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Fact: The breathless claim that Fox
News' ratings recently spiked thanks to the White House's public critique is
bogus hype -- hype that Fox News and the Beltway press have relentlessly pushed.
It's just not true.
No m...
Advancing the newest ludicrous and bigoted attack in a long series of failed efforts by conservatives to smear Education Department official Kevin Jennings and force his firing, Fox News' Sean...
Right-wing media figures trumpeted a blogger's fake report that in a college thesis -- which the post's author claimed was obtained by Time's Joe Klein -- President Obama attacked the...
Following Sen. Ted Kennedy's death, several conservative media figures -- including Rush Limbaugh -- have attacked Democrats for purportedly attempting to use his passing to stifle debate and enact health care reform legislation. But conserva...
On August 14, the Drudge Report, Rush Limbaugh, and O'Reilly Factor guest host Laura Ingraham featured a recording of Ronald Reagan speaking in 1961 against "socialized medicine" for the American Medical Association's Operation Co...
On Fox News' Glenn Beck, both Glenn Beck and conservative author David Horowitz falsely claimed that Democrats are responsible for recent United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommendations that fewer women under 50 receive regular...
Citing no evidence whatsoever, Fox News host Sean Hannity baselessly claimed that Cass Sunstein, director of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, "wants to... force sterilizations." Hannity has previously echoed other...
Glenn Beck touted climate scientists' emails that were apparently stolen by hackers from the UK's Climate Research Unit (CRU) -- emails Beck claimed "someone released" -- to assert the existence of a "brand new reality" in which the fundamental...
Bill O'Reilly claimed that the House and Senate versions of the health care bill contain an "abortion option" that "so many Democrats want it go through, which would force all Americans... to fund, through their taxpayer dollars, abortions."
From...
Eighty
advertisers have reportedly dropped their
ads from Glenn Beck's Fox News program since he called
President Obama a "racist" who has a "deep-seated hatred of white people." Here
are his November 23 sponsors, in the order they...
