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RELATED LINKSInternal LinksGrants to: Profiles: External LinksMORE LINKSNew Zealand Mara Liasson stole my wallet!...Over on Fox, Mara Liasson, a middle-of-the-road NPR reporter who Fox falsely presents as a liberal, explained that the administration might well have taken the “nuance” out of the intelligence. But, she insisted, that is not the same thing as “lying In the interest of getting these proud pundits to reconsider their disdain for the L-word, let us conduct a little experiment. Let us level damning accusations against THEM, using some of the argumentation techniques Bush used against Iraq.
National Desk Liasson takes conservative philanthropy money as host of National Desk showEditor's note: See MT's report on National Desk, a production of Whidbey Island Films.
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PERSON PROFILEMara LiassonLiasson is a reporter for National Public Radio and employee of FOX News (she's a commentator on FOX News Sunday). According to FAIR, Liasson sits on the board of the Freedom House, a Scaife, Bradley and Smith Richardson foundation funded outfit. MT had a telephone conversation with Liasson on August 14, 2001, in which she emphatically denied having told FOX News she was a Republican before being hired for FOX News Sunday (a charge relayed by FAIR), but confirmed that she was at one time a registered Republican (but is no longer). MT has concluded, though, that FAIR was probably correct that FOX had been assured (correctly) when it hired Liasson that she was, at that time, a Republican. Her behavior on television leads MT to believe she still holds essentially Republican views. Here's an excerpt from FAIR's report on FOX News: Rounding out the panel [on FOX News Sunday] is its third-most-frequent pundit, Mara Liasson, who sits on the opposite side of the table from the conservative Barnes, implicitly identifying her as a liberal. But her liberalism consists of little more than being a woman who works for National Public Radio; she has proposed that "one of the roots of the problem with education today is feminism" (Talk of the Nation, 5/3/01); she declares that "Jesse Jackson gets away with a lot of things that other people don't" (Special Report, 6/21/00); she calls George W. Bush's reversal on carbon dioxide emissions "a small thing" (3/14/01), campaign finance reform "an issue that . . . only 200 people in America care about" (3/19/01) and slavery reparations "pretty much of a non-issue" (3/19/01). Grants from Olin for Knight-Bagehot fellowships Liasson's bio at NPR indicates she had a Knight-Bagehot fellowship in 1988.
Norman Solomon When will Mara Liasson apologize to Reps. Jim McDermott and David Bonior?In response to comments made in September 2002 by Congressmen Jim McDermott and David Bonior that President Bush would deceive the US in a runup to war with Iraq, Liasson went ballistic, writes Solomon: "...During one of her routine appearances on Fox television, National Public Radio political correspondent Mara Liasson commented on McDermott and Bonior: "These guys are a disgrace. Look, everybody knows it's 101, politics 101, that you don't go to an adversary country, an enemy country, and badmouth the United States, its policies and the president of the United States. I mean, these guys ought to, I don't know, resign." Update: "I certainly shouldn't have said it"On July 30, 2003, the NPR Ombudsman wrote that Liasson now says that, regarding her remarks about Bonior and McDermott: "I certainly shouldn't have said it." In the same story, Ali Abunimah is quoted talking about Liasson: "My reading of NPR's guidelines is that they (NPR journalists) are not "pundits" and not giving opinion, but rather analysis. If this is not opinion and not punditry, where do you draw the line? If your political correspondent believes that criticizing the president is unacceptable behavior, you need to tell her to check what country she thinks she lives in."
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MORE LINKSMedia Matters Citing unnamed "experts" on Iran nuke threat, Kondracke, Liasson agreed "time is running out"On Fox News' Special Report with Brit Hume, Mort Kondracke claimed that "experts that I talked to think" that Iran will produce enough highly enriched uranium for a nuclear bomb by summer 2007. Kondracke did not inform viewers which "experts" he was referring to...NPR national political correspondent Mara Liasson later added: "[A]s Mort said, time is running out. Pretty soon, Iran is going to have the bomb."
MediaMatters.org NPR's Liasson: "[A]ny time there's a contentious exchange in the White House press room, it makes the press look bad"On the September 7 edition of Fox News' Special Report with Brit Hume, National Public Radio (NPR) national political correspondent and Fox News political correspondent Mara Liasson stated that "any time there's a contentious exchange in the White House press room, it makes the press look bad."
Daily Howler Will Mara Liasson Apologize for Smear of Blumenthal?[SCROLL DOWN] ...even after the Blumenthal grand jury transcripts became public—long after the facts became clear—assorted “journalists” kept spreading the [prove false] story while “good guy” pundits crouched behind desks. Mara Liasson called Blumenthal a liar...
Seth Ackerman The Most Biased Name in NewsFox News Channel's extraordinary right-wing tilt
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