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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.

Reported by Ellen at 5:44 PM

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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Reported by Ellen at 1:43 PM

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.

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Reported by Ellen at 3:34 AM

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.

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Reported by Guest Blogger at 11:07 PM

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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Reported by Ellen at 6:02 PM
Rendell v. Cavuto, reported by Guest Blogger,
South Park Takes On Glenn Beck, reported by Ellen,
John Stossel and the Overblown Headline, reported by Guest Blogger,
A British View Of Fox News, reported by Ellen,
Election Open Thread, reported by Ellen,
Fox Business As Usual - Attacking Obama, reported by Guest Blogger,
More Union Bashing On Fox News, reported by Guest Blogger,
Tea Party Express II Orphaned By Fox?, reported by Guest Blogger,
Stephen Colbert Mocks Beck, reported by Ellen,
Michael Moore Takes On Hannity, reported by Ellen,
Glenn Beck, Olympics Spoilsport, reported by Ellen,
The Health Insurance Racket, reported by Ellen,
Fox News Punked By ACORN, reported by Ellen,
What's God Got To Do With It?, reported by Ellen,
Speak Up About Van Jones, reported by Ellen,
Fox Politicizes H1N1 Flu, reported by Ellen,
Ellen On XM Radio Tonight, reported by Ellen,
Fox Won't Fire Glenn Beck, reported by Ellen,
Sen. Edward Kennedy Has Died, reported by Guest Blogger,
101 Days Of Fox News Idiocracy, reported by Ellen,
Fox Nation Divisiveness, reported by Ellen,
Fox Nation Hates Michelle Obama, reported by Ellen,
Fox News: News For White People, reported by Ellen,
They Still Think We're Fox News, reported by Ellen,
Fox Wants Disruptive Town Halls, reported by Ellen,
Was It Something We Said? , reported by Ellen,
Insurance Comanies Make Me Sick, reported by Ellen,
450,000 Doctors Can't Be Wrong, reported by Ellen,
Walter Cronkite Is Dead, reported by Ellen,
Fox News Legitimizes Birthers, reported by Ellen,
Let Them Eat Tax Cuts!, reported by Ellen,
Fox Nation Smears Ron Reagan, reported by Ellen,
Fox News Triple X!, reported by Ellen,
Fox Business Network In Trouble, reported by Ellen,
Let Them Work At Wal-Mart!, reported by Ellen,
Let 'Em Go Without Pensions!, reported by Ellen,
Holiday Open Thread, reported by Ellen,
Jesse Ventura Does It Again, reported by Ellen,
A Slow Blog Week, reported by Ellen,
Is Hannity Inciting Civil War?, reported by Ellen,
Glenn Beck's Incest Fantasy, reported by Ellen,
Why FOX News Still Matters, reported by Ellen,
Glenn Beck's Savvy Fraud, reported by Ellen,
The BBC Takes On American News, reported by Ellen,
Tea Party Open Thread #2, reported by Ellen,
Tea Party Open Thread, reported by Ellen,
FOX News' Militia Media, reported by Ellen,
Colbert Skewers Beck, reported by Ellen,
Heckuva Job, FOXie!, reported by Ellen,
Greta Doesn't Get It, reported by Ellen,
FOX News' War On Tim Geithner, reported by Ellen,
Phil Donohue On Hannity, reported by Ellen,
O'Reilly's Dirty Book, reported by Ellen,
Shepard Smith Mocks Glenn Beck, reported by Ellen,
Hannity Disses The Girl Scouts, reported by Ellen,
Coulter And Beck Smear Steele, reported by Ellen,
Comments Working Again, reported by Ellen,
Obama Address Open Thread, reported by Ellen,
Megyn Kelly Has A Pet Over PETA, reported by Ellen,
Fear, reported by Ellen,
Love Those Corporate Jets!, reported by Ellen,
We Are Not FOX News, reported by Ellen,
Consider It Done, reported by Ellen,
Hannity Interviews Blagojevich, reported by Ellen,
More FOX News Porn!, reported by Ellen,
Someone Didn't Get the Memo, reported by Ellen,
Jon Stewart Does Hannity, reported by Ellen,
Craputo!, reported by Ellen,
Obama Inauguration Open Thread, reported by Ellen,
The Memo: Blame the Victims, reported by Ellen,
Colbert & Colmes, reported by Ellen,
New Year's Open Thread, reported by Ellen,
FOX News Porn Still At It, reported by Ellen,
Hannity To Get His Own Show, reported by Ellen,
Morris To Colmes: Just Shut Up, reported by Ellen,
Ellen On The Ploy, reported by Ellen,
President-Elect Barack Obama!, reported by Ellen,
FOX News Endorses McCain/Palin, reported by Ellen,
Coulter likens Obama to Hitler, reported by Ellen,
FOX News Gives Palin A Do-Over, reported by Ellen,
John McCain: Economic Disaster, reported by Ellen,
Breaking News: Debate On Again, reported by Ellen,
Palin Lied, Hannity Let It Ride, reported by Ellen,
Convention Open Thread, reported by Ellen,
Convention Open Thread, reported by Ellen,
It's Biden, reported by Ellen,