Think Progress Ambushed by Facts
The Center for American Progress’s Amanda Terkel issues this apology for writing that Rush Limbaugh praised slavery and wanted Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassin to get a posthumous Medal of Honor:
The quotes attributed to Limbaugh of him praising slavery have not been substantiated. We have amended the post to strike through that claim, and we [...]
HuffPo Retracts False Limbaugh Quotes; When Will CNN & ThinkProgress?
The Huffington Post has retracted two quotes author Jack Huberman falsely attributed to Rush Limbaugh. Huberman wrote on the liberal website in 2006 that Limbaugh said James Earl Ray “deserves a posthumous Medal of Honor” and that Limbaugh praised slavery because “streets were safer after dark” back then. The HuffPo’s Mario Ruiz did not reply [...]
On Twitter, CNN’s Rick Sanchez Retracts Limbaugh Smear
It looks like CNN has been so busy the past 24 hours running news stories on its website and on air about Meghan McCain’s existential Twitter crisis, that Rick Sanchez’s own Twitter page was only place where he could find the space to issue a mealy-mouthed apology for falsely attributing a racist quote to Rush [...]
Lou Dobbs and the canard over President Obama's birth - Los Angeles Times
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Lou Dobbs and the canard over President Obama's birthLos Angeles Times… against the fantastical notion that Barack Obama was born on foreign soil and thus serves — illegally — as the Oval Office's first resident alien. …'Hardball' on President Obama's birthplacePoliticoCNN's Rick Sanchez, Guests, Viewers vs. Obama Birther WingnutsOC WeeklyObama's birth: 'Appeasing the nut-cases'The Swamp [...]
