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Fox News cribbed research and graphics directly from a National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) press release without disclosing their origin in order to attack President Obama’s purported “sequester priorities.” In a Fox & Friends Saturday  interview with NRCC chairman Greg Walden, co-host Tucker Carlson claimed that he was “going through a list here” of supposedly wasteful federal spending projects and crucial programs that are impacted by the mandatory spending cuts required by sequestration, but did not explain where that list originated. Every case of both worthwhile and allegedly worthless spending they discussed had previously been highlighted in a February 28 NRCC  press release . Later in the segment, Carlson asked Walden, “wouldn’t it make sense for Republicans to come up with a list, push that list over to the White House, and publicize that list of pointless programs like this that ought to be cut?” Walden replied, “Absolutely.” Throughout this segment and a second segment Fox aired on-screen graphics that mimicked images included in the NRCC release in order to criticized what they termed Obama’s “sequestration priorities.” Here are those images, with the Fox versions on the left and NRCC versions on the right:

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Karl Rove has recently used his various media platforms to sing the praises of Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and tout his role in the brewing debate over immigration reform.

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On Friday morning, outgoing Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME) attributed the GOP’s reluctance to reach a balanced deal that could avert the so-called fiscal cliff to Grover Norquist’s pledge, which prevents Republicans from supporting a tax increase. President Obama has called on lawmakers to pass a package that maintains the Bush tax cuts for families earning less than $250,000 a year, though Republicans have thus far ignored his call and unsuccessfully attempted to advance a much more modest measure that preserved tax breaks for incomes under a million dollars.

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Politico’s Dylan Byers neatly sums up the reaction, or lack thereof, to the news that Fox News chief Roger Ailes used a Fox contributor to pitch a presidential run to David Petraeus in 2011: No one seemed to believe that Ailes had breached media ethics.

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Fox News is deep in an ethics quagmire following a Washington Post report that the network’s CEO Roger Ailes used Fox News analyst K.T. McFarland to try to recruit Gen.

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A Washington Post article connected U.N. ambassador Susan Rice’s investments in companies with business ties to Iran but didn’t mention that Sen. John McCain, one of Rice’s chief critics, has holdings with similar ties

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The Wall Street Journal disclosed that Hoover Institute fellow John Taylor is a Mitt Romney adviser after not doing so when it published two previous op-eds by Taylor. The Journal has published a total of 23 op-eds from 10 other Romney advisers without disclosing their Romney connection. Editorial page editors from across the country  have criticized  the  Journal  for its lack of transparency in its editorial pages, and  several  media  outlets  have  noted  their failure to disclose.  Media Matters  has also launched a  petition  urging the  Journal  to disclose the conflicts.

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Fox & Friends  hosted former senator Evan Bayh (D-IN) this morning to rail against a tax on medical devices included in health care reform legislation passed by congress in 2010. Neither Bayh nor Fox News disclosed that Bayh is currently a partner at a law firm that represents several medical device companies. Bayh, who was  hired  as a Fox News contributor last year and voted to pass health care reform when he was a senator, appeared on the network to criticize the tax for several minutes

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Normally, I would pay absolutely no attention to anything Paris Hilton says, except that her anti-gay meltdown yesterday and her apology today are a perfect example of how the media’s learned to process offense. The hotel heiress found herself in headlines again after a New York taxi driver clandestinely taped her speaking with a friend in a cab, in itself a totally gross thing to do, no matter how gross whatever he captured is

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End of Watch , Training Day writer David Ayer’s third directorial effort after Harsh Times and Street Kings , is being advertised as a violent, aggressive movie that pits cops against cartels. To a certain extent, it is that: forks are shoved in eyes, cops go toe to toe with gang-bangers, and gold-plated guns are confiscated from vehicles.

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