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Wall Street Journal assistant editorial page editor James Freeman claimed that efforts to pass cap and trade legislation will fail because there is "no premise" for such legislation since "there hasn't been any warming since 1998," later adding that "there's no proof that this is happening as a result of [...]
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Posted: November 21, 2009, 4:22pm EST
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In an interview with British filmmaker and climate change skeptic Phelim McAleer, Sean Hannity falsely claimed that Al Gore's statement that a 2007 ruling by a British judge about Gore's documentary An Inconvenient Truth, in Hannity's words, "favored his point of view" was "absolutely false."
From the November 20 edition of [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 11:12pm EST
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Sean Hannity responded to a statement by Democratic strategist Jacques DeGraff that "We're on the threshold of taking care of 31 million Americans who don't have health insurance" by claiming that "It's actually 12 million" who would get insurance.
From the
November 20 edition of Fox News' Hannity:
FORMER MD GOV. ROBERT ERLICH: [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 10:47pm EST
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Special Report host Bret Baier falsely claimed that recently released cervical cancer screening guidelines were promulgated by a "federal panel," adding that those guidelines "open the door to this conversation about rationing." Additionally, Mara Liasson suggested that that the Senate health care reform bill would implement a task force's recommendations [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 9:53pm EST
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It was all too
predictable.
From the moment Sarah Palin was
airlifted out of the Alaska hinterlands by John McCain and plopped onto the
national stage, she's been telling anyone who will listen how poorly she's been
treated by the media, the Democrats, the blogosphere, etc. After she did her
part [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 9:02pm EST
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Once upon a time, Rush Limbaugh
would profess how conservative thinkers like Charles Krauthammer were the bee's
knees. He even said, on more than one occasion, that he would consider trading brains with Krauthammer:
LIMBAUGH: As
you may remember my having said -- and I'll say it again -- I [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 8:44pm EST
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Rush Limbaugh -- who had previously condemned the "thugs" who hacked then-Gov. Sarah Palin's email account -- joined right-wing bloggers in touting a series of emails that were apparently stolen from the UK's Climate Research Unit [CRU]. Limbaugh proceeded to distort at least one of the emails in order to [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 8:04pm EST
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In making public a video he withheld for more than two months, right-wing activist James O'Keefe finally acknowledged that a Los Angeles ACORN employee "would not assist us obtain a house for our illegal activities" -- an admission that directly contradicts claims by his colleague Hannah Giles that no ACORN [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 6:18pm EST
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Right-wing media figures, including Glenn Beck, Michael Savage, and The Washington Times' Wesley Pruden, have in recent days attacked President Obama while discussing his mental state. While claiming, "I'm not asking you to psychoanalyze the president," Beck asked psychiatrist and Fox News contributor Keith Ablow, "Are we crazy for saying [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 3:45pm EST
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On November 20, MSNBC hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough uncritically repeated Sen. Joe Lieberman's (I-CT) claim that "if you look at the campaign last year, the presidential, you can't find a mention of public option. It was added after the election as a part of what we normally consider [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 3:19pm EST
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In a Wall Street Journal op-ed, former Bush official Karl Rove criticized the "degree" to which the Obama administration has released "news on contentious issues late on Friday," adding that "such tactics ... can look disingenuous if they undercut public debate on substantive policy changes"; later on Fox & Friends, [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 2:44pm EST
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On Laura Ingraham's radio show, Sarah Palin linked a task force's recent recommendations on breast cancer screenings to the widely debunked smear -- propagated by Palin -- that health care reform will include "death panels." Palin fearmongered about death panels despite the fact that the recommendations are not legally binding [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 2:29pm EST
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Trumpeting a Drudge Report headline, Gateway Pundit's Jim Hoft claimed that Senate Democrats "will only deliberate 10 hourson [sic] SATURDAY before they vote to nationalize one-sixth of the US economy." In fact, the Senate vote scheduled for Saturday is a vote on a cloture motion -- which would allow the [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 2:22pm EST
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Fox News' Dr. Marc Siegel fearmongered that recent recommendations that younger women get fewer cervical cancer screenings represented a precursor of government rationing under health care reform. In fact, the guidelines, issued by a nongovernment medical organization, are the result of a medical review process reportedly initiated prior to the [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 1:43pm EST
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In a November 19 New York Post column, Fox News contributor Dr. Marc Siegel cited task force recommendations against regular mammograms for some women to fearmonger that "under ObamaCare, guidelines will quickly become mandates" and that "[a]ll the major 'reform' bills create lots of new panels and other bureaucrats empowered [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 1:36pm EST
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In a report on the Senate health care reform bill for Fox News' Special Report, chief political correspondent Carl Cameron cited the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to claim that the Senate health care bill would increase federal health care spending over 10 years and that, in the decade after 2014, [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 12:21pm EST
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During his Fox News show, Glenn Beck claimed that "[n]owhere in the Constitution can you find any of this" while he pointed to two stacks of paper representing the Senate and House health care bills. Contrary to Beck's suggestion that Congress does not have the authority to enact health care reform [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 12:32am EST
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During his November 19 Fox News program, Glenn Beck falsely claimed that under the Senate health care bill, "All of the benefits of this bill don't kick in until when? You don't get a single benefit until 2014." He later added: "[G]uess what, you're not going to get jack for [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 8:33pm EST
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Conservative commentators such as Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and Michael Savage frequently employ rape metaphors when discussing progressives or progressive policies. For example, Beck said that New Yorkers are "being raped by [their] government," while Limbaugh, during a discussion of health care, told his listeners: "Get ready to get gang-raped [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 7:42pm EST
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On November 19, co-host Jane Skinner apologized for Happening Now "mistakenly" airing a fake video of Sarah Palin's book tour "crowds." This was not the first time Fox News has apologized for airing fake videos and false information. Fox News' year in
apologies
Fox News presents
year-old Palin footage
as new Palin [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 5:54pm EST
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On his November 19 radio show, Rush Limbaugh falsely claimed that undocumented immigrants "are covered" under the recently passed House health care bill. In fact, the Affordable Health Care for America Act (H.R. 3962) stipulates that those "not lawfully present" may not receive subsidies to purchase insurance.
From the November 19 [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 5:41pm EST
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On his radio show, Rush Limbaugh told a caller that "there are studies that say abortions increase the chances of breast cancer." In fact, the American Cancer Society says that "research studies have not found a cause-and-effect relationship between abortion and breast cancer," and the National Cancer Institute states that [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 4:56pm EST
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In a November 19 editorial, The Wall Street Journal falsely claimed that recent task force recommendations for breast cancer screenings advises doctors to "cut off all screening in woman over 75" in order to fearmonger that the recommendations are a form of government rationing of care to the elderly -- [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 4:25pm EST
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In recent days, several media outlets have repeated the conservative claim that a task force recommending that fewer women younger than 50 receive regular mammograms is a precursor to government rationing under health care reform. In fact, the recommendations are not legally binding on health care providers or insurers. Fox News, [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 2:34pm EST
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During its November 19 broadcast, Fox & Friends described the amount by which the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated the Senate's health care bill would reduce the federal deficit as a tax, and co-host Gretchen Carlson later suggested that the projected $127 billion net reduction in the 10-year deficit would [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 2:22pm EST
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Fox & Friends co-hosts Steve Doocy and Gretchen Carlson misleadingly inflated the cost of the Senate health care reform bill by adding the cost of a separate measure repealing scheduled cuts in Medicare payments to doctors. However, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) calculates the cost of the doctor pay fix [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 2:09pm EST
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On the November 19 edition of MSNBC's Morning Joe, host Joe Scarborough baselessly claimed that Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to hold criminal trials for Guantánamo Bay detainees in New York's Southern District "is extraordinarily unpopular in New York."
From the
November 19 edition of MSNBC's Morning Joe:
SCARBOROUGH: Well, let me [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 1:40pm EST
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If you've turned on a
television this week,
opened a newspaper, or logged on to a computer, you're probably aware of the
Most Important News Story Of The Year (MINSOTY): Sarah Palin, or someone in her
employ, has written a book.
Given Palin's inability, during an interview with CBS' Katie Couric, [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 12:21pm EST
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On the November 19 Fox & Friends, co-host Steve Doocy advanced the misleading claim that there has "never" been "an enemy combatant" who "was tried in a civil court." In fact, Jose Padilla was a U.S. citizen who was held as an enemy combatant for three years before being tried [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 10:30am EST
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Fox & Friends co-host Steve Doocy stated of the Senate health care reform bill released on November 18, "they're gonna add payroll taxes on your Medicare that you pay for every time you get your paycheck."
From the November 19 edition of Fox
News' Fox &
Friends:
DOOCY: Sure, people are going [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 7:52am EST
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Chris Matthews allowed Rep. Bart Stupak (D-MI) to repeatedly falsely claim that his amendment to the House health care reform bill is consistent with "current law" with regard to abortion coverage and simply extends the Hyde Amendment's prohibition on government money from being used to pay for most abortions. In [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 12:00am EST
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