Media Matters Daily Summary

Here are today's news items from Media Matters for America, click on the title or 'read more' to read the entirety of each story. Wash. Times misrepresented Obama's position on Iraq war funding bills The Washington Times characterized President Obama's war funding request as "the same type of supplemental war spending [he] opposed" during the Bush administration, ignoring the fact that Obama said he opposed certain supplemental spending bills in 2007 because they did not contain a timeline for U.S. withdrawal from Iraq. Read More Fox News' Tantaros overstates support for "tea parties" Andrea Tantaros overstated support for tax day "tea parties," falsely claiming that a Fox News poll found that 47 percent of respondents are willing to participate in them. In fact, 36 percent of respondents said they would "be willing to join a symbolic tea party." Read More Hannity rewrites economic history to bash Obama Calling President Obama's proposed tax plan, "the antithesis of the Reagan economic model," Sean Hannity falsely claimed that during President Reagan's term, 21 million jobs were created, revenues doubled, and the U.S. experienced the longest period of peacetime economic growth in U.S. history. Read More Black helicopter alert! Conservative media suggest Obama supporting one-world government Since President Obama's inauguration, conservative media figures have asserted or suggested that U.S. sovereignty may give way to a one-world government. Read More Pandemic: Limbaugh's Obama Derangement Syndrome spreads through conservative media Numerous conservative media figures have followed Rush Limbaugh's lead in making increasingly dire predictions about the consequences that policies sought by Obama and other progressives might have for the country. Read More You can help support our work; become a volunteer media monitor, or donate to Media Matters for America.