Media Matters
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Media Matters for America is a progressive non-profit organization founded by former journalist David Brock. Media Matters scrutinizes news reporting and political commentary that it perceives to have a conservative bias. Conservative commentators such as Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh, as well as self-described independent Bill O'Reilly are often targets, but reporting from mainstream news outlets and objective news analysts that Media Matters believes to show conservative bias is also scrutinized. Through the group's web site, launched in May 2004, Media Matters describes itself as "a ... More » (Source: Wikipedia)
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Kaizar Campwala
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Nov 16, 2006 - 3:30 PM PST
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Daily Show's Stewart reprises Beck impersonation (Queued)
Last night on Comedy Central's Daily Show, Jon Stewart reprised his November parody of Fox News' Glenn Beck. Hilarity ensues.via Patrick McDermott's Facebook Feed -
SEC investigating CNBC host Jim Cramer's TheStreet.com (Queued)
TheStreet.com, the financial Web site founded by loudmouth stock picker and TV personality Jim Cramer, is being investigated by the SEC. The publicly traded company attracted ...via Patrick McDermott's Facebook Feed -
Join me tonight in Second Life for Virtually Speaking | Media Matters for America (Queued)
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How To Annoy Glenn Beck in Five Minutes Or Less (Queued)
Want to annoy the likes of Fox News’ Glenn Beck in five minutes or less while simultaneously making sure your community gets its fair share of federal money? Fill out and ...via David Fox's Facebook Feed -
Limbaugh: I'll Leave US If Health Care Reform Passes (VIDEO)
(Audio - streaming) I don't know. I'll just tell you this, if this passes and it's five years from now and all that stuff gets implemented -- I am leaving the country. I'll go to Costa Rica. Get ...Posted by Kelly Garrett -
Going Rove: Courage and Consequence is full of falsehoods
Below is an ongoing list of Rove's misinformation in the book, which Media Matters obtained in advance of its scheduled release.Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Right-wing media outraged by labor representation on deficit commission
Right-wing media figures have asserted that SEIU president Andy Stern's appointment to President Obama's bipartisan deficit reduction commission is a "mockery," a "joke," and ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Fox hosts GOP-backed Tea Party Express to deny that tea party is "Astroturf"
Fox & Friends hosted Amy Kremer of the Tea Party Express to rebut charges that some of the tea party movement is orchestrated by the Republican Party. Kremer insisted that ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Right-wing media falsely claim that health care reform will increase premiums
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 ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
'Ram it through': Media adopt GOP characterization of majority vote
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 ...Posted by Dwight Rousu
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Right-wing media falsely claim that health care reform will increase premiums
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 ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
'Ram it through': Media adopt GOP characterization of majority vote
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 ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Special Report pushes debunked claim that DADT repeal would "adversely impact" troop readiness
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 ...Posted by Jon Mitchell -
Peeling Off Conservatives' AstroTurf Mask
(Blog Post) As these "AstroTurf" organizations sprouted up, progressive operatives and bloggers scrambled to link them to big business and political players in Washington. Well, the ...Posted by Jo Bobenhouse Smith -
Communications arm? Fox & Friends recites misleading GOP press release on stimulus
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 ...Posted by Derek Hawkins -
Attack on White House criticism of Fox follows years of GOP assaults on media
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 ...Posted by Derek Hawkins -
Right again makes an anti-American ass of itself following Obama's Nobel win
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 ...Posted by Jo Bobenhouse Smith -
Hannity cites rationing in U.K. to attack public option -- but U.S. insurance companies already ration care
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 ...Posted by Derek Hawkins -
Conservatives push Reagan's 1961 attacks on "socialized medicine" but ignore that he was criticizing Medicare
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 ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Stamp of approval: Media tout Obama polling falsehood
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 ...Posted by Julian Friedland
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