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How Corrupt Prosecutors Get Away With Sending Innocent People to Jail

Phillip Smith, Drug War Chronicle. May 15, 2012.

Prosecutors are arguably the most powerful figures in the American criminal justice system, a system that is not equipped or willing to punish their crimes.

Right-Wing Lunacy: The Shameless Lies Conservative Media Tell Their Audience

Michael Lind, Salon. January 27, 2012.

From Social Security hysteria to "Obamacare" madness, right-wing propaganda is increasingly divorced from reality.

5 Republican Lies About Income Inequality

David Morris, On the Commons. January 24, 2012.

The Republican position on inequality rests on five statements, all false.

The Silly, The Stupid, and The Just Plain False: The Top Ten 'Reefer Madness' Stories of 2011

Russ Belville, NORML. December 30, 2011.

From the pizza driver who snitched on a pot patient to cannabis 'deaths' and vodka tampons, 2011 was a year of great drug propaganda.

PolitiFact, Fearing a Right-Wing Backlash, Calls Democrats' 100% True Claim About the GOP Medicare Plan the "Lie of the Year"

Joshua Holland, AlterNet. December 20, 2011.

PolitiFact clearly chose the claim to avoid charges that it holds a liberal or Democratic bias.

Study: False Perceptions Fuel Anti-Migrant Sentiments

Thalif Deen, IPS News. December 10, 2011.

The rising tide of anti-migrant sentiment worldwide is caused primarily by the biased, polarised and negative debate on migration, according to a new study released here.

21 Reasons Rick Perry's Texas Is a Complete Disaster

Joshua Holland, AlterNet. August 15, 2011.

Third World status – the real promise of a Rick Perry administration – shouldn't be a goal to which the United States aspires.

The Fascinating Story of How Shameless Right-Wing Lies Came to Rule Our Politics

Rick Perlstein, Mother Jones. May 26, 2011.

From Nixon's plumbers to James O'Keefe's video smears: How political lying became normal.

America's Largest Newspaper Launches a Nasty Attack on Grandma and Grandpa

Joshua Holland, AlterNet. May 12, 2011.

The Rupert Murdoch-owned, right-wing Wall Street Journal is lying, plain and simple.

Shameless GOP Lies: Is There Any Limit to What Republicans Will Say -- And What People Will Believe?

Ernest Partridge, The Crisis Papers. April 20, 2011.

If it were in the interest of the ruling oligarchs to convince a majority of the public that the earth is flat, could they succeed?

AlterNet's Joshua Holland Talks to Laura Flanders About Republican Hostage-Taking on GritTV

AlterNetApril 2, 2011.

"It's not that we don't want you to have these things," conservatives say, "It's just that they'll ruin the economy and bring about widespread catastrophe."

Public Employee Unions Don't Get One Penny from Taxpayers and Can't Require Membership, But the Big Lie That They Do Is Everywhere

Joshua Holland, AlterNet. March 5, 2011.

Nobody has to belong to a union or support its political activities, but you'd never know that from reading the news.

Off The Rails: The Year In Fox News Misinformation

Media Matters for AmericaDecember 31, 2010.

A month-by-month look back at Fox News' most outrageous and factually challenged moments of 2010.

10 Hateful Anti-Gay Myths Debunked

Evelyn Schlatter, Robert Steinback, SPLC Intelligence Report. December 9, 2010.

Exploring 10 key myths propagated by the anti-gay movement, along with the truth behind the propaganda.

16 of the Dumbest Things Americans Believe -- And the Right-Wing Lies Behind Them

Sarah Seltzer, AlterNet. November 13, 2010.

We’ve gone beyond Stephen Colbert's' truthiness' into a 'truth-be-damned' environment.

How Americans Are Propagandized About Afghanistan

Glenn Greenwald, Salon. April 10, 2010.

No matter how many times this process is exposed, the Pentagon's relentless propaganda machine never seems to diminish.

Wall Street's 10 Greatest Lies of 2009

deleted, AlterNet. December 28, 2009.

Lies that justify screwing over Main Street.

10 of the Nuttiest Statements Elected Officials Have Made in the Health Care Battle

10 of the Nuttiest Statements Elected Officials Have Made in the Health Care Battle

Joshua Holland, AlterNet. November 7, 2009.

Wild, over-the-top rhetoric and bizarre conspiracy theories about health reform aren't just coming from the right-wing blogs and talk-radio loudmouths.

Right-Wing

Right-Wing "News" Site Falsely Claims Fort Hood Shooter "Advised Obama Transition"

Staff, Media Matters for America. November 6, 2009.

They just make it up!

Big Insurance Reverses Course and Launches Attack on Health Reform

Big Insurance Reverses Course and Launches Attack on Health Reform

Digby, Hullabaloo. October 12, 2009.

In typically dishonest fashion.

Fox News Latest Dishonest Smear Attempts to Link Obama Official to NAMBLA

Fox News Latest Dishonest Smear Attempts to Link Obama Official to NAMBLA

Jed Lewison, Daily Kos. October 8, 2009.

The Big Lie was repeated by Karl Rove, among others.

Reality Check: Undocumented Immigrants Can’t Buy Health Insurance ... Even If They Can Pay Full Cost

Cristina Jimenez, DMI Blog. September 16, 2009.

Contrary to the hysterical spin ...

How to Tackle Lies About Health Care

tristero, Hullabaloo. September 1, 2009.

Ignoring them is not sufficient. We need a highly diverse palette of effective rhetorical techniques.

Death Panels? Try the Insurance Industry

Staff, AlterNet. August 10, 2009.

There are no panels per se, but the effect is the same.

Palin Lies About Health Care

Palin Lies About Health Care

Steven D., Booman Tribune. August 8, 2009.

She's good at one thing.

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