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• Hannity, Hewitt revive bogus "Obama recession" claim
  Monday, November 17, 2008
• Gingrich falsely touted GOP governors of Utah and Indiana for "lowest unemployment rates in their respective regions"
  Sunday, November 16, 2008
• On FNS, Wallace did not challenge Kyl on false claim that Republican economist Feldstein opposes an economic stimulus package
  Sunday, November 16, 2008
• Hannity, Limbaugh promote myth of an "Obama recession"
  Wednesday, November 12, 2008
• Morris, Hannity, Limbaugh implicate Obama in stock-market decline -- analysts disagree
  Friday, November 7, 2008
• It's not just Limbaugh and Hannity
  Thursday, November 6, 2008
• Wash. Times distorted Richardson's, Obama's remarks on tax policy
  Monday, November 3, 2008
• ABC's Roberts did not challenge McCain's claim -- reportedly rebutted by his own economic adviser -- that Obama "wants to raise people's taxes"
  Friday, October 31, 2008
• Hannity misrepresented Obama's health care plan, asserting that Obama will "nationalize health care"
  Thursday, October 30, 2008
• Fox's Shepard Smith affirmed Palin's misleading claim that Obama "voted 94 times for higher taxes"
  Wednesday, October 29, 2008
• Cunningham: "[P]eople are poor in America ... because they lack values, morals, and ethics"
  Wednesday, October 29, 2008
• Cunningham: America's "so-called noble poor" don't use birth control so that "the mom can get more checks in the mail from the government"
  Tuesday, October 28, 2008
• Fox News' Jarrett falsely asserted the NY Times found that "the average plumber would pay less in taxes under John McCain"
  Friday, October 24, 2008
• LA Times reported that McCain "has not budged" from balance budget pledge but didn't report that his chief economic policy adviser has
  Thursday, October 23, 2008
• Reporting on McCain health-care plan, USA Today left out projection that progress on uninsured will decline after 2013
  Wednesday, October 22, 2008
• Wash. Times uncritically reported McCain "slamm[ed]" Obama "for supporting higher taxes" without noting Obama's plans to cut taxes
  Wednesday, October 22, 2008
• Quinn falsely claimed most average-income bus drivers, teachers, and autoworkers "don't pay any taxes"
  Monday, October 20, 2008
• Lou Dobbs falsely claimed 40 percent of working Americans "don't pay taxes"
  Thursday, October 16, 2008
• Limbaugh mischaracterized accomplishments of '06 Nobel Peace Prize winner, smeared Jimmy Carter
  Monday, October 13, 2008
• McClatchy's Thomma misrepresented Obama's tax plan
  Saturday, October 11, 2008

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