Tag Archives: Media Matters

Karl Frisch – It Gets Better

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Media Matters: It’s Time To Drop Fox

Journalism watchdog group Media Matters says that it’s time to drop Fox News. To that end, they have partnered with People For The American Way to pressure advertisers to completely suspend their relationships with Fox.

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Glenn Beck: I Am The New MLK

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A Very Special Message From Fox News

Media Matters takes on Rupert Murdoch over News Corp’s $1M donation to the Republican Party. By the way, the voice over is by D.C. Douglas, whom you may recall was fired by Geico after he left a ranting voicemail for Dick Armey’s astroturf outfit.

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Glenn Beck’s Campaign Of Fear

Read Media Matter’s analysis of where Glenn Beck’s fear-mongering is taking us. And definitely check out Mother Jones’ expose of Goldline, his primary advertiser.

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The End Of Andrew Breitbart’s Credibility

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Fox News Anchors Suddenly Play Nice When The Boss Is On The Set

Fox News owner Rupert Murdoch actually supports comprehensive immigration reform. Watch how his anchors suddenly get all PC with their rhetoric when he is the guest.

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They Were Saying Boo-urns

Media Matters enjoys some post-election gloating over the defeat of teabagger Tim Burns, which came despite relentless promotion by virtually every talking head on Fox News.

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Sotomayor, Part II?

Media Matters reminds us what the right wing put Sonia Sotomayor through before her confirmation to the Supreme Court and wonders if we’re about to go through it all again.

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Newt Gingrich Praises Ideas Of Man Who Calls The President “The Kenyan”

Media Matters reports: During a “jobs summit” in New Orleans, former Speaker Newt Gingrich allowed an audience member refer to President Obama as “the Kenyan.” When the man was finished speaking, Gingrich complimented his contribution to the discussion and instructed his staff to take note of the man’s ideas.

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Sen. Al Franken Vs. Jason Mattera

Wannabe wingnut attack dog Jason Mattera ambushed Sen. Al Franken with a crazy-ass claim that the health care reform bill provides $7B for “playground jungle gyms.” Watch how Franken handles him (even after being called “Sen. Smalley”) and keep in mind that this Mattera’s own edited video. What the bill really says: In the “Creating Healthier Communities” portion of the …

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Media Matters On Lies About Obama

Media Matters shows us how we got to the results of the recent poll that showed many Americans believe the president is a Muslim/socialist/Nazi etc.

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Sean Hannity Accused Of Charity Scam

Media Matters reports that a conservative blogger has accused a charity affiliated with Fox News’ Sean Hannity of deceptive fundraising practices. The blogger claims: For the last several years, Sean Hannity and the Freedom Alliance “charity” have conducted “Freedom Concerts” across America. They’ve told you that they are raising money to pay for the college tuition of the children of …

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DADT: Don’t Lie, Don’t Misinform

Today Media Matters and a coalition of LGBT and progressive groups co-signed a letter calling on the media to be truthful when covering the attempt to repeal DADT. Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell proponents too often paint a distorted picture of what a repeal would mean. Today, Media Matters for America released a comprehensive review detailing how opinion pages and cable …

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Up Glenn Beck’s Nose

Media Matters has some fun with the CPAC asshole who mentioned Obama’s cocaine use and mixes it with a clip of Glenn Beck admitting that most of his early earnings went “up his nose.”

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Fox News’ Love Letter To Scott Brown

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Chris Matthews: I Forgot Obama Was Black For An Hour

UPDATE: Chris Matthews clarifies.

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Glenn Beck On Racism

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WaPo Watch

Via Media Matters: The Washington Post published in its news pages an article by The Fiscal Times — “an independent digital news publication reporting on fiscal, budgetary, health-care and international economics issues” — that promoted the creation of a task force to reduce the deficit in part through cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security. But the Post did not …

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Glenn Beck: Misinformer Of The Year

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