Bill O'Reilly Says He's Being Smeared

Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly said Wednesday his critics took remarks he made about a famed Harlem restaurant out of context and "fabricated a racial controversy where none exists."

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Two articles: Rupert Murdoch's non-apology apology First, it was News Corp CEO Rupert Murdoch concocting a phantom quote from Obama, claiming he had made a "very racist comment." Now its Murdoch's flak claiming his boss didn't really mean to suggest Obama was racist.

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In a story about "fuzzy math" on "unfunded programs" in the House health care bill, The Washington Times said the "official" "price tag" of the bill is $1.1 trillion.

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Media Matters says it does not coordinate its efforts with the Obama campaign — the campaign has its own media-criticism Web site, FightTheSmears.com — though some Democratic operatives have, at the least, suggested potential items to Media Matters over the years.

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The Obama White House's war on Fox News heated up when President Obama snubbed Fox's Chris Wallace.

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"In fairness to Rush"? Those are words no one should expect out of Media Matters. In fact, Frisch spread the "slavery had its merits" quote on the Media Matters website.

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Well, well maybe President Obama actually knows what he is doing in his administration's attack on FOX News. Don't tell the Republicans!

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You all have an Obsession over Fox News

After my short span back at Newsvine, it's become abundantly clear that you all have an obsession over Fox News. In fact it often becomes a point of contention and credibility.

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Fox is a cancer on the body politic of America. So what to do about it? Try to get it heaved off the airwaves and the First Amendment be damned? Mock it into irrelevance? Treat it like a real news provider and hope it somehow changes into one?

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SUMMARY: In a poll question, CNN presented the fact that "emissions from industrial facilities such as power plants and factories ...

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Clear Channel radio host Glenn Beck said he was "thinking about killing [filmmaker] Michael Moore" and pondered whether "I could kill him myself, or if I would need to hire somebody to do it," before concluding: "No, I think I could.

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Conservative media figures have celebrated the International Olympic Committee's elimination of Chicago's bid to host the 2016 Summer Olympics and used the event to bash President Obama, who flew to Copenhagen to lobby IOC members on behalf of Chicago's bid.

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From the September 29 edition of MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann

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A fox news producer was caught on tape rallying the crowds at the 9/12 protests. Her inexperience was showing because she forgot that she should not be doing this, especially when the camera is rolling.

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Washington, D.C. - Today, Media Matters for America highlighted the fact that Fox News repeatedly broadcast and promoted a shocking but entirely fictitious claim made by San Bernardino ACORN employee Tresa Kaelke that she murdered her former husband.

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excerpt: ""But he certainly made some waves last week when -- clearly, and appropriately, disgusted by Jerome Corsi's bizarre piece in WorldNetDaily suggesting that President Obama was preparing concentration camps to round up and imprison his conservative critics -- Henke urged …

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By now, CNN's Lou Dobbs, with his single-minded obsession over all things anti-immigrant and his bizarre embrace of the loony birther movement, is well known for trafficking in disturbing, misleading, and often inaccurate garbage.

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From the August 19 edition of Comedy Central's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart:

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In addition to losing Geico, other companies, including Lawyers.com, Procter & Gamble, Progressive Insurance and SC Johnson have had their ads pulled from Beck's show.

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Media Matters doesn't put much stock in text so click through and watch the clip for yourself.

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As Congress heads home for the August recess, Media Matters Action Network wants to make sure members are armed with the facts regarding the myths about health insurance reform.

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On July 28, The Fox Nation promoted Our Country Deserves Better PAC's "Tea Party Express," which is dedicated to opposing Democratic officeholders.

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Disturbing video about racism in the United States

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This seed points directly at an image hosted by MediaMatters which uses the distribution of the GOP's "Obamacare Flowchart" to show how Republican talking points spread through the media as "news"

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excerpt: ""Right wing talker Michael Savage vowed yesterday during his broadcast that he will retaliate against media watchdog Media Matters for America by posting pictures and "pertinent information" about the organization's staff on his website.""

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Here is an example of Fox Nation just writing a headline for the fun of it and obviously to mislead . The article has nothing to do with Fox or Media Matters. the headline in question is; "Media Matters: FOX News Kills People". Wonder what that is about.

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