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National Rifle Association board member Ted Nugent will reportedly appear  tonight on CNN’s  Erin Burnett   OutFront   to discuss firearm policy, despite his history of inflammatory rhetoric and misinformation about gun violence. In February,  OutFront   featured an interview  with Nugent where he suggested the government could confiscate firearms, a conspiracy theory that host Erin Burnett and CNN reporter Deb Feyerick later treated as a serious argument. Nugent’s appearance comes just days after he  doubled down  on his infamous comments that he would be “dead or in jail” because of President Obama’s gun policies.

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CNN host Erin Burnett didn’t ask NRA board member Ted Nugent a single question about his recent violent remarks concerning gun policy, which included doubling down on his previous claim that he would be “dead or in jail” if Obama was reelected.

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With the U.S. Senate having voted to take up legislation to strengthen gun laws, which will likely include a bipartisan proposal to expand federal firearms background checks, Media Matters reviews myths the media has promoted about the background check system. How do federal background checks work

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If the UK Telegraph does not retract and apologize for James Delingpole’s latest piece of pure hate speech , then it is declaring its own publication policies a sham.

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Following the  announcement  that Pastor Louie Giglio would no longer be performing the benediction at President Obama’s second inauguration, Fox News reporter Todd Starnes rushed to blame “heterophobic bigots” for allegedly forcing the pastor to withdraw from the event. On January 10, Georgia Pastor Louie Giglio announced that he had  decided to withdraw  from performing the benediction at President Obama’s second inauguration.

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A hearing on Thursday will decide whether a set of controversial advertisements that refer to Muslims as “savages” will be posted in Washington, D.C.’s subway system.

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Iowa radio host Jan Mickelson opened his show Tuesday by concurring with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that homosexuality is an “ugly behavior” and accusing CNN’s Piers Morgan of “moral, intellectual bankruptcy” for broaching the subject in an interview with the leader Monday night. From  WHO-AM 1040  (emphasis added): [playing clip of CNN interview] PIERS MORGAN: Shouldn’t freedom and individuality in all those things also extend to people who just happen to be gay?

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The Washington Times yesterday published a misleading account of a United Nations treaty that seeks to promote equal rights for people with disabilities, arguing that it threatens U.S. sovereignty

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Americans who rely on Fox News or conservative radio as their main sources of information are more likely to have negative views of Latinos and immigrants than those who watch more mainstream outlets. That’s according to a new study by the National Hispanic Media Coalition, which found that “[c]onservative talk radio and Fox News audiences hold significantly more anti-immigrant and anti-Latino opinions.” NHMC stated that Fox News audiences are “more likely to agree that Latinos are on welfare (56%), take jobs from Americans (43%) and have too many children (42%).” These are all stereotypes Fox has pushed in its coverage of immigration issues . The study, done in conjunction with Latino Decisions, explained that “[c]onservative radio and Fox News program viewers are less familiar and less favorable toward Latinos and immigrants on nearly every measure included in the survey,” adding: Only 54% of those who trust Fox News, and 56% of those who trust talk radio give Latinos favorable marks

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In a September 11 FoxNews.com op-ed that misleads about President Obama’s Iran policy and the effect of sanctions, Anne Bayefsky asserted that President Obama has facilitated Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad  by allowing him to speak to the United Nations General Assembly on September 26. But granting Ahmadinejad a visa to appear at the United Nations is not an indication of Obama’s foreign policy leanings and is in line with precedent set by the Bush administration. Under the headline “The White House hands Iran’s Ahmadinejad a global megaphone,” Bayefsky writes: It is a moral outrage that the Obama administration is facilitating Ahmadinejad’s return to the United States in September of 2012.

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