Tag Archives: Media Matters

Media Matters On Alliance Defending Freedom: The Terrifying Anti-LGBT Christian Hate Group [VIDEO]

Media Matters today provides a primer on Alliance Defending Freedom. An excerpt: News networks frequently invite Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) — one of the most powerful right-wing legal groups in the country — to defend laws like North Carolina’s anti-LGBT bathroom legislation. But media outlets typically identify ADF as merely a “Christian legal organization,” failing to mention the group’s record …

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The Truth About “Bathroom Bills” [VIDEO]

Media Matters writes: North Carolina is the first state in the country to pass a law aimed at broadly controlling transgender people’s access to public restrooms. Proponents of the law claim it’s needed to prevent sexual predators from sneaking into women’s bathrooms by dressing up as women and pretending to be transgender. That “bathroom predator” talking point is a myth. …

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Media Matters Exposes “Web Of Self-Dealing & Dark Money” Behind Smearing Of Merrick Garland [VIDEO]

As I noted a few days ago, the Judicial Crisis Network was known as the Judicial Confirmation Network before President Obama took office. Clip recap: A Media Matters investigation of the discredited right-wing group Judicial Crisis Network (JCN), the main source of baseless smears against, and false characterizations of, Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland, reveals a familial web of self-dealing …

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Media Matters: The Worst Of 2015 [VIDEO]

“For over a decade, Media Matters has fought conservative misinformation in the media. As another year comes to an end, we take a look back to just some of the inanity we’ve seen this year.” Watch this.

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Wingnuts Lose Their Papal Shit [VIDEO]

Media Matters has compiled a dozen reactions to the Pope’s visit from the biggest loudmouths in Teabagistan. You’ll enjoy this.

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REPORT: Donald Trump Paid Actors To Cheer At His Presidential Announcement

Via the Hollywood Reporter: Donald Trump’s big presidential announcement Tuesday was made a little bigger with help from paid actors — at $50 a pop. New York-based Extra Mile Casting sent an email last Friday to its client list of background actors, seeking extras to beef up attendance at Trump’s event. “We are looking to cast people for the event …

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Media Matters: Right Wing Rodeo

Ben Carson, Jan Mikelson, and Mark Levin.

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Media Matters: Right-Wing Rodeo

Another classic Alex Jones meltdown, Fox News host denies existence of bipolar disorder, and more of Fox News attacking Disney’s Frozen.

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Oregon Officials: Lying Todd Starnes Is A Lying Liar From Liartown Who Tells Lies

The Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries today called out Todd Starnes for lying in yesterday’s Fox News column about the possible fines faced by that anti-gay bakery. Via Raw Story: Starnes incorrectly reported that bakery owners Aaron and Melissa Klein could face $200,000 in fines and damages – which an official with the BOLI flatly denied in a statement …

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More On My Husband’s Not Gay Flap

Via Media Matters: TLC denies claims that its newest show, “My Husband’s Not Gay,” helps promote the discredited notion that gay men can choose to be heterosexual. But one of the show’s stars has a history of promoting “ex-gay” therapy, even acting as a spokesman for a major “ex-gay” organization. But one of the stars of TLC’s show – Preston …

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Breitbart Headline Of The Day

According to Breitbart, US Attorney General nominee Loretta Lynch should face tough questioning before the Senate over her role in the 1992 Whitewater hearings. The prosecutor has a long career built of some high profile cases but there is one case Lynch was involved in that few are talking about. Lynch was a part of Bill Clinton’s Whitewater probe defense …

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Fox Election Coverage: Flattery & Free Ads

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Sullivan Backs Matthew Shepard Truthers

“The question here is whether the crime was solely a function of the homophobic hatred of two strangers who beat up and brutally murdered someone merely because he was gay. That’s the official line of the Matthew Shepard Foundation and the Human Rights Campaign. Of course these motives could also have been involved. I’m arguing that meth can explain all …

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Media Matters: Right Wing Rodeo

Recapping the last week’s worst in wingnut media.

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NYT Writer Ross Douthat Apologizes For Speaking At Hate Group Fundraiser

“I was not aware in advance that this event was a fundraiser and had I known, I would not have agreed to participate. I was invited by an events organizing group, not by ADF directly. I understood this to be a public conversation about religious liberty. This is my fault for not doing my due diligence, and I will be …

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Media Matters: Right Wing Ebola Hysteria

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Headline Of The Day

Fascinating analysis by Media Matters. Highly recommended.

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The Right’s Worst Smears About Holder

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Media Matters Debunks Top Five Myths About LGBT Non-Discrimination Laws

Carlos Maza does a great job. Watch this.

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Media Matters: Right Wing Rodeo

“The week’s worst in conservative media.” This week: Rush Limbaugh says when women say no to sex, sometimes they mean yes.  Sean Hannity says the government will make it illegal to teach kids that being gay is wrong. Greg Gutfeld rails against Media Matters for calling him out on Benghazi.

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