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The right wing media’s promotion of a widely-debunked Alex Jones conspiracy theory about the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) ammunition acquisitions prompted House Republicans to hold a hearing to investigate. The theory, which assigns some sinister motivation behind the recent ammo purchases, first gained traction on the websites of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones before finding its way to Fox News and Fox Business and finally to the halls of Congress.  On April 25, Republican Reps. Jim Jordan (OH) and Jason Chaffetz (UT)  held a joint hearing  ”to examine the procurement of ammunition by the Department of Homeland Security and Social Security Administration Office of Inspector General.” The hearing followed right wing  media reports  speculating about the reasons for the acquisitions.

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Health and environmental advocates have fought for years for a federal labeling program for genetically engineered food. Now, for the first time , their battle has bipartisan support in Congress. On Wednesday, Sen

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Media outlets including NPR and Fox News are targeting federal disability benefits programs through a campaign deceptively portraying these programs as wasteful and unsustainable. In reality, these programs have low fraud rates and help the rising number of Americans with severe disabilities survive when they are   unable to work. Is the recent increase in the number of people receiving disability benefits surprising?

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Following the April 15 bombings at the Boston Marathon, radio host Alex Jones was  quick  to suggest the attacks may have been a “false flag” operation staged by the U.S. government.

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Fox News continued right-wing media attempts to dismiss the voices of the families of the Newtown, CT shooting victims, discounting their efforts to encourage Congress to pass stronger gun laws by suggesting that President Obama is “engineering them for political purposes” and “outright manipulating them.” Since the December 14 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, which left 26 people dead, family members of the victims have taken an outspoken role in pushing for tougher gun laws.

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In the immediate wake of deadly explosions at the Boston marathon, Alex Jones and his website InfoWars.com have breathlessly preached conspiracy theories about the as-yet-unknown perpetrators of the attack, claiming the blast was set off or staged by the U.S. government in what Jones called a “false flag operation.” The theorizing culminated in an InfoWars correspondent asking a visibly angry Massachusetts Gov

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Conservative media figures are painting a new White House push on affordable housing with the same dishonest brush they used to shift blame away from Wall Street for the housing bubble that precipitated the 2007-08 financial crisis. On the April 3 edition of Fox News’ America’s Newsroom , Fox Business host Stuart Varney said that “lowering standards for who can borrow money to buy a home” is “what got us into trouble in the first place.” The Washington Free Beacon made the same claim in an article titled “Subprime: The Sequel,” and Ed Morrissey of HotAir.com claimed “the central failure in that bubble…was incentivizing increasingly risky loans with government cash and coercion .” But the housing bubble of the early 2000s was caused by private sector lending behavior , not government policy. The government-sponsored entities Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, commonly called the GSEs, didn’t lead private financial institutions into the subprime market and the complex financial instruments that made the bubble so toxic

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Fox News’ on-screen text misleadingly identified Rev. Luis Leon as the “Obama pastor” after President Obama attended worship services at Leon’s St. John’s Church, contradicting Fox’s own reporting

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From the March 12 edition of Fox News’ The Five : Previously: UPDATED: 16 Media Myths About Proposals To Strengthen Gun Laws Sorry Rush, Gun Violence Is A Health Care Issue ERIC BOLLING: Check this story out. A town in Georgia has proposed a new law requiring every head of a household to possess a firearm

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It’s been one year since Rush Limbaugh’s invective-filled tirade against then-Georgetown Law student Sandra Fluke. With hundreds of advertisers and millions of dollars lost, the business of right-wing radio is suffering, but Rush Limbaugh continues to act as if it were business as usual, which is why Limbaugh is still bad for business. On February 29, 2012, Rush Limbaugh initiated a three-day smear campaign against Sandra Fluke, launching 46 personal attacks against her

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