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  • Media Matters staff: Levin Attacks Christie For Meeting With Obama: "Same-Sex Politicians" Getting…

    24 May 2013, 12:47 pm

    From the May 23 edition of Cumulus Media's The Mark Levin Show:Previously: Fox's Bolling: Christie Should "Act Like A Republican" And Stop Praising Obama For Sandy Response Fox's Dobbs: Chris Christie "Literally Slobbered Over" Obama For Sandy Relief
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  • Mike Burns: Conservative Media Ignore Experts' Analysis To Attack Obama's Yemen Decision

    24 May 2013, 12:38 pm

    Right-wing media figures are attacking President Obama over his decision to lift a moratorium on a Guantánamo Bay detainee transfer to Yemen -- a decision that has earned the praise of a former top Navy judge and is an important step toward closing the…
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  • Samantha Wyatt: Giuliani Distorts President Obama's Counter-Terrorism Speech

    24 May 2013, 12:01 pm

    On Fox News, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani suggested that the Obama administration has refused to recognize extremist Muslim ideology as a unifying theme in terrorist attacks on the U.S. even though the day before President Obama expressly…
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  • Carlos Maza: Fox News Devotes Zero Seconds To Covering Brutal Anti-Gay Hate Crime

    24 May 2013, 11:17 am

    The recent brutal slaying of a gay man in New York City had all the trappings of a national news story, so why was it ignored by major cable news outlets?…
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  • Lara Schwartz: John Fund Calls IRS Scrutiny Of Conservative Groups "Real Voter Suppression"

    24 May 2013, 11:14 am

    Fox News contributor and National Review columnist John Fund fabricated a link between voter suppression and IRS employees inappropriately singling out tea party and conservative groups' applications for tax-exempt status, claiming that such scrutiny by the…
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  • Brian Thorn: "I'm Not A Lawyer, But ...": Right-Wing Media Disagree With Legal Experts On Fifth…

    24 May 2013, 10:46 am

    Right-wing media figures argued that Internal Revenue Service official Lois Lerner waived her Fifth Amendment rights at a congressional hearing by declaring her innocence before invoking those rights. By contrast, legal experts say Lerner's statement did not…
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  • Eric Boehlert: It's Called Freedom Of The Press For A Reason

    24 May 2013, 10:38 am

    In one of his final opinions as a Supreme Court Justice, Hugo Black in the 1971 Pentagon Papers case wrote that "The Government's power to censor the press was abolished so that the press would remain forever free to censure the Government." The Court's 6-3…
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  • Media Matters staff: Fox Turns To Whitewater Counsel Robert Ray To Push For Special Counsel To…

    24 May 2013, 8:36 am

    From the May 24 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends:
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  • Zachary Pleat: Fox Smears State Department Official Amid Nomination For Role In Benghazi Talking…

    24 May 2013, 8:08 am

    Amid reports that former State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland was nominated by President Obama to a higher post, Fox News immediately engaged its smear machine to launch a false attack on her, claiming she had misled Congress and the American people…
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  • Sergio Munoz: Wash. Times Lazily Parrots GOP Misinformation On D.C. Circuit Vacancies

    24 May 2013, 3:32 am

    The Washington Times attempted to recycle misinformation about Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's warning that GOP obstructionism of President Obama's nominees is unsustainable, but published an inaccurate argument that doesn't support its own rhetoric.…
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  • Media Matters staff: Fox's Ralph Peters: Obama Insists On Trying Terrorists In Court "As If…

    24 May 2013, 2:28 am

    From the May 24 edition of Fox News' America Live:Previously:…
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  • Media Matters staff: Limbaugh Pushes Fabricated Link Between Voter Suppression And IRS Scrutiny Of…

    24 May 2013, 2:16 am

    From the May 24 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show:Previously: John Fund Calls IRS Scrutiny Of Conservative Groups "Real Voter Suppression"
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  • Media Matters staff: Limbaugh: Heckling During Obama's Counterterrorism Speech Was "Rigged"

    24 May 2013, 1:49 am

    From the May 24 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show:Related:…
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  • Simon Maloy: Bureaucrat Whispering's Perfect Moment

    24 May 2013, 1:32 am

    In case you haven't been following, the hot new right-wing narrative is that President Obama, despite not having any provable connection to the IRS's inappropriate targeting of conservative non-profit groups, is nonetheless culpable because he exerts subtle…
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  • Salvatore Colleluori & Solange Uwimana: Conservative Media Seize On London Attack To Rail Against…

    24 May 2013, 1:26 am

    Fox News personalities have seized on the brutal killing of a soldier in London to rail against immigration, claiming that immigration policies are partly to blame for the attacks. Conservative media figures similarly used the Boston bombing to condemn…
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