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How Fox News Uses 'Big, Scary Hip-Hop' to Race-Bait its Viewers

Julianne Escobedo Shepherd, AlterNet. May 17, 2011.

This week's outrage over Common and Jill Scott was ridiculous, but there was a more pervasive, nefarious issue at hand.

Murdoch's News Corp Plays Both Sides of the Green Game

Sarah Pavlus, Media Matters for America. April 21, 2011.

While Fox News promotes climate-change deniers, parent company News Corporation tries to look like a green-energy good guy.

Religious Right to Tea Party: Join Us or Die!

Adele M. Stan, AlterNet. September 21, 2010.

At the Values Voter Summit, religious-right leaders offered Tea Partiers a Faustian bargain: Embrace our theocratic agenda, or lose big-time in November.

Are Fox Ratings Dropping As Tea Party Election Fails Stack Up?

Leslie Savan, The Nation. June 6, 2010.

The Fox message appears to have been ringing less true to the general public just as the Tea Party has begun to fail at the ballot box.

James O'Keefe, the Landrieu 'Sting' and the Truth About Conservative 'Journalism'

Eric Alterman, Center for American Progress. February 6, 2010.

As the he antics of O'Keefe and company demonstrate, the right has failed to train many genuine journalists. So why do mainstream journalists swallow their line?

Behold the Diversity of the Southern Republican Leadership Conference: One Woman, One Person of Color ... and Limbaugh

Amanda Terkel, ThinkProgress. January 11, 2010.

The conference bills itself as "the most prominent Republican event outside of a Republican National Convention."

Meet the FBI Operative Who Threatened My Life, and the Gov.-Elect Who May Have Helped Him

Max Blumenthal, AlterNet. December 16, 2009.

Did NJ Republican Chris Christie grant legal protection to neo-nazi radio host Hal Turner for his undercover role in a federal program to "flush out" violent far-right plots?

FOX News' Hannity Sort of Apologizes for Falsified Rally Report

deleted, AlterNet. November 12, 2009.

After the Daily Show caught him red-handed claiming footage from a large September march to be tape from a Capitol Hill rally, Hannity apologizes.

Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh Stoking GOP Civil War

Eric Boehlert, Media Matters for America. November 11, 2009.

The right-wing media are trying to play "king-maker." But they are incapable of picking winners and stand poised to rip the Republican Party apart.

Why Jim Badasci 'Went Postal': How Bullying Bosses and Economic Devastation Are Behind America's Latest Workplace Shooting

Mark Ames, AlterNet. September 28, 2009.

Baldasci's shooting opens a window into Fresno, Calif.'s climate of soaring unemployment, scheming agribusiness oligarchs and Sean Hannity-inspired right-wing rage.

Is Your Cell Phone Co. Sponsoring a Climate Change Denying, Union Busting, Pro-Mountaintop Removal Rally?

Peter Rothberg, TheNation.com. August 31, 2009.

If you're one of Verizon's 87 million customers, the answer is yes.

Is Glenn Beck Finished?

Tana Ganeva, AlterNet. August 24, 2009.

A Color of Change campaign has cost Beck's show 36 advertisers so far. Will Fox decide he isn't worth it?

Right-Wing Hypocrites: 10 Reasons Conservatives Should Shut Up About Letterman's Sarah Palin Gaffe

Karl Frisch, Media Matters for America. June 22, 2009.

Each and every day conservative radio hosts, cable-news hosts, pundits and columnists use divisive, insensitive, and downright hateful rhetoric.

Is Fox So Crazy That It's Even Alienating Some Conservatives?

Eric Boehlert, Media Matters for America. June 17, 2009.

The hate-filled rhetoric spewed by Fox pundits like Glenn Beck and Bill O'Reilly is even alarming some of the people who work there.

Jesse Ventura Goes Head to Head With Sean Hannity

Jason Linkins, Huffington Post. May 19, 2009.

Former Navy SEAL, wrestler , and Minnesota Governor vs. a FOX news host. Guess who wins?

Conservatives Outraged Over Release of Torture Photos, but Not Over Actual Torture

Ali Frick, ThinkProgress. May 13, 2009.

It’s not the pictures that recruit suicide bombers; it’s what the pictures depict.

Hannity's Two-Week Silence: Is He Ready to Admit Waterboarding Is Torture?

Ali Frick, ThinkProgress. May 7, 2009.

Two weeks ago Sean Hannity volunteered to be waterboarded, but he hasn't said peep since.

When Will Hannity Allow Himself to be Waterboarded For Charity?

Ali Frick, ThinkProgress. April 28, 2009.

Despite Hannity's affection for torture, he still has not taken Olbemann's challenge.

Olbermann Calls Hannity's Bluff: $1000 For Every Second Of Waterboarding

Nico Pitney, Huffington Post. April 24, 2009.

MSNBC's Keith Olbermann will pay for Sean Hannity's waterboarding.

Civil War Emerges at Fox News: ‘We Don’t F*cking Torture’ vs. ‘Torture, My Ass’

Satyam Khanna, ThinkProgress. April 24, 2009.

Sean Hannity volunteers to be waterboarded for charity.

Did Paranoid Right-Wing Media Fuel the Pittsburgh Cop Killer's Rage?

Max Blumenthal, The Daily Beast. April 8, 2009.

Richard Poplawski, the man who allegedly murdered three Pittsburgh cops, was clearly influenced by Fox News's Glenn Beck and right-wing radio.

Unpatriotic Sean Hannity Still Thinks McCain Has a Chance

Steve Benen, Washington Monthly. April 6, 2009.

Hannity at his most Hannity-tastic.

FOX Continues to Attack Black America

ZP Heller, Brave New Films. February 9, 2009.

Despite Obama's historic election, FOX continues to smear the President and black America with racist rhetoric.

Jon Stewart Calls Out Sean Hannity

Isaac Fitzgerald, AlterNet. January 30, 2009.

Sean Hannity goads imbalanced viewers to call in to the Hate Hannity Hotline to make up for the show's lack of Alan Colmes.

Jon Stewart and Hall and Oates Piss Off Hannity with Colmes Tribute

Jason Linkins, Huffington Post. December 13, 2008.

The highlight of last night's Daily Show was the moving send-off that Stewart gave career Fox News doormat Alan Colmes.