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Hannity, Ellison debate portrayal of Muslims on Fox News

By | 04.21.11 | 1:53 pm | More from The Minnesota Independent

Conservative Fox News commentator Sean Hannity went after Rep. Keith Ellison in an interview Wednesday evening, criticizing the Minnesota congressman for saying Fox News has contributed to the scapegoating of Muslims.

Hannity asked Ellison about a statement he made recently: “I think if you listen to Fox News, the More…

Liberal spending groups begin sprouting green shoots

By | 11.10.10 | 6:14 pm

It looks like the left-wing independent spending infrastructure, long moribund, is starting to show its first signs of new life. According to The Washington Post’s Greg Sargent, Media Matters founder David Brock is in the planning stages of forming a new group designed to counter the successful network of More…

Media Matters, CNN Throw Cold Water on Palin’s Fundraising Numbers

By | 07.12.10 | 12:48 pm

Sarah Palin’s latest FEC numbers are in, and — as with all things Palin-related — it’s big news. As Politico opined in a story last night: “In short, for the first time since the 2008 campaign … Palin is supported by a political operation befitting someone considering a More…

Marco Rubio Falls for Bogus Medical Study

By | 03.18.10 | 9:33 am

Media Matters has done yeoman’s work debunking the myth of a “New England Journal of Medicine study” that allegedly found 46 percent of physicians ready to “leave medicine or try to leave medicine” if health care reform passes. The prestigious journal conducted no such study; the numbers were assembled More…

CNN Rejects ‘Drop Dobbs’ Ad

By | 10.15.09 | 3:23 pm

Immigrants’ advocates and the liberal media watchdog group Media Matters are so angry that CNN plans to run a four-hour special called “Latinos in America” next week without mentioning the role of CNN anchor Lou Dobbs in fomenting hatred of Latinos that they raised $16,000 to create and run More…

Gingrich Group Awards, Then Revokes Entrepreneurship Award for Porn Studio

By | 09.11.09 | 3:57 pm

On Wednesday, American Solutions for Winning the Future, a conservative 527 group founded by former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.), notified a pornography studio executive that she’d won the group’s 2009 Entrepreneur of the Year award.

Needless to say, Allison Vivas, president of Pink Visual, was shocked at More…

Birthers: The Movie

By | 08.25.09 | 9:03 am

On Aug. 4, President Obama’s birthday, WorldNetDaily released and began shipping “A Question of Eligibility.” It’s an hour-long documentary produced by an “award-winning team” who chose, naturally, to, keep their identities “secret for fear of retribution from the administration.” To call it a “rip-off” would be to go easy More…

Justice O’Connor Was Influenced by ‘the Perspective of a Woman’ Too

By | 05.29.09 | 12:46 pm

While Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor’s being pilloried on the right for a 2001 speech in which she said her race and gender inevitably impact her judgments, it turns out retired Justice Sandra Day O’Connor said much the same thing, Greg Sargent reports.

In an interview with

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