Walid Zafar discusses the different ways Fox & Friends treats different political figures, how Beck's supposedly non-political rally turned political, and what the right wing might do now that one of its favorite climate change skeptics has changed his tune.
Glenn Beck has described his August 28 Restoring Honor rally with outrageous hyperbole, calling it everything from "an American miracle" to a "defibrillator to the heart of America." Beck has also claimed that with the rally, he and his audience will be able to "reclaim" the "distorted" civil rights movement.
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Lisa Reed takes a look at Beck's upcoming rally at the Lincoln Memorial, catches two conservatives being strangely reasonable in the past, and blames the media for perpetuating the lie that President Obama is a Muslim.
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News Corp, parent company of Fox News, donated $1 million to the Republican Governors Association to help defeat Democrats this November. We felt viewers of Fox News' most popular program had a right to know.
Narration by D.C. Douglas
Brooke Obie walks us through the top stories of the week including Dr. Laura calling it quits, conservatives freaking out about an Islamic center, and Fox now giving money to Republicans.
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Rupert Murdoch told Media Matters that Fox News shouldn't be promoting "the tea party or any other party." Yet news leaked that News Corporation, the parent company of Fox News donated $1 million to the Republican Governors Association.
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This week on The Big Picture, Julie Millican fills us in on Fox News' electioneering, Breitbart's bizarre writers, and conservatives attacking the administration for literally anything.
Andrew Breitbart, right-wing race-baiter, exposed as the fraud he is
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Also see:
Rush: " 'Cracker' Is The Word Of The Day"
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Limbaugh Uses Steinbrenner's Death As An Opportunity For Race-Baiting
(http://bit.ly/9p o0zu)
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