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Wednesday, July 23, 2008

• If Savage was smearing only misdiagnoses of autism, why did he previously call autism itself a "phony disease"?

• Hannity falsely suggested Obama set out plan for Afghanistan only after his visit -- but he has called for more troops for years

• Jonah Goldberg the latest to falsely claim McCain called for Rumsfeld's resignation

• CBS splices McCain interview clip, expunging his false claim on surge timeline and falsely suggesting he gave different answer

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

• Savage reportedly likened Media Matters to HIV

• MSNBC aired caption with false claim that Obama is a Muslim
  

• Savage on Media Matters: "They have no place in America"

• Limbaugh on Obama: "[H]e loathes America. He blames America. America's responsible for all that's wrong in the world"

• Boehlert: The AP has a Ron Fournier problem

• Stephanopoulos falsely suggested Obama "now" aligned with McCain on more troops in Afghanistan -- but Obama has called for more troops for years

• Savage falsely recasts autism remarks to claim he was "take[n] out of context"

• Print outlets report McCain's criticism of Obama for lacking military experience, but not previous statements that it's not necessary to be commander in chief

Monday, July 21, 2008

• MSNBC's Hall didn't challenge Pfotenhauer's claim that Obama "fought funding" for troops in Iraq and Afghanistan

• NY Times reporter again ignores McCain's immigration reversal

• Globe's Kranish uncritically reported McCain statement that Obama didn't vote to condemn MoveOn for ad

• Savage to Media Matters: "I stand by my words"

• On Meet the Press, Brokaw attributed proposal for gas-tax holiday to Clinton, but not McCain

• Fox's Hannity again falsely suggested that Obama referred to "invading Pakistan"; Gingrich doesn't acknowledge he's advocated similar position

• LA Times did not report that Maliki statement came only after Bush administration contacted his office "to express concern" over comments in Der Spiegel

• On GMA, Sawyer didn't challenge McCain's false claim that Obama said he would "attack Pakistan"

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Monday, July 21, 2008

• Savage to Media Matters: "I stand by my words"

Friday, July 18, 2008

• Levin attacks "Jon Leibowitz, a.k.a Jon Stewart": "I'm really tired of these phony intellectuals ... arrogantly looking down their sizable noses at our armed forces"

• NBC's Mitchell baselessly claimed Obama "has the least foreign policy experience of recent presidential candidates ... except Jimmy Carter"

Thursday, July 17, 2008

• NBC's Mitchell: In some parts of the country, seeing Obama "celebrated in Europe might seem to be an implicit criticism of America"

Monday, July 14, 2008

• Liddy on New Yorker cover: "The New Yorker finally got it right"

Thursday, July 10, 2008

• Dobbs referred to San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom as a "little darling," a "precious darling," and a "precious fraud"

Tuesday, July 1, 2008

• Matthews: "They're the working-class white voters ... the regular folks"

Thursday, June 26, 2008

• Hugh Hewitt on OSU-USC football game: "[I]t's probably the last football game we'll ever get to see before the United States gets blown up by the Islamists under Obama"

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

• Savage: "We're getting refugees now who have never used a telephone, a toothbrush, or toilet paper. ... [T]hey never assimilate. And then their children become gang-bangers"

Thursday, June 19, 2008

• Savage: "I'd hang every lawyer who went down to Guantánamo"

• Boortz again referred to victims of Hurricane Katrina as "parasite[s]"

• Hasselbeck on Obama: "[H]e seemed for a while more willing to give the fist bump to Ahmadinejad than our own General Petraeus"

Monday, June 16, 2008

• MSNBC's Buchanan called Obama "exotic," said "[h]e's like the guys in the Harvard faculty lounge" who "don't know anything about their country"

Thursday, June 12, 2008

• KSFO's Rodgers on voting gender gap: For "a lot of women in this country who get knocked up ... the government becomes Daddy in terms of paying the bills"

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

• Gibson, Jenkins received "Worst Person" honors

• O'Reilly on teenagers' topless photo scandal: "[T]his isn't ... the inner city; you would think that these kids would have some kind of a values system"

Tuesday, June 10, 2008

• Savage repeatedly called Obama an "Afro-Leninist"

• MSNBC's Bernard on Clinton: "She ran as a man"

Monday, June 9, 2008

• Savage's answer to homelessness: "Why not put them in work camps?"

Friday, June 6, 2008

• Fox News' E.D. Hill teased discussion of Obama dap: "A fist bump? A pound? A terrorist fist jab?"

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• The AP has a Ron Fournier problem

• CBS splices McCain interview clip, expunging his false claim on surge timeline and falsely suggesting he gave different answer

• If Savage was smearing only misdiagnoses of autism, why did he previously call autism itself a "phony disease"?

• Savage on autism: "A fraud, a racket. ... In 99 percent of the cases, it's a brat who hasn't been told to cut the act out"

• Top Radio Host Shifts Blame as Advertiser, Radio Network Drop Show

• Hannity falsely suggested Obama set out plan for Afghanistan only after his visit -- but he has called for more troops for years

• Savage to Media Matters: "I stand by my words"

• Savage on Media Matters: "They have no place in America"

• Savage reportedly likened Media Matters to HIV

• Limbaugh on Obama: "[H]e loathes America. He blames America. America's responsible for all that's wrong in the world"

• MSNBC aired caption with false claim that Obama is a Muslim
  

• Savage falsely recasts autism remarks to claim he was "take[n] out of context"

• CBS News Covers For McCain

• Jonah Goldberg the latest to falsely claim McCain called for Rumsfeld's resignation

• Fox News airs altered photos of NY Times reporters

• Print outlets report McCain's criticism of Obama for lacking military experience, but not previous statements that it's not necessary to be commander in chief

• Citing "our friend Drudge," Levin reported "John Edwards love child scandal"

• Stephanopoulos falsely suggested Obama "now" aligned with McCain on more troops in Afghanistan -- but Obama has called for more troops for years

• O'Reilly: "Birth control is not a medical condition, it is a choice"

• Who misrepresented Obama's tax plan? Anyone? Anyone? Ben Stein

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May 2007

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May 2007

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March 2007

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February 2006

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