Year in Review: 2009 Right-Wing Lie Machine Amped Up the Obama Madness (VIDEO)

Joshua Holland
December 18, 2009

Remember how this was supposed to be the dawn of a new era, with those hopey-changey feelings settling over a reunited America?

Yeah, well, as the year-end compilation from Media Matters in the video window to your right suggests, the conservative noise machine didn't adapt to a changing political climate -- it just turned its amp up to 11 (FYI: most only go up to 10).

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