| 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. Drudge, Ace falsely suggest Stupak floated using BP escrow account to fund health care reform
The Drudge Report and Ace of Spades both falsely suggested Rep. Bart Stupak said money in the BP escrow account could be used to "fund" national health care reform. In fact, Stupak said a "legitimate" use of the money would be to pay for the health care of those who lost their jobs and insurance due to the oil spill. Read More Surprise: O'Reilly-Newsmax "summit" is an infomercial for a financial product
As was the case with previous "summit[s]" held by the right-wing website Newsmax, its June 17 Economic Crisis Summit -- featuring Fox News' Bill O'Reilly and Dick Morris -- was little more than an infomercial designed to use fears of inflation to sell Newsmax's $1,495 "hot commodities insider membership." Read More Wash. Times parrots bogus attack on Kagan and Shariah law
A Washington Times editorial repeated the bogus conservative attack that Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan "display[ed] selective moral outrage" because, according to the Times, she did not object to a gift Harvard accepted from a Saudi prince. Read More Right-wing media absurdly declare Obama admin acted in "illegal," "unconstitutional" manner by "forcing" BP to create escrow account
Right-wing media have absurdly claimed that the Obama administration is "illegal[ly]" "forcing" BP to fund a $20 billion escrow account for victims of the oil spill, with some suggesting the administration's actions were "unconstitutional." However, BP agreed on its own to establish the account after negotiations with the White House.
Read More Right-wing media agree: BP relief fund result of a White House "shakedown"
Numerous right-wing media have agreed with Rep. Joe Barton's (R-TX) claim that the BP escrow account fund designed to aid Gulf residents affected by the oil spill resulted from a White House "shakedown," despite the fact that the plan was "mutually agreed to" by both the administration and BP. Read More NY Post uses irrelevant data to falsely suggest cap-and-trade bills hurt poor
The New York Post falsely suggested that the Congressional Budget Office found that congressional climate change legislation would result in a "loss in after-tax income" for the poorest Americans. In fact, CBO found that the lowest quintile of Americans would gain income under the House bill, the only bill it has assessed. Read More National Review Online falsely claims Kagan "apparently tied" the NRA to the KKK
National Review Online's Robert VerBruggen falsely claimed that in a document she wrote as a Clinton administration official, Elena Kagan "apparently tied the NRA to the KKK." In fact, Kagan did no such thing. Read More Conservative media: BP was "persecuted" at "Stalinist," "witch trial" hearing
Right-wing media have complained that BP was "persecuted" at a congressional hearing on the company's role in the Gulf oil spill and compared the hearing to a "Stalinist show trial," "Inca ritual slaughter," the Salem witch trials, the McCarthy hearings, and the Romans feeding Christians to lions. Read More Fox continues its attack on election of first Latino to NY village's legislature
Fox News continued its attack on a judicial decision to remedy a Voting Rights Act violation in Port Chester, NY that led to the election of the first Latino member of that village's legislature. During the segment, conservative activist Jay Alan Sekulow distorted the judge's decision in the case. Read More Right-wing media disappear Bush in assigning oil spill blame
Right-wing media figures have repeatedly claimed that it's "time we stopped blaming Bush" in discussions of the Gulf oil spill. However, under the Bush administration, federal offshore drilling regulators relaxed regulatory standards and were plagued by ethics scandals. Read More | 
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