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Has the Israel Lobby Gone Too Far?

Joshua Holland, AlterNet. December 16, 2011.

Will a recent attack on progressive journalists help spark a sea-change in the debate over Middle East policy?

How White Supremacists Are Trying to Make an American Town a Model for Right-Wing Extremism

David Holthouse, Media Matters for America. November 22, 2011.

A recent influx of white supremacists and Patriot group members to the town of Kalispell, Montana, is causing alarm.

Behind The Scenes With The Reporter Who Took Down Murdoch

Media Matters for AmericaAugust 4, 2011.

"Even though his reputation has suffered, he still has the objective tools of power," says Nick Davies, the Guardian reporter who broke the Murdoch phone hacking story.

Is Fox News Scared? Desperate Attacks on Watchdog Group Media Matters Suggest Yes

Mark Howard, AlterNet. July 8, 2011.

The Fox News pack is on the warpath against media watchdog group Media Matters.

Orbitz to Review Ads on Fox News And Other Media, As Progressive Groups Urge Advertisers to Be Responsive to Anti-Gay Language

Sarah Seltzer, AlterNet. May 31, 2011.

The groups that got Fox advertisers to drop Glenn Beck have built a coalition to put financial pressure behind ending the network's lies.

6 of Glenn Beck's Most Paranoid, Dangerous Attacks on Progressives

AlterNetNovember 22, 2010.

From smearing progressive funder George Soros to visionary Van Jones, Beck reveals his dark impulses and abhorrence for social justice.

Does Rush Limbaugh Really Matter?

Mark Green, AlterNet. April 8, 2010.

A question: should any serious person take time to factually rebut people who are allergic to facts?

The Most Outrageous Media Comments of 2009 -- Glenn Beck Takes the Cake

Media Matters for AmericaDecember 29, 2009.

The election of the first black U.S. president led to a slew of racially charged comments that were truly shocking, but that's only the tip of the right-wing iceberg.

GOP Leaders Flex Their Hypocrisy Muscles, Start Bawling Over Harry Reid's

GOP Leaders Flex Their Hypocrisy Muscles, Start Bawling Over Harry Reid's "Slavery" Comment

Eclectablog, Daily Kos. December 8, 2009.

Notorious race-baiters Rush Limbaugh and Michelle Malkin have played the "race card" card.

CNN Can't Have It Both Ways: It Can Either Broadcast Hateful Lou Dobbs or Have a Latino Audience

Roberto Lovato, AlterNet. October 14, 2009.

Latinos across America are intensely concerned about CNN's hypocrisy: Broadcasting Dobbs' anti-immigrant extremism while running a Latinos in America special series.

Meet the Man Who Is Taking On Glenn Beck

Staff, The Young Turks. August 25, 2009.

ColorofChange.org's James Rucker talks about the campaign that has been stripping Beck of advertisers one by one.

Glenn Beck's Hate Speech, Paid For By ...

Staff, AlterNet. August 17, 2009.

We need to continue pressuring advertisers to drop Beck.

Michael Savage Issues Fatwa Against Media Matters

Jason Linkins, Huffington Post. June 25, 2009.

Savage recently called on people "harassed by this Stalinist group, Media Matters" to publish the names and pictures of Media Matters staffers.

Fox Propaganda Site Goes to New Lengths to Distort Reality

Karl Frisch, Media Matters for America. June 8, 2009.

"Fox Nation", a website that's the newest addition to Rupert Murdoch's evil empire, deliberately misleads readers.

The Results Are In: Americans Are Now More Closely Aligned With Progressive Ideas Than at Any Time in Memory

Joshua Holland, AlterNet. May 30, 2009.

On issue after issue, significant majorities of Americans favor progressive solutions to the nation's problems and reject the right's worldview.

Attacking Sotomayor: Race to the Bottom

Staff, The Nation. May 29, 2009.

Media Matters has assembled a collection of the right's most unhinged, delusional reactions to her nomination.

Memo to the Media: Obama Did Not Invent 'Yes We Can'

Liliana Segura, AlterNet. April 30, 2009.

The corporate news claims Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is "co-opting" Obama's election slogan. But it was never his to begin with.

Ugly: Limbaugh Likens Democrats to Murderers, Rapists

Sam Stein, Huffington Post. February 20, 2009.

What is going on with all the lurid political analogies?

Top 5 Myths About Closing Guantanamo

The Progress ReportJanuary 27, 2009.

Obama has promised to close Guantanamo within a year. So lets debunk some of the most ill-informed myths that might stand in the way.

Henry Rollins and Paul Waldman Spurn the Media's Love for McCain

Robert Greenwald, Meet the Bloggers. September 6, 2008.

From Friday's episode of Meet the Bloggers

Colbert on Why Media Matters Makes Life Hard for Limbaugh [VIDEO]

Adam Howard, October 10, 2007.

Stephen Colbert says, "Rush just calls this war like he sees it, from thousands of miles away in West Palm Beach."

The Religious Left is Left Out by the Commercial Media

Joshua Holland, AlterNet. May 30, 2007.

A new study by Media Matters for America shows that when the topic is religion, the media looks disproportionately to hard-line right-wingers for comment.

The Old School Organizing Approach That Took Down Pat Buchanan

Jamilah King, December 31, 1969.


Fox Business Channel Host Promotes Calls to Torture Obama and Progressives

Media Matters Staff, December 31, 1969.


Media Matters Enlists Beck Nemesis

Sarah Seltzer, December 31, 1969.


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