http://www.wikio.co.uk/blog/search/Dana Milbank Wikio Blogs - search: Dana Milbank wikio wikio http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=67252462 When Washington Post columnist and regular Countdown guest Dana Milbank used an edited quote from Barack Obama that was arguably a distortion of the Illinois Senator's complete words, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann suspended Milbank from appearing on his show insisting Milbank correct his transgression against the Democratic presidential candidate. But if Olbermann's MSNBC bosses held him to the same standard, the Countdown host himself would have been suspended numerous times during the past four years if he were required to correct either distortions of people's words or his reporting of stories that turned out to be inaccurate. But while in Milbank's case the Washington Post columnist's infraction was against a liberal target, Olbermann has primarily targeted conservatives. In October 2004, the MSNBC host used selectively edited clips of Vice President Cheney to make it appear Cheney had argued that Iraq was involved in the 9/11 attacks as a justification for the Iraq invasion. In 2005, Olbermann accused FNC's John Gibson and talk radio host Janet Parshall of sounding like terrorists from "an al-Qaeda show" as Olbermann distorted Gibson's remarks about the American tradition of majority religions tolerating minority religions. On Jay Leno's show in 2006, Olbermann accused FNC host Bill O'Reilly of defending the Nazis from World War II because of O'Reilly's mixup of the events of the Malmedy massacre. Olbermann: "On the air in the last year, Bill O'Reilly has defended the Nazis from World War II on three separate occasions. ... Yes, I wish I were making this up." Further explanation can be found here . This past July, Olbermann picked up on an incorrect account from a liberal blogger which claimed that O'Reilly accused Democratic Congressman Robert Wexler of trying to evade the state income tax of Florida, only to be embarrassed at being corrected by his own guest, conservative columnist John Fund. In reality, O'Reilly had not made this accusation at all, as the FNC host had actually pointed out that Florida has no state income tax, and that Wexler was using Florida as his address for tax purposes even though he lives in Maryland. The liberal blogger in question corrected her account of the exchange on her Web site, but Olbermann never corrected the error on his show. Also in July, Olbermann used a sloppily worded statement about Islamic terrorism by an 83-year-old decorated veteran, retired Colonel Bud Day, a John McCain supporter, to paint McCain as agreeing with what the MSNBC host referred to as Day's "racism and religious hatred." Olbermann slammed McCain: "And you heard him [Day]: John agrees with him. As of tonight, John's campaign has refused to repudiate Day's racism and religious hatred. Maybe John needs to get rid of this clown but fast. Bud 'The Muslims are Going to Kill Us' Day, today's 'Worst Person in the World.'" Olbermann did not inform viewers that a McCain campaign spokesperson, as was reported that day by Fox News, "said Day intended to say 'Islamic extremists' — an important distinction as some Muslims feel inappropriately discriminated against since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks." In December 2006, the MSNBC host, likely picking up on a report by the liberal Media Matters for America, seized on a date mixup by O'Reilly to accuse the FNC host of lying about comments O'Reilly had made in the aftermath of the Iraq invasion from April 2003. O'Reilly had bragged that he had voiced the need for tough martial law early on to keep order in Iraq, but had misstated the date of his prediction as "the night that Saddam's statue fell" when, in fact, it was a mere two nights later (April 11, 2003, instead of April 9). But instead of entertaining the possibility of a date mixup, Olbermann called O'Reilly a "holy-you-know-what-liar." Olbermann has at also hinted that O'Reilly's concerns about a "War on Christmas" by secularists are motivated by anti-Semitism, once joking about O'Reilly supporting a "war against Hanukkah." In December 2006, while reporting on the controversial decision of the Seattle-Tacoma Airport to remove its Christmas trees from public view rather than display a Menorah, Olbermann joked: "Generalissimo O'Reilly remains upbeat. Look not on this as a defeat in the war on Christmas. This was a dramatic victory in Billow's new war against Hanukkah." Ironically, less than 20 minutes earlier on The O'Reilly Factor, the FNC host had spoken approvingly of displaying a Menorah at the airport as he interviewed the rabbi who had requested it. In September 2006, Olbermann condemned President Bush for an awkwardly worded, off-the-cuff remark made by the President during a news conference that it is "unacceptable to think" the actions of America can be compared to those of terrorists. Not catching on to the President's likely meaning that it is "ridiculous to claim" the actions of America are similar to those terrorists, Olbermann blew it out of proportion as if the comment were an attack on the right to think, and therefore a grave threat to democracy. Referring to a favorite topic of his, George Orwell's 1984, he attacked Bush's words as "chilling." Olbermann: "'It's unacceptable to think.' Sounds like something straight out of George Orwell's 1984. Instead, it was something straight out of George Bush's mouth. ... And not only issuing those chilling words, 'It's unacceptable to think,' but doing so in answer to the call to conscience from his own former Secretary of State, Colin Powell." In January 2006, after O'Reilly complained that the "network newscasts" had ignored the story of a Vermont judge who initially sentenced a child rapist to only 60 days in jail, Olbermann argued that because show on MSNBC had covered the story, that O'Reilly's statement was false, even though "network newscasts" would only included ABC, CBS and NBC newscasts, not cable news. In November 2005, after Vice President Cheney gave a speech charging that the Associated Press had misrepresented an earlier speech in which he had attacked Democratic Senators who had accused President Bush of lying about pre-war intelligence, Olbermann characterized Cheney's complaint as "vitriol" toward the media. The Countdown host proceeded to distort Cheney's words himself to prove his contention that the Vice President's complaints about the AP were unfounded. Sun, 10 Aug 2008 07:23:06 GMT http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=67252462 Brad Wilmouth 2008-08-10T07:23:06Z http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=66758935 Keith Olbermann is blogging on Daily Kos again. This time he’s making amends to his loony left base about not publicly lynching long-time shill Dana Milbank for having the nerve to be critical of the messiah Barack Obama. When Dana Milbank went off the reservation and wrote a piece calling Obama out for his arrogance, [...] Tue, 05 Aug 2008 18:56:54 GMT http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=66758935 Chris Jones 2008-08-05T18:56:54Z http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=66734099 Keith Olbermann reported tonight that Dana Milbank will no longer be appearing on Countdown.nbsp; It Milbank was banned from appearing on Countdown un... . . . Tue, 05 Aug 2008 16:21:00 GMT http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=66734099 2008-08-05T16:21:00Z http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=66866037 Breaking! Dana Milbank tells noted political hack Michael Calderone of Poitico that the genesis of his disenchantment with Keith Olbermann and Countdown was an incident where Milbank dared to make a mildly favorable statement about McCain advisor Charlie Black: A source familiar with the situation told Politico that Milbank had been unhappy on the show for a couple of months and expressed this sentiment to friends. But it wasn't until directly after an incident last month that Milbank made a move. During the first week of July, Milbank spoke to executive producer Katy Karp about why he had not been on the show for a couple of weeks. At that point, Milbank was told that there was an issue among staff with something positive he said the previous month about Charlie Black, a McCain senior adviser. Milbank has told Big Head DC that his deal with CNN has been in the works since July 7th . Calderone is known for being spoon-fed stories by interested parties seeking to use Politico as an outlet to wage war against their enemies, something Milbank apparently knows quite well. OlbyWatch readers will know that for years, TVNewser's Brian Stelter, know of The New York Times, was Keith's mouthpiece in the blogosphere. So, it will be interesting to see if the Milbank-Olbermann Feud becomes a case of dueling hack blogs. [ EDITOR'S NOTE: Robert Cox contributed to this post ] Developing... Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:30:53 GMT http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=66866037 johnny dollar 2008-08-06T16:30:53Z http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=66669986 Dana Milbank, the snark-master at the Washington Post, included a grossly out-of-context quote from Barack Obama in a column last week . Instead of rectifying his mistake, Milbank mocked those who challenged him. To most of the traditional media and almost every cable pundit, that's quite acceptable. Not to Keith Olbermann : We had decided not to have Dana on this news-hour again until this was cleared up, and, sadly after some very happy years, he's apparently chosen to make that cloud permanent. It's practically a first: A reporter is suffering the consequences for bad behavior. Keith says good luck. But, this feels more like good riddance. The way this town goes, however, there's always CNN or FOX for Milbank. Tue, 05 Aug 2008 05:57:00 GMT http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=66669986 Joe Sudbay (DC) 2008-08-05T05:57:00Z http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=66768857 As you remember, Milbank is the Washington Post reporter who mangled the Obama "symbol quote" so badly and got a lot of flack for it, especially from the gang at... Tue, 05 Aug 2008 20:46:15 GMT http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=66768857 Joe B. 2008-08-05T20:46:15Z http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=66674701 Keith Olbermann posts on DKos? nice. (link) Tue, 05 Aug 2008 07:00:30 GMT http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=66674701 sujal 2008-08-05T07:00:30Z http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=66732977 MSNBC's Countdown's Bloated Boor -Keith Olbermann, a dweeb that could get the Dalai Lama to toss on a pair brass knucks, had long-time pal and guest Dana Milbank jump ship on him and the MSNBC Tool Shed cavalcade of cretins, feebs and dummies. Anyone with a point a view gets the Thought Criminal Treatment from the Obama Campaign's Propaganda Mill at MSNBC. Obama will lose forty states in November. Thanks in large part to his empty resume, arrogance, race-baiting strategy ( really made Bubba PO'd), and IN THE TANK shills at MSNBC. Give Olby a Raise! Huge Hat Tip to the good folks, Democrats all, at No Quarter . Click my post title for the full magilla. Who's next? Tue, 05 Aug 2008 15:39:00 GMT http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=66732977 pathickey 2008-08-05T15:39:00Z http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=66424360 TPMtv: Dana Milbank, We Salute You All it took to set off a full 24 hours of cable news hysteria was one quote that the Washington Post’s Dana Milbank attributed to Barack Obama - secondhand, unsourced, out of context, and eventually widely disputed. Nice work, everybody… Sat, 02 Aug 2008 11:34:01 GMT http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=66424360 HL 2008-08-02T11:34:01Z http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=66260950 All it took to set off a full 24 hours of cable news hysteria was one quote that the Washington Post's Dana Milbank attributed to Barack Obama - secondhand, unsourced, out of context, and eventually widely disputed. Nice work, everybody... Thu, 31 Jul 2008 23:13:39 GMT http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=66260950 Ben Craw 2008-07-31T23:13:39Z http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=66606252 Last week Dana Milbank thought it very unprecedented for Barack Obama to leave New Yorker writer Ryan Lizza off the campaign plane during his trip to Europe, even though it wasn't . I wonder when he's going to get around to noticing that McCain has thrown his whole campaign off the bus . KANSAS CITY-- While the traveling press corps was shipped off to a barbecue restaurant here, John McCain charmed his way through an interview with a local TV reporter. Surae Chinn of KCTV posed such less-than-penetrating questions as "How important is Missouri?" and "Have you chosen a running mate?" and -- addressing the candidate's wife Cindy -- "How do you make your marriage work?" [...] It wasn't part of the mix last week. National correspondents traveling with the candidate did not get to ask McCain a question for four days, and grew angry when a short media availability was scheduled for late afternoon Friday in Panama City, Fla. -- too late to do them much good and requiring extra flights for those who had planned to head home for the weekend. While the front of McCain's plane was reconfigured with a couch and two captain's chairs to allow for easy conversation, journalists say he has invited them up only once, on a trip to Colombia. On the ground, his availability is sometimes limited to a quick gaggle with a small group of pool reporters. Even the local reporter started annoying him, if you read the story. Wonder if this will be part of some rich tableau penned by La Milbank. The last one was invented from whole cloth in its own right: I've spent a few days on the campaign trail with Obama and know people who've traveled with him for months. I wouldn't argue that portrayals of the candidate as occasionally aloof, or a little professorial, are imagined. But it's a long ways from, in the words of Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank, acting like "the presumptuous nominee" whose "biggest challenger may not be Republican John McCain but rather his own hubris." Milbank, who is often wickedly revealing, last week seemed mostly wicked as he turned benign campaign tableau -- an Obama motorcade, a talk with the Treasury secretary, a "pep rally" with congressional Democrats -- into evidence that Obama thinks he's already the winner. He really looks silly on this, doesn't he? Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:37:00 GMT http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=66606252 noreply@blogger.com (dday) 2008-08-04T14:37:00Z http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=66248200 Dana Milbank should be ashamed, except that he’s probably beyond shame. Robert Parry accurately skewers him: At this pivotal moment in American history, the major U.S. news media is back to its old game of drawing sweeping character judgments about a presidential candidate based on misleading “quotes,” a sickening replay of other recent elections. The latest example [...] Thu, 31 Jul 2008 21:14:07 GMT http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=66248200 LeisureGuy 2008-07-31T21:14:07Z http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=66447787 Dana Milbank flat-out lied in his article parroting Obama's "presumptuousness," got caught, and now can't face facts . In a July 31 washingtonpost.com online discussion, Dana Milbank dismissed participants' criticisms of his July 30 column -- a "sketch" of Sen. Barack Obama's "premature presidency" -- as "whines." Indeed, Milbank began the discussion by acknowledging that "some of you have some thoughts you'd like to share about yesterday's Sketch on the premature presidency of Barack Obama," and before taking questions, wrote: "I've decided to approach today's chat as a wine writer would. ... Today, I am inaugurating the Whine Enthusiast, in which I will rate your whines." The Washington Post itself was not quite as dismissive, publishing a correction to one falsehood (in a column rife with misleadingly cropped quotes, false insinuations, and negligent reporting, as Media Matters for America noted). Milbank falsely asserted that Obama "g[a]ve British Prime Minister Gordon Brown some management advice over the weekend." The Post ran the following correction: "This column incorrectly said that Sen. Barack Obama shared his views on how to avoid micromanagement with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown last Saturday. Obama shared those views with British opposition leader David Cameron." Referring to a July 29 meeting Obama had with members of the House of Representatives, Milbank wrote in his column: "Inside, according to a witness, he told the House members, 'This is the moment ... that the world is waiting for,' adding: 'I have become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions.' " Milbank cited the quote in support of his thesis that Obama was becoming a "presumptuous nominee" and as evidence that Obama's "own hubris" may be his "biggest challenger." Several participants in the online discussion, apparently in reference to this quote, accused Milbank of "misquot[ing]" Obama, "omit[ting] the full context of his quote," and "intentionally butcher[ing] Barack Obama's words to sell papers." During the discussion, a reader from Pasadena, California, asked Milbank: "I do wonder whether or not echoing a Rovian talking point, complete with misquote, is really your best starting point." Milbank responded: Under challenge is a quote in the story, and in an earlier post on the washingtonpost.com blog, The Trail, by my colleague Jonathan Weisman. We cite a witness to Obama's private meeting with House Democrats telling us that Obama said "this is the moment ... that the world is waiting for" and "I have become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions." House Democratic aides got up Thursday morning and decided that the quotes looked bad. While not challenging the quotations themselves, they said that the quotes were out of context. This is interesting, because our source who was among the people complaining about the quotes yesterday sent us the quotes in writing in an email Wednesday night. Evidently no recording was made, so we'll probably never know the exact wording. Milbank's trying to become the next Maureen Dowd and I'm sure he got quite a few backslaps from his Beltway friends on this one. He's not going to bother with such trifles as fact-checking or accuracy. The narrative is set, and anyone who wants to change it is just a whiner who's pissed off that their guy just got zinged. He's winning "America's Next Top Clueless Pundit," and he's not going to turn in his crown now. It really is some news operation that looks with nothing but contempt at their readers. ...on the other hand, Bob Herbert is pretty clear-eyed today. Sat, 02 Aug 2008 17:31:00 GMT http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=66447787 noreply@blogger.com (dday) 2008-08-02T17:31:00Z http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=66225735 I get Consortiumnews’ daily email. The one tonight really chapped my hide. Robert Parry has a piece up entitled: WPost Calls Out ‘Uppity’ Obama. Parry’s article addresses Dana Milbanks column yesterday in WaPo. First, let me say I am not a fan nor a supporter of Barack Obama. I feel, no I know, he is just [...] Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:45:46 GMT http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=66225735 Dusty 2008-07-31T17:45:46Z http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=66103787 Todd Gitlin: > TPMCafe | Talking Points Memo | "Presumptuous": "Barack Obama has long been his party's presumptive nominee. Now he's becoming its presumptuous nominee." That's Dana Milbank in this morning's WP. Imagine! Obama holds meetings with enthusiastic supporters from his own party "pep rallies"! He gets motorcades! He plans a presidential transition! (Everyone knows it's far better to wait ll November.) > The "presumptuous" meme is swooping virally through the media. Nexis picks up 23 mentions in major newspapers in less than three weeks--about one a day. Why do I think what they really mean is "uppity"? Thanks to Matt Yglesias... Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:53:09 GMT http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=66103787 Brad DeLong 2008-07-30T20:53:09Z