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‘Take Our Country Back’: A Different Take
If there is one thing that I find even more offensive than the far-right politicians’ claim that they, and their followers, are the “real Americans” — and by implication that I am fake American — is their insolent slogan, “We want to take our country back.” I have explained why here and here. But that’s [...]
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CNN's Chetry did not challenge McCain's false claim that Biden "said that Iraq had to be broken up into three different countries"
On the October 2 edition of CNN's American Morning, co-host Kiran Chetry did not challenge Sen. John McCain's false claim that Sen. Joe Biden "said that Iraq had to be broken up into three different countries." In fact, as Media Mat... Read Post
Post-ABC poll: Most Americans still disapprove of sequester
The government-wide spending cuts known as the sequester remain unpopular for most Americans, with little difference in opinion across party lines, according to a Washington Post-ABC poll released Friday. Thirty-seven percent of Ame... Read Post
O'Reilly Falsely Claims No U.S. Employee Of News Corp. Has Been Implicated In Hacking Scandal
Bill O'Reilly claimed that no American employee of News Corp. has been "implicated" in the company's hacking scandal and that "in the United States, there isn't any intrusion of this story thus far on News Corp. properties. None." I... Read Post