1&vote=00343" title="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfmcongress=110&session=1&vote=00343">vote for an amendment offered by Sen.Barbara Boxer D-CA that condemned the ad, as well as other attacks on pastand present members of the armed forces.ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2008/03/03/20080303_204901.htm" title="http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2008/03/03/20080303_204901.htm">March 3 --Ȫs far as I know"Drudge ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2008/03/03/20080303_142136.htm" title="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2008/03/03/20080303_142136.htm">linked to onlinenews portal Breitbart.tv video ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.breitbart.tv/p=55904" title="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.breitbart.tv/p=55904"ϯootage from theMarch 2 edition of CBS' ώm>ώm㹠Minutes withthe headline "Hillary: Obama Not Muslim ώm>ώm>ɺs Far As I Know' ... ":ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/static/images/item/drudge_012.jpg"><pϫut contrary toDrudge's suggestion that Sen. Hillary Clinton characterized the issue ofObama's religion as unresolved, Clintondid the opposite, as ώm>Media Matters ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200803030004f=s_search"ϭocumented. Correspondent SteveKroft first asked Clinton,"You don't believe that Senator Obama is a Muslim" Clinton replied, "Of course not. I mean,that's -- you know, there is no basis for that. You know, I take him on thebasis of what he says. And, you know, there isn't any reason to doubtthat." Kroft then asked, Ȫnd you said youɽ take Senator Obama athis word that he's not a Muslim."Clintonreplied, "Right. Right." Only after Kroft went on to ask, "Youdon't believe that he's a Muslim or implying, right," did Clinton respond, "No.No. Why would I No, ώm>there is nothing tobase that on, as far as I know" emphasis added.<pϯollowing Clinton's responseto Kroft's third query on the subject, Kroft said, "It's just scurrilous--" to which Clintonresponded, "Look, I have been the target of so many ridiculous rumors. Ihave a great deal of sympathy for anybody who gets, you know, smeared with thekind of rumors that go on all the time."ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2008/01/22/20080122_220024.htm" title="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2008/01/22/20080122_220024.htm">January 22 -- NiagaraFallsDrudge ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200801220010"㺺selessly suggestedin a headline that the children's psychiatric unit at Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Centerclosed because Clinton was "neglecting" New York:In fact, ώm>The Buffalo News article that the headlinelinked to contained no mention of Clinton; rather, it reported that hospitalofficials attributed the closure to problems surrounding the way Medicaid isadministered by Niagara County.ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2007/10/16/20071016_132906.htm" title="http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2007/10/16/20071016_132906.htm">November 16, 2007 -- Clinton"spied"<pϭrudge advanced the anonymously sourced allegation that Clinton "spied on political rivals" -- anallegation the Clintoncampaign has said is "ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200710170002" title="http://mediamatters.org/items/200710170002"㻊tegoricallyuntrue." From the Drudge Report at 9:29 a.m. ET on November 16:ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/static/images/item/drudge_015.jpg">Media Mattersϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200710180006#200710262" title="http://mediamatters.org/items/200710180006#200710262">noted, in the book ώm>ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.hachettebookgroup.com/books_9780316017428.htm" target="_blank" title="http://mediamatters.org/rdhttp://www.hachettebookgroupusa.com/books/51/0316017426/index.html">Her Way: The Hopes and Ambitions ofHillary Rodham Clinton, co-authors Jeff Gerth andDon Van Natta Jr. cited a single unnamed source describing events thatallegedly occurred 14 years earlier to claim that during the 1992 presidential campaign, Clinton"listened to a secretly recorded audiotape of a phone conversation ofClinton critics plotting their next attack." Despite the book's releasein June, Drudge revived the anonymously sourced allegation months later.ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2007/11/13/20071113_185015.htm" title="http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2007/11/13/20071113_185015.htm">November 13, 2007 -- Wolf Blitzer"warned"As ώm>Media Mattersϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200711140002f=h_latest" title="http://mediamatters.org/items/200711140002f=h_latest"ϭocumented, Drudge ran ananonymously sourced itemthat claimed CNN hostWolf Blitzer "has been warned not to focus Thursday's Dem debate on"Clinton and quoted an anonymous "top Clinton insider" saying,"This campaign is about issues, not on who we can bring down and destroy.... Blitzer should not go down to the levels of character attack." Drudgealso ran the lead headline: "WOLF WARNED: NO GANGING UP ON HILLARY INVEGAS!":ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/static/images/item/drudge_016.jpg">However, Blitzer statedthat Drudge's claims were "not true" during the November 13,2007, ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0711/13/sitroom.01.html" title="http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0711/13/sitroom.01.html"㻭ition of CNN's ώm>The Situation Room. During the broadcast,CNN commentator Jack Cafferty said to Blitzer: "I was clicking on'The Drudge Report,' and there you are, big as life, in the middleof the Drudge Reportthis afternoon, with a headline suggesting that the Hillary Clinton campaign istrying to intimidate you before you moderate this big debate in Las Vegas.What's up with that" Blitzer replied: ϋlockquote><pϫLITZER: Not true. No one haspressured me. No one has threatened me. Noone is trying to intimidate me.... No one has evencalled me to try to pressure me or anything like that. ...I have no idea where it's coming from. I have no idea who generated this story, but I can tell you I have not felt anypressure whatsoever. <p�rty then said to Blitzer: "What about Drudge justrushing this thing onto the websitewithout knowing if it's true or not" Blitzer replied: "Well,that's another story."ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2007/09/18/20070918_201653.htm" title="http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2007/09/18/20070918_201653.htm">September 18, 2007-- "Health insurance proof"<pϭrudge featured the lead headline "HEALTH INSURANCEPROOF REQUIRED FOR WORK" under a picture of Clinton:However, Drudge's headline was false, as ώm>Media Matters ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200709180016" title="http://mediamatters.org/items/200709180016"ϭocumented. The Associated Pressarticle to which the headline linked did not report that Clinton's proposed health-care ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdhttp://www.hillaryclinton.com/news/speech/view/id=3329" title="http://mediamatters.org/rdhttp://www.hillaryclinton.com/news/speech/view/id=3329http://www.hillaryclinton.com/news/speech/view/id=3329">plan would requirepeople to show proof of health insurance ȯor work." Rather, itreported that in an interview with the AP, Clinton said: Ȫt this point, we don'thave anything punitive that we have proposed" for people who do notpurchase health insurance as required by her plan. According to the article, Clinton also said,"We're providing incentives and tax credits which we think will be veryattractive to the vast majority of Americans." The AP article also statedthat Clinton "said she could envision a day when 'you have to show proofto your employer that you're insured as a part of the job interview -- likewhen your kid goes to school and has to show proof of vaccination,' but saidsuch details would be worked out through negotiations with Congress."In a September 18, 2007, post on ώm>Time's Swampland blog -- headlined, "ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2007/09/18/why_drudge_is_a_disgrace/" title="Permanent Link to Why Drudge is a Disgrace">Why Drudge is a Disgrace"-- politicalcolumnist Joe Klein wrote: ϋlockquote>I knowthis is old news, but this guy is shameless. The headline, with a photo of athree-quarters crazed Hillary, is HEALTH INSURANCE PROOF REQUIRED FOR WORK butthe linked story says this: ϋlockquote><pϪt thispoint, we don't have anything punitive that we have proposed," thepresidential candidate said in an interview with The Associated Press."We're providing incentives and tax credits which we think will be veryattractive to the vast majority of Americans."Shesaid she could envision a day when "you have to show proof to youremployer that you're insured as a part of the job interview - like whenyour kid goes to school and has to show proof of vaccination," but saidsuch details would be worked out through negotiations with Congress.Howstupid does he think we are Answer: Extremely dumbolic. ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2007/08/28/20070828_125417.htm" title="http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2007/08/28/20070828_125417.htm"Ϫugust 28, 2007 --Clinton"supports national smoking ban"A Drudge headline falsely claimed that "HILLARYSUPPORTS NATIONAL SMOKING BAN... ":ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/static/images/item/drudge_018.jpg">New York Post ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdhttp://www.nypost.com/seven/08282007/news/nationalnews/hill_eyes_national_cig_curb.htm" title="http://mediamatters.org/rdhttp://www.nypost.com/seven/08282007/news/nationalnews/hill_eyes_national_cig_curb.htm"Ϫrticle with the headline,"Hill Eyes National Cig Curb." However, as ώm>Media Matters ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200708280014f=s_search" title="http://mediamatters.org/items/200708280014f=s_search"ϭocumented, thearticle did not say Clintonsupported a "national smoking ban." The ώm>Post actually reported: Ȫsked whether the feds shouldimpose a nationwide ban, Clintondeferred to local governments."ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2007/08/21/20070821_151712.htm" title="http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2007/08/21/20070821_151712.htm"Ϫugust 21, 2007 --"Obama wife slams Hillary"<pϭrudge's lead headline stated "OBAMA WIFE SLAMSHILLARY":ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/static/images/item/drudge_019.jpg">The Drudge headline linked to an August 21, 2007, ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdhttp://www.suntimes.com/news/hunter/518408,CST-NWS-hunter21.article" title="http://mediamatters.org/rdhttp://www.suntimes.com/news/hunter/518408,CST-NWS-hunter21.articlehttp://mediamatters.org/rdhttp://www.suntimes.com/news/hunter/518408,CST-NWS-hunter21.articlehttp://www.suntimes.com/news/hunter/518408,CST-NWS-hunter21.arti"Ϭolumn by the ώmϬhicago Sun-Times' Jennifer Hunter aboutMichelle Obama's remarks that "if you can't run your own house, youcertainly can't run the White House." Hunter asserted of MichelleObama's comment: "She didn't elaborate, but it could be interpretedas a swipe at the Clintons."However, as ώm>Media Matters ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200708220002f=h_latest" title="http://mediamatters.org/items/200708220002f=h_latest">noted, Hunterselectively cited Michelle Obama's remarks in claiming that they could be aboutthe Clintons.As Talking Point Memo's Greg Sargent ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2007/08/obama_spokesman_denies_michell.php" title="http://mediamatters.org/rdhttp://electioncentral.tpmcafe.com/blog/electioncentral/2007/aug/21/obama_campaign_denies_michelles_speech_was_attack_on_hillaryhttp://electioncentral.tpmcafe.com/blog/electioncentral/2007/aug/21/obama_campaign_denies_michelles">noted, Obama immediately went on to discuss measuresher family was taking to keep their children "grounded" while she andBarack Obama were campaigning, indicating that her comments were not areference to rival candidates but rather a statement about the efforts theywere making to ensure that their children will continue to Ȭomefirst." <p㺯ter stating, "Our view is that if you can't run yourown house, you certainly can't run the White House," Michelle Obamacontinued: "So we've adjusted our schedules to make sure that our girlsare first, so while he's Barack Obama traveling around, I do day trips"in order to be "home before bedtime." ώmϪtlantic associate editor Marc Ambinder ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdhttp://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2007/08/michelle_obamas_swipe.php" title="http://mediamatters.org/rdhttp://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2007/08/michelle_obamas_swipe.phphttp://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2007/08/michelle_obamas_swipe.php">wrote that one"recurring theme of her stump speech" is "the hard choices sheand Sen. Obama have had to make about their work/family balance."Sargent wrote of suggestions that Obama was taking a swipeat Clinton:"The Obama campaign says this wasn't an attack on Hillary at all."Sargent added that Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton sent him a statementsaying: "The only family Mrs. Obama was referring to was the Obamafamily." Ambinder further ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdhttp://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2007/08/michelle_obamas_swipe.php" title="http://mediamatters.org/rdhttp://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2007/08/michelle_obamas_swipe.phphttp://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2007/08/michelle_obamas_swipe.php">noted that inhighlighting Hunter's column, "Matt Drudge has other designs, and you canbet that the cable news networks will follow." NBC political director Chuck Todd, deputy political directorMark Murray, and reporter Andrew Merten wrote in an August 21, 2007, blog ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/08/21/325945.aspx" title="http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/08/21/325945.aspx">post onMSNBC.com's First Read that Drudge's headline was a"manufactured controversy" and Ȫppears to be a Drudge straw man": ϋlockquote>On his site now, ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.drudgereport.com/" target="_blank" title="http://www.drudgereport.com/"ϭrudgehas this provocative headline: "Obama Wife Slams Hillary" It's takenfrom this ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.suntimes.com/news/hunter/518408,CST-NWS-hunter21.article" target="_blank" title="http://www.suntimes.com/news/hunter/518408,CST-NWS-hunter21.article"Ϭhicago Sun-Times storytoday. ...There's just one problem: This allseems to be a manufactured controversy. For one thing, what Michelle Obama saidisn't anything new; in fact, it appears to be her stump speech. She said thison August 13, per the ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.breitbart.com/article.phpid=D8R07N3O0&show_article=1" target="_blank" title="http://www.breitbart.com/article.phpid=D8R07N3O0ɪmp;show_article=1"ϪP. And also onAugust 16, per the ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/17/us/politics/17obama.htmlref=politics" target="_blank" title="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/17/us/politics/17obama.htmlref=politics">New York Times. Inboth instances, it appears she's talking about her own family and its values....In short, this appears to be a Drudgestraw man; the challenge for news divisions including our own is whether theyactually bite. ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2007/08/01/20070801_124159.htm" title="http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2007/08/01/20070801_124159.htm"Ϫugust 1, 2007 -- PakistanA Drudge lead headline claimed "WAR: COMMANDER OBAMAWOULD SEND TROOPS INTO PAKISTAN":ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/static/images/item/drudge_020.jpg">The headline linked to an August 1, 2007, Associated Press ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20070536" title="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20070536">report about a foreign policy ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdhttp://www.barackobama.com/2007/08/01/remarks_of_senator_obama_the_w_1.php" title="http://mediamatters.org/rdhttp://www.barackobama.com/2007/08/01/remarks_of_senator_obama_the_w_1.phphttp://www.barackobama.com/2007/08/01/remarks_of_senator_obama_the_w_1.php">speech that day byObama. However, Drudge's headline is a distortion of Obama'sremarks. Obama did not say he "would send troops into Pakistan"he said that "if we have actionable intelligence about high-valueterrorist targets and then-PakistaniPresident Pervez Musharrafwon't act, we will," without elaborating on how he would act. Furthermore,Obama ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200708080009" title="http://mediamatters.org/items/200708080009">never said he would declare"war" on Pakistan,as Drudge suggested.ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2007/05/25/20070525_183152.htm" title="http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2007/05/25/20070525_183152.htm">May 25, 2007 --ȯlak Jacket"A Drudge headline read "McCain mocks Obama for notknowing how to spell ɿlak jacket' ..." and linked to a May 25, 2007, ώm>Hill ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://thehill.com/campaign-2008/memorial-day-showdown-between-presidential-camps-2007-05-25.html" title="http://thehill.com/campaign-2008/memorial-day-showdown-between-presidential-camps-2007-05-25.html"Ϫrticle that reported McCain"took a shot at Obama for making a mistake in" a statement that dayin which Obama wrote ȯlack jacket":ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/static/images/item/drudge_021.jpg">However, as ώm>Media Mattersϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200705260002f=h_latest" title="http://mediamatters.org/items/200705260002f=h_latest"ϭocumented,ȯlack" is an alternatespelling of ȯlak." Indeed, the phraseȯlack jacket" with a Ȭ" appears on dozens of militarywebsites.ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2007/03/11/20070311_132611.htm" title="http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2007/03/11/20070311_132611.htm">March 11, 2007 --JFK of 2008A Drudge headline read "HILLARY: I'M THE JFK OF2008... ":The Drudge headline linked to a March 11, 2007, ώm>NewYork Post ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdhttp://www.nypost.com/php/pfriendly/print.phpurl=http://www.nypost.com/seven/03112007/news/nationalnews/hill__im_the_jfk_of_2008_nationalnews_maggie_haberman_post_correspondent.htm" title="http://mediamatters.org/rdhttp://www.nypost.com/php/pfriendly/print.phpurl=http://www.nypost.com/seven/03112007/news/nationalnews/hill__im_the_jfk_of_2008_nationalnews_maggie_haberman_post_correspondent.htmblocked::http://www.nypost.com/php/pfriendly/p"Ϫrticle with theheadline "Hill: I'm the JFK of 2008." However, as ώm>Media Matters ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200703140001f=s_search" title="http://mediamatters.org/items/200703140001f=s_search">noted, Clinton did not say shewas the John F. Kennedy of 2008. Instead, Clintonwas comparing the possibility of her becoming the first woman president toKennedy having become the first Catholic president. Following is the portion ofClinton's March10, 2007, speech duringwhich she addressed Kennedy: ϋlockquote>A lot of people back then duringformer President Kennedy's 1960 campaign said, "Well, you know Americawill never elect a Catholic as president," but those who gathered herealmost half a century ago knew better. ... So when people tell me, or when oneof the pundits says that "I don't think a woman can be electedpresident," I say, "We'll never know unless we try."
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