Video- Hannity and Tyrrell go after Scarborough as a "phony conservative" and "the worst"

Sweet. I love a catfight. Via Media Matters.

Video- Steve Hayes: "I definitely think it's a bit much to compare this [oil spill] to Katrina"

Wow, I'm gobsmacked. Too bad all your buddies disagree Steve.

Video- Fox's Gretchen Carlson: It's "fascinating" that the tea parties are "what we talk about all the time"

Video- For just a moment, Fox acknowledges that Obama's "dominant superpower" comments might have been taken out of context

Leave it to Shooty McMoosenuggets to take the meme and run with it. (This headline was all over my RSS this am- Palin taken aback by Obama 'superpower' remark ) Media Matters debunks it here.

Video- Fox & Friends, Varney attack IRS for going after super-rich tax evaders

Thank god someone is looking out for the extremely wealthy. Via Media Matters.

Video- A Saturday On The Fringe: Scenes From The Right's Rallies In Nevada And Florida

How can anyone take these people seriously? Via Media Matters.

Video- Fox's Napolitano and Asman push conspiracy theory that Obama is creating a civilian army of health care workers

Ooooh, scary nurse's aides and lpns! Via Media Matters.

Video- How Did So Many Republicans End Up Believing Falsehoods About Obama?

God bless Media Matters for slogging thru this shit to document it.

More misinformation about Tea Party crowd estimates

By GottaLaff

(Via)

There were like, a million attendees at the Searchlight, Nevada Tea Tantrum! Nonono, two million! Scratch that, eleventeen kazillion times infinity!

Or 8,000:

Every time they hold an event, the right-wing media just make stuff up. Every. Time. It's almost like they're desperately trying to make the movement into something it's not.

Almost?

Come on, we knew that. We've posted that. We've all pointed and laughed at that.

Okay, gang, get your pointer fingers ready...

Via Newsbusters:

Politico's Kenneth Vogel had a little higher number, saying "an estimated 20,000 tea partiers gathered for a rally in a windswept desert lot," in his March 27 report on the event.

But guess what...

Politico didn't confirm the crowd size, it simply passed along the estimate provided by organizers.

The Las Vega Sun had a thing or two to say about that:

About 8,000 people were at the event as of 2 p.m., according to an estimate from Metro Police spokesman Jay Rivera. Traffic at one time was backed up about five miles from Searchlight.

Remember the references to this being the "conservative Woodstock"?

Woodstock's approximate attendance: 500,000.

Thank you, Media Matters, for assembling those facts for us. There is much more here.

Now let's play Remember When....

Remember when Glenn Beck said there were 1.7 million people at the 9/12 event?

And remember when we had the photos to prove they were lying back then, too?

Me too.

VIDEO: Fox News Really Really Really Doesn’t Want Health Care Reform To Pass

Via Media Matters thru Oliver.

Audio- Beck and crew conflate "nuclear option" and reconciliation to accuse Dems of hypocrisy

Textbook example of RW media manipulation, right out of David's book.

As we've documented extensively over the past year, conservatives have waged an ongoing campaign to re-brand the process of reconciliation as the "nuclear option." Feel free to read any of the hundred or so examples from our archives to get the full story, but to put it briefly: this is outrageously dishonest. The "nuclear option" was a term coined by Sen. Trent Lott (R-MS) in reference to his proposed change to Senate rules that would have banned use of the filibuster for judicial nominations.

Reconciliation, on the other hand, requires no change to Senate rules since it has been used repeatedly over the years to pass major legislation - notably to pass major pieces of health care reform legislation. Republicans themselves weren't quite so uncomfortable with the supposedly "dirty" process when they used it to pass President Bush's tax cuts. Multiple times.

To a cynic, the reason for this re-branding might have appeared to be that conservatives were concerned that Democrats would use reconciliation to pass portions of health care reform. And lo and behold, with reports surfacing in the past few days that Democrats are again considering using reconciliation for health care reform (which, as NPR noted today, is consistent with the long history of the use of reconciliation in health care bills,) conservatives are redoubling their efforts.

Here's how the trick works:

Today, conservative media are furiously promoting a video posted at Breitbart TV, titled:"Obama & Dems in 2005: 51 Vote 'Nuclear Option' Is 'Arrogant' Power Grab Against the Founder's Intent." You can probably guess where this is going.

They're already pimping this on Fox.

Audio- Hannity accuses the President of "fixing" the "fraudlent, phony" unemployment rate

Via Media Matters.

Video- Tea Party speaker Farah pushes birtherism to loud applause: "one of the most important questions" we can ask

Yeah, they're not kooks. Via Media Matters.

Video- Fact Checking the Sunday Shows - January 31, 2010

Won't they go to hell for lying on a Sunday? Via Media Matters.

VIDEO: Brown falsely suggests health reform will limit mammograms, pap smears

By GottaLaff

In case you missed this lie that was spat effortlessly from Scott Brown's mouth, who is in a tight race with Martha Coakley for Ted Kennedy's Senate seat, here you go:



Same old cycle: ClusterFox perpetuates the lies, the public eats it up as truth, and Media Matters debunks it:

During the January 11 edition of her Fox News program, Greta van Susteren allowed Scott Brown, Republican Senate candidate for Massachusetts, advance the false suggestion that the health care reform bills would prevent women from receiving mammograms and pap smears.

For the truth (remember that?), go here.

Video- What We're Up Against 2009 Edition

Via Media Matters, h/t Oliver.

Video- Glenn Beck's Alternate History of the Statue of Liberty

Good lord have mercy. Media Matters dissects his whack job plans here.

Video- Why Are So Many Media Conservatives So Obsessed With Rape?

Not gonna go there. Via Media Matters.

Video- Kilmeade suggests Obama Dover photos were arranged to advance "the narrative" that "it's not time to put Americans in battle"

Video- Fox President Roger Ailes' History Of Race-Baiting