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• Cunningham on the poor: "They're poor because they lack values, ethics, and morals"
  Monday, January 5, 2009
• 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
• Continuing his pattern of disparaging remarks about low-income Americans, Cunningham criticized "fat poor people"
  Friday, December 5, 2008
• Limbaugh mischaracterized accomplishments of '06 Nobel Peace Prize winner, smeared Jimmy Carter
  Monday, October 13, 2008
• O'Reilly claimed Americans "have a very high standard of living" because "[e]ven the poor have color televisions and pretty much everything they need"
  Friday, October 20, 2006
• McWhorter falsely claimed African-American child poverty rates decreased under GOP majority
  Wednesday, February 22, 2006
• Ignoring his recent votes, NY Times "believe[s]" Grassley wants "adequate heating subsidies for the poor"
  Monday, November 14, 2005
• Conservative activist Barton: Are American children poor "because they only have two TVs instead of three?"
  Monday, November 14, 2005
• Limbaugh baselessly claimed people targeted by proposed food stamp cuts "aren't using them anyway"
  Monday, October 24, 2005
• Boortz: Faced with an impending national disaster, "we should save the rich people first"
  Friday, October 14, 2005
• Morris spouted misleading poverty, deficit claims in attempt to rebut Clinton
  Friday, September 23, 2005
• Wash. Post issued correction to editorial that hid Bush record on poverty
  Thursday, September 22, 2005
• O'Reilly used misleading statistics, fiscal falsehoods to defend Bush economic record
  Wednesday, September 21, 2005
• Limbaugh dramatically overstated administrative costs of welfare
  Wednesday, September 21, 2005
• Bozell asserted Clinton claim on poverty was "comical" -- but Clinton in fact understated the true figures
  Wednesday, September 21, 2005
• Wash. Post editorial's "broad look" at U.S. poverty falsely claimed Bush poverty increases started under Clinton
  Monday, September 19, 2005
• O'Reilly defended false Clinton-Bush poverty comparison as "the only accurate measuring stick"
  Friday, September 16, 2005
• O'Reilly cherry-picked census numbers to falsely suggest Bush is better on poverty than Clinton
  Wednesday, September 14, 2005
• CNN contributor Watkins falsely claimed poverty reduction under Bush rather than Clinton
  Tuesday, September 13, 2005
• Limbaugh linked New Orleans humanitarian disaster to "the welfare and entitlement thinking of government"
  Tuesday, September 6, 2005

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