FYI for Feb 21, 2009: Exposing the Lies and Stupidity of disgusting Republicans!

** Media Matters **
http://www.mediamatters.org

The Hill, United Press International uncritically reported false GOP claim that Dems steered recovery money to ACORN.

In making the claim that the recovery bill steers money to ACORN, Republicans have pointed to a provision in the bill that would, in the law's final version, appropriate $2 billion "for neighborhood stabilization activities related to emergency assistance for the redevelopment of abandoned and foreclosed homes as authorized under division B, title III of the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008." In fact, neither that provision nor any other provision in the act mentions ACORN or otherwise singles it out for funding

http://mediamatters.org/items/200902210007

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Myths and falsehoods about the 2010 census and the Obama administration.
http://mediamatters.org/items/200902200014

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O'Reilly falsely claimed Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) advocated that "poor people ought to be given mortgages 'cause everybody has a right to a house".
http://mediamatters.org/items/200902210001

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Echoing GOP, Fox figures falsely claim Reid included $8 billion in bill directed to LA-Vegas rail.
http://mediamatters.org/items/200902180010

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NBC's Lisa Myers is latest to repeat inflated GOP's "quarter of a million dollars per job" calculation.
http://mediamatters.org/items/200902180009