Adam Shah: Fox Lies About Military Access To Early Voting In Ohio
Fox News completely misrepresented an Obama campaign lawsuit to expand early voting in Ohio to claim that it disenfranchised military voters in order to gain an advantage in the election. In fact, the...
View ArticleSolange Uwimana: Fox News Rewrites Obama Timeline On Libya Terrorism Comments
Fox News furthered its efforts to protect Mitt Romney from fact checks, claiming today that moderator and CNN host Candy Crowley interrupted a "major moment" for Romney during the presidential debate...
View ArticleMax Greenberg: Fox Bends The Facts To Back Up Romney’s Oil Production Claims
Today, Fox's Stuart Varney said that "the facts back up" Mitt Romney's suggestion during the second presidential debate that oil production on federal lands has dropped under President Obama. But...
View ArticleTerry Krepel: Fox Still Defending Romney’s "47 Percent" Attack Even After He...
Fox News is still defending Mitt Romney's controversial remarks that 47 percent of American voters "pay no income tax" and "believe that they are victims," even though Romney himself walked back his...
View ArticleKevin Zieber: Murdoch Rebuffed Christie’s Refusal To Politicize Hurricane Sandy
News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch rebuffed New Jersey Governor Chris Christie's attempt not to politicize the response to Hurricane Sandy
View ArticleWith Governor’s Signature, Colorado Marijuana Law Goes Into Effect
Colorado’s law to legalize and regulate marijuana went into effect Monday , as Gov. John Hickenlooper quietly signed an executive order making Amendment 64 part of the state’s Constitution. In...
View ArticleBill O’Reilly Covers The "War On Christmas" More Than Actual Wars, Again
For the second straight year, The O'Reilly Factor has devoted more than three times as much airtime to the manufactured "War on Christmas" than to actual military conflicts. O'Reilly Factor Spent...
View ArticleFox, Right-Wing Media Defend Boehner’s Decision To Cancel Sandy Relief Vote
Fox and right-wing media figures defended Republican House Speaker John Boehner's decision to cancel a vote on an aid package for victims of Hurricane Sandy. Following sharp bipartisan criticism over...
View ArticleFDA Cracks Down On Deadly Outbreaks With Food Safety Proposals
The Food and Drug Administration proposed new rules on Friday aiming to prevent outbreaks like those experienced in recent years, such as salmonella from peanuts and listeria from cantaloupe.
View ArticleObama Endorses Rhode Island Marriage Equality As Governor Rebuffs Proposed...
Today, President Obama endorsed legislative efforts to pass marriage equality in the state of Rhode Island. White House spokesperson Shin Inouye provided the following statement to the Washington...
View ArticleSalvatore Colleluori: Oil Tycoon’s Newspapers Hype Flawed Keystone XL Pipeline
The editorial boards of two newspapers owned by oil tycoon Philip Anschutz re-endorsed the controversial Keystone XL (KXL) Pipeline project days after Nebraska's Governor approved a new route for the...
View ArticleSimon Maloy: Who Started The Benghazi "Real-Time" Video Falsehood?
Washington Post media writer Erik Wemple has been working doggedly to correct one of Sean Hannity's favorite false claims about the attack on the U.S.
View ArticleBen Dimiero: Geraldo Rivera Will Use Fox Platform To Benefit Possible Senate...
Fox News host Geraldo Rivera is poised to become the latest Republican to leverage their Fox News platform into a possible run at political office. During an appearance this morning on Fox &...
View ArticleMichigan Governor Supports Extending Medicaid Coverage To Nearly Half A...
Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder (R) Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder (R) is set to announce his support for Obamacare’s optional expansion of the Medicaid program at a press conference on Wednesday afternoon.
View ArticleKansas Governor’s Tax Plan Will Cost Hundreds Of Millions Of Dollars, Despite...
Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback (R), like Republican governors all across the country , aims to implement a regressive tax plan that involves cutting income taxes for the rich while, in his case,...
View ArticleBen Dimiero & Eric Hananoki: A Brief History Of Conservative Anger At...
The GOP civil war continues to intensify, with numerous prominent conservative media figures lashing out at Karl Rove in recent days over vehement disagreements about the direction of the party. This...
View ArticleHow Women Are Getting The Short End Of The Economic Recovery
The New York Times’ Floyd Norris noted over the weekend that, since the labor market bottomed out, the recovery has been much more favorable to men than women. In fact, a lower percentage of women...
View ArticleTop Republican Strategist: GOP ‘Doesn’t Give Equal Opportunity To Women’
During a segment on women’s evolving roles in the workplace on Meet the Press Sunday morning, GOP political operative and former McCain campaign adviser Steve Schmidt made a compelling case for equal...
View ArticleHow Economic Inequality Could Take A Bigger Toll On Veterans’ Mental Health...
A new study on mental health in war-ravaged Afghanistan conducted by researchers at the Washington University in St. Louis comes to a jarring conclusion: socioeconomic indicators such as poverty and...
View ArticleAlan Pyke: Emerging Conservative Attack On Affordable Housing Policy...
Conservative media figures are painting a new White House push on affordable housing with the same dishonest brush they used to shift blame away from Wall Street for the housing bubble that...
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