Glenn Beck has repeatedly called progressive activist Robert Creamer an “unrepentant convicted felon,” but Beck conveniently ignores the facts and his own previous statement that make this assertion false.
BECK: But first I want to show you the latest video clip from Robert Creamer – thanks Kyle Olson and Andrew Breitbart from BigGovernment.com. They sent this [...]
Written on December 15, 2009 | Posted in
Glenn Beck
It’s been pointed out numerous times that Glenn Beck’s statement(s) about Van Jones being a “convicted felon” were false. It’s taken four months, but Glenn Beck has finally admitted that he was wrong – that Van Jones IS NOT a convicted felon as Beck previously stated – thus proving that Beck is a shoot first, [...]
Written on December 9, 2009 | Posted in
Glenn Beck
Fox & Friends used a Rasmussen poll to show how people feel about scientists falsifying research to support Global Warming. Fox News then took the poll results, did some manipulation, and displayed the results… totaling 120%.
Apparently, the actual poll results were as follows: According to the poll, 35 percent thought it very likely, 24 [...]
Written on December 8, 2009 | Posted in
Fox & Friends
When President Obama spoke at West Point about sending more troops to Afghanistan, there were several instances where he mentioned success. However, Fox & Friends would have you believe he didn’t:
DOOCY: Interestingly enough, of the 4,581 words in his speech, one word was missing. That word was “win.”
Similarly, The Fox Nation web site [...]
Written on December 2, 2009 | Posted in
Fox & Friends,
Fox Nation
White House Press Secretary under George W. Bush and current Fox News contributor Dana Perino needs a history lesson on 9/11. While trying to classify the Ft. Hood shooting as a terrorist attack, Perino makes the crazy assertion that “we did not have a terrorist attack on our country during President Bush’s term.”
With the [...]
Written on November 25, 2009 | Posted in
Sean Hannity
While discussing Al Gore’s book, An Inconvenient Truth, with British filmmaker and climate change skeptic Phelim McAleer, the following inaccurate exchange took place:
HANNITY: Well, [Gore's] claiming that this court decision actually, you know, favored his point of view, that is absolutely false.
MCALEER: That is false.
HANNITY: Explain.
MCALEER: Well, the court case, it was a lengthy hearing, [...]
Written on November 23, 2009 | Posted in
Sean Hannity
It’s getting cliche to say another day, another Fox News “mistake,” but that’s what Fox News is claiming now that they’ve been caught, yet again, using old footage from past events in stories run for current events.
Just recently Jon Stewart aired part of a Sean Hannity report about the Bachmann rally in which FNC used [...]
Written on November 19, 2009 | Posted in
Fox News,
Sarah Palin
Showing that the misinformation we’re used to seeing from Fox News starts at the top, Media Matters for America has put together the following list showing recent falsehoods from News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch.
falsely characterized Sean Hannity as being an “academic”;
falsely characterized Glenn Beck as being “purely Libertarian”;
falsely claimed nobody on Fox [...]
Written on November 17, 2009 | Posted in
Rupert Murdoch
The Daily Show host Jon Stewart slams Sean Hannity for trying to dupe his viewers by showing footage of the crowds from the 9/12 Project event in Washington DC and saying it was from Rep. Michele Bachmann’s (R-MN) anti-health care reform protest. First, 9/12 supporters use attendance numbers from Obama’s Inauguration to inflate their own [...]
Written on November 11, 2009 | Posted in
Sean Hannity
The Ft. Hood shooting was a tragedy. We can all agree on that. But to place the blame on President Obama to fuel some sick agenda is also tragic. Here’s a recent quote from Sean Hannity, trying to tie the shooting to the current president.
HANNITY: This Fort Hood situation is really beginning to disturb [...]
Written on November 10, 2009 | Posted in
Sean Hannity
