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Fox News personalities aggressively promote Bachmann's protest against health care reform bill
mediamatters.org - 16 days ago
Fox News personalities aggressively promote Bachmann's protest against health care reform bill
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In recent days, following its pattern of advocacy, Fox News and its personalities' have repeatedly promoted Rep. Michele Bachmann's (R-MN) November 5 anti-health care reform protest, to be held on Capitol Hill and in the halls of Congress. Fox News has previously promoted numerous other rallies ...
Tea Partiers Came With 2010 Warnings
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com - 16 days ago
Tea Partiers Came With 2010 Warnings
— tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com — The scene today at the Capitol Hill Tea Party probably worried incumbents of both parties. TPMDC was there, following every "Kill the bill" refrain and impromptu "USA! USA!" chant from the many thousands gathered on the West Front Lawn of the ... (more) Tea Partiers Came With 2010 Warnings

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mediamatters.org - 16 days ago
Citing no evidence, Hannity estimates that 20,000 attended Fox-promoted GOP health care protest
— mediamatters.org — Citing no evidence, Sean Hannity twice stated that 20,000 people gathered to protest health care reform at a GOP rally on Capitol Hill -- a claim he later walked back drastically -- while MSNBC reported that Capitol police estimated the crowd at only ... (more) Citing no evidence, Hannity estimates that 20,000 ...

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washingtonpost.com - 16 days ago
No one said freedom was pretty
— washingtonpost.com — By Dana Milbank Friday, November 6, 2009 The call to arms went out last week. Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), who made her name suggesting that Barack Obama and other Democrats have "anti-American" views, appeared on Fox News on Friday night and ... (more) No one said freedom was pretty

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News Hounds:  Did Hannity And Bachmann Just Make Up Their Account Of Bachmann’s Health Care Protest?

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Did Hannity And Bachmann Just Make Up Their Account Of Bachmann’s Health Care Protest?
News Hounds — ... on Fox & Friends this week, but Glenn Beck and Fox Nation joined in the effort, too. She also got plenty of help from the astroturfing specialists, Americans For Prosperity, the ...

Mario Ruiz: Michele Bachmann and David Koch: Strange Bedfellows
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... by the right-wing media). Bachmann would cap it off with the fawning Fox News media coverage she craved. After all, this was her moment -- besides ...

Fox News’ year in apologies: fake videos, false info, cutting and pasting from GOP
The Hollywood Liberal — ... Fox News host Sean Hannity for attempting to inflate the crowd size of Rep. Michele Bachmann’s (R-MN) Fox News-fueled GOP rally against health care reform by using footage of the crowd at the better-attended 9-12 rally. On the November 11 ...

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