Monica Crowley’s Bush/Terrorism Falsehood

Fox News contributor Monica Crowley was a guest on The O’Reilly Factor, during which she stated, “[a]fter 9-11, President Bush and Vice President Cheney had a 100 percent perfect track record in keeping the homeland safe from an Islamic terrorist attack.”

The problem with that statement can be explained by the following incidents that took place [...]

Media Matters Now Has a ‘Beck Phone’ for ‘Misinformer of the Year’

Media Matters for America named Glenn Beck 2009’s Misinformer of the Year. Beck didn’t take too kindly to that title, so Media Matters has provided Glenn Beck with his own phone line to dispute the fact checking…

You can view the letter sent to Beck here. It includes the following list of falsehoods made by Beck [...]

Bill O’Reilly Misinforms in Attack Against Al Franken

It’s been confirmed that Senator Al Franken (D-MN) was, in fact, instructed to enforce a rule that limits speeches to ten minutes. That didn’t stop Bill O’Reilly from spreading misinformation about Franken’s denial of Sen. Joe Lieberman’s (I-CT) request to continue speaking past the 10 minute mark.
O’REILLY: Franken, who was in a rotation presiding [...]

Glenn Beck ‘Unrepentant’ About Robert Creamer Falsehood

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 [...]

Glenn Beck Called Van Jones ‘Convicted Felon’ – Retracts Four Months Later

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, [...]

Fox News Manipulates Global Warming Poll to Show 120%

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 [...]

Fox & Friends, FoxNation Falsehood on Obama’s West Point Speech

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 [...]

Dana Perino Rewrites 9/11 History on Hannity

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 [...]

Sean Hannity Falsehood on Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth

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, [...]

Fox News Caught Using Election Footage For Sarah Palin Book Signing

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 [...]