Hume launches personal attacks against Bolton critics
Without addressing their claims

Over the past week, Fox News Washington managing editor Brit Hume has repeatedly used the "Grapevine" segment of Fox News' Special Report with Brit Hume to assail critics of John R. Bolton based on their personal lives and past affiliations, largely ignoring the substance of their criticisms of Bolton, President Bush's nominee for U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.

On April 20, Hume referred to Melody Townsel as a "liberal Democrat" and "the founder of the Dallas chapter of Mothers Opposing Bush." As he spoke, the on-screen graphic read: "Accuser's M.O.B. Ties." Townsel claims that Bolton, then a private attorney, "once threw a file folder and a tape dispenser" at her, "disparaged her weight and alleged she was gay in an attempt to get her to withdraw criticism of a foreign-aid project," according to an April 21 USA Today article. The Los Angeles Times reported on April 18 that Townsel testified that Bolton "had shouted at her, threw papers at her, chased her down a hotel hallway in Moscow and pounded on her room door." Hume suggested that Townsel's allegations against Bolton might be motivated by her political views, failing to note that according to USA Today, Townsel told her employer about the incident with Bolton when it occurred in 1994>>>continued

Fair and Balanced, nahhhhhh only a mouth piece for Bush and his Administration

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Media largely ignore report that Prince Abdullah delegation member:
Was denied U.S. visa,
Appeared on U.S. government no-fly list

A member of the delegation of Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah, who met with President Bush at his ranch in Crawford, Texas, on April 25, was denied entry to the United States after the delegation member's name appeared on a national watch list for alleged terrorists, according to reports by The Dallas Morning News and the Agence France-Presse (AFP) wire service. But the issue has received virtually no attention in print and television news coverage since AFP first reported it, and no reporters asked about it during Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's press briefing in Crawford or White House press secretary Scott McClellan's press gaggle on Air Force
One following the meeting.

AFP first reported on April 25 that one of Prince Abdullah's delegation was denied a visa to visit the United States when the delegation member's name appeared on a government no-fly list:

A member of Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz's delegation was denied entry into the United States after authorities found he was on a government "watch" list, a US official said Monday. >>>>continued

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