Ellen Elaborates
November 20, 2009
Fox News Year In Apologies
Media Matters put together a compendium of Fox News apologies for false information, fake videos and cutting and pasting from the GOP. It's quite a list. But isn't this a bit premature? It's not even Thanksgiving yet and the War on Christmas hasn't really begun. There's still plenty of time for any politician caught drunk driving to be labeled a Democrat; at least one GOP memo about health care reform can still make it into the "news" portion of Fox News and for adoring crowds to show up in advance for January's O'Reilly/Beck tour, even if the crowds look a lot like the 9/12 Tea Party protesters and leave their coats at home.
Is Michelle Obama A Transvestite? GretaWire Readers Think So
We've been so focused on the hate at Fox Nation that we took our eye off GretaWire, a cesspool of racism and homophobia. Those two bigotries were combined in a recent thread called "Barry "married" to a transvestite? You bet." (H/T reader HP)
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Continue reading >>Andrew Breitbart Trying To Blackmail The Obama Administration With ACORN And Other Videos
Andrew Breitbart and his team of ACORN videographers were back on Hannity last night (11/19/09) with a new undercover video that Breitbart claimed he was “forced to offer” now because California Attorney General Jerry Brown has launched an investigation into whether the filmmakers broke the law by secretly recording “confidential communication.” That was astounding enough. You’d think that if Breitbart really had something big on ACORN, he would have released it a few months ago, when he had maximum media attention, rather than withhold it until he could use it as ammunition against a personal foe. Or you’d think he’d at least have the good sense not to broadcast his self-serving machinations. Judging from the very edited video Breitbart presented last night, one suspects that the real reason it was withheld was because it did little to effectively incriminate ACORN. Breitbart, on the other hand, incriminated himself even worse. Near the end of the segment, he told Hannity that he had more videos and “not just ACORN” that he threatened to release during the 2010 election cycle unless the Department of Justice opened a federal investigation into ACORN. With video.
Continue reading >>November 19, 2009
On Special Report, Fox Spun GOP Health Care Talking Points Into News
Guest blogged by Nayef
On Monday, (11/16/09), Special Report discussed health care reform in a not-so fair and balanced way that just happened to take Republican Mitch McConnell’s spin and present it as news. With video.
Continue reading >>After Calling Obama A Racist, Murdoch Denies Having Called Obama A Racist
Media Matters confronted Rupert Murdoch about his comments on Australian television saying that Glenn Beck was "right" to call President Obama a racist. Despite incontrovertible proof to the contrary, Murdoch now denies that he said it. Video after the jump.
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