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AilesHas Extensive Influence On GOP Politics,Thinks Palin Is An "Idiot"

Mon, 23 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Media Matters - May. 23 (Special Report) - New York magazine is out with an extensive profile of Fox News chief Roger Ailes that details the significant role he plays in conservative politics. Furthering the evidence that Fox News is simply a campaign arm of the GOP, the piece quotes an anonymous Republican aide who states that "You can't run for the Republican nomination without talking to Roger," and notes that Ailes actively encouraged Republican Governor Chris Christie to run for president. Ailes also apparently doesn't think too highly of his employee, Sarah Palin, who, according to a source close to Ailes, he thinks "is an idiot."

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National Media Ignored Union Rallies

Thu, 07 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

readersupportednews.org - Apr. 07 (News Analysis) - Union members and their progressive supporters staged rallies and events across the country on Monday to commemorate the 43rd anniversary of Martin Luther King's assassination in Memphis, where the civil rights leader was helping local union workers organize. Activists claimed to have hosted "more than 1,200 events—teach-ins, vigils, faith services and town halls" yesterday, but most national news media outlets ignored the story.

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"Fox News Lies" in Wisconsin

Thu, 03 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Media Matters - Mar. 03 (News Analysis) - Fox News has pushed a litany of falsehoods while reporting on pro-labor protests in Wisconsin, thereby proving right the many Wisconsin protesters who have broken out into chants of "Fox News lies."

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Jon Stewart Did What Pundits And Reporters Should Have Done

Fri, 24 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Media Matters - By Eric Boehlert - Dec. 24 (Opinion) - Stewart was forced to fill a gaping, Mack truck-size hole in the press corps. i.e. By pointing out the hypocrisy of the GOP's opposition to the bill, Stewart was doing the work of what countless pundits should have done. And by interviewing the first responders himself, Stewart was doing the work of what countless reporters should have done.

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Fox boss ordered staff to cast doubt on climate science

Wed, 15 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Media Matters - By Ben Dimiero - Dec. 15 (Investigative Report) - In the midst of global climate change talks last December, a top Fox News official sent an email questioning the "veracity of climate change data" and ordering the network's journalists to "refrain from asserting that the planet has warmed (or cooled) in any given period without IMMEDIATELY pointing out that such theories are based upon data that critics have called into question."

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LEAKED EMAIL: Fox boss caught slanting news reporting

Thu, 09 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Media Matters - By Ben Dimiero - Dec. 09 (Investigative Report) - At the height of the health care reform debate last fall, Bill Sammon, Fox News' controversial Washington managing editor, sent a memo directing his network's journalists not to use the phrase "public option."

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Economists say food crisis prediction from Beck's inflation expert is "crazy"

Wed, 17 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Media Matters - By Matt Gertz - Nov. 17 (News Analysis) - Economists tell Media Matters that they've "never heard" of the organization Glenn Beck has cited to fearmonger over a coming "food crisis," and mocked the group's conclusion that massive inflation in food prices is imminent.

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White House debunks "wildly inflated" $200M-per-day price tag for Obama's India trip

Wed, 03 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Media Matters - By Sarah Pavlus - Nov. 03 (News) - According to a White House spokesman, the claim -- circulated by Rush Limbaugh and the Drudge Report -- that President Obama's November trip to India will cost the U.S. $200 million per day has "no basis in reality."

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"Progressive Hunter" redux: Beck devotes entire hour to demonizing Tides

Sat, 16 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Media Matters - Oct. 16 (News Report) - Less than a week after revelations that conspiracy theories pushed by Glenn Beck and the right-wing media drove a California man to plot the assassination of Tides Foundation employees, Beck devoted an hour-long show to demonizing Tides. Beck's latest attacks come just hours after Tides released a letter calling on advertisers to stop financing the extremist rhetoric and conspiracy theories broadcast on Fox News.

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"Progressive Hunter"

Mon, 11 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Media Matters - By John Hamilton - Oct. 11 (Special Report) - Jailhouse Confession: How the right-wing media and Glenn Beck's chalkboard drove Byron Williams to plot assassination

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Kelly's obsession with phony scandal is just the latest "hint of her political outlook"

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Media Matters - Jul. 23 (News Analysis) - Megyn Kelly has been a driving force behind Fox News' heavy promotion of the phony New Black Panther Party scandal. Kelly has been criticized for showing "hints of her political outlook" from the anchor desk and has a history of advancing right-wing smears and falsehoods.

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The End of Andrew Breitbart's Credibility

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

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Conservatives rehash debunked myths and caricatures for Kagan hearings

Tue, 06 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Media Matters - By Eric Hananoki - Jul. 06 (News Analysis) - Part of the reason for her expected confirmation is that Kagan not only has bipartisan support and a "fantastic resume," but the ammunition prepared against her in the weeks leading up to the hearings -- see them debunked by Media Matters here -- have fallen flat. Still, that hasn't stopped Republicans and their conservative media counterparts from pushing tired falsehoods and myths. But why fight a battle when even their cheerleaders at Fox think the outcome has been virtually decided? As conservatives made clear months before the hearings, the opposition is based on politics rather than Kagan's actual qualifications and opinions. In other words, the Kagan confirmation battle is just one piece of the larger battle for the Supreme Court.

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Kristol misrepresents Phoenix crime levels to defend AZ law

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Media Matters - Jul. 02 (News Analysis) - On Fox News, Bill Kristol stated that crime along the Arizona border "may be down" but that "a lot of the crime has migrated up to Phoenix." In fact, crime rates in Phoenix and the surrounding metro area have dropped over the past decade and reportedly "plunged" in 2009.

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Fox's Carlson advances falsehood that students will "only be able to get" loans "through the government" Media Matters for America

Thu, 01 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Media Matters - Apr. 01 (News Analysis) - Fox & Friends host Gretchen Carlson falsely claimed that "moving forward," students will "only be able to get" a loan "through the government." In fact, the recently-passed student loan reform does not eliminate private lending; it only requires that students receiving federal loans acquire them directly from the government.

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Right-wing media falsely claim that health care reform will increase premiums

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Media Matters - Feb. 26 (News Analysis) - Right-wing media are using an exchange between President Obama and Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) to falsely claim that the Senate health care bill would cause individual health insurance premiums to increase. In fact, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimated that the Senate's version of health care reform would result in lower premiums for most individual enrollees.

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'Ram it through': Media adopt GOP characterization of majority vote

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Media Matters - Feb. 26 (News Analysis) - In the past week, media figures have routinely referred to a potential effort to pass a health care reform bill with a majority vote as an effort to "ram," "jam," or "cram" a bill through Congress, a characterization pushed by Republican politicians. The reconciliation process, which enables the Senate to pass legislation with 51 votes, has been used repeatedly by Republicans, including to pass major changes to health care laws.

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Special Report pushes debunked claim that DADT repeal would "adversely impact" troop readiness

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Media Matters - Feb. 23 (News Analysis) - Bret Baier uncritically reported that Gen. George Casey stated that repeal of the military's Don't Ask, Don't Tell (DADT) policy "might ... adversely affect readiness." This claim is refuted by the experiences of several other countries that lifted their bans on gays and lesbians serving but saw no adverse effects on their troops; moreover, Baier did not note that numerous defense experts have called for DADT's repeal.

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Peeling Off Conservatives' AstroTurf Mask

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Chris Harris - Nov. 04 (News) - As these "AstroTurf" organizations sprouted up, progressive operatives and bloggers scrambled to link them to big business and political players in Washington. Well, the scrambling days are over.

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Communications arm? Fox & Friends recites misleading GOP press release on stimulus

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Media Matters - Oct. 23 (News Analysis) - Fox & Friends hosts Brian Kilmeade, Steve Doocy, and Gretchen Carlton parroted a House Republican press release and repeated its claim that the stimulus impact is "6 million jobs shy of what the administration promised us" since the administration stated "that 3.5 million jobs would be created. And, in fact, the United States has lost 2.7 million since the stimulus plan." However, the administration estimated that by 2011 -- not September 2009, when the 2.7 million job losses since February were recorded -- 3.5 million jobs would be created or saved by the stimulus compared to the number of jobs that would have existed at the end of 2010 had the government not passed the legislation.

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Attack on White House criticism of Fox follows years of GOP assaults on media

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Media Matters - Oct. 23 (News Analysis) - Following White House communications director Anita Dunn's entirely justified criticisms of Fox News as an "arm" of the Republican Party, conservative media figures have attacked both Dunn and the Obama administration. But Media Matters for America has compiled a list of organized attacks that GOP leaders -- often aided by Fox News -- have conducted against media outlets based on groundless complaints of bias; those attacks have included boycotts or threatened boycotts of media outlets, efforts to revoke journalists' credentials or ban them from press planes, and even calls to have journalists prosecuted.

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Right again makes an anti-American ass of itself following Obama's Nobel win

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Media Matters - By Karl Frisch - Oct. 10 (Opinion) - But sadly, Obama's words failed to touch the hearts of some of the world's most esteemed and principled critics and commentators, all of whom have proven their love for America and her values time and again. I'm kidding of course.

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Hannity cites rationing in U.K. to attack public option -- but U.S. insurance companies already ration care

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Media Matters - Oct. 08 (News Analysis) - On his Fox News show, Sean Hannity attacked the public option by stating that "[e]verywhere socialized medicine has been tried it's failed. It ends up in rationing," and pointing to women with breast cancer in Great Britain who are denied drugs by "the government rationing body." But Hannity's attack that "the government option" would introduce rationing for "women with breast cancer" is undermined by the fact that private insurance companies in the United States already ration care; in fact, private insurers routinely deny care to cancer patients, often because they are found to have pre-existing conditions.

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Conservatives push Reagan's 1961 attacks on "socialized medicine" but ignore that he was criticizing Medicare

Mon, 17 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Media Matters - Aug. 17 (News Analysis) - On August 14, the Drudge Report, Rush Limbaugh, and O'Reilly Factor guest host Laura Ingraham featured a recording of Ronald Reagan speaking in 1961 against "socialized medicine" for the American Medical Association's Operation Coffee Cup Campaign against Medicare. Neither Drudge, Limbaugh, nor Ingraham, however, noted that Reagan was speaking out against an early version of Medicare, which has become very popular since it was enacted 44 years ago, or that Reagan's dire predictions of curtailments of freedom were never realized.

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Stamp of approval: Media tout Obama polling falsehood

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Media Matters - Apr. 29 (Investigative Report) - Several media figures and outlets have falsely claimed that President Obama's approval rating is lower than that of most or all recent presidents, according to Gallup. In fact, Gallup itself recently reported that, by two different measures, Obama's approval rating is the second highest of any president since 1969.

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