Progressive News Feeds

Fox News has announced  it’s hired former Rep. Allen West as a contributor. The far-right Republican and the conservative news network are a match made in heaven: West’s incendiary rhetoric against progressives and Democrats closely mirrors Fox News’ own smears and attacks

Tags: author, breaking news, elections, environment, health, media, media matters, politico, politics, science

The Washington Post ‘s Bob Woodward, based on a series of dubious factual errors, is now offering a flawed comparison between the Watergate scandal and the Obama administration’s response to the September terror attack in Benghazi, Libya. There’s no small irony to Woodward injecting himself into what has become a scandal driven by deceptively edited emails passed off to reporters, given the recent attention he received after using a similar method to support his ridiculous accusation that a White House aide threatened him. In his latest attempt to jump into the debate on the side of the right wing, Woodward demonstrates a striking lack of familiarity with the basic facts of what happened.  Here’s what Woodward said during his May 17 appearance on MSNBC’s Morning Joe , and what’s wrong with those statements.

Tags: breaking news, discrimination, economy, health, jobs, media matters, network, politico, video, war

New York Daily News  and  Politico  are reporting that Rush Limbaugh’s distribution deal with Cumulus Media may soon be over. Currently, Cumulus Media carries Limbaugh’s show on 40 of its stations, including Limbaugh’s flagship WABC in New York as well as stations in Chicago, Washington DC and Dallas. If Limbaugh and Cumulus part ways, it would represent a significant reduction in Limbaugh’s overall footprint and serve as yet another reminder that Limbaugh’s brand is bad for business

Tags: desktop, discrimination, education, elections, limbaugh, media, politico, progressive news

Media outlets are reporting that a new immigration report from the conservative Heritage Foundation found that passing the proposed Senate comprehensive immigration bill will cost $6.3 trillion. In fact, the Heritage report is not an analysis of the entire Senate’s ”Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act,” and does not take into account costs or savings of the proposal’s broader reforms. Media Report That Heritage Study Found Senate Immigration Proposal Will Cost Trillions  Fox News: “Comprehensive Immigration Overhaul Being Taken Up In The Senate This Week Could Cost Taxpayers $6.3 trillion.”  In an article on a Heritage immigration study headlined, “Study pegs cost of immigration bill’s mass legalization at $6.3 trillion,” Fox News claimed that the “comprehensive immigration overhaul being taken up in the Senate this week could cost taxpayers $6.3 trillion if 11 million illegal immigrants are granted legal status, according to a long-awaited estimate by the conservative Heritage Foundation.” [FoxNews.com,  5/6/13 ]  Wash.

Tags: budget deficit, conservative, economy, elections, environment, heritage, network, politico

Rich Lowry and Jennifer Rubin complained that President Obama used the term “women’s health” and did not mention the word “abortion” while speaking in front of Planned Parenthood on April 26, despite the fact that abortions only make up a small portion of the women’s health services that Planned Parenthood provides. On the May 5 edition of Meet the Press , host David Gregory quoted a May 2 blog post by National Review editor Rich Lowry that appeared in Politico in which he wrote : President Barack Obama was proud to become the first sitting president to address Planned Parenthood last Friday.

Tags: breaking news, elections, health, planned parenthood, planned-parenthood, politico, president, war

Right-wing media are trying to downplay a  confrontation  over gun sale background checks between a woman who lost her mother in the Newtown, CT, shooting and Sen.

Tags: discrimination, environment, feeds, liberal, media matters, politico, politics, progressive news, security, war

On Friday, while the manhunt for suspected Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev continued, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) published a series of tweets suggesting that he wanted to revive the George W.

Tags: action, author, auto, cnn, economy, facebook, feeds, health, politico, security, torture, tweets

On the April 5 th edition of Real Time with Bill Maher , science education activist Zack Kopplin confronted The Wall Street Journal ‘s Stephen Moore over myths about science funding, pointing out that Moore, who questioned the need for funding research on “snail mating habits,” is “not a scientist”: As it turns out, the reason actual scientists are conducting this type of research is because snails carry parasitic worms that kill children :

Tags: articles, economy, education, elections, environment, feeds, health, media, politico, security, social-sciences

Breitbart.com writer Matt Boyle reported on the specific location where President Obama’s teenage daughters are vacationing for spring break, ignoring the decades-old journalistic tradition that media outlets should not report on a president’s minor children when they are not attending “official or semi-official events” for privacy and security reasons. Agence France-Presse (AFP) and other news websites similarly reported on a trip Malia Obama took to Mexico in March 2012. At the request of the White House, those media outlets that reported on her spring break vacation in Mexico soon deleted the story from their websites

Tags: america, author, desktop, director, elections, government, health, media matters, network, obama, politico, security

Well, that didn’t take long.

Tags: auto, black, climate, congress, david vitter, economy, immigration, politico, president, progressive news, rush-limbaugh, thinkprogress