FAIR is the national progressive media watchdog group, challenging corporate media bias, spin and misinformation.
Blogger Brad Jacobson gives play-by-play (MediaBloodhound, 1/28/09) for an epic attempt by MSNBC‘s Chris Matthews to live down his one-time confession to having “felt this thrill going up my leg” during a Barack Obama speech. Matthews’ reparation strategy: “How about facilitating a discussion about Obama’s proposed stimulus plan with two lawmakers from the same party, […]
Attacking the White House’s proposed economic stimulus plan (1/26/09), Rush Limbaugh explained that the issue pits his favored “supply-siders,” who see the holy grail in tax cuts, against what he repeatedly referred to as, at least what sounded like “kineesian economists,” who he described as partial to “government spending on shovel-ready projects of all kinds.” […]
Raw Story highlights a Daily Show clip (1/22/09) in which Jon Stewart plays an astounding array of “soft-on-terror” clips from Fox coverage of Barack Obama’s first day as U.S. president. Stewart then reminds us how “criticism and dissent of the president’s policies, especially Iraq, used to be viewed” by playing a March 30, 2007, “Talking […]
Your daily dose of radio bigotry is brought to you by the super-hater team of Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter. Rush recently hosted Coulter on his radio show (RushLimbaugh.com, 1/16/09), where they got down to some of the racist banter they’re so famous for: Rush: Arianna [Huffington], you need a translator. Coulter: And George Soros! […]
There’s nothing good about drug use. We know it. It destroys individuals. It destroys families. Drug use destroys societies. Drug use, some might say, is destroying this country. And we have laws against selling drugs, pushing drugs, using drugs, importing drugs. And the laws are good because we know what happens to people in societies […]
In the following quotes, well-known cable news hosts express anti-war feelings to hawkish guests. Can you guess which quote is “anti-American”? * “Explain to the mothers and fathers of American servicemen that may come home in body bags why their son or daughter have to give up their life?” * “We’re sending 250,000 of our […]
Senator Tom Daschle recently claimed that comments made by Rush Limbaugh and other talk show hosts may have inspired threats against Daschle and other public figures and their families. “What happens when Rush Limbaugh attacks those of us in public life is that people aren’t satisfied just to listen,” Daschle said (Associated Press, 11/20/02). “They […]
On the topic of biased or inadequate media coverage of the elections, conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh had a noteworthy take: On his November 4 radio show, he claimed that the New York Times was apparently hiding a news report favorable to Republicans. The Times reported that Republican candidates were likely to win some […]
Rush Limbaugh’s commentary indicates a willingness to exploit prejudice against blacks to further his on-air arguments.
LIMBAUGH: “Look what they did to Newt. Newt didn’t even say it. But people called my radio show today thinking Newt Gingrich predicted a stock market crash by December 15. That’s because of the way the press is reporting it…. This is the best example I can give you to show you the unfairness, the […]
Ranger Rush LIMBAUGH: On his April 5 radio show, Limbaugh announced he was going to “nuke FAIR” with new information he had found about forests: “This, of course, is an area about which I’ve come under severe and fallacious attack by this media watchdog bunch of homies called Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting,” Limbaugh said. […]
“Today, my friends, we’re going to do everything the media accuses us of doing, that we never have done, but we’re going to do it,” Rush Limbaugh announced on his March 10 radio show. “Yes, ladies and gentlemen, today we’re going to give you marching orders, and today we will ask you to follow us […]
This conservative media machine now rivals—and may well surpass—the power and the influence of the old-line press. It holds sway over much of the national agenda, deciding which ideas and individuals are accepted and which are marginalized.
For three and a half months, the world waited for Rush Limbaugh’s promised “point-by-point rebuttal” to FAIR’s report, “Rush Limbaugh’s Reign of Error” (Extra!, 7-8/94). On Oct. 11, Limbaugh’s “rebuttal” finally arrived–not with a bang but a dud. Limbaugh’s 37-page manuscript addresses only about half of the points on which FAIR had documented his inaccuracy. […]
“I, Rush Limbaugh, the poster boy of free speech, am being gang muzzled.” The broadcaster was crying censorship (Limbaugh Letter, 10/93) over congressional efforts in 1993 to reinstate the Fairness Doctrine — which he labeled “The Hush Rush Bill,” “The Get Limbaugh Act” and “The Rush Elimination Act of 1993.” Limbaugh’s daily on-air crusade generated […]
Rush Limbaugh‘s long-touted “5,000 word response” to FAIR’s “Reign of Error” report has been released—after nearly three and a half months. Unfortunately for Limbaugh, it doesn’t rebut; mostly it changes the subject, dodges and wastes thousands of words on tangents and what-I-really-meant-to-say digressions. Whereas the FAIR report offered facts to specifically rebut Limbaugh’s claims, his […]
Rush Limbaugh has tried to defend a few of the dozens of inaccuracies FAIR documented in “Limbaugh’s Reign of Error” (Extra!, 7-8/94). Unfortunately, his responses to charges of inaccuracy were filled with the same sorts of inaccuracies that our original report documented. Limbaugh’s most extended response was made on his July 5 radio show, where […]
If You Remember the 60’s…You’re Not Rush Limbaugh LIMBAUGH: “The liberals sit out there and suggest, as Vic Fazio did, that it is the radical right that’s acting in a stealth manner. And the Christians and the religious right are about to take over America. Note that Mr. Fazio probably had no trouble with the […]
From dioxin to Whitewater, from Rodney King to Reaganomics, Rush Limbaugh has a finely honed ability to twist and distort reality.
Koppel Covers for Limbaugh’s Rumor-Mongering Ted Koppel’s special (ABC Viewpoint, 4/19/94) on press coverage of Whitewater was a perfect opportunity to take Rush Limbaugh to task for spreading unfounded conspiracy theories. But instead, ABC journalists Koppel and Jeff Greenfield let Limbaugh off the hook. On his March 10 radio broadcast, Limbaugh had announced the following […]
