Media Matters: Charting a misleading course on health care — Nothing sends media conservatives off the deep end quite like the issue of health care reform. [ READ MORE ]

They want to kill it – come hell or high water!

The fact that some spineless moderate to liberal pundits have joined in the dance, spraying falsehoods left and right, like drunken imbeciles, doesn’t help Obama’s cause at all.

The late moderator of “Meet The Press,” Tim Russert, was a FAIR man, despite his slight lean to the left. Everyone wanted to be a guest on his show, Republican or Democrat.

His replacement, the humongous behemoth of a man, Mr. David Gregory, is a failure. He will never come “within 100 miles” of Tim Russert’s incisive interrogations of his Sunday guests. Gregory is always ill-prepared — worse than the tiny little weasel at ABC, Clinton protege, Mr. George Stephanopoulos. If he hasn’t done so yet, Stephanopoulos’s ‘This Week” will overtake Gregory’s “Meet the Press” as Sunday’s number one political forum.

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Last Sunday, David Gregory did not challenge anti-immigrant weasel Sen. Mitch McConnell’s claim that “according to CBO,” the House Democrats’ health care proposal does not “dramatically … decrease the number of uninsured.” In fact, CBO stated that the committee bill “would yield a significant increase in the number of Americans with health insurance.” [ READ MORE ]

Gregory lets McConnell mischaracterize CBO analysis of health bill’s effect on uninsured

Wallace brings up specter of “rationing“; Orszag notes that insurers, politicians already making health care decisions

CBS News’ Harry Smith misrepresented the House Democrats’ health care reform proposal, saying that one idea to fund the bill will result in “putting a very tough tax on small business owners.” In fact, businesses with annual payrolls of less than $250,000 would not face a penalty for failing to providing health insurance. [ READ MORE ]

CBS’ Smith advanced falsehood that Dems are taxing small businesses to fund health bill

On the July 16 edition of his Fox News show, Sean Hannity falsely claimed that during Sonia Sotomayor’s confirmation hearing, Al Franken talked about Perry Mason “instead” of questioning Sotomayor about her “judicial philosophy.” In fact, Franken asked Sotomayor numerous questions about her “judicial philosophy.” [ READ MORE ]

Sean KLANnity falsely claims Obama wants Canadian-style health care reform

Hannity, the SICKEST MFER ON CABLE-TV, smears Franken, falsely alleging he asked Sotomayor about Perry Mason “instead” of “her judicial philosophy”

BIGOT Buchanan falsely suggests Sotomayor has “never written” law review articles

BIGOT Pat Buchanan claimed that Sonia Sotomayor has “never written anything that I’ve read in terms of a law review article or a major book or something like that on the law.” In fact, Sotomayor has published several law review articles. [ READ MORE ]

BIGOT Pat Buchanan: “This has been a country built, basically, by white folks”
Correction: On The Backs of African Slaves, you TWIT!

Breitbart claims card check would “play to the narrative that this is an Illinois-style thugocracy”

Asked by Kilmeade about “rationing,” Breitbart invokes “Canada” and “how bad it is,” calls reform “socialism”

Mika Brzezinski compares “Obamacare” debate to “gun to your head feeling” invoked to pass stimulus

Note: Mika who is not a ReTHUGlican, occasionally shows flashes of brilliance like her father Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski, but she has “ZERO Cajones,” when it comes to “woman-handling” her co-host at “Morning Joe,” ReTHUGlican Joe Scarborough, a lying sack of Dog Mess.

Fox’s Banderas(Hispanic Auntie-Tom AIR-HEAD) asks guests: “Are you saying the White House wants to basically wipe out the CIA?”

McLaughlin regular (ILLEGAL BRIT IMMIGRANT) Crowley: At hearing, Sotomayor was “basically Alexander Hamilton in drag”

After previously distorting “wise Latina” quote, Buchanan “the bigot” says, “I don’t know why she didn’t … defend” the comment

Days after Pilgrim answered them, Dobbs claims Obama birth certificate “questions won’t go away” Oh Yeah, Mr. INDEPENDENT RACIST!

From MediaMatters.ORG

As Media Matters for America has demonstrated time and again, Fox News’ Sean Hannity has been a prolific and influential purveyor of conservative misinformation.

But never has he so enthusiastically applied his talents for spreading misinformation as he did to the 2008 presidential race, focusing his energies primarily on President-elect Barack Obama. Day after day, Hannity devoted his two Fox News shows and his three-hour ABC Radio Networks program to “demonizing” the Democratic presidential candidates, starkly explaining in August: “That’s my job. … I led the ‘Stop Hillary Express.‘ By the way, now it’s the ‘Stop Obama Express.’ “Hannity’s “Stop Obama Express” promoted and embellished a vast array of misleading attacks and false claims about Obama.

Along the way, he uncritically adopted and promoted countless Republican talking points and played host to numerous credibility-challenged smear artists who painted Obama as a dangerous radical. When he was not going after Obama, Hannity attacked members of Obama’s family, as well as Sen. Hillary Clinton and other progressives, and denied all the while that he had unfairly attacked anyone.

Hannity’s attacks may have also influenced mainstream media coverage. ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos appeared on Hannity’s radio program on April 15, during which Hannity suggested to Stephanopoulos that he ask Obama at the Democratic presidential debate the following evening about his “association with Bill Ayers, the unrepentant terrorist from the Weather Underground.” Stephanopoulos assured Hannity that he was “taking notes right now.” Stephanopoulos then did ask Obama at the debate to “explain that relationship for the voters, and explain to Democrats why it won’t be a problem,” though he later denied that Hannity had exerted any influence on his questioning.

Because of the unending stream of falsehoods and character attacks that fueled the “Stop Obama Express,” and the countless other distortions he promoted throughout 2008, Sean Hannity is Media Matters for America’s “Misinformer of the Year.”

Among the myriad falsehoods and attacks that Hannity promoted throughout 2008, several found their way into regular rotation: Obama will “invade” Pakistan ……[READ MORE]

The “Propagandist Extortionist of the Year” bashes Obama

Hannity The SMEAR VIRUS Distorts Obama’s Past To Raise Racial Fears

Watch Hannity Call Obama Racist

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References:

1. Sean Hannity: Misinformer of 2008 — From NewsHounds.US
2. Top 10 Obama Player Haters of 2008 — This election saw Barack Obama inspire millions of Americans to hope, believe and work for change. However, Obama also managed to inspire millions of haters, who expended an extreme amount of negative energy in taking down the President-elect.

From Brave New Films

Dear Supporter,

FOX’s objective in this presidential race has been painfully clear to us for a while. They have been carpet bombing Barack Obama with negative stories, distortions, and smears in the run up to tomorrow’s Pennsylvania primary in an attempt to skew the outcome. But how could FOX have guessed that the "liberal" media would be such willing accomplices?

We bring to you our latest episode of the gameshow sensation sweeping the nation:
THE FOX IS WRONG: OBAMA!

While the FOXification of the mainstream media is a serious matter, we’ve used humor here to get our message across more effectively. Play along as FOX guests and personalities distort and misrepresent the statements of Obama and those around him, only to have that pesky "liberal" media pick up the smears and keep on running! For the finale, watch in wonder and amazement as ABC’s George Stephanopoulos allows Sean Hannity to spoon-feed him a question on Hannity’s radio show, then parrots it almost word-for-word a day later during ABC’s infamous Democratic debate in Pennsylvania!

If you haven’t yet, sign the petition and demand that the media stop spreading the FOX virus. Then send the petition and the video far and wide to all your friends and colleagues. We need to get our message across faster than the media can spread FOX’s lies.

For an added bonus, check out our last video to see what nine minutes of FOX on Obama looks like (don’t worry, the video is just 54 seconds). There you can get a small taste of FOX’s strategy to saturate their viewers with as many negative Obama stories as a cable line can carry – FOX spews more Obama smears in nine minutes than most networks deliver all day! And remember, this is just a summary of NINE MINUTES on FOX – there are 1,440 minutes every day…

Yours,
Jonathan Kim
and the Brave New Crew