Wash. Times Celebrates Reagan's Birthday By Rewriting His Economic Record
The Washington Times is celebrating Ronald Reagan's 100th birthday by advancing the falsehood that Reagan ended the 1981 recession by cutting taxes and making misleading claims about Reagan's record on taxes and spending. Read More
The "Sting" That Wasn't: Right-wing Media Hype Bogus Version Of Planned Parenthood Video Story
Following right-wing group Live Action's first release of a video allegedly "exposing" Planned Parenthood's "cover-up of child sex trafficking," conservative media have rushed to accuse Planned Parenthood of engaging in criminal activity. In fact, at least two weeks before the video of the sting operation in a New Jersey Planned Parenthood was released, Planned Parenthood reported to the FBI a "potential multistate sex trafficking ring" and later fired the employee behaving improperly in the video. Read More
Fox Escalates War On Climate Science As House GOP Readies Attack On EPA
In recent weeks Fox has repeatedly promoted skeptics' view that "there is no global warming," dismissing the extensive body of evidence supporting the scientific consensus on climate change. Meanwhile, congressional Republicans are drafting legislation to prohibit the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act. Read More
Right-Wing Media Attack Planned Parenthood For VA Video Showing No Wrongdoing
Since the release of a second video from anti-choice group Live Action, which shows a Planned Parenthood worker at a Richmond, Virginia, clinic advising a man and woman posing as a pimp and prostitute, right-wing media have suggested that the video shows Planned Parenthood engaged in wrongdoing. In fact, the Richmond clinic reported the incident to Planned Parenthood's national security team, and legal experts have agreed that the worker's advice in the video is consistent with state law. Read More
CDC Debunks Right-Wing Claim That Obama Canceled Annual Abortion Report
On RedState.com, CNN contributor Erick Erickson claimed that the Obama Administration has canceled an annual Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report on abortion statistics because it is "afraid of the truth," and continued to insist that the report was "killed" even after the CDC said the report was merely delayed and will be published. Indeed, an internal CDC email obtained by Media Matters shows that the report was submitted for review and editing on November 12. Read More
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