Publication: Media Matters for America

First reported 22 hours ago - Updated 9 mins ago - 1 reports

Limbaugh's Hypocrisy On The Fifth Amendment

Blog ››› 7 minutes ago ››› ANDREW LAWRENCEDespite previously applauding a Bush administration official who invoked the Fifth Amendment and declined to testify before a Congressional hearing, Rush Limbaugh is now criticizing IRS official Lois Lerner for ... [Published Media Matters for America - 22 hours ago]

Entities: Rush Limbaugh, Monica Goodling, Hypocrisy, Perjury

First reported 1 hour ago - Updated 52 mins ago - 1 reports

Report: Fox News, CNN Underreport Anti-Gay Hate Crime While Obsessing Over Jodi Arias Trial

Fox News ignored the brutal murder of a gay man in New York City, which has been labeled a hate crime by local police, while CNN underreported the story. Even though the attack is part of a disturbing spike in anti-gay violence in New York, the cable ... [Published Media Matters for America - 1 hour ago]

Entities: Hate Crime, Anti-Gay, Gay, Jodi Arias, Homicide

First reported 1 hour ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 1 reports

Minerals Management Service

After Hyping Solyndra, TV News Ignores Tesla's Loan Repayment

Blog ››› 48 minutes ago ››› MAX GREENBERGThe news that electric carmaker Tesla Motors has repaid its federal loan early is being ignored by some of the same outlets that tried to make the bankrupt solar company Solyndra the face of the Obama administration's ... [Published Media Matters for America - 1 hour ago]

Entities: Solyndra, Minerals Management Service, Max Greenberg, Nexis

First reported 1 hour ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 1 reports

Fox Dismisses Experts' Conclusion That Gitmo's Existence Helps Terrorists' Causes

Fox & Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade dismissed the assertions of interrogation experts and those familiar with the Guantánamo Bay military commission system that keeping the prison open and holding trials there help terrorist organizations recruit more ... [Published Media Matters for America - 1 hour ago]

Entities: Terrorists, Guantánamo Bay, Brian Kilmeade

First reported 1 hour ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 1 reports

Donald Rumsfeld

Fox Hosts Former Bush Admin. Officials To Criticize Obama's Plan To Close Guantánamo

Blog ››› 21 minutes ago ››› MIKE BURNSFox News turned to former George W. Bush administration officials to criticize President Obama's aim to close the Guantánamo Bay detention center, a facility established by the Bush administration.Obama is expected ... [Published Media Matters for America - 1 hour ago]

Entities: Donald Rumsfeld, Bush Administration, Barack Obama

First reported 2 hours ago - Updated 2 hours ago - 1 reports

Ann Coulter

Ann Coulter Decries "Ethnic Composition" Of Today's US Immigrants

Conservative pundit and frequent Fox News guest Ann Coulter complained that the "ethnic composition" of the U.S. is shifting away from European-Americans, due to too much immigration from "the Third World."In her May 22 blog that Human Events also published, ... [Published Media Matters for America - 2 hours ago]

Entities: Ann Coulter, Immigration, United States

First reported 16 hours ago - Updated 16 hours ago - 1 reports

Fox's Hannity and Malkin Blame London Attack On Progressive Gun And Immigration Laws

From the May 22 edition of Fox News' Hannity:MALKIN: What do you need to have? Neon lights that say, 'Islamic jihad,' 'Islamic jihad?' I mean, duh. They were screaming at the top of their lungs, 'Allahu Akbar,' and repeatedly swore in the name of Allah ... [Published Media Matters for America - 16 hours ago]

Entities: Immigration Laws, Islamic jihad, London

First reported 17 hours ago - Updated 17 hours ago - 1 reports

Mickey Kaus: The Daily Caller's Sexual Assault Truther

Daily Caller contributor Mickey Kaus theorized that recent incidents of sexual assaults in the military may be a diversion tactic aimed at steering attention away from the White House.Sexual assaults in the military are a growing problem. A Pentagon ... [Published Media Matters for America - 17 hours ago]

Entities: Mickey Kaus, Sexual Assault, Military/Armed Forces, Sexism, Harassment

First reported 22 hours ago - Updated 22 hours ago - 1 reports

Limbaugh On IRS' Lois Lerner: "I'm Telling You, I Can See Her With Whips And Chains"

From the May 22 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show :Previously:NOW President Calls Out Limbaugh's "Hate" and "Bullying" TacticsRush Limbaugh's Decades Of Sexism And MisogynyRepublican "War On Women" Is Not A Left-Wing Inventi ... [Published Media Matters for America - 22 hours ago]

Entities: Rush Limbaugh, Premiere Radio Networks, Misogyny, Left Wing

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

Eric Boehlert On Talking Liberally : Fox Benghazi "Mythology" Feeds Right-Wing Image That Obama Is A "Monster"

From the May 22 edition of Current's Talking Liberally with Stephanie Miller :Previously :Really Fox News? Benghazi Is Your Example Of Stellar Fox Journalism?Fox Host: Media Finally Catching Up On BenghaziSen. Lindsey Graham: "Thank God For Fox" And ... [Published Media Matters for America - May 22 2013]

Entities: Eric Boehlert, Benghazi, Right Wing

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

After Alex Jones Pushed Oklahoma "Weather Weapon" Theory, Drudge Continues To Promote Him

Less than 24 hours after Alex Jones theorized that a "weather weapon" could have been used to cause the devastating Oklahoma tornado, conservative gossip Matt Drudge returned to his pattern of promoting the conspiracy theorist.On May 21, Jones told a ... [Published Media Matters for America - May 22 2013]

Entities: Matt Drudge, US Department of Homeland Security, Tornado, Conspiracy

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

WSJ's Moore Hypes Gov. Scott's Misleading Job Math

Blog ››› 24 minutes ago ››› JUSTIN BERRIERThe Wall Street Journal's Stephen Moore cited figures that independent analysts have called misleading to hype Florida Gov. Rick Scott's claims about his administration's job creation record.In a post on the Journal's ... [Published Media Matters for America - May 22 2013]

Entities: Stephen Moore, Richard L Scott, The Wall Street Group Inc, Taxes, Joseph Biden

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"The increase in the number of reported hate crimes directed against gays and lesbians, now the second most frequent category of crime, is especially disturbing" the [Anti-Defamation League] said in a statement

Report: Fox News, CNN Underreport Anti-Gay Hate Crime While Obsessing Over Jodi Arias Trial [Published Media Matters for America - 1 hour ago]

Senior Air Force Interrogator: "The No. 1 Reason Foreign Fighters Flocked [To Iraq] Were The Abuses Carried Out At Abu Ghraib And Guantánamo." An Air Force interrogator who successfully tracked down Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, wrote in a 2008 Washington Post op-ed that...

Fox Dismisses Experts' Conclusion That Gitmo's Existence Helps Terrorists' Causes [Published Media Matters for America - 1 hour ago]

...News political analyst and former Bush adviser, warned that "we ought to be very careful" about transferring detainees out of Guantánamo, and said: "I worry about the rush to close Gitmo. We're in a war, and we need a place to keep these people."

Fox Hosts Former Bush Admin. Officials To Criticize Obama's Plan To Close Guantánamo [Published Media Matters for America - 1 hour ago]

...In a July 18 blog post that Human Events and Free Republic re-ran, she argued that, "Just like California, the United States is on its way to becoming a Third World, one-party state."

Ann Coulter Decries "Ethnic Composition" Of Today's US Immigrants [Published Media Matters for America - 2 hours ago]

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