Fox & Friends Helps Second Guess Military's
Response To Benghazi Attack

post from Media Matters for America - Latest Items on 26 October 2012 12:50:08 PM. © Media Matters for America - Latest Items

From the October 26 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends:

Previously:

Fox Military Analyst Counters Rest Of Network, Denounces "Second Guessing" On Benghazi Attack Response

Fox's Van Susteren Misrepresents State Dept. Emails To Rehash Tired Libya Talking Points

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Endorsing Social Security Cuts Gives Politicians
the Elite Bonus

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Basically, Dean Baker implies that a stance of defending Social Security lowers your campaign contributions and labels you as "unserious" in major media. You can see this in the Washington Post's endorsement of President Obama, mainly because he[...]

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Intermission

post from ThinkProgress on 26 October 2012 12:31:56 PM. © ThinkProgress

The bridge is yours. -I’ve been stressed about November, but knowing I get a new Solange album makes things at least a little bit better. -James Poniewozik nails Ryan Murphy’s style. -I wrote about Angel Haze yesterday. Now, you can download her mixtape. -It makes so much sense that Adam Carolla is going to be [...]

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Hope in Maryland for Marriage Equality

post from The American Prospect on 26 October 2012 12:31:28 PM. © The American Prospect

I?ve heard from many folks in the Maryland and D.C. area who really, really want to win marriage equality at the ballot this November 6. And I deeply hope that you will?more profoundly than I can express. But I don?t like how the numbers look at this particular moment. Going into the balloting with only 52 percent in favor is very close; historically, we?ve lost a few points from the public polling once people get in the voting booth. In the past, 52 percent just hasn?t been enough to cut it. Of course, for many reasons it could be different this time, as I?ve been pointing out here and here. Listen, back in 2000, when California's LGBT community was fighting the Knight Initiative?a first statewide mini-DOMA vote?I wrote, here, in the Prospect, that we had a chance of winning California. We were crushed. That happened again with Prop. 8 in 2008, although the margin of loss was much, much smaller. And yet we are going to win California. It might even be this year.

Sarah Posner and I talked about all this recently on her bloggingheads.tv show. She's one of those who has been really trying to convince me that this time could be different. If you watch, you'll see I keep trying to talk about the initiatives in Maine and Washington; she keeps bringing me back to Maryland, where she lives. If you have a few minutes, do listen to us talk it though (and please forgive the fact that I need to hydrate as much as Paul Ryan!). Main point: People change their minds on marriage equality one by one by one. Those who vote against us aren't necessarily antagonistic or hateful. Mostly they don't think about us; they're busy with their lives. And if you haven't thought marriage equality through, you vote for the default, which is marriage as you've known it to date: heterosexual. But if you get a chance to talk with someone, thoughtfully and openly, about your questions, if you get a chance to ask why same-sex couples want to marry (love, commitment, responsibility, love), then you change your mind.

Hang in, Maryland, Washington, and Maine, no matter how things turn out on November 6. We are going to win.

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One Chart Says It All: Why Oils New Supply Boom
Is A Bust For The Climate

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by Lorne Stockman, Steve Kretzmann, and David Turnbull, via Oil Change International. What if you knew that smoking that one last packet of cigarettes was going to give you cancer? Imagine if our understanding of cancer was so precise as to allow doctors to predict with virtual certainty that smoking that particular pack, which you [...]

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States Refusing To Expand Medicaid Will Cost
Safety Net Hospitals Over 50 Billion Dollars

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According to new findings by the National Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems (NAPH), by 2019, safety net hospitals’ uncompensated care costs will be $53 billion higher than originally estimated if states don’t opt into the voluntary expansion of the Medicaid program under Obamacare. Safety net hospitals serve areas where, on average, 14.9 percent [...]

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States Refusing To Expand Medicaid Will Cost
Hospitals Over 50 Billion Dollars

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According to new findings by the National Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems (NAPH), by 2019, safety net hospitals’ uncompensated care costs will be $53 billion higher than originally estimated if states don’t opt into the voluntary expansion of the Medicaid program under Obamacare. Safety net hospitals serve areas where, on average, 14.9 percent [...]

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STUDY: States Refusing To Expand Medicaid Will
Cost Safety Net Hospitals Over 50 Billion Dollars

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According to new findings by the National Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems (NAPH), by 2019, safety net hospitals’ uncompensated care costs will be $53 billion higher than originally estimated if states don’t opt into the voluntary expansion of the Medicaid program under Obamacare. Safety net hospitals serve areas where, on average, 14.9 percent [...]

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La Opinion: Obama offers a better vision for the
future for everyone in U.S

La Opinion, the biggest Spanish-language newspaper in the U.S., has endorsed President Obama for re-election, saying that on November 6, “there is no clearer choice for Hispanic voters than to re-elect President Barack Obama.” Comparing President Obama with Mitt Romney on economic plans, La Opinion says: The president’s vision is inclusive, forward-looking and promotes growth [...]Related posts:

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Fox Still Inventing Unemployment Rates To Attack
Obama

post from Media Matters for America - Latest Items on 26 October 2012 12:16:00 PM. © Media Matters for America - Latest Items

Fox Business contributor Charles Payne furthered Fox's history of unemployment rate trutherism by declaring that the unemployment rate was actually "11½ percent." But despite Fox's repeated economic falsehoods, the unemployment rate has fallen to 7.8 percent by the measurement that government and economists have used for decades.

During a discussion about the automatic budget cuts that will take place in early 2013 if Congress fails to avert them, Fox & Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade declared that the so-called "fiscal cliff" could "send our unemployment rate over 10 percent to around 12 percent." Payne responded, "To be honest with you, it's already around 11½ percent."

In fact, by the standards the government has used for decades, the unemployment rate is currently 7.8 percent. But in an attempt to deflect from dropping rates, Fox News figures have attempted to claim that other, higher measurements are the "real" unemployment rate, including using a higher number known as the U-6 rate that does not actually measure unemployment.

Fox has also attacked lower unemployment numbers as being somehow manipulated by the Obama administration to look good. Most recently, Fox played a lead role in promoting the conspiracy theory that the 7.8 percent rate was "altered for political gain" in order to help Obama get re-election, despite the fact that economists agree such an idea is "implausible" and a "fantasy."