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A review of guests on 13 evening cable news shows on CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC during the month of April 2013 reveals that these networks overwhelmingly host male and white guests. Evening Cable News Guests Were Overwhelmingly White And Male Men Dominated Guest List On Cable News.  Out of 1,670 total guests, CNN had the largest proportion of men — 76 percent — during the month of April. Women did not make up more than 33 percent of guests on any network

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Rush Limbaugh helped Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) accuse Democrats of bugging his Kentucky campaign headquarters, despite a report by NBC’s Chuck Todd that a sweep of McConnell’s campaign office found no evidence of a bug.

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Rush Limbaugh attacked the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, also known as food stamps, as the “buy beer … with a government credit card” despite prohibitions on the purchase of alcohol with program funds

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After downplaying the effects of the government spending cuts known as sequestration, right-wing media are now claiming that President Obama is trying to maximize sequestration pain. Right-Wing Media Before Sequestration: Cuts Are “Chump Change” Fox’s Stuart Varney: ”Nonsense” That “We Can’t Cut 2 Percent Out Of A $3.6 Trillion Economy Without Facing Utter Disaster.”  On  Fox & Friends , Fox Business host Stuart Varney claimed that the sequestration cut was offset by $60 billion in Sandy relief spending and so was just a minor cut

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With former NBC chief Jeff Zucker now in charge at CNN, the network reportedly has big changes planned.  The overhaul presents an  opportunity  for CNN to reverse a decline in environmental coverage that one former top environmental producer at the network blames on an obsession with beating Fox News. Peter Dykstra, who oversaw the CNN environmental beat from 1995 to 2008, recalled top CNN executives describing environmental stories as “elite issues or liberal issues” that would not draw a Fox News crowd. “For the last 10 years, CNN has been battered by competition, primarily by Fox

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Fox figures used part of a 1995 speech by U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to press the conservative narrative that the administration plans to launch an assault on gun owners and the Second Amendment.

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Rush Limbaugh falsely redefined redlining, claiming that it involves forcing banks to loan money to people who can’t afford to pay it back in order to blame liberals for the financial crisis. In fact, the prohibited practice involves a lending institution’s refusal to lend money based on location. After noting a news article stating that new regulations will require mortgage lenders to verify and inspect borrowers’ financial records, Limbaugh said on the January 10 edition of his radio show: LIMBAUGH: You know what Obama and the Rev.

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On Election Day, Rush Limbaugh portrayed Mitt Romney as likely to win the presidential election because the 2012 electorate would be more similar to that of 2010 rather than 2008.

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Fox News is blaming fact-checkers for Mitt Romney’s loss in the presidential election, claiming that they tilted the race in President Obama’s favor. Fox repeatedly attacked fact-checkers for debunking many of Romney’s falsehoods during the campaign — following the Romney camp’s dismissal of fact checks as biased. Fox: “Partisan” Fact-Checkers Drove Obama Win   Steve Doocy: Biased Fact-Checkers Allowed Obama Team To Put Out “Flat-Out Lies.” On Fox & Friends , co-host Steve Doocy claimed that fact-checkers with a “political agenda,” “allowed the president’s team to put out some ads that were absolutely false”:  DOOCY: You look at throughout the summer months, Mr.

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In a recent interview with MTV, President Obama said he was “surprised” that climate didn’t come up in the presidential debates. This isn’t a very good excuse for avoiding discussion of the problem, particularly when you’re debating your opponent over drilling for fossil fuels and promoting clean energy.

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