SHARE        Thursday, February 7, 2013
Journalists on NRA "Enemies List" Speak Out On "Thuggish" and "Insane" Approach The NRA web site lists 37 columnists, cartoonists, and editors along with other organizations and public officials it sees as opponents of its efforts under the headline "National Organizations With Anti-Gun Policies." The list claims that the journalists in question "actively editorialize in favor of gun control laws." Several of those news people on the list criticized the NRA for the move.

(2 comments) SHARE        Friday, September 11, 2009
Rove advances "glaring misstatements" and "distortions" in criticizing Obama speech Karl Rove claimed that while discussing "the so-called lies and misstatements about his proposal," Obama "made a series of very glaring misstatements or distortions." In fact, it was Rove who was advancing falsehoods and distortions.

SHARE        Thursday, August 1, 2013
Karl Rove Absolves GOP Of Blame For Debt Ceiling Hostage Taking Karl Rove ignored the Republican obstructionism that led to the 2011 debt ceiling crisis, falsely claiming President Obama was entirely to blame for automatic government spending cuts and misleadingly accusing Obama of hypocrisy for criticizing the devastating effects of the law.

SHARE        Tuesday, April 5, 2011
GOP Turns To News Corp. To Sell Ryan's Budget Plan In recent days, News Corp. has been a welcome host for the GOP to roll out Rep. Paul Ryan's budget plan, with Fox News Sunday hosting Ryan to tout his proposal; The Wall Street Journal publishing an op-ed by Ryan hyping his "GOP Path to Prosperity"; and Sean Hannity hosting Ryan to discuss his plan to "save America," among other Fox News appearances.

SHARE        Saturday, August 15, 2009
Please give a warm welcome to our death panelists The role of rationality in our republic was again called into question this week, as the newest conservative lines of attack against health care reform embraced an equally new level of madness.

SHARE        Sunday, August 22, 2010
Steve Hayes latest to cover up conservative attacks on Muslims' religious freedom The Washington Examiner asked, "Can there be a higher civic purpose than preventing construction of a Muslim propaganda and recruiting center so close to the murder site of 3,000 Americans?"

SHARE        Monday, September 10, 2007
Myths and Falsehoods About "Progress"- in Iraq Supporters of the Iraq war -- rather than waiting for testimony by Gen. David Petraeus and U.S. ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker on the effect of President Bush's troop increase in Iraq -- have engaged in a campaign to convince the media and public that progress is being made in Iraq and that the "surge" is "working." Some of the most pervasive myths and falsehoods advanced by opponents of withdrawal are discussed here.

SHARE        Wednesday, August 28, 2013
Laura Ingraham Celebrates March On Washington 50th Anniversary With Gunshots And Race-Baiting On her August 26 radio broadcast, Ingraham criticized the event and its speakers, saying the goal "was to co-opt the legacy of Martin Luther King into a modern-day liberal agenda." Ingraham began playing a clip of Lewis' speech from the 50th anniversary rally, before interrupting the playback of his comments with the sound of a loud gunshot.

SHARE        Thursday, October 24, 2013
CNN's Latest Gingrich Ethics Problem: His Company Received RNC Payment Last month, Newt Gingrich's media production company was paid $9,500 by the Republican National Committee, a fact he has not divulged on Crossfire, the CNN program he co-hosts. It's the latest ethics headache brought to the network by their new host.

(1 comments) SHARE        Thursday, September 26, 2013
New CNN Host Newt Gingrich Is Already Violating Network Rules Issues with Gingrich and his PAC don't end with his CNN disclosure problem. Mother Jones raised significant questions about whether Gingrich is fronting a "dubious PAC" since "most of the money flowing into American Legacy PAC is benefiting vendors and consultants who have long been associated with Gingrich" rather than actual candidates.

(1 comments) SHARE        Sunday, May 19, 2013
Dissecting Bob Woodward's Comparison Of Benghazi To Watergate There's no small irony to Woodward injecting himself into what has become a scandal driven by deceptively edited emails passed off to reporters, given the recent attention he received after using a similar method to support his ridiculous accusation that a White House aide threatened him.

SHARE        Thursday, October 1, 2015
Hannity Doubles Down: The Phony Benghazi Scandal Committee Fox Built Was "Political" In the year-and-a-half between the attacks and House Speaker John Boehner's formation of a special committee to investigate the administration's response to Benghazi, Fox aired over a thousand evening segments about Benghazi.

(1 comments) SHARE        Monday, September 6, 2010
Conservatives celebrate Labor Day by attacking organized labor Following Fox News' lead, conservative media outlets celebrated Labor Day by attacking labor unions, often smearing them as "socialist" and violent. Andrew Breitbart's website Breitbart.tv posted several anti-union videos depicting union members as "thugs" who engage in acts of violence or intimidation against those with which they disagree.

(5 comments) SHARE        Saturday, July 11, 2009
Media Matters: Did you hear the one about the sleazy Obama photo? Don't buy it Had the mainstream media done their job -- you know, checking the video to get the context from which the photo was taken -- they would have clearly seen that Obama was attempting to navigate high steps, while reaching back to help someone behind him do so as well.

SHARE        Saturday, December 9, 2006
It's All About the Center Article about Iraq/media/pundits by Paul Waldman of Media Matters.