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John Aravosis writes: “This is how Fox News operates. You can argue that MSNBC has a bias, and the network does – now, and in response to Fox. But while MSNBC has a liberal bias, Fox just lies.”

The wingnut blogosphere is going nuts tonight after Fox News reporter Steven Crowder posted the below video in which he is punched several times by a pro-union protester outside the Michigan capitol building. (The above screen-cap is from Breitbart.)  In the clip, take note of the jump-cut at 38 seconds which immediately precedes the punching.  Commenters on even some of …

The Friendly Atheist rolls his eyes: This is what it boils down to: He’s a doctor. Colton Burpo (the subject of the similar, bestselling Heaven is for Real) was 4 when he “experienced Heaven.” But they’re practically saying the same thing. You get the feeling an agent somewhere was thinking, “If the American public fell for what a four-year-old boy …

All morning today Fox News used a 2009 photo to claim that the president met with a pirate yesterday rather than address the Middle East situation with the prime minister of Israel. Obama posed for the photo three years ago as part of a joke sequence for that year’s White House Press Correspondents Dinner, which, of course, was attended by …

And this is their NYC flagship station.(Tipped by JMG reader Ralph)

Seems about right. Details.

TODAY she “apologizes.” But last night in the midst of the uproar, Crowley tweeted that conservative women “don’t retreat, we reload.”

(Via – Media Matters)

The above tweet is a sample of student sentiment regarding the outing and suspension of a Boston-area English teacher after he was ambushed by Fox News for having performed in gay porn videos. Mediabistro reports: Students at a top-rated Massachusetts public high school are blasting WFXT and investigative reporter Mike Beaudet for confronting a teacher about his apparent porn star …

Story here.

Media Matters quotes the actual poll: Americans strongly oppose laws taking away the collective bargaining power of public employee unions, according to a new USA TODAY/Gallup Poll. The poll found 61% would oppose a law in their state similar to such a proposal in Wisconsin, compared with 33% who would favor such a law. Republican Gov. Scott Walker and Republican …

Think Progress: At 11:00 AM Eastern Time, while MSNBC and CNN ran breaking news alerts and reported live from Cairo, Fox and Fox Business reported live from the Guggenheim Museum in Manhattan to bring viewers the unveiling ceremony for News Corp latest product, an iPad newspaper called “The Daily.” Fox News aired a full half hour of the promotional event, …

Next week I’ll be in the company of thousands of fellow bloggers and journalists for Netroots Nation, the annual liberal confab originally created by the writers of Daily Kos and now sponsored by the nation’s largest labor unions and major outfits like the ACLU, Media Matters, Move On, and the Democratic National Committee. Major Democratic players tend to show up, …