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Monday, October 13, 2008

• Limbaugh falsely claimed "[t]here's no evidence" Obama wrote anything before Dreams from My Father "except a poem"

• Conservative radio hosts claimed HUD said 5 million illegal immigrants were given subprime mortgages, despite HUD's reported denials

• Why did CNN's Roberts interview Roger Stone, "professional dirty trickster" and founder of C.U.N.T.?

• Limbaugh mischaracterized accomplishments of '06 Nobel Peace Prize winner, smeared Jimmy Carter

• Savage: "Kenya is going to move to America if Barack Hussein Obama wins"

• Despite evidence to the contrary, Hannity claimed "[n]obody in the Republican Party" has resorted to overtones of "race and fear" in attacking Obama

• After repeatedly calling McCain's behavior "erratic," Matthews suggested Obama's doing so was a reference to McCain's age

• Ignoring their own reporting, NY Times and AP uncritically report Palin's "palling around with terrorists" claim

• NBC's Guthrie falsely suggested Obama's "punished with a baby" comment was about abortion

Sunday, October 12, 2008

• Ignoring its own reporting, LA Times didn't note McCain's shifting time frame for balancing budget

• Print media reported that Obama represented ACORN, but not that DOJ was a fellow plaintiff in the lawsuit

Saturday, October 11, 2008

• O'Reilly called Media Matters' Brock a "liar," but the falsehood was O'Reilly's

• McClatchy's Thomma misrepresented Obama's tax plan

• Jansing, Halperin uncritically report Palin's false charge that Obama's "punished with a baby" comment was about abortion

Friday, October 10, 2008

• On Cunningham's radio show, Corsi touted dubious "documents" he claims will "prove" Obama "made a pact" with Odinga

• Myths and falsehoods about the purported link between affordable housing initiatives and the financial crisis

• Brewer falsely portrayed McCain as denouncing voter disenfranchisement in clip she aired

• Hannity invited McCain to criticize Obama for proposing to "slow" a program McCain has said "should be ended"

• On Dobbs, radio host claimed HUD said "about 5 million illegal alien home mortgage loans ... have gone bad," but HUD reportedly says stat is bogus

• In post-detention KSFO interview, Corsi claimed critics of Obama are "now going to have to risk being thrown in jail or killed"

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Monday, October 13, 2008

• Limbaugh mischaracterized accomplishments of '06 Nobel Peace Prize winner, smeared Jimmy Carter

• Savage: "Kenya is going to move to America if Barack Hussein Obama wins"

Thursday, October 9, 2008

• Savage: "I fear that Obama will stir up a race war ... in order to seize absolute power"

Wednesday, October 8, 2008

• Minneapolis radio hosts Baker and Perry are "convinced" that Magic Johnson "faked AIDS"

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

• Jim Quinn: Steinem opposes Palin because Palin "declined to slaughter her own unborn child, Trig, to the goddess of feminism"

• Rose Tennent: "I don't think you can be a Christian and vote for Barack Obama"

• Hannity cut out gist of Hillary Clinton's comments about VP debate to bolster his claim that Clintons will "vote for John McCain"

• Minneapolis radio host Chris Baker called Obama a "little bitch" who "won't even stand up to" "smoking-hot" Palin

• Quinn and Tennent repeated discredited claims that Obama has not released valid birth certificate

Monday, October 6, 2008

• Radio host Chris Baker on Palin's appearance at VP debate: "Shoulda had a little cleavage going ... I noticed a panty line on her."

Friday, October 3, 2008

• Rodgers suggested that just as the O.J. Simpson verdict "was a racial vote," African-Americans support Obama because of "racial brotherhood"

• Dick Morris' take on the VP debate: "The loser tonight in this debate was Hillary Clinton"

• After railing against gay marriage, Savage said "the spiritual side of the downturn on Wall Street was directly related to the moral downturn"

Wednesday, October 1, 2008

• Claiming "I'm not making any comparison here," O'Reilly asserted that like Pelosi, Hitler also "practiced for hours before making a speech"

• Brzezinski on Palin: "[I]t would be great if she could hit it out of the ballpark tomorrow night"

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

• Discussing economic crisis and bailout plan, Savage said Rep. Frank "should be in the gallows for this"

• Savage linked San Francisco event to the "artistes" and "leather fetishists" of Weimar-era Germany, whom he blamed for Hitler's rise

Monday, September 29, 2008

• Savage on "liberal social activism": "They imposed affirmative action on me and stole my very birthright simply because I was white"

Saturday, September 27, 2008

• Matthews on Obama's debate performance: "[D]id it surprise you that he was so un-ethnic tonight?"

Friday, September 26, 2008

• In an NRO blog post, Krikorian asked if WaMu's diversity policy was "[c]ause" of bank's demise

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• Limbaugh falsely claimed "[t]here's no evidence" Obama wrote anything before Dreams from My Father "except a poem"

• Savage: "Kenya is going to move to America if Barack Hussein Obama wins"

• Why did CNN's Roberts interview Roger Stone, "professional dirty trickster" and founder of C.U.N.T.?

• Despite evidence to the contrary, Hannity claimed "[n]obody in the Republican Party" has resorted to overtones of "race and fear" in attacking Obama

• Limbaugh mischaracterized accomplishments of '06 Nobel Peace Prize winner, smeared Jimmy Carter

• Myths and falsehoods about the purported link between affordable housing initiatives and the financial crisis

• The media's coming McCain "comeback" narrative?

• Minneapolis radio hosts Baker and Perry are "convinced" that Magic Johnson "faked AIDS"

• NBC's Guthrie falsely suggested Obama's "punished with a baby" comment was about abortion

• Conservative radio hosts claimed HUD said 5 million illegal immigrants were given subprime mortgages, despite HUD's reported denials

• O'Reilly called Media Matters' Brock a "liar," but the falsehood was O'Reilly's

• On Fox News, Hannity hosted Andy Martin -- who has called judge a "crooked, slimy Jew," accused African-Americans in public office of corruption -- in Obama smear-fest

• Anti-Semite Andy Martin in NewsMax: "Free Obama's White Grandmother"

• Schlussel: Should Barack Hussein Obama be president "when we are fighting the war of our lives against Islam"?

• Jansing, Halperin uncritically report Palin's false charge that Obama's "punished with a baby" comment was about abortion

• Gibson called Obama's long-known cigarette smoking a "dirty little secret"

• "[J]ournalist" Sean Hannity gives bogus defense for interviewing Andy Martin

• Print media reported that Obama represented ACORN, but not that DOJ was a fellow plaintiff in the lawsuit

• The media's enduring pro-McCain double standard

• Fox News airs altered photos of NY Times reporters

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July 2008

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September 2007

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June 2007

• The Progressive Majority: Why a Conservative America Is a Myth

May 2007

• Left Behind: The Skewed Representation of Religion in Major News Media

May 2007

• Sunday Shutout: The Lack of Gender & Ethnic Diversity on the Sunday Morning Talk Shows

May 2007

• Locked Out: The Lack of Gender and Ethnic Diversity on Cable News Continues

March 2007

• If It's Sunday, It's Still Conservative Special Report: How the Right Continues to Dominate the Sunday Talk Shows

February 2006

• If It's Sunday, It's Conservative: An analysis of the Sunday talk show guests on ABC, CBS, and NBC, 1997 - 2005

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