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Eric Boehlert: The myth of Fox News' ratings spikeNov 3, 2009
Fact: The breathless claim that Fox
News' ratings recently spiked thanks to the White House's public critique is
bogus hype -- hype that Fox News and the Beltway press have relentlessly pushed.
It's just not true.
No m...
In latest bigoted smear, Fox leads right-wing media assault on Jennings' involvement with anti-AIDS groupOct 23, 2009
Advancing the newest ludicrous and bigoted attack in a long series of failed efforts by conservatives to smear Education Department official Kevin Jennings and force his firing, Fox News' Sean...
Right-wing smear machine falls for fake Obama quote labeled as "satire"Oct 23, 2009
Right-wing media figures trumpeted a blogger's fake report that in a college thesis -- which the post's author claimed was obtained by Time's Joe Klein -- President Obama attacked the...
Conservative media attack Dems for playing "death card" while using Kennedy's death to attack health careAug 27, 2009
Following Sen. Ted Kennedy's death, several conservative media figures -- including Rush Limbaugh -- have attacked Democrats for purportedly attempting to use his passing to stifle debate and enact health care reform legislation. But conserva...
Conservatives push Reagan's 1961 attacks on "socialized medicine" but ignore that he was criticizing MedicareAug 17, 2009
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 Co...
MSNBC repeatedly hosts McCaffrey to discuss Afghanistan without disclosing his conflict of interestDec 1, 2009
At least three times in the last two days, MSNBC anchors have hosted NBC News military analyst and retired Gen. Barry R. McCaffrey, who has used his appearances to criticize possible "deadlines" to the U.S. troop presence in Afghanistan and...
Varney falsely claimed that under Senate bill, cost of employer-sponsored coverage would rise without subsidiesDec 1, 2009
On Fox News' America's Newsroom, Stuart Varney misrepresented an analysis by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to falsely claim that under the Senate health care bill, the cost of "your employer-provided health care would not go up, only because...
Quick Fact: MacCallum, Angle ignore effective corporate tax rate to claim U.S. has the "second highest rate" in industrialized worldDec 1, 2009
On Fox News, Martha MacCallum claimed that "U.S. corporations overall face an average combined tax of about 39%," adding that this was "the second highest rate among all industrialized countries." Fox News Washington correspondent Jim Angle later added...
Varney's claim that Obama inflated deployment costs undermined by Pentagon assessment that is reportedly in line with White HouseDec 1, 2009
Fox Business' Stuart Varney baselessly claimed that the Obama administration was using inflated cost estimates of $1 million per year per soldier to deploy additional troops to Afghanistan in order to "introduce the pressure to leave" and that the ...
Conservative media hype misleading report suggesting CRU destroyed raw climate dataDec 1, 2009
Conservative media have recently suggested that scientists at the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia intentionally "threw out" or "destroyed" the raw temperature data "underpinning the man-made-warming theory," in the...
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