Category: Media
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MSNBC's Matthews Whines: 'Right-Wing Crap' On Best Seller List
While concluding a segment on racism involved in anti-Obama protests, MSNBC Hardball host Chris Matthews promoted the book of one of his guests, liberal historian Douglas Brinkley, and proceeded to rant: "There’s so much right-wing crap on the best seller list these days. It’s great to see a book that you might want to put on your shelf and let your respected friends see you actually reading."
Source: http://www.mrc.org/biasalert/2009/20090918061012.aspx
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Obama Blitz Roundup: 'Meanness' on Right, Pelosi's Warning, Only ABC Raises ACORN
In the series of network interviews recorded Friday at the White House for airing on the ABC, CBS, CNN and NBC Sunday morning interview shows, all highlighted Jimmy Carter's charge that racism is fueling the anti-Obamacare protests – with CNN's John King and NBC's David Gregory following up with Nancy Pelosi's claim the heated rhetoric may incite violence
Source: http://www.mrc.org/biasalert/2009/20090921093930.aspx
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Fox News Ad Draws Protests
A provocative full-page newspaper ad from Fox News drew heated reactions from its rivals today and one demand that The Washington Post apologize for running it.
Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09...
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AUDIO: Rush On Pelosi Getting Emotional: "Tears Of A Clown"
Rush Limbaugh on Pelosi crying: "you know that's fake because you can't cry when you have botox all over your face, Nancy Pelosi, tears of a clown."
Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2009/09/17/rush_on_pe...
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Patriots' newest target: Obama 'Minion Media'
Limbaugh: 'Dare them to cover what is right under their noses!'
Source: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=110020
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News Outlets Largely Ignoring ACORN Scandal, Critics Say
Employees at no fewer than four ACORN offices have been caught on videotape advising a man and a woman on how to skirt federal law to obtain housing and operate a brothel — but you'd hardly know it if all you watch and read are the mainstream media, conservative media critics say.
Source: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,550602,00.html
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ABC's Gibson: ACORN Story Is "One You Leave To The Cables"
ABC "World News" anchor Charles Gibson says he has not heard of the recent ACORN scandal.
Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2009/09/15/abcs_gibso...
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CNN's Situation Room Charges: 'Racial Tinge to Tea Movement'
CNN's efforts to smear Obama critics as racist gained visibility on Monday's Situation Room when the usually more sensible Wolf Blitzer, with “RACIAL TINGE TO TEA MOVEMENT” as the on-screen heading, set up a story on how, “most disturbing,” within the tea party crowds there's “a very small but vocal minority, they're targeting President Obama's race.”
Source: http://www.mrc.org/biasalert/2009/20090914095259.aspx
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Massive Conservative D.C. Protest Buried and Dismissed, But Smaller Liberal Rallies Hailed
A conservative protest at the Capitol numbering in the tens of thousands was worth an unfavorable story on page 37. A much smaller Obama rally got better placement, and so had a previous ACORN-led left-wing protest numbering...40 people.
Source: http://www.timeswatch.org/articles/2009/20090914134014.aspx
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Public Trust in Media Accuracy Fairness Plunges, Liberal v Conservative Bias Gap at 28 Points
“The public’s assessment of the accuracy of news stories is now at its lowest level in more than two decades of Pew Research surveys,” a new poll from the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, embargoed for release at 11 PM EDT Sunday night, discovered.
Source: http://www.mrc.org/biasalert/2009/20090914093420.aspx