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In recent days, the conservative website WorldNetDaily has in three separate articles falsely claimed that Education Department official Kevin Jennings "counseled a 15-year-old student to keep quiet about being seduced by an older man." In fact, the ...

Fox & Friends hosts Steve Doocy, Gretchen Carlson, and Brian Kilmeade cited a year-old Pew Research Center survey to misleadingly suggest that Fox News' audience is "more balanced" between Republicans and Democrats than CNN and MSNBC, and an ...

During the October 19 edition of Hannity, Fox News political analyst Dick Morris, in an effort to defend his network against criticism from the White House, claimed that Fox News' audience is the White House's "political base." However, polling indicates ...

During the October 19 edition of Hannity, Fox News political analyst Dick Morris, in an effort to defend his network against criticism from the White House, claimed that Fox News' audience is the White House's "political base." However, polling indicates ...

Fox News personalities and other conservative media figures have recently claimed or suggested either that a public health insurance option is unpopular among the American public, that it is costly, or both. But they ignored that numerous major public ...

Rush Limbaugh baselessly accused Department of Education official Kevin Jennings of having "encouraged" and "facilitated" a sexual relationship between a male high school student and an older man. In fact, there is no evidence that Jennings either ...

Rush Limbaugh baselessly accused Department of Education official Kevin Jennings of having "encouraged" and "facilitated" a sexual relationship between a male high school student and an older man. In fact, there is no evidence that Jennings either ...

In reports on FoxNews.com, America's Newsroom, and Your World, Fox News repeatedly advanced misinformation about Department of Energy loans recently granted to Fisker Automotive and Tesla Motors to support development of fuel-efficient vehicles, ...

A Washington Times editorial accused "safe school czar" Kevin Jennings of "encourag[ing]" a relationship that amounted to "statutory rape," by suggesting that his only response to an underage student's revelation that he had sex with what the Times ...

Over the past week, media outlets have given significant coverage to conservative filmmaker James O'Keefe, who, with Townhall.com columnist Hannah Giles, dressed up as a pimp and prostitute and secretly videotaped ACORN employees providing them with ...

Following Chris Matthews' misrepresentation of a flawed Rasmussen poll to claim that most Democrats believed that President Bush had or might have "gotten the inside word" that the 9-11 terrorist attacks were about to happen and that therefore "both ...

Chris Matthews misrepresented a flawed Rasmussen poll in claiming that most Democrats believed that President Bush had or might have "gotten the inside word" that the 9-11 terrorist attacks were about to happen and that therefore "both parties" are ...

In recent days, on both radio and TV, CNN host Lou Dobbs has provided cover for conspiracy theorists who claim that President Obama lacks a valid birth certificate and is therefore ineligible to be president. Specifically, Dobbs has repeatedly said ...

In responding to the June 10 shooting at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, several conservatives in the media have suggested that the alleged shooter, James von Brunn, reportedly a neo-Nazi, was a "leftist," as Talking Points Memo's Zachary Roth ...

Echoing former Vice President Dick Cheney's recent speeches and media appearances, conservative media figures and outlets have claimed that the Bush administration's policies with respect to the detention facility at Guantánamo Bay "kept us ...

CNN host Larry King has announced that on May 1, Ann Coulter will once again appear on his show. In the past, CNN host Howard Kurtz has questioned why television news networks continue to host Coulter in light of her lengthy history of inflammatory ...

CNN host Larry King has announced that on May 1, Ann Coulter will once again appear on his show. In the past, CNN host Howard Kurtz has questioned why television news networks continue to host Coulter in light of her lengthy history of inflammatory ...

CNN host Larry King has announced that on May 1, Ann Coulter will once again appear on his show. In the past, CNN host Howard Kurtz has questioned why television news networks continue to host Coulter in light of her lengthy history of inflammatory ...

CNN host Larry King has announced that on May 1, Ann Coulter will once again appear on his show. In the past, CNN host Howard Kurtz has questioned why television news networks continue to host Coulter in light of her lengthy history of inflammatory ...