Zombie Lie: Right Still Clinging To Decade-Old Fabrication About Radicalized Mosques
Recently, The Laura Ingraham Show hosted Rep. Peter King (R-NY) to make his oft-repeated claim that "80 percent of the mosques in this country are controlled by radical Imams." This claim has been repeated in various iterations by numerous right-wing media figures and anti-Islam activists for more than a decade, and the statistic appears to be entirely based on a single, unsubstantiated claim made by a Californian Muslim cleric in 1999. The cleric later admitted that his criteria of an "extremist mosque" was one that was "focus[ed] on the Palestinian struggle." Read More
Conservative Media Look At Hosni Mubarak And See Barack Obama
In the wake of protests in Egypt, right-wing media have compared President Obama to corrupt Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, who has ruled that country as a police state for 30 years. Conservative media have long accused Obama of being "anti-Democratic" and a "dictator."
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Doocy's Obsessive One-Man Campaign Against "Lefty Blog" Politico
Fox & Friends co-host Steve Doocy has engaged in a one-man campaign to attack the political news website Politico, repeatedly dismissing it as a "lefty blog" and criticizing it for "load[ing] up on lefties." Doocy has even stooped to reading critical anonymous comments from a Politico post on the air in order to attack the post's author, Ben Smith, a move criticized as "one of the most revealing stunts I have seen a news-entertainer perform on cable television." Read More
Fox Hosts Yet Another Climate Skeptic To Cast Doubt On Global Warming
Fox & Friends hosted meteorologist and climate skeptic Joe Bastardi to cast doubt on global warming by making several dubious claims, including that El Niño is responsible for warming during the past 30 years. Moreover, Bastardi is not a climate scientist, and previous claims by Bastardi have been criticized by climate experts. Read More
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