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Fox Passed Of GOP Talking Points As Their Own Reporting
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... Critics of the Fox News Channel intimate all the time that they take their marching orders and construct their dizzy little metanarratives from concise memoranda from straight out of the Republican messaging machine. But if you were to accuse the network of doing so, they'd typically respond, "Zounds! You wound mine honor, good fellow, verily!" Or, they'd have chief flack-and-Sith Lady Irina Briganti cut you, with dirty knives. But Media Matters' County Fair blog has caught the foxy newsies in flagrante delicto passing off a press release from the Senate Republican ...
Today's Funny Post
ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES —
It's this one: During the February 10 edition of Fox News' Happening Now, co-host Jon Scott claimed that "the Senate is expected to pass the $838 billion stimulus plan -- its version of it, anyway. We thought we'd take a look back at the bill, how it was born, and how it grew, and grew, and grew." In tracking how and when the bill purportedly "grew," Scott referenced seven dates, as on-screen graphics cited various news sources from those time periods. However, all of the sources and cost figures Scott cited, as well as the accompanying on-screen ...
Busted: Fox News caught lifting anti-stimulus package rant straight from GOP Senate -- even the typo
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth —
Okay, not that we didn't know that FOX was just an arm of the GOP, but you'd think they wouldn't be so blatant about it. Today, in a rant against the stimulus, FOX's Jon Scott just regurgitated a press release sent earlier today by the Senate Republican Communications Center. Media Matters busted them: ...
Fox News: The Media Arm Of the Republican Party
Daily Kos —
Fox News isn't even trying to pretend anymore ... from Media Matters: In purporting to "take a look back" at how the economic recovery plan "grew, and grew, and grew," Fox News' Jon Scott referenced seven dates, as on-screen graphics cited various news sources from those time periods -- all of which came directly from a Senate Republican Communications Center press release. A Fox News on-screen graphic even reproduced a typo contained in the Republican press release. Now, maybe it's a coincidence that on the same day it was ...
No Joke: FOX News Gets "News Report" Directly from GOP Dirt Sheet
Hoffmania! —
... Media Matters: In purporting to "take a look back" at how the economic recovery plan "grew, and grew, and grew," Fox News' Jon Scott referenced seven dates, as on-screen graphics cited various news sources from those time periods -- all of which came directly from a Senate Republican Communications Center press release. A Fox News on-screen graphic even reproduced a typo contained in the Republican press release.
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Fox News graphic and the GOP press release both claimed that a ...
Fox News Caves To Media Matters On Stimulus "Report"
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... . Media Matters was quick to spot this, and, in so doing, noticed an example of a factual error that came right off the page of the memo, into a graphic. And so, Fox got pantsed, pretty badly! ...
Fox News Caves To Media Matters On Stimulus "Report"
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
... . Media Matters was quick to spot this, and, in so doing, noticed an example of a factual error that came right off the page of the memo, into a graphic. And so, Fox got pantsed, pretty badly! ...
At Least 11 Republicans In Congress Advance False Claim That Green Economy Bill Imposes $3,100 Tax On Families
Think Progress —
... claim since PolitiFact’s report. However, some haven’t exactly nailed down the talking point. Sen. Judd Gregg (R-NH) said the tax would be levied on “every living American,” not tax-paying families, while Rep. Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) upped the tax to $4,560 per family. Watch the compilation:
Congressional Republicans haven’t been the only ones advancing this myth. As Fox News usually does with GOP talking points, the network ran with the false ...
