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

Media Matters | Oct. 23, 2009 (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 ... Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Derek Hawkins - Oct 23, 2009 - 8:18 AM PDT
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