Fox News covered Democratic criticism of harmful and unnecessary spending cuts as a purely political maneuver, without acknowledging that those criticisms are reflected in actual economic data, and echoed by economists and even by House GOP leadership. On the April 29 edition of America’s Newsroom , host Bill Hemmer set up an interview with Wall Street Journal editorial board member Stephen Moore by suggesting that only Democrats argue that America is not in a “debt crisis,” and hinted that the raw total of U.S
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Category: Articles, author, Breaking News, Congress, Deficit, Economics, Economy, Elections, Environment, Feeds, Foreign Policy, Health, Justice, Media, Media Matters, Paul Krugman, Politics, Science, The Nation, ThinkProgress, Video, War, Washington | Comments OffFox News host Bill Hemmer advanced a number of false and dubious claims about Rep.
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Category: Affordable Care Act, Articles, author, Congress, Deficit, director, Economics, Economy, Elections, Environment, Feeds, Foreign Policy, Health, huffington post, Justice, Media, Media Matters, Medicare, Paul Krugman, Politics, Science, Slate, Social Security, Taxes, The Nation, Video, War, Washington, Yglesias | Comments OffRight-wing media outlets have advanced a number of myths regarding automatic across-the-board spending cuts — commonly called the sequester — in order to hide the facts behind an inherently harmful economic policy. Will The Sequester Hurt Economic Growth? Will The Sequester Help The Economy?
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Category: Articles, author, budget deficit, Congress, Deficit, Department of Defense, director, Economic Policy, Economics, Economy, Elections, Environment, Feeds, Foreign Policy, Global Warming, Health, Justice, Media, Media Matters, Paul Krugman, Pentagon, Science, The Nation, Video, War, Washington, White House | Comments OffWhen former FreedomWorks chairman Dick Armey complained to Media Matters last week that the Tea Party group had wasted money when it paid Glenn Beck and Rush to say “nice things” about the organization on the air, Armey sounded a lot like a record label executive bemoaning the high cost of radio promotion. Armey protested that in making the payments to the high-profile talkers, FreedomWorks was “spending too damn much” and “getting too little value out of it.” The former House majority leader didn’t know the details of Limbaugh’s contract, but said Beck had been paid at least $1 million last year to help the organization fundraise, an effort internal FreedomWorks documents reveal garnered the organization roughly $850,000 (not including some third party event ticket sales).
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Category: Affordable Care Act, Africa, Articles, author, Breaking News, CNN, Economy, Elections, Entertainment, Environment, Feeds, Foreign Policy, Health, Justice, Media, Media Matters, Paul Krugman, politico, Politics, Science, SPONSOR, Taxes, Video, War | Comments OffFox’s Eric Bolling relied on a Republican-commissioned study on federal spending for social benefit programs to claim the government spends more than $1 trillion on welfare. In fact, spending on welfare comprises less than two-tenths of a percent of the federal budget. Study: Federal Government Spent About $750 Billion On Social Benefit Programs In 2011 CRS Study Found That Spending On Federal Benefits and Services For People With Low IncomesTotaled $746 Billion In 2011.
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Category: Articles, author, CNN, Congress, Economy, Elections, Environment, Feeds, Foreign Policy, Health, Justice, Media, Media Matters, Medicare, Paul Krugman, Science, Social Security, The Nation, Video, War | Comments OffFox News is distorting President Obama’s economic agenda by pushing the straw-man argument that taxing the entirety of millionaires’ incomes would fund the government for less than three months. In fact, Obama has proposed no such thing, and this Republican talking point obscures the billions in revenue that would be generated from letting the Bush tax cuts expire for wealthy households.
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Category: Afghanistan, agriculture, Articles, author, budget deficit, Congress, Deficit, Economics, Economy, Elections, Environment, Feeds, Foreign Policy, Health, huffington post, Iraq, Justice, Media, Media Matters, Medicare, Paul Krugman, Politics, Science, Social Security, Taxes, The Nation, Video, War, White House | Comments OffFox distorted President Obama’s speech at the Democratic National Convention to make it seem as though Obama attacked tax cuts.
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Category: author, CNN, Congress, Deficit, Economics, Economy, Elections, Environment, Feeds, Foreign Policy, Health, Justice, Media, Media Matters, Paul Krugman, Politics, Science, Social Security, Taxes, Video, War, White House | Comments OffThe myth of “Paul Ryan, serious budget wonk” has a history that dates since the 2010 Tea Party sweep of the elections, at least into the Bush administration. It’s been untrue for at least that long
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Category: Alternet, Articles, author, CNN, Congress, daily beast, Deficit, Economy, Elections, Environment, Feeds, Headlines, Health, Justice, LGBT, Media, Media Matters, Medicare, Paul Krugman, Peace, politico, Politics, Science, Social Issues, Social Security, Taxes, ThinkProgress, Video, War, Washington | Comments OffPaul Krugman So far, most of the discussion of Paul Ryan, the presumptive Republican nominee for vice president, has focused on his budget proposals. But Mr.
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Category: commondreams, Feeds, Paul Krugman | Comments Off“Everyone knows” that you should drink eight glasses of water a day. After all, this is the advice of a multitude of health writers, not to mention authorities like Britain’s National Health Service
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