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Friday, Jan 29
Conservative media link bin Laden's remarks about climate change to progressives, Democrats
Beck says that bin Laden is "running to [progressives'] defense." On his radio show, Glenn Beck stated, "One last thought. Bin Laden says the way to stop global warming -- I didn't know he cared about global warming, but he's come out with a new tape now on the dangers and hazards of global warm...
Thursday, Jan 28
Are WaPo's news & opinion sections really separate and independent? - Media Matters for America
Are WaPo's news & opinion sections really separate and independent? blog) reporters regularly and publicly spoke out against Ceci Connolly's war against Al Gore, and called for her to be removed from the 2000 campaign beat. ... and more »
Wednesday, Jan 27
In defense of Joe Scarborough - Media Matters for America
In defense of Joe Scarborough blog) Think how different things might have been if New York Times reporters said publicly during the 2000 campaign that their colleagues were treating Al Gore ...
Monday, Jan 25
Can the media's climate change deniers ignore the latest temperature record?
On the same day, Doocy posted two Twitter messages stating, "I wonder if Al Gore is shivering somewhere." And on the January 6 edition of Fox & Friends, ...
Can the media's climate change deniers ignore the latest temperature record?
Cal Thomas claimed climate change consensus "suffered a severe blow" from European winter storms. Asserting that "global warming is a falling doctrine," conservative columnist Cal Thomas falsely claimed on January 14 that the climate change consensus "suffered a severe blow" from r...
Monday, Jan 18
Discussing MA Senate race, Beck displays ACORN logo and warns that Democrats ...
Beck says that in 2000, if the dems had recounted all of Florida they would've won, or should I say Al Gore would've won, but alas, they only picked parts ... and more »
Wednesday, Jan 13
Quick Fact: Hannity cites questionable report that climate experts predicting "mini ice age"
Latif: "[I]f my name was not Mojib Latif, my name would be global warming." Latif stated, "Everybody who knows me is aware of the fact that I am definitely not one of the skeptics, OK. And if my name was not Mojib Latif, my name would be global warming, all right." Latif then stated of decadal vari...
Monday, Jan 11
Karl Frisch: Prop. 8 federal lawsuit begins; cue right-wing media hysteria
Radio host Rush Limbaugh, despite having been married three times, is a steadfast defender of what the right calls "traditional marriage." El Rushbo once compared the Iowa Supreme Court decision granting marriage equality to "the Soviets," and while discussing President Obama and th...
Tuesday, Dec 22
Eric Boehlert: Auld Lang Syne: Farewell to another decade of "liberal media bias"
That same inauguration week, the White House press corps greeted the new Democratic team with catcalls. "Game On! Obama's Clash With The White House Press Corps," reported The Daily Beast. And under the headline "Obama press aide gets bashed in debut," The Washington Times' Joseph Curl r...
Wednesday, Dec 16
Quick Fact: Morris revives Al Gore "invented the Internet" and Love Story smears
FACT: Gore never said he "invented the Internet" Gore said he "took the initiative in creating the Internet" while in Congress. During the March 9, 1999, interview on CNN's Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer that gave rise to the myth, Gore said, "During my service in the United States Congres...
Tuesday, Dec 15
Beck, Breitbart ignore long-term trend to claim Arctic sea ice is increasing
Purporting to correct comments made by Al Gore about the impact of global warming on the North polar ice cap, both Fox News' Glenn Beck and Andrew Breitbart's Breitbart.tv forwarded the false suggestion that, in the past two years, Arctic ice "has returned" and "is increasing." In fact, 20...
Wednesday, Dec 9
Quick Fact: On Beck , Gray falsely claims Gore "admitted the entire premise for An Inconvenient Truth wasn't really true"
On Glenn Beck's radio show, Pat Gray falsely claimed that Al Gore "admitted the entire premise for An Inconvenient Truth wasn't really true" because Gore said during 2007 congressional testimony that it "[s]ometimes ... has been true in the past" that increases in global temperatures hav...
Breitbart's headline falsely claimed Gore "admit[ted]" temps cause CO2 increases but "not the other way around"
Breitbart ignored larger point, central to consensus, that global warming is "overwhelming" historical cycles Breitbart.tv video ends before Gore makes broader point. In cutting the video of Gore's testimony, Breitbart did not include Gore's comments that, regardless of past cycle...
Wednesday, Dec 2
Opinion: Fox & Friends crops Jon Stewart quote to suggest "Climategate" emails made him a global warming denier
STEWART [video clip]: Poor Al Gore. Global warming completely debunked via the very Internet you invented. Oh, oh the irony. The iron-y. But Stewart went on to say, "Now, does it disprove global warming? No, of course not," but it is "catnip" to deniers From the December 1 edition of Comedy Cen...
Thursday, Nov 5
IBD misrepresented Gore on hurricane frequency
In fact, Gore has said there is "no consensus" linking global warming to hurricane frequency Gore: "There is no consensus linking the frequency of hurricanes to global warming." As noted by science reporter Chris Mooney, Gore stated during a March 21, 2007, congressional hearing on cli...
Thursday, Jan 29
Fox News' Hemmer, Gallagher, Wilson baselessly suggest short-term weather impacts global warming debate
HEMMER: Meanwhile, former Vice President Al Gore braving the snow in Washington to testify on global warming today. The environmental activist making his case to a Senate committee, pressing for U.S. leadership in fighting climate change. Now, the elements outside on the Hill today makin...
Friday, Nov 9
Podcast: Limbaugh joins other media in whitewashing Swift Boat Vets' falsehoods, claims "nobody has disproven anything they claimed"
CLINTON: We have failed -- CLINTON: No -- So, the left-wing, drive-by media on Hardball -- they had a reaction to the Swift boat comment. We've got Mike Barnacle here, and Lois Romano about the Washington -- from The Washington Post -- about Clinton's Swift boat comment.
