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Reference: Media Incompetence/Negligence as Chronicled by Media Matters, April 6 - April 12, 2009

Sunday, April 12, 2009

• After smearing Obama, media figures call him polarizing

Friday, April 10, 2009

• Conservative media unleash violent, revolutionary rhetoric
• Conservative media smear Obama for purported overseas "apology tour"
• Pandemic: Limbaugh's Obama Derangement Syndrome spreads through conservative media
• Media Matters: Fox News is throwing a party!
• Foser: The military-media-industrial complex
• Black helicopter alert! Conservative media suggest Obama supporting one-world government
• Hannity rewrites economic history to bash Obama
• Fox News' Tantaros overstates support for "tea parties"
• Wash. Times misrepresented Obama's position on Iraq war funding bills
• Frisch: Warning: This tea may cause severe damage to journalistic integrity

January 30, 2009 on Media Matters

 

• Media Matters: Fetishizing off-center centrism

• Brzezinski suggests "welfare" provisions in stimulus bill don't stimulate the economy -- economists disagree
• "Political Grapevine" goes sour: Fox's Baier understated Obey's response to alleged conflict of interest
• Will Dobbs retract his stimulus bill falsehood?
• Fox Business Network joins with GOP senators to further spread false ACORN attack
• AP's retracted stimulus bill falsehood finds a new home at Fox
• AP cited only single anonymous Republican official in support of stimulus falsehood

Watch for updates throughout the day.

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Political News Summary: Thursday, January 29, 2009

:: The liberal groups who fought against Bush 43's most egregious acts, now supporting President Obama. The ad shown in the video below was produced and will be aired at the expense of some of these groups, and targets certain vulnerable GOP senators on the stimulus issue. From NYT:

And, in a first test of where they will fit in the new national dialogue, several of the groups that regularly battled the Bush White House are trying to sell President Obama’s economic stimulus package with a new advertising campaign designed to pressure several Republican senators to support it (unlike their House colleagues).
Sponsored by MoveOn, Americans United for Change and two labor groups – the Service Employees International Union and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees – the ads will begin running this week in Iowa, Maine, New Hampshire, Alaska and Washington D.C.
The spots show a shuttered factory springing back to life as oratory from Mr. Obama plays in the background (“The first job of my administration is to put people back to work,” he says.) The spots call upon different senators in each state — Susan M. Collins and Olympia J. Snowe in Maine; Judd Gregg in New Hampshire; Chuck Grassley in Iowa and Lisa Murkowski in Alaska – to “support the Obama plan for jobs, not the failed policies of the past.”

TAGS: GOP/Republicans, President Obama, JOBS, LABOR, Economy, Stimulus,
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:: For the love of cats, the Republicans need to be made to understand that they LOST. That they are currently IRRELEVANT. An incomplete recitation of their activities today:

Political News Summary: Wednesday, January 28, 2009

:: More on HuffPost re Republican behavior (besides, I had to share this great graphic from HP). The headline over the elephant pic reads "Toeing the Party Line". Gotta admit, we Dems have a much keener sense of humor than the Repubs. Oh, and by the time you click on this link, the headline and the image may be different because it's on the HuffPost home page. From HUFFPOST:

:: On Republican behavior. From Bob Cesca (I love this guy):

Political News Summary: Tuesday, January 27, 2009

:: Rush Limbaugh copies GOP liars, makes false claim that ACORN is mentioned in the stimulus and will receive $4.19 billion. What a sad loser cherub-cheeked Rushie is...... From Media Matters:

Summary: Parroting GOP talking points, Rush Limbaugh falsely claimed $4.19 billion of President Barack Obama's economic recovery package "is going to ACORN." In fact, the bill does not mention ACORN or otherwise single it out for funding.

TAGS: Rush Limbaugh, Conservative Pundits, GOP/Republicans, President Obama, LIES,
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ACORN a Republican Set-Up?

Don’t Be Fooled: Republican Charges Against ACORN Are Bogus - AFL-CIO Blog

Magicians often talk about how they use diversion to trick audiences—keep them focused on something on the side while the real action they don’t want you to see is going on somewhere else. That’s what John McCain and the Republican Party are up to with their latest charges against the grassroots group ACORN.

Here are the facts:

• ACORN and Project Vote registered 1.3 million poor people, persons of color and young people, groups that generally vote for Democrats. To register this number of new voters, the groups hired 13,000 canvassers who went door to door in their neighborhoods. The Republicans especially don’t want these groups to vote in large numbers and are doing everything they can to suppress what could be a huge vote for the Democrats.
• ACORN has a tight system of checking voter registration forms. Staff call people

Read full article.