Glenn Beck was on Fox & Friends this morning discussing upcoming tea parties as well as his version of how, why and when the United States acquired Alaska. Here’s what he had to say:

CARLSON: But nowhere in that bill is anything about reducing our dependence on foreign oil.

BECK: None… You know Donald Trump, I want to talk to this guy. When he was on the show just a few minutes ago I was thinking how can you not be laughing at us? How can the world not be laughing at us? We have all these resources. Why did we buy Alaska in the 1950s? We bought Alaska for the resources. And now we say no!

Here’s a little history lesson for Beck: Alaska was purchased from the Russians in 1867 for $7.2million. It became an unofficial territory in 1884, but after the gold rushes at the end of the century, Alaska officially became a U.S. territory in 1912. Statehood was approved in 1958. Oil was discovered in Prudhoe Bay in 1968.

So, while Alaska officially became a state in the late 1950s, it was owned by the U.S. for much longer. Additionally, it was purchased about a hundred years before the oil discovery, so that could hardly have been the reason.

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Glenn Beck joined Fox & Friends this morning to promote another round of tea bagging to protest Barack Obama & taxes, which will be held on the 4th of July. Like previous tea parties, these are being organized by the lobbyist-run groups Americans for Prosperity and FreedomWorks, with the help of Fox News, of course. Fox News has even run segments with Gov. Mark Sanford (R-SC) to promote the tea parties.

So, why is Glenn Beck suggesting that people spend the 4th of July protesting what’s wrong with America? Last year (while Bush was still in office) he suggested, in an op-ed, that we should celebrate by not talking about our problems, but rather about what’s right with our country. He also suggested that the day be used to take a break from talking about “crooked politicians.” Is that an admission that Bush was a crooked politician, but Obama is not?

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You’ve seen FoxNation‘s extreme bias on issues such as Judge Sonia Sotomayor, Sarah Palin vs. David Letterman, plus many others, all while purporting to say “no” to biased media. A closer look at where FoxNation gathers it’s news is very telling. As of this morning, nearly half of the stories promoted in FoxNation’s Media section were from NewsBusters.org, a self-described conservative media watchdog group that states it is “the leader in documenting, exposing and neutralizing liberal media bias.”

The following are the NewsBusters headlines on FoxNation:

• Krugman: ‘Politicians From Both Parties Stray, but Dems Punish Theirs More Harshly’
• Media Ignore EPA Suppressing Skeptical Global Warming Report
• Time Magazine Blames California’s Mess on… Low Taxes
• Krauthammer on Press/Obama: ‘The Hot Sex Is Over. They’re in the Cigarette Stage’
• Oliver Stone: ‘Reagan Was a Dumb Son of a Bitch… and Bush Was Dumber’
• Sam: It’s Hard to Forgive Bible-Thumping GOPers for Sex Scandals

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On Fox News’ Special Report, Bret Baier stated, “President Obama spent a good deal of time at that news conference [on June 23] talking about health care reform, and Canada’s medical system has been cited as a possible model.” Later, Fox News correspondent Molly Line also referenced Canada’s health care system.

The idea that Obama’s health care reform ideas are similar to those of Canada or the UK has previously been debunked.In fact, this is what Obama had to say about modeling our health care system after those countries:

So I think we can accomplish it. Now, whether we do it exactly the way European countries do or Canada does is a different question, because there are a variety of ways to get to universal health care coverage…

I don’t think the best way to fix our health care system is to suddenly completely scrap what everybody is accustomed to and the vast majority of people already have. Rather, what I think we should do is to build on the system that we have and fill some of these gaps.

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Bill O’Reilly, one would hope, may have learned something about not projecting the idea of vigilante justice, but Geraldo Rivera may want to think about not following in O’Reilly’s footsteps. While discussing the extremely questionable one year sentence handed down to child rapist, David Earls, Rivera gets extremely close, if not over the line, to suggesting that it’s okay for someone to leave Earls to be “found sometime on a country road.”

O’REILLY: If Earls ever walks out of jail and gets killed, who are they going to blame?

RIVERA: … I can only tell you ladies and gentlemen, that I will not weep if something happens to David Earls. I do not encourage vigilantism. I think it is something that puts your own life at risk. I do not advise it, I do not counsel it. I will not, however, weep if David Earls is found sometime on a country road.

O’REILLY: We obviously don’t want anyone to do anything. That would be as morally wrong as what Earls did—to take Earls’ life. You can’t do that.

RIVERA: I don’t agree quite with your moral reasoning. You’re more moral than I am.

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It’s the FoxNation trifecta! They sure are on a streak today! Here is the third headline on FoxNation that is misleading and intended to instill fear and hatred in their sheeple.

The headline/image/caption links to a page that states, “The House of Representatives Friday approved a milestone energy and climate change bill that would curb greenhouse gasses omitted by industry and agriculture.The vote was 219-212.” That page links to a FoxNews page that reprinted an AP article titled, “House Passes Milestone Energy, Climate Change Bill.”

But, “fair and balanced” reporting for naught, FoxNation decides to go with “Treason? House Passes Direct Assault on Industrial Base of America.” Nowhere does the article mention treason. This was an obvious subjective and biased jab at the House of Representatives and, specifically, Nancy Pelosi, who is soley pictured with the headline.

The Fox News web site, FoxNation, linked to a Canadian op-ed that has the following Anti-Obama attack:

Obama’s “census will make sure that the time of the Judeo-Christian standards and culture in the land of the free and the home of the brave will come to an end,” and that many census questions “stand in violation of the Constitution which states that a national census should concern itself solely the number of individuals in a household.”

FoxNation, in their infinite unfairness, borrows the headline, “Obama’s Census to castrate American Caucasians.”

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Apparently, the people at FoxNation didn’t realize the blog, Elective Decisions, posted a satirical statement from former Governor Tom Ridge (R) about Rush Limbaugh:

So this morning, Ridge went back on Washington Journal, responding to Limbaugh’s rhetoric. “I’m so sick of Rush Limbaugh. He’s the reason we lose elections. He needs to get the hell out of the Republican Party. As far as I’m concerned, he isn’t a Republican anymore. The man’s running. The man’s hiding. He’s too scared to face me!”

Ridge continued his rant, threatening Limbaugh. “Meanwhile, he sits there in his ‘Southern Command Post,’ and destroys the Republican Party! I’d like to just have three rounds in a boxing ring with that guy so I could shut him up! I’m caling (sic) you out, Limbaugh. Let’s see if you have a big enough set of marbles to back up your crap!”

The encounter was posted on the FoxNation site as if it were fact:

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While attempting to discredit a poll taken by the New York Times, Bill O’Reilly lets his true feelings about freedom of the press be known…

OREILLY: The most frustrating part about this is that nothing can be done. The Times has an ombudsman, but he’s a joke, and no outside agency has any power over the paper. It can pretty much do what it wants, and does.

How hypocritical considering Fox News’ history of regurgitating “news” from the GOP, while bad mouthing other networks every time they run a positive piece about Barack Obama. Of course, this is nothing new from O’Reilly… Here he is going ballistic about those media people he disagrees with:

O’REILLY: [T]here is a huge problem in this country and I’m going to attack that problem. I’m going to attack it. These people aren’t getting away with this. I’m going to go right where they live. Every corrupt media person in this country is on notice, right now. I’m coming after you…I’m going to hunt you down [...] if I could strangle these people and not go to hell and get executed…I would.

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Glenn Beck, caught making stuff up again, claimed that Paul Krugman missed the $8trillion housing bubble. In fact, Krugman was worried about the bubble as early as 2002. Fortunately for Beck, his audience probably won’t fact check him and assume he’s smarter than a Nobel Prize winner…

GLENN BECK: The unemployment rate is 19.2 percent now, and that’s not the worst place in America. And yet, at least a dozen of the same economic bean heads who missed the industry’s $8 trillion housing bubble — yeah, those guys — including our best bud, the 2008 Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman — they’re now calling for a third stimulus.

PAUL KRUGMAN (2002): More and more people are using the B-word about the housing market. A recent analysis by Dean Baker, of the Center for Economic Policy Research, makes a particularly compelling case for a housing bubble. House prices have run well ahead of rents, suggesting that people are now buying houses for speculation rather than merely for shelter. And the explanations one hears for those high prices sound more and more like the rationalizations one heard for Nasdaq 5,000.

PAUL KRUGMAN (2005): That’s why it’s so ominous to see signs that America’s housing market, like the stock market at the end of the last decade, is approaching the final, feverish stages of a speculative bubble.

PAUL KRUGMAN (2005): I’ve written before about the reasons to believe that current house prices in much of the country represent a bubble. When that bubble begins to deflate, so will housing-related employment.

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Fox News did it again… An embarrassing situation for a Republican ends up being an embarrassing situation for Fox News as they, once again, claim the subject a Democrat. In this case, it’s Gov. Mark Sanford (R-SC) who recently disappeared for several days while staff incorrectly stated that he was hiking, when he was actually out of the country visiting a woman with whom he’d been having an affair. Fox News later fixed their error.

Fox News has a history of doing this, as evidenced by the graphics below:

Note: the Arlen Specter picture is from 2007

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On Monday’s show, Sean Hannity brought up a poll showing Sen. John Ensign (R-NV), who admitted to having an affair with a married staffer, having a higher approval rating than Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV). Ensign is well known for calling others out on family values issues (Bill Clinton, Larry Craig, etc.). Here’s Hannity being a little wishy-washy on the subject of Ensign’s resignation.

BECKEL: You go to this thing with John Ensign, right, about Harry Reid. He’s more popular than — now, this is a guy — you’re a big family values guy. Here’s a guy that cheats on his wife, not just with somebody, but somebody on his staff who’s married. Now what do you think? Are you defending John Ensign?

HANNITY: That sounds like a liberal Democrat to me.

BECKEL: That was good.

DENNIS PRAGER, RADIO TALK SHOW HOST: Wait, wait, wait. What does have it to do with…

BECKEL: Excuse me. Excuse me for a second, Mr. University Prager. I want — I want him to answer this question.

HANNITY: My answer is, if you’re going to be a family-values candidate and a family-values politician, and you don’t live up to that, I think you should resign.

BECKEL: Well…

HANNITY: I don’t know where he stands.

BECKEL: Oh, he’s big.

HANNITY: But with that said, it is interesting that Harry, you know, Prince Pelosi, Prince Harry and Princess Pelosi. His ratings are lower than the guy that had an affair.

BECKEL: All I’m saying is let the record show that that you called for John Ensign to resign.

HANNITY: I don’t know where he stands on the issues.

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