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Rove, Fox & Friends' Briggs falsely claim Pelosi broke promise to have health bill available for 72 hours

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Media Matters - By Research - Nov. 07 (News Analysis) - However, Pelosi's office posted both the text of the bill and the "manager's amendment" -- which The Sunlight Foundation called an "extra final version of legislation" -- 72 hours in advance; those actions meet guidelines set by a House transparency measure that Pelosi told the Weekly Standard she "absolutely" supported.

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Peeling Off Conservatives' AstroTurf Mask

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Chris Harris - Nov. 04 (News) - As these "AstroTurf" organizations sprouted up, progressive operatives and bloggers scrambled to link them to big business and political players in Washington. Well, the scrambling days are over.

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Fox News' declaration that election results mean "Obamacare" is dead is undermined by facts | Media Matters for America

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Media Matters - By Research - Nov. 04 (News Analysis) - ". . .Dick Morris' words, that the results were a "deathblow to Obamacare" and have argued that the election should send a message to moderate Democrats. But exit polls do not support these claims, showing that in both states, the voters who cited health care as a top concern sided with the Democrat in the race.

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The myth of Fox News' ratings spike

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Media Matters - By Eric Boehlert - Nov. 03 (News Analysis) - No matter how many times reporters and pundits made the claim, it's just not true that Fox News ratings went "through the roof" after the White House called out the cable channel.

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Rise Of The Conservative Media

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Media Matters - Oct. 29 (Advocacy) - A 6 minute advocacy video showing how the conservative movement uses mass-media to promote their agenda, according to Media Matters. This dramatic trailer presents a rapid montage of clips to depict an orchestrated chain of events, starting with false statements from "industry-funded operatives" (e.g. Betsy McCaughey), that are repeated by GOP representatives (e.g. Sarah Palin), then amplified non-stop by a range of partisan outlets (e.g. Drudge Report, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck) and eventually picked up the mainstream media (CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC) until it dominates the public discourse and often derails liberal causes.

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Pro-Coal Lobby Boss Claims Never To Have Opposed Climate Change Bill

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Arthur Delaney - Oct. 29 (News Analysis) - Steve Miller, president and CEO of the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, told a House panel on Thursday that his organization never opposed climate change legislation passed by the House over the summer.

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Communications arm? Fox & Friends recites misleading GOP press release on stimulus

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Media Matters - Oct. 23 (News Analysis) - 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 jobs shy of what the administration promised us" since the administration stated "that 3.5 million jobs would be created. And, in fact, the United States has lost 2.7 million since the stimulus plan." However, the administration estimated that by 2011 -- not September 2009, when the 2.7 million job losses since February were recorded -- 3.5 million jobs would be created or saved by the stimulus compared to the number of jobs that would have existed at the end of 2010 had the government not passed the legislation.

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Attack on White House criticism of Fox follows years of GOP assaults on media

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Media Matters - Oct. 23 (News Analysis) - 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 attacked both Dunn and the Obama administration. But Media Matters for America has compiled a list of organized attacks that GOP leaders -- often aided by Fox News -- have conducted against media outlets based on groundless complaints of bias; those attacks have included boycotts or threatened boycotts of media outlets, efforts to revoke journalists' credentials or ban them from press planes, and even calls to have journalists prosecuted.

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Beck-led Fox News "czar" witch hunt moves to ridiculous smear of Anita Dunn

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Media Matters - By | Media Matters for America - Oct. 17 (Advocacy) - Beck falsely claimed Dunn "worships" Mao Zedong, "her hero." Throughout most of his October 15 Fox News program, Beck falsely claimed that Dunn "worships" and "idolizes" "her hero" Mao Zedong.

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CNN's Castellanos' firm is ad buyer for AHIP's anti-health care ad blitz

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Media Matters - By Matt Gertz - Oct. 14 (News Analysis) - Media Matters for America has obtained evidence that CNN contributor Alex Castellanos' political consulting firm, National Media, is the ad buyer for the insurance industry group America's Health Insurance Plan's (AHIP) new ad blitz attacking Democratic health reform plans.

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Obama Vs. Rupert Murdoch: Fox News' Blatant Transition into GOP TV |

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Eric Boehlert - Oct. 13 (Opinion) - Fox News has transformed itself into the Opposition Party of the Obama White House, which, of course, is unprecedented for a media company in modern-day America. That partisan embrace means the news media have to expand beyond typing up Fox News-ratings-are-up and the White-House-is-angry stories, and it needs to start treating the cable channel for what it is: a partisan animal.

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Memo to the media: Fox News is now the Opposition Party

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Media Matters - By Eric Boehlert - Oct. 13 (Opinion) - Fox News has changed the rules. Now the press needs to change the way it covers Fox News.

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Right again makes an anti-American ass of itself following Obama's Nobel win

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Media Matters - By Karl Frisch - Oct. 10 (Opinion) - 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 America and her values time and again. I'm kidding of course.

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Hannity cites rationing in U.K. to attack public option -- but U.S. insurance companies already ration care

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Media Matters - Oct. 08 (News Analysis) - 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 pointing to women with breast cancer in Great Britain who are denied drugs by "the government rationing body." But Hannity's attack that "the government option" would introduce rationing for "women with breast cancer" is undermined by the fact that private insurance companies in the United States already ration care; in fact, private insurers routinely deny care to cancer patients, often because they are found to have pre-existing conditions.

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A President Was Killed the Last Time Right-Wing Hatred Ran Wild Like This

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

TruthOut - By Eric Boehlert - Sep. 18 (Opinion) - Manchester discovered that in a wealthy Dallas suburb, when told that President Kennedy had been murdered in their city, the students in a fourth-grade class burst into applause.

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Beck's Witch Hunt: The New McCarthyism

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Media Matters - Sep. 10 (Opinion) - "Have you no sense of decency?"

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Myths and falsehoods about health care reform

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Media Matters - Sep. 01 (News Analysis) - Media Matters for America identifies and debunks 14 myths and falsehoods surrounding the health care reform debate.

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Conservatives push Reagan's 1961 attacks on "socialized medicine" but ignore that he was criticizing Medicare

Mon, 17 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Media Matters - Aug. 17 (News Analysis) - 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 Coffee Cup Campaign against Medicare. Neither Drudge, Limbaugh, nor Ingraham, however, noted that Reagan was speaking out against an early version of Medicare, which has become very popular since it was enacted 44 years ago, or that Reagan's dire predictions of curtailments of freedom were never realized.

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ABC's Stossel will reportedly moderate Americans for Prosperity health care events

Mon, 17 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Media Matters - Aug. 17 (News Report) - ABC's John Stossel will reportedly moderate three "town hall-style" "health care meetings" organized by the Wisconsin chapter of the conservative group Americans for Prosperity and intended to increase "pressure" on the state's Democratic members of Congress on health care reform. Stossel has recently reported on health care issues on ABC's 20/20, which he co-anchors; that report included criticisms of the purported health care reform goals of President Obama and Democratic members of Congress.

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A Long Hot Summer of Hate

Sat, 08 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Media Matters - By John V. Santore - Aug. 08 (Editorial) - Global warming is no different than health care, is no different than cap and trade," Rush Limbaugh explained on Monday. "It is simply another branch of liberalism, statism, that is designed to expand government control over individuals and their liberty and their freedom and their income." "And if this plays out right ... you can do some great damage, culturally, to liberalism," he concluded.

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"Mr. Independent" Dobbs repeatedly smears Obama, progressives as "socialist"

Thu, 06 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Media Matters - Aug. 06 (News Analysis) - CNN's Lou Dobbs has touted himself as politically "independent," and CNN president Jonathan Klein has reportedly referred to Dobbs' CNN show as "a relatively straight newscast." But echoing others in the conservative media, Dobbs has repeatedly used his radio and CNN programs to attack President Obama and other progressives, claiming or suggesting that they or their policies are "socialist," "fascist" or "un-American."

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Rosen claims reconciliation "used only" to reduce deficit -- but GOP used it for tax cuts

Thu, 06 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Media Matters - Aug. 06 (News Analysis) - On August 4, Fox News Washington correspondent James Rosen reported that the budget reconciliation process Democrats have "threatened" to use to pass health care reform legislation is an "arcane parliamentary tactic" and that it "is, as a matter of law, used only for budget bills to achieve deficit reduction." In fact, during the Bush administration, the Republican majority frequently used reconciliation to pass major initiatives not aimed at deficit reduction, including then-President Bush's tax cuts.

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CBS, Fox reports on town hall disruptions ignore conservative strategy

Thu, 06 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Media Matters - Aug. 06 (News Analysis) - On August 4, Katie Couric joined repeat offender Bret Baier in reporting on unusually large -- and sometimes disruptive -- crowds turning out to protest health care reform at town halls hosted by members of Congress without noting that conservative organizations opposed to Democrats' proposals -- boosted by the likes of Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity -- are conducting a campaign to pack those events with their supporters. For the second night in a row, Baier reported on the protests but ignored the conservative strategy to pack town hall events with health care reform opponents.

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WSJ editorial vs. WSJ news pages on insurance lobby opposition to reform

Thu, 06 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Media Matters - Aug. 06 (News Analysis) - In an August 5 editorial, The Wall Street Journal falsely claimed that the health insurance lobbies are "helping Democrats by keeping quiet" during the health care reform debate, adding that if they "were any quieter, they'd be Trappists." In fact, the insurance industry reportedly significantly increased its spending on lobbying this year, and, as the Journal itself reported in a news article, insurers are "wag[ing] an aggressive campaign against Democrats' proposals to create a public health-insurance plan."

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McClatchy ignores progressive economists in report on minimum-wage increase

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Media Matters - Jul. 20 (News Analysis) - A McClatchy article about the scheduled increase in the federal minimum wage provided only arguments from "some economists" against raising the minimum wage while ignoring economists who argue that the economy will benefit from increasing it.

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