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• The Hill asserted some "surprise[d]" "liberals" did not resist Obama's "sudden turn to tax cuts," ignored his campaign pledge to cut taxes
  Tuesday, January 6, 2009
• Cunningham on the poor: "They're poor because they lack values, ethics, and morals"
  Monday, January 5, 2009
• IBD cited 1930s America, 1990s Japan as evidence that stimulus spending doesn't work, but economists disagree on both counts
  Monday, January 5, 2009
• Wash. Times echoed opponents' distortion of EFCA in asserting it would "eliminat[e] the secret ballot"
  Monday, January 5, 2009
• Consistent with Fox pattern, Chris Wallace used terminology favored by Employee Free Choice Act opponents
  Sunday, January 4, 2009
• Fortune's Easton misrepresented debate over Employee Free Choice Act
  Tuesday, December 23, 2008
• On Fox, Barnes, Krauthammer echoed conservative claim that CRA played key role in subprime crisis
  Tuesday, December 23, 2008
• Media cite Japan's "lost decade" to criticize Obama's economic stimulus plan, but economists disagree
  Monday, December 22, 2008
• Dobbs on economic conditions: "Anyone paying attention is concerned and worried, but are you scared? Are you afraid? No. That's un-American."
  Thursday, December 18, 2008
• MSNBC, Wash. Times echo GOP accusation that UAW killed bailout
  Friday, December 12, 2008
• Media advance GOP talking point that UAW killed the auto bailout bill
  Friday, December 12, 2008
• Faced with economic turmoil, media conservatives turn to class warfare
  Wednesday, December 10, 2008
• Hannity falsely claimed that under Bush, "We created 10 million new jobs"
  Tuesday, December 9, 2008
• Savage guest host Roberts: "[Y]ou may as well start an Obama savings account" so "welfare mom can have her new plasma TV as she pops kids out"
  Tuesday, December 9, 2008
• Media still wedded to $70+ per hour autoworker falsehood despite GM's recent statements to the contrary
  Saturday, December 6, 2008
• Continuing his pattern of disparaging remarks about low-income Americans, Cunningham criticized "fat poor people"
  Friday, December 5, 2008
• Boston Herald furthers false claim that United Auto Workers members have "$78-per-hour jobs"
  Friday, December 5, 2008
• ABC's Bury falsely claimed Big Three auto companies "pay union workers more than $73 an hour in wages and benefits"
  Thursday, December 4, 2008
• Morning Joe debunks claim that union autoworkers are "paid 70 bucks an hour"
  Thursday, December 4, 2008
• Joining the pack, Blitzer falsely claimed union autoworkers "make[] $73 an hour, on average, when you factor in all the benefits"
  Thursday, December 4, 2008

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