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The Fox Nation and FoxNews.com advanced the suggestion that Democrats' health care plans are, in Fox Nation's words, a "Ponzi scheme," a charge presumably based on Sen. Jon Kyl's (R-AZ) claim that "[w]hen they claim a savings ... in the first 10 years, that's because they start collecting taxes ...
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The Washington Times and FoxNews.com falsely reported that a review by the Justice Department's inspector general of Justice Department grants to ACORN revealed that ACORN "mismanaged" grant funds. In fact, the IG report -- which identified one direct Justice grant to an ACORN affiliate and ...
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While discussing U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommendations on medical screenings, Fox News' Peter Johnson Jr. stated on Fox & Friends that "what we see now in the Senate bill is the Senate saying that if you get an A or a B, then it's gonna be paid for. If you get a C, ...
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On Fox & Friends , co-hosts Gretchen Carlson, Brian Kilmeade, and Steve Doocy falsely suggested that Organizing for America director Mitch Stewart compared Sarah Palin to a terrorist when he wrote in a fundraising letter that her book tour is "dangerous." In fact, Stewart wrote that her ...
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Sarah Palin
Organizing For America
Ugh, what a gruesome
week it was for news consumers as the "serious" press showered time and attention
on two GOP-friendly stories that defined "trivial
pursuits": a book
release and a bow . Sadly, this is what the Beltway
press corps now voluntarily --
eagerly
-- reduces itself to: ...
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Sarah Palin
Barack Obama
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On Fox News Sunday , host Chris Wallace
falsely claimed that it's a "fact" that the House
and Senate health care bills direct the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force to "determine what services, what tests, screening, are covered and aren't covered," ...
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Quick fact: Wallace falsely claims health bills direct ...
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Terence Jeffrey, editor-in-chief of the conservative website CNSNews.com, falsely suggested that the Senate health care bill "would mandate federally subsidized abortion" in a manner inconsistent with the Hyde Amendment's restrictions on the types of abortions for which federal dollars can be ...
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Wall Street Journal assistant editorial page editor James
Freeman claimed that efforts to pass cap and trade
legislation will fail because there is "no premise" for such legislation since "there hasn't been any warming since 1998," later adding that ...
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Quick Fact: WSJ 's Freeman claims "there hasn't been ...
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In an interview with British filmmaker and climate
change skeptic Phelim McAleer, Sean Hannity falsely claimed that
Al Gore's statement that a 2007 ruling by a British judge about Gore's documentary An Inconvenient Truth , in Hannity's words, ...
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Quick Fact: Hannity falsely claimed Gore was wrong to ...
Sean Hannity responded to a statement by Democratic strategist Jacques DeGraff that "We're on the threshold of taking care of 31 million Americans who don't have health insurance" by claiming that "It's actually 12 million" who would get insurance.
From the
November 20 edition of Fox News' ...
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Special Report host Bret Baier falsely claimed that recently released cervical cancer screening guidelines were promulgated by a "federal panel," adding that those guidelines "open the door to this conversation about rationing." Additionally, Mara Liasson suggested that that the Senate health ...
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It was all too
predictable.
From the moment Sarah Palin was
airlifted out of the Alaska hinterlands by John McCain and plopped onto the
national stage, she's been telling anyone who will listen how poorly she's been
treated by the media, the Democrats, the blogosphere, etc. After she did ...
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Once upon a time, Rush Limbaugh
would profess how conservative thinkers like Charles Krauthammer were the bee's
knees. He even said, on more than one occasion, that he would consider trading brains with Krauthammer:
LIMBAUGH: As
you may remember my having said -- and I'll say it again ...
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Rush Limbaugh -- who had previously condemned the "thugs" who hacked then-Gov. Sarah Palin's email account -- joined right-wing bloggers in touting a series of emails that were apparently stolen from the UK's Climate Research Unit [CRU]. Limbaugh proceeded to distort at least one of the emails ...
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In making public a video he withheld for more than two months, right-wing activist James O'Keefe finally acknowledged that a Los Angeles ACORN employee "would not assist us obtain a house for our illegal activities" -- an admission that directly contradicts claims by his colleague Hannah Giles ...
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Right-wing media figures, including Glenn Beck, Michael Savage, and The Washington Times ' Wesley Pruden, have in recent days attacked President Obama while discussing his mental state. While claiming, "I'm not asking you to psychoanalyze the president," Beck asked psychiatrist and Fox News ...
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Barack Obama
Glenn Beck
On November 20, MSNBC hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough uncritically repeated Sen. Joe Lieberman's (I-CT) claim that "if you look at the campaign last year, the presidential, you can't find a mention of public option. It was added after the election as a part of what we normally ...
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Joe Scarborough
In a Wall Street Journal op-ed, former Bush official Karl Rove criticized the "degree" to which the Obama administration has released "news on contentious issues late on Friday," adding that "such tactics ... can look disingenuous if they undercut public debate on substantive policy changes"; ...
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Ed Gillespie
On Laura Ingraham's radio show, Sarah Palin linked a task force's recent recommendations on breast cancer screenings to the widely debunked smear -- propagated by Palin -- that health care reform will include "death panels." Palin fearmongered about death panels despite the fact that the ...
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Sarah Palin
Trumpeting a Drudge Report headline, Gateway Pundit's Jim Hoft claimed that Senate Democrats "will only deliberate 10 hourson [sic] SATURDAY before they vote to nationalize one-sixth of the US economy." In fact, the Senate vote scheduled for Saturday is a vote on a cloture motion -- which would ...
