Informative, reality-based articles and essays
HEALTH CARE
- “Myths and Falsehoods About Health Care Reform”
- http://mediamatters.org/research/200908200002
- http://mediamatters.org/research/200909080001
- http://mediamatters.org/research/200911130002
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- “Seven Falsehoods About Health Care: Big myths about the current debate”
- http://www.factcheck.org/2009/08/seven-falsehoods-about-health-care/
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- “Conservative media revive “death panels” yet again with new, false target”
- http://mediamatters.org/research/200912230036
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- “Twenty-six Lies About H.R. 3200: A notorious analysis of the House health care bill contains 48 claims. Twenty-six of them are false and the rest mostly misleading. Only four are true.”
- http://www.factcheck.org/2009/08/twenty-six-lies-about-hr-3200/
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IMMIGRATION
- CIR (Comprehensive Immigration Reform) recommended by CATO institute, a respected conservative think tank, to create jobs and infuse the American economy. “The positive impact for U.S. households of legalization under an optimal visa tax would be 1.27 percent of GDP or $180 billion.”
- http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10438
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- CIR (Comprehensive Immigration reform) is good for economic recovery, so says Center for American Progress, a respected center-left think tank.
- http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2009/11/immigration_economy.html
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CLIMATE CHANGE
- “Climategate: Hacked e-mails show climate scientists in a bad light but don’t change scientific consensus on global warming.”
- http://www.factcheck.org/2009/12/climategate/
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- “Can the media’s climate change deniers ignore the latest temperature record?”
- http://mediamatters.org/research/201001250018
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- “Say it ain’t snow: Media suggestions that snowstorms cast doubt on global warming”
- http://mediamatters.org/research/201002110035
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- “Cap-and-trade: Green Jobs or Job Killer? Government energy economists predict job growth would likely slow, but how much is uncertain. “
- http://www.factcheck.org/2009/10/cap-and-trade-green-jobs-or-job-killer/
ECONOMY/DEFICIT
- “Myths and falsehoods about the deficit”
- http://mediamatters.org/research/201001270030
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Hannity falsely claims Obama “created” the “massive deficit” and that “stimulus is a failure”
- http://mediamatters.org/research/201001290035
TERRORISM
- “Myths and falsehoods surrounding the Christmas Day terrorist attack”
- http://mediamatters.org/research/201001080024
BIRTHERISM
- “Salon’s handy-dandy guide to refuting the Birthers”
- http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/08/05/birther_faq/
PRESIDENT OBAMA
- “Myths and falsehoods about Barack Obama”
- http://mediamatters.org/research/200703200011
SARAH PALIN
- “Tea Party Fact-Checking: Palin makes a few errors in her convention speech — and on Fox News Sunday.”
- http://www.factcheck.org/2010/02/tea-party-fact-checking/
Worst Falsehoods Told in 2009
- “Whoppers of 2009: We review the choicest falsehoods from a year that kept us busy.”
- http://www.factcheck.org/2009/12/whoppers-of-2009/
TORTURE
- Monica Crowley revives dubious claim that waterboarding KSM resulted in “actionable intelligence”
- http://mediamatters.org/research/201001100010
ACORN
- “Fox News revives ACORN-funding bogeyman to attack Obama budget”
- http://mediamatters.org/research/201002030041
