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Glenn Beck's white nationalist fans

It's been a busy week for Glenn Beck watchers. On Monday, the Anti-Defamation League released a report warning of the... more

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Sarah Palin on Fox News' Hannity

Watching Sarah Palin being interviewed is always a little like watching an incoherent art-student film or something from a William S. Burroughs fantasy. It obviously comes from a completely different planet in a different quadrant of the universe.

For example, among the things you learned by watching Palin on Sean Hannity's Fox News show last night were the following nuggets:

-- Palin still is unhappy with the McCain campaign for not having smeared Barack Obama enough with phony association-game stuff about Bill Ayers and Rev. Wright -- you know, issues Americans really cared about.

-- She seems to have been watching a lot of Glenn Beck, though, because she practically repeats Beck's favorite talking points about Obama's supposedly nefarious associations.

-- Palin says "it wasn't negative campaigning and it wasn't off-base to call someone out on their associations." Hmmmm. Well, when Max Blumenthal and I did just that with Palin over her lengthy far-right associations, she completely freaked out.

-- Obama is "dithering" in Afghanistan. And evidently, if Palin were president, the only people she would listen to regarding the use of troops would be generals. Civilian advisers? Fuggedaboutit.

-- The reason she "blew" the question in the Katie Couric interview about what she read? She was irked by Couric's "arrogance." Apparently it's arrogant of media folk to ask national politicians softball questions that every other politico on the planet can readily answer.

-- What does she read? The first publication she cites is NewsMax. Yep, that NewsMax: The folks who, in the late 1990s, were peddling "Y2K apocalypse" theories and Clinton "New World Order" conspiracy theories. The same NewsMax that recently published a piece extolling the virtues of a military coup in order to remove Obama.

One thing that I think will become obvious in the coming weeks: Palin will not risk any more Katie Couric interviews. She will be completely ensconced only with friendly interviewers like Hannity. Oprah will have been her most risky interview.Watching Sarah Palin being interviewed is always a little like watching an incoherent art-student film or something from a William... more

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Fox News issues apology for misleading footage of Sarah Palin crowds

Following ThinkProgress’ report yesterday that Fox News had recycled old file footage of Sarah Palin rallies to assert that... more

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Bill O'rielly : Why left fears Sarah Palin , "She's a strong contender "

Bill sums it all up , he uses stats from independent (conservative sources ) to make his point .

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Fox News Is At It Again (Updated)

Last week, Jon Stewart and The Daily Show caught Fox News' Sean Hannity running old footage of September Tea Party crowds in... more

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Sarah Palin Tells Sean Hannity What Newspapers She Reads

We finally have an answer. Over a year after she infamously stalled on Katie Couric's question about what news sources she... more

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South Park Spoofs Glenn Beck

Glenn Beck gets the South Park treatment. Full Episode: http://www.southparkstudios.com/episodes/251890/

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Cold Day In Hell: Fox News' Sean Hannity Apologizes To Jon Stewart

Fox News' Sean Hannity responded to Jon Stewart Wednesday evening after the Daily Show host called out the network for using... more

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Murdoch Agrees With Beck That Obama Is A Racist

Fox News' host calls the president of the United States a racist, Fox News' owner agrees with him, and Fox News'... more

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Girl gone wild thank God

LOS ANGELES (CBS/AP) Did the legal battle between former Miss California USA Carrie Prejean and pageant organizers suddenly... more

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Sesame Street mocks Fox News with "Pox News," conservative blogger not amused

It's Sesame Street's 40th anniversary and while Google is celebrating with Big Bird's feet, we are more interested... more

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Rush Limbaugh says Fox News is ‘conservative media’

For weeks now, Fox News has been vigorously objecting to the Obama administration’s contention that the network often acts... more

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Not This Again: Fox Newsers Confuse Obama and Osama

Remember during the lead-up to the 2008 presidential election, when Pres. Barack Obama didn’t’ have nearly the name... more

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Jon Stewart takes Fox News Apart

If you never watch another Daily Show, this clip is a must see: http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-october-29-2009/for-fox-sake-

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Thomas Frank: Obama is right about Fox News

Journalism has a special, hallowed place for stories of its practitioners' persecution. There is no higher claim to... more

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Glenn Beck vs. Chris Wallace

There is no difference between them.

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FOX News is on a Witch Hunt

FOX News is on a witch hunt, aimed at destroying the Obama administration and the progressive movement. Theyve already succeeded... more

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Glenn Beck falsely accused Reid of lying about public support for public option

Following reports that Senate leaders will include a public option in health care legislation, on Fox & Friends, Glenn Beck falsely suggested that only "35 percent of the population" supported a public option and accused Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of lying when he said, in co-host Gretchen Carlson's words, "the public wants this." In fact, polling consistently shows broad support for the public option, and the Fox News poll Beck is presumably referencing did not ask specifically about a public option...

Numerous recent polls on public option found widespread support

Wash. Post/ABC poll: 57 percent support government plan "to compete with private health insurance plans." When respondents were asked in an October 15-18 Washington Post/ABC News poll whether they would "support or oppose having the government create a new health insurance plan to compete with private health insurance plans," 57 percent said they supported the plan.

CNN/Opinion Research: 61 percent favor creating public option "administered by the federal government." When respondents were asked in an October 16-18 CNN/Opinion Research poll whether they "favor or oppose creating a public health insurance option administered by the federal government that would compete with plans offered by private health insurance companies," 61 percent said they favored the plan.

CBS News: 62 percent favor government offering "a government administered health insurance plan." When respondents were asked in an October 5-8 CBS News poll whether they would "favor or oppose the government offering everyone a government administered health insurance plan -- something like the Medicare coverage that people 65 and older get -- that would compete with private health insurance plans," 62 percent said they would support the plan.

Kaiser Family Foundation: 57 percent favor "[c]reating a government-administered public health insurance option." When respondents were asked in an October 8-15 Kaiser Family Foundation poll whether they favored "[c]reating a government-administered public health insurance option to compete with private health insurance plans," 57 percent said they favored such a plan.

USA Today/Gallup: 50 percent support a "public, government-run insurance plan." When respondents were asked in an October 16-19 USA Today/Gallup poll, "If Congress passes a healthcare bill, do you think it should or should not include a public, government-run insurance plan to compete with plans offered by private insurance companies?" 50 percent said they thought the bill should have the plan.

Recent Fox News poll did not ask about public option

Fox News poll: 35 percent favor "reform legislation being considered." A Fox News/Opinion Dynamics poll released October 15 asked respondents, "Based on what you know about the health care reform legislation being considered right now, do you favor or oppose the plan?" Thirty-five percent said they favored "the plan," 54 percent opposed, and 10 percent said they did not know.

Poll was conducted before Reid's compromise proposal was "being considered" by the public. The Fox News poll asked respondents whether they favored or opposed "the health care reform legislation being considered right now." The poll did not specify which of "the health care reform legislation being considered" it was referring to, and at the time, there were at least three different proposed health care reform measures being considered by Congress. At the time the Fox News poll was conducted, Reid had not yet announced his proposal to include a public option in the forthcoming Senate compromise bill.

Follow link to Media Matters for America for more information on Beck's dishonesty.Following reports that Senate leaders will include a public option in health care legislation, on Fox & Friends, Glenn Beck... more