December 2009: Rove reportedly urges tea parties to support Castle
9-12 Patriot activist, O'Donnell: Fox's Rove lobbied tea party to endorse Castle in Republican primary. In his book, The Backlash, Media Matters senior fellow Will Bunch writes (pages 291-295) that according to 9-12 Delaware Patriots executive director Russ Murphy, in the early stages of the campaign, Rove met with a group of tea party activists and urged them to support Rep. Mike Castle's (R-DE) Senate campaign. In an MSNBC appearance, Bunch said that meeting occurred in December. O'Donnell herself made the same claim during a September 15 interview on Fox & Friends.
July
2010: Fox-backed Tea Party Express endorses O'Donnell, aids
campaign
Tea
Party Express provided O'Donnell with money, staffers, phone
banks. On July 27, Tea Party
Express endorsed O'Donnell. The Atlantic's Chris Good reported that
in the wake of that endorsement, Tea Party Express fulfilled a $250,000
fundraising pledge, aired radio and TV ads on behalf of O'Donnell, sent staffers
to Delaware, attracted the endorsements of Sarah Palin and Sen. Jim DeMint
(R-SC), operated phone banks, and worked with "local Tea Party and 9/12 groups
to coordinate volunteer activity, which included sign-waving at intersections in
addition to phone banking."
Fox
News has relentlessly promoted Tea Party Express. Media Matters has detailed Fox's
News heavy promotion of the Tea Party Express, from sending reporter Griff
Jenkins to travel on the bus for the group's first cross-country tour to touting
a later rally held by the group as a "conservative Woodstock." Tea Party
Express has praised the "great television coverage" given to it by Fox
News.
September 2010: Fox
News hosts, contributors endorsed, touted O'Donnell
September
2: Cavuto tells O'Donnell, "the Tea Party saw something in you, galvanized its
efforts and away we go." In a
September 2 interview on Your
World (retrieved
from Nexis), host Neil Cavuto
said to O'Donnell: "You know, it was sort of like you became like an overnight
emerging force. And I don't know whether it had to do with what was going on,
you know, in Alaska, but bottom line, the Tea Party saw something in you,
galvanized its efforts and away we go."
September 8: Malkin tells Hannity, "I endorsed Christine
O'Donnell." On the
September 8 edition of Hannity (retrieved from Nexis), Fox News
contributor Michelle Malkin said, "I
endorsed Christine O'Donnell. I met her over the past couple
of weeks in D.C."
September
9: Palin endorses O'Donnell on Hannity's radio show. On the September 9
edition of Sean Hannity's radio show, Fox News contributor Sarah Palin endorsed O'Donnell,
after having earlier re-tweeted a
positive statement about O'Donnell from radio host Tammy
Bruce.
September
13: Van Susteren airs Palin's endorsement of O'Donnell. On the September 13
edition of On the
Record (retrieved
from Nexis), host Greta Van
Susteren said "O'Donnell has Governor Palin in her corner," then aired the
endorsement robocall Palin made for O'Donnell's
campaign.
The
holdouts: Rove, Perino, Krauthammer criticize O'Donnell over
electability
September
13: Krauthammer calls O'Donnell supporters "disruptive and
capricious." On the September 13
edition of Special
Report (retrieved from Nexis), Fox News contributor Charles
Krauthammer criticized endorsements of O'Donnell by Palin and Sen. Jim DeMint
(R-SC) as "disruptive," "capricious," "irresponsible," and "a big mistake." He
added, "O'Donnell is very problematic, she probably will
lose."
September
14: Perino says "I am for whoever the best candidate is that can
win. And I don't know Christine O'Donnell." On
the September 14 edition of Hannity (retrieved from Nexis), Fox
Business anchor Stuart Varney asked "Why do we buy the line that Mike Castle can
win in November and that Christine O'Donnell cannot win?" Fox News
contributor Dana Perino answered: "one of the reasons they're called
establishment candidates is because they are established. And I am for whoever
the best candidate is that can win. And I don't know Christine O'Donnell. I have
known Mike Castle for many years. I see him as a stand- up
guy."
September
14: Rove says O'Donnell will have to explain "checkered background"; she does
not "evince the characteristics of rectitude and truthfulness and sincerity and
character." On the September 14
edition of Hannity, Rove said:
"One thing that Christine O'Donnell is now going to have to answer in the
general election that she didn't have to answer in the primary is her own
checkered background." He later said: "I've met her. I'm not -- I've got to tell
you, I wasn't, frankly, impressed as her, you know, abilities as a candidate.
And again, these serious questions about how does she make her living, why did
she mislead voters about her college education, how come it took her nearly two
decades to pay her college bill so she could get her college degree. How does
she make a living? Why did she sue a well-known and well-thought-of conservative
think tank?" Rove went on to criticize "candidates who, at the end of the day,
while they may be conservative in their public statements, do not evince the
characteristics of rectitude and truthfulness and sincerity and character that
the voters are looking for."
Post-election: O'Donnell credits Fox figures and movements for win as
network celebrates her victory
O'Donnell
cites Palin, groups with ties to Fox News during victory
speech. In her victory
speech, O'Donnell thanked Palin and the
Tea Party Express for their support. O'Donnell also thanked
the Glenn Beck inspired
9-12 movement for
"laying the foundation and stirring things up."
Hannity touted his support for O'Donnell. On the
September 14 edition of his Fox News show, Hannity highlighted how
"talk radio, including myself and Mark Levin and Rush and others ... got
involved in the Delaware primary and people's awareness went
up." He declared that O'Donnell's success was another sign that "we are seeing
the establishment being beaten by the tea party movement and by conservatives
that are saying, you know what? We've had it with RINO [Republican In Name
Only] Republicans."
Fox's
Cameron to O'Donnell: "It must feel good." On the September 14
edition of On the Record, Van
Susteren introduced an interview with
O'Donnell by saying, "The world of politics is stunned to the core. Christine O'Donnell, backed by the Tea Party Express
and Governor Sarah Palin, has won Delaware's Republican primary for the U.S.
Senate." Fox News
correspondent Carl Cameron said to O'Donnell: "They said it couldn't
be done and here you are, the U.S. Senate Republican nominee for Delaware. It must feel good." Cameron also
asked McDonnell, "Did the party bosses get the message of your victory?" Cameron
concluded: "Mike Castle is over. Christine O'Donnell is now, running against
Chris Coons for the Joe Biden former U.S. Senate seat, and one of the 10 that
could potentially mean the Republican majority come
fall."
Carlson: It's "suicide" for Republicans not to support
O'Donnell. On the
September 15 edition of Fox &
Friends, co-host Gretchen Carlson criticized the
idea that Republicans are considering "maybe not to even support O'Donnell.
That, I don't think, is a smart move at all. If you want the Democrat to win,
then go ahead and let her flounder by herself." Carlson later added, "This is
suicide for the party." Later in the show, Gretchen said:
"You've got to wonder right now -- and I've been saying this for the last year
on this show -- the Republican Party has to get together with the tea party.
They have to. And for the RNC to come out now and say they're not going to fund
this race? So what are they going to do, fund the
Democrat?"
Gingrich
throws support to O'Donnell. Following O'Donnell's
win, Fox News contributor Newt Gingrich issued a series of tweets
praising her:
- "Christine
odonnell won in delaware. She got more votes in the primary.
The elite media wants to declare her unelectable--nonsense-she
won"
- "There will be
an all out effort to discredit christine odonnell in delaware just as there was to discredit sharon angle in nevada"
- "Angle will
beat harry reid and odonnel will win in delaware. 2010 is the year of the grassroots
over the establishment"
O'Donnell credits Palin for "mak the
difference." On the
September 15 edition of ABC's Good Morning
America, when co-host George Stephanopoulos asked her, "Did Sarah
Palin make the difference here?" O'Donnell responded,
"Yes, she did. ... She helped to bring it back on
track."
Fox & Friends told O'Donnell the "good news" of McConnell's
support. Co-host Steve
Doocy touted O'Donnell's appearance on the September 15 edition of Fox & Friends as being "fresh off the
win last night," and Carlson concluded the interview by noting the "good news"
that Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said that "he is not backing away
from supporting" McConnell. O'Donnell is the latest in a
series of Republican
candidates who have turned
to Fox & Friends as their
favored venue to mark the launch of their general election campaigns following
their primary victories.
O'Donnell far from the only candidate to benefit from association with
Fox
Fox
routinely provides airtime to Republican and conservative
candidates. As Media
Matters has repeatedly documented,
Fox News is a friendly and receptive home for Republican nominees, as well as
the most conservative candidate in a Republican primary, where they can benefit
from repeated appearances and opportunities to promote fundraising campaigns.
Further, Fox News hosts and contributors such as Palin and Gingrich raise
money for Republican candidates and causes using political
action committees, 527 and 501(c)4 organizations.
Kilmeade
says Christine O'Donnell is "starting to win me over." On the
September 15 edition of Fox News Radio's Kilmeade & Friends, Kilmeade said,
"Christine, I talked to her this morning, O'Donnell, she's
starting to win me over. She's starting to address the problems in her
background." Kilmeade added, "I think the RNC will be right behind
her."
Remember the old days of dialler Trojan horses?
Back when most of us didn't have broadband at home, and connected to the internet via a modem, we saw a type of malware which could take advantage of the phone line plugged into the back of your PC and dial an expensive premium rate number.
In this way, criminal hackers could make money out of your infected computer - and you might know anything about it until you received an expensive telephone bill.
Dialler Trojan horses went the way of the dinosaur as consumers turned their back on modem connections and adopted broadband en masse.
But, as F-Secure's Mikko Hypponen explained today at the Virus Bulletin conference, the threat may have returned in a different form through the use of virtual premium rate numbers.
Earlier this year I described the Terdial Trojan horse, which was distributed posing as a Windows mobile game called "3D Anti-terrorist action", but appeared to make calls to Antarctica, Dominican Republic, Somalia and Sao Tome and Principe without the owner's permission.
So how did it make money for the hackers?
Well, it transpires that although the Trojan did make phone calls to numbers associated with various far-flung corners of the world, the calls never made it that far.
That's because the phone numbers were what are known as virtual numbers. It's perfectly possible to find telephone operators on the web who will rent you premium phone number associated with, say, Antarctica, and pay you every time that a call is made.
Unlike other legitimate premium rate numbers (such as 1-900 in USA), there is no regulation preventing abuse of the virtual numbers, and the 'owner' of the number gets paid instantly rather than having to wait 30 days.
And your call never actually gets as far as Antarctica or North Korea. It's stopped in your own country, but you're still billed as though you rang that far away place.
The days of Trojan horses making money out of dial-up modem connections may be long gone, but here's a model for money-making that mobile malware authors could certainly exploit.
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December 2009: Rove reportedly urges tea parties to support Castle
9-12 Patriot activist, O'Donnell: Fox's Rove lobbied tea party to endorse Castle in Republican primary. In his book, The Backlash, Media Matters senior fellow Will Bunch writes (pages 291-295) that according to 9-12 Delaware Patriots executive director Russ Murphy, in the early stages of the campaign, Rove met with a group of tea party activists and urged them to support Rep. Mike Castle's (R-DE) Senate campaign. In an MSNBC appearance, Bunch said that meeting occurred in December. O'Donnell herself made the same claim during a September 15 interview on Fox & Friends.
July
2010: Fox-backed Tea Party Express endorses O'Donnell, aids
campaign
Tea
Party Express provided O'Donnell with money, staffers, phone
banks. On July 27, Tea Party
Express endorsed O'Donnell. The Atlantic's Chris Good reported that
in the wake of that endorsement, Tea Party Express fulfilled a $250,000
fundraising pledge, aired radio and TV ads on behalf of O'Donnell, sent staffers
to Delaware, attracted the endorsements of Sarah Palin and Sen. Jim DeMint
(R-SC), operated phone banks, and worked with "local Tea Party and 9/12 groups
to coordinate volunteer activity, which included sign-waving at intersections in
addition to phone banking."
Fox
News has relentlessly promoted Tea Party Express. Media Matters has detailed Fox's
News heavy promotion of the Tea Party Express, from sending reporter Griff
Jenkins to travel on the bus for the group's first cross-country tour to touting
a later rally held by the group as a "conservative Woodstock." Tea Party
Express has praised the "great television coverage" given to it by Fox
News.
September 2010: Fox
News hosts, contributors endorsed, touted O'Donnell
September
2: Cavuto tells O'Donnell, "the Tea Party saw something in you, galvanized its
efforts and away we go." In a
September 2 interview on Your
World (retrieved
from Nexis), host Neil Cavuto
said to O'Donnell: "You know, it was sort of like you became like an overnight
emerging force. And I don't know whether it had to do with what was going on,
you know, in Alaska, but bottom line, the Tea Party saw something in you,
galvanized its efforts and away we go."
September 8: Malkin tells Hannity, "I endorsed Christine
O'Donnell." On the
September 8 edition of Hannity (retrieved from Nexis), Fox News
contributor Michelle Malkin said, "I
endorsed Christine O'Donnell. I met her over the past couple
of weeks in D.C."
September
9: Palin endorses O'Donnell on Hannity's radio show. On the September 9
edition of Sean Hannity's radio show, Fox News contributor Sarah Palin endorsed O'Donnell,
after having earlier re-tweeted a
positive statement about O'Donnell from radio host Tammy
Bruce.
September
13: Van Susteren airs Palin's endorsement of O'Donnell. On the September 13
edition of On the
Record (retrieved
from Nexis), host Greta Van
Susteren said "O'Donnell has Governor Palin in her corner," then aired the
endorsement robocall Palin made for O'Donnell's
campaign.
The
holdouts: Rove, Perino, Krauthammer criticize O'Donnell over
electability
September
13: Krauthammer calls O'Donnell supporters "disruptive and
capricious." On the September 13
edition of Special
Report (retrieved from Nexis), Fox News contributor Charles
Krauthammer criticized endorsements of O'Donnell by Palin and Sen. Jim DeMint
(R-SC) as "disruptive," "capricious," "irresponsible," and "a big mistake." He
added, "O'Donnell is very problematic, she probably will
lose."
September
14: Perino says "I am for whoever the best candidate is that can
win. And I don't know Christine O'Donnell." On
the September 14 edition of Hannity (retrieved from Nexis), Fox
Business anchor Stuart Varney asked "Why do we buy the line that Mike Castle can
win in November and that Christine O'Donnell cannot win?" Fox News
contributor Dana Perino answered: "one of the reasons they're called
establishment candidates is because they are established. And I am for whoever
the best candidate is that can win. And I don't know Christine O'Donnell. I have
known Mike Castle for many years. I see him as a stand- up
guy."
September
14: Rove says O'Donnell will have to explain "checkered background"; she does
not "evince the characteristics of rectitude and truthfulness and sincerity and
character." On the September 14
edition of Hannity, Rove said:
"One thing that Christine O'Donnell is now going to have to answer in the
general election that she didn't have to answer in the primary is her own
checkered background." He later said: "I've met her. I'm not -- I've got to tell
you, I wasn't, frankly, impressed as her, you know, abilities as a candidate.
And again, these serious questions about how does she make her living, why did
she mislead voters about her college education, how come it took her nearly two
decades to pay her college bill so she could get her college degree. How does
she make a living? Why did she sue a well-known and well-thought-of conservative
think tank?" Rove went on to criticize "candidates who, at the end of the day,
while they may be conservative in their public statements, do not evince the
characteristics of rectitude and truthfulness and sincerity and character that
the voters are looking for."
Post-election: O'Donnell credits Fox figures and movements for win as
network celebrates her victory
O'Donnell
cites Palin, groups with ties to Fox News during victory
speech. In her victory
speech, O'Donnell thanked Palin and the
Tea Party Express for their support. O'Donnell also thanked
the Glenn Beck inspired
9-12 movement for
"laying the foundation and stirring things up."
Hannity touted his support for O'Donnell. On the
September 14 edition of his Fox News show, Hannity highlighted how
"talk radio, including myself and Mark Levin and Rush and others ... got
involved in the Delaware primary and people's awareness went
up." He declared that O'Donnell's success was another sign that "we are seeing
the establishment being beaten by the tea party movement and by conservatives
that are saying, you know what? We've had it with RINO [Republican In Name
Only] Republicans."
Fox's
Cameron to O'Donnell: "It must feel good." On the September 14
edition of On the Record, Van
Susteren introduced an interview with
O'Donnell by saying, "The world of politics is stunned to the core. Christine O'Donnell, backed by the Tea Party Express
and Governor Sarah Palin, has won Delaware's Republican primary for the U.S.
Senate." Fox News
correspondent Carl Cameron said to O'Donnell: "They said it couldn't
be done and here you are, the U.S. Senate Republican nominee for Delaware. It must feel good." Cameron also
asked McDonnell, "Did the party bosses get the message of your victory?" Cameron
concluded: "Mike Castle is over. Christine O'Donnell is now, running against
Chris Coons for the Joe Biden former U.S. Senate seat, and one of the 10 that
could potentially mean the Republican majority come
fall."
Carlson: It's "suicide" for Republicans not to support
O'Donnell. On the
September 15 edition of Fox &
Friends, co-host Gretchen Carlson criticized the
idea that Republicans are considering "maybe not to even support O'Donnell.
That, I don't think, is a smart move at all. If you want the Democrat to win,
then go ahead and let her flounder by herself." Carlson later added, "This is
suicide for the party." Later in the show, Gretchen said:
"You've got to wonder right now -- and I've been saying this for the last year
on this show -- the Republican Party has to get together with the tea party.
They have to. And for the RNC to come out now and say they're not going to fund
this race? So what are they going to do, fund the
Democrat?"
Gingrich
throws support to O'Donnell. Following O'Donnell's
win, Fox News contributor Newt Gingrich issued a series of tweets
praising her:
- "Christine
odonnell won in delaware. She got more votes in the primary.
The elite media wants to declare her unelectable--nonsense-she
won"
- "There will be
an all out effort to discredit christine odonnell in delaware just as there was to discredit sharon angle in nevada"
- "Angle will
beat harry reid and odonnel will win in delaware. 2010 is the year of the grassroots
over the establishment"
O'Donnell credits Palin for "mak the
difference." On the
September 15 edition of ABC's Good Morning
America, when co-host George Stephanopoulos asked her, "Did Sarah
Palin make the difference here?" O'Donnell responded,
"Yes, she did. ... She helped to bring it back on
track."
Fox & Friends told O'Donnell the "good news" of McConnell's
support. Co-host Steve
Doocy touted O'Donnell's appearance on the September 15 edition of Fox & Friends as being "fresh off the
win last night," and Carlson concluded the interview by noting the "good news"
that Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said that "he is not backing away
from supporting" McConnell. O'Donnell is the latest in a
series of Republican
candidates who have turned
to Fox & Friends as their
favored venue to mark the launch of their general election campaigns following
their primary victories.
O'Donnell far from the only candidate to benefit from association with
Fox
Fox
routinely provides airtime to Republican and conservative
candidates. As Media
Matters has repeatedly documented,
Fox News is a friendly and receptive home for Republican nominees, as well as
the most conservative candidate in a Republican primary, where they can benefit
from repeated appearances and opportunities to promote fundraising campaigns.
Further, Fox News hosts and contributors such as Palin and Gingrich raise
money for Republican candidates and causes using political
action committees, 527 and 501(c)4 organizations.
Kilmeade
says Christine O'Donnell is "starting to win me over." On the
September 15 edition of Fox News Radio's Kilmeade & Friends, Kilmeade said,
"Christine, I talked to her this morning, O'Donnell, she's
starting to win me over. She's starting to address the problems in her
background." Kilmeade added, "I think the RNC will be right behind
her."
Remember the old days of dialler Trojan horses?
Back when most of us didn't have broadband at home, and connected to the internet via a modem, we saw a type of malware which could take advantage of the phone line plugged into the back of your PC and dial an expensive premium rate number.
In this way, criminal hackers could make money out of your infected computer - and you might know anything about it until you received an expensive telephone bill.
Dialler Trojan horses went the way of the dinosaur as consumers turned their back on modem connections and adopted broadband en masse.
But, as F-Secure's Mikko Hypponen explained today at the Virus Bulletin conference, the threat may have returned in a different form through the use of virtual premium rate numbers.
Earlier this year I described the Terdial Trojan horse, which was distributed posing as a Windows mobile game called "3D Anti-terrorist action", but appeared to make calls to Antarctica, Dominican Republic, Somalia and Sao Tome and Principe without the owner's permission.
So how did it make money for the hackers?
Well, it transpires that although the Trojan did make phone calls to numbers associated with various far-flung corners of the world, the calls never made it that far.
That's because the phone numbers were what are known as virtual numbers. It's perfectly possible to find telephone operators on the web who will rent you premium phone number associated with, say, Antarctica, and pay you every time that a call is made.
Unlike other legitimate premium rate numbers (such as 1-900 in USA), there is no regulation preventing abuse of the virtual numbers, and the 'owner' of the number gets paid instantly rather than having to wait 30 days.
And your call never actually gets as far as Antarctica or North Korea. It's stopped in your own country, but you're still billed as though you rang that far away place.
The days of Trojan horses making money out of dial-up modem connections may be long gone, but here's a model for money-making that mobile malware authors could certainly exploit.
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