Blog Profile / Media Matters for America
| URL : | http://mediamatters.org/ | |
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| Filed Under: | US Politics / Liberal | |
| Posts on Regator: | 11092 | |
| Posts / Week: | 41.7 | |
| Archived Since: | April 14, 2008 | |
Blog Post Archive
Limbaugh Repeats Discredited Claim That Obama Was "Off The Grid" During Benghazi Attack
From the May 10 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show: Previously: Limbaugh Claims Obama "Killing Bin Laden And Running Around Bragging About It" Led To Attack In Benghazi Fox's Crowley Revisits Debunked Myth That Obama, Clinton Were "Unaccounted For" During Benghazi Attack Fox's Krauthammer Resurrects Myth That Obama Was Absent During Benghazi Attack
Fox & Friends Blames The "P.C. Police" For Gay-Inclusive Federal Forms
The crew at Fox & Friends can't handle the fact that government documents are beginning to acknowledge same-sex couples, blaming the "P.C. Police" for new, gay-inclusive language on federal student aid forms. In April, the U.S. Department...Show More Summary
Heritage Can't Spin Away Its Anti-Hispanic Immigrant Author
The Heritage Foundation is reportedly considering hiring a public relations firm to manage the fallout over the disastrous launch of its shoddy, heavily criticized immigration report. Compounding problems for the right-wing think tank...Show More Summary
Will Fox Correct The Record On The GOP's False Benghazi E-mail Claims?
A New York Times article directly refutes the claims of House Republicans, including Speaker John Boehner, that State Department officials knew immediately that the attacks on a U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya in 2012 were connected...Show More Summary
Limbaugh: Heritage Immigration Study Co-Author's Work On Hispanics And IQ "Is Under Attack Because It Is Honest"
From the May 10 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show: Previously: Rush Limbaugh's Wingnut Welfare Limbaugh: Critics "Trash[ing]" Heritage Researcher For Saying Immigrants Have Lower IQ, But "They Don't Dispute That" Rush...Show More Summary
The Convenient "Scandal" Scapegoat
We're at the point now where conservatives are going to have to start acknowledging that Barack Obama is the most talented politician in American history. By their own reckoning, the president's five years in office have been markedShow More Summary
Laura Ingraham Compares Benghazi "Whistleblowers" To Freed Slaves, Obama Admin To Slave Owners
From the May 10 edition of Courtside Entertainment Group's The Laura Ingraham Show:
Laura Ingraham Claims Immigration From Mexico Would Create U.S. "Hellhole"
From the May 10 edition of Courtside Entertainment Group's The Laura Ingraham Show:
ABC's "Exclusive" Benghazi Report Shows Nothing New
ABC News is buying into right-wing scandal mongering over the tragic September 2012 attacks on a U.S. diplomatic facility in Benghazi, Libya, with an "exclusive" report that doesn't stand up to minimal scrutiny, with flaws that are being...Show More Summary
Benghazi, Projection, And The Dark Obama Obsession
President Obama's most fevered critics have been waiting for a national "aha" moment since he was first inaugurated more than 50 months ago. Coming off an electoral landslide, Obama was instantly greeted by a mob-like movement on the far right that denounced him as a socialist and a communist. Show More Summary
Gen. Peggy Noonan Thinks Benghazi Was Mishandled
Peggy Noonan goes full wingnut in her Wall Street Journal column this morning, asking if the White House's response to the Benghazi attack "cost American lives." The argument she lays out is that President Obama and his team, faced with...Show More Summary
Breitbart.com Promotes Right-Wing Claim That Hitler Was Secretly Gay
Breitbart.com is promoting the theory that Hitler was secretly gay, playing into one of the most extreme and damaging anti-gay smears in right-wing politics: that gay men were responsible for the Holocaust.
In a May 9 post, Breitbart.com...Show More Summary
Fox Gushes Over Tesla With No Mention Of Federal Support
The success of Tesla Motors complicates Fox News' narrative about green energy investments, but the network has a strategy: simply ignore the fact that the company received a federal loan.
Tesla, a leading electric automaker, received...Show More Summary
Fox-Promoted Claim That Benghazi Witness Was Threatened Falls Apart
After Fox News pushed a claim that a Benghazi witness had been "subjected to threats and intimidation" by State Department employees, the witness' lawyer admitted on the network that his client never said he had been threatened by anyone. In a May 6 article for FoxNews.com previewing the then-upcoming House hearings on the attack on the U.S. Show More Summary
Fox Makes Benghazi Attack Ad And Offers It To GOP
From the May 9 edition of Fox News' The Five: Previously: Fox & Friends Drops The Veil, Produces Four-Minute Anti-Obama Attack Ad Fox's Anti-Obama Attack Ad Is Nearly $100,000 In Free Advertising For GOP AP: Fox Anti-Obama Video "Looked Similar To A Campaign Advertisement"
Rush Limbaugh's Wingnut Welfare
As numerous members of the conservative movement flee from the Heritage Foundation's flawed immigration study, conservative talker Rush Limbaugh has maintained a stalwart defense of the organization.
Not a surprise considering Rush Limbaugh's...Show More Summary
Fox's Bolling: Had It Been Sasha Or Malia Obama Who Died In Benghazi, Wouldn't We "Be Asking Different Questions?"
From the May 9 edition of Fox's The Five: Previously: Fox's Andrea Tantaros On Plan B: "Is The Obama Daughter, Malia, Going To Go On Birth Control?" Breitbart's Matt Boyle Disregards Security Concerns And Journalistic Tradition To Write About Obama Daughters' Vacation Jim Quinn Targets Obama's Daughters, "Sasha And Foobah, Or Whatever Their Names Are"
Is Fox News Trying To Recruit CBS Reporter Sharyl Attkisson?
CBS News reporter Sharyl Attkisson is reportedly "in talks to leave CBS ahead" of her contract in the midst of disagreements with executives over her "wading dangerously close to advocacy" on Benghazi. Attkisson, who has a history of...Show More Summary
Fox's Lee Uses Encouraging Economic Data To Ask Whether Job Growth Is Real
While reporting that weekly jobless claims have fallen to a five year low, Fox News' Jenna Lee said that, "much of the job growth has come from fewer layoffs, not increased hiring, which begs the question whether it is real job growth at all." While Lee implied an inverse relationship between jobless claims and job growth, the U.S. Show More Summary
Limbaugh Mocks Those Who Call For Gun Regulation After Mass Shootings
From the May 9 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show: Previously: Conservative Media Misread Data To Declare Gun Violence Epidemic Over Limbaugh Dismisses Thousands Of Gun Deaths, Calls Gun Crime A "Made-Up Crisis... Kind Of Like Global Warming"