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Accuracy in Media’s Daily Links for March 30, 2012

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National Media’s Biased Coverage of the Affordable Care Act – This week, the Supreme Court heard arguments about whether President Obama’s signature political achievement, the Affordable Care Act, is constitutional or not.

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Matthews Accuses GOP of Making it Harder for Minorities to Vote [Video] – On Wednesday night’s Hardball on MSNBC, during a segment on Florida’s new voter registration law, Chris Matthews asked Florida GOP Chairman Leonard Curry why Republicans want to make it harder for poor people and minorities to vote.

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Justices meet Friday to vote on health care case – While the rest of us have to wait until June, the justices of the Supreme Court will know the likely outcome of the historic health care case by the time they go home this weekend.

GOP’s Ryan endorses Romney for party’s nomination – There had been speculation the Wisconsin Republican would fall into the Romney column, and Ryan did so Friday morning in an interview on Fox News Channel’s “Fox and Friends.”

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The EPA Wrecking Ball – The Environmental Protection Agency is using its power to advance the objective of the environmental movement to deny Americans access to the energy that sustains the nation’s economy and is using the greatest hoax ever perpetrated, global warming—now called “climate change”—to achieve that goal.

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Accuracy in Media’s Daily Links for March 29, 2012

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Can Justice Survive Media Lynch Mob? - As more facts have come out about the tragic death of young Trayvon Martin, the news media have been confronted with the consequences of their rush to judgment when news of this story first broke nationally. The first week or 10 days of national coverage turned out to be more of a lynch mob than a sober take on an unfolding story. It had all the makings of “First the hanging, then the trial.” And then more facts began to emerge.

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MSNBC Uses “The Hunger Games” to Shill for Obamacare [Video] – Democratic strategist David Goodfriend used his Daily Rant time on MSNBC’s Dylan Ratigan program to compare the movie “The Hunger Games” to the fight over Obamacare.

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News Corp’s Fox ponders sports network – Rumors that Fox would take Fuel well beyond its traditional fare of skateboarding, surfing and other so-called extreme sports and create its own mainstream channel persist among TV executives, with Fox routinely dismissing them.

Rubio endorses Romney, says GOP primary should end – Republican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida endorsed Mitt Romney as the party’s presidential nominee Wednesday night, saying it’s increasingly clear that Romney will win the nomination and that continuing the primary fight will only damage the effort to defeat President Barack Obama.

France bars Muslim clerics from entering France – The ban also includes other high-profile Muslim clerics of Palestinian, Egyptian and Saudi origin.

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Signing anti-Walker petition affirms journalists’ bias – An investigation reveals 29 sitting circuit court judges in Wisconsin sign a union-driven recall drive targeting Republican Governor Scott Walker. Newspapers and radio-TV news are outraged — OUTRAGED! — that jurists put their names to such an overtly political document, showing their utter lack of impartiality — bias, if you like. Media painstakingly name all 29 judges, city-by-city, and spank them for their partisanship.

IRS May Draft Cops to Catch Tax Cheats – While the Obama Administration curtailed its involvement with local police agencies to enforce immigration law and capture criminal aliens, that same administration wishes local cops to help the Internal Revenue Service enforcement tax laws, according to testimony given before a panel of U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday.

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Accuracy in Media’s Daily Links for March 28, 2012

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Bias Clips: MSNBC Uses ‘The Hunger Games’ to Promote Obamacare

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Anderson Cooper Exposes New Black Panther Party Racism [Video] – CNN’s Anderson Cooper grilled New Black Panther Party spokesman, Minister Mikhail Muhammad, over his group’s involvement in the Trayvon Martin case, exposing the party’s racism.

CNN Beats MSNBC in Key Demo, Finishes Third Overall – CNN received a split decision in the ratings for the first quarter of 2012 by beating rival MSNBC in the key demo during primetime, but losing to the more liberal network in overall viewership during the same time period.

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George H.W. Bush to formally back Romney – Former President George H.W. Bush plans to endorse Mitt Romney at an event Thursday in Houston.

Calif. Democratic treasurer perpetrated $7M fraud – Democratic campaign treasurer Kinde Durkee defrauded at least 50 candidates, officeholders and political organizations out of $7 million in a scheme that dates back more than a decade, according to a court filing made Tuesday by federal prosecutors.

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The War on Wisconsin – Now is the time for all good tea partiers to come to the aid of Wisconsin.

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Accuracy in Media’s Daily Links for March 27, 2012

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AIM Original Video: Astro-Turf Protesters Argue the Constitutionality of Obamacare

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MSNBC Continues Hunger Games Narrative on Romney

CNN’s Cooper Grills Black Panthers over Racism, “Uncle Toms”

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Current-TV CEO Calls MSNBC A “Confused, Inauthentic Brand” – Current-TV CEO Joel Hyatt criticized the major cable news networks, taking specific aim at MSNBC, which targets the same liberal audience as Current, by calling the network a “confused and inauthentic brand.”

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New claims cast Trayvon Martin as the aggressor – A slain Florida teenager and the neighborhood watch captain who shot and killed him exchanged words before the teen punched him in the nose and began banging the man’s head on the ground, according to the watch captain’s account of the confrontation that led to the shooting.

Justices take up heart of health care overhaul law [Video] – The Supreme Court is taking up the key question in the challenge to President Barack Obama’s historic health care overhaul: Can the government force people to carry insurance or pay a penalty?

UK lawmaker urges News Corp TV hacking claims probe – A British lawmaker is to demand that the TV watchdog probes new hacking claims against News Corp , piling more pressure on BSkyB chairman James Murdoch whose fitness to own a broadcast license is already under scrutiny.

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Islamic Jihad: Hurry Up or Wait? – “The difference between the “radicals” and the “moderates” is that the radicals want to engage in genocide even while they are a minority, while the moderates want to wait until they are a majority.”

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Accuracy in Media’s Daily Links for March 26, 2012

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The Strange Case of Sergeant Bales: Enemy Agent in the Ranks? – What we know, at this point, is that Iranian Press TV and Moscow-funded Russia Today (RT) are blaming the killings not on one man but a high-level U.S. conspiracy. They insist that Bales did not act alone but was assisted by other U.S. military personnel in what was a planned and systematic massacre of civilians.

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MSNBC: ‘Mad Men’ Will Cause Conservatives to Ban Birth Control

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Wisconsin Journalists Chastised for Signing Gov. Walker Recall Petition – Late last week, Kevin Corrado, publisher of the Green Bay Press-Gazette, told readers that 25 Gannett Wisconsin Media journalists, including seven at his own paper, had signed the petition calling for the recall of Gov. Scott Walker.

MSNBC Separates the News from the Views? – Politico’s Dylan Byers reports that MSNBC does in fact have news shows as opposed to “point of view shows.”

CNN Lays Off Dozens as It Moves to Outsource Documentaries – The network said in a statement that it will continue to produce in-house documentaries, but that outside production companies will handle much of its long-form journalism.

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Supreme Court health care arguments under way [Video] – With demonstrators chanting outside, the Supreme Court began hearing arguments Monday on the fate of President Barack Obama’s historic health care overhaul, no less controversial two years after Democrats pushed it to passage in Congress.

Blogger: UAE holds activist for criticizing rulers – The arrest was the latest move by the UAE to crack down on political dissent in the oil-rich union of seven city-states. Each emirate is ruled by a hereditary sheik.

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Hizballah, Iran Have Hundreds in the U.S. – Iran and its Lebanese proxy Hizballah have seeded the United States with hundreds of operatives, some of whom are capable “of flipping a U.S.-based fundraising cell into a lethal terror force, should Iran decide that is in its interests,” a preliminary report from the House Homeland Security Committee finds.

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Accuracy in Media’s Daily Links for March 15, 2012

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Media Threatens Christian Minister – The New York Times, a paper supposedly devoted to freedom of speech, is giving sympathetic coverage to a frivolous lawsuit designed to silence an American Christian minister.

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Matthews: Romney Sounds Like African Colonialist [Video] – Chris Matthews used Mitt Romney’s third-place finishes in Alabama and Mississippi on Tuesday night to ramp up his attacks on the GOP hopeful, by comparing him to African colonialists.

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Bishops, White House talks snarl on treatment of faith-based groups – One of the biggest stumbling blocks is a terse definition – over what constitutes a religious institution – far removed from the emotional flash points of contraception and abortion that have dominated the often-fiery public debate. Yet the bishops see it as a crucial issue.

Obama, Cartoon Network target bullying in documentary – President Barack Obama appears in an upcoming Cartoon Network documentary aimed at encouraging bullied children to speak up, and says that as the father of two young girls he is deeply concerned about the issue.

Intern sues TV host Charlie Rose for unpaid wages – Lucy Bickerton, was an editorial intern at nightly talk show, “Charlie Rose,” between June and August in 2007 and regularly worked 25 hours per week but not was paid any wages, according to the lawsuit filed in state court in New York.

Ariz. officials revisit Obama’s birth certificate – A legislative committee on Wednesday endorsed a proposal that requires presidential candidates to swear that they meet the qualifications to be the nation’s chief executive.

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The War on Civilian Casualties – If Afghans were with us, if they were actually against the true butchers, the Taliban, if they were concerned about which side had innocent blood on its hands, and which side did everything humanly possible to prevent such violence even at the expense of its own people, Afghan hearts and minds would have been “won” long ago.

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Accuracy in Media’s Daily Links for March 14, 2012

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New Hearing in Treason Case Puts Heat on WikiLeaks – A motion hearing in the case of United States vs. Pfc. Bradley E. Manning is scheduled for March 15 at 10 a.m., at Fort Meade in Maryland, as WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and his backers are coming under increasing scrutiny.

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The View Backs Limbaugh’s Right to Free Speech [Video] – The View, whose co-hosts are overwhelmingly liberal, surprisingly disagreed with an editorial that appeared last weekend on CNN from feminists Gloria Steinem, Jane Fonda and Robin Morgan. They urged listeners to complain to the FCC about the stations carrying the Rush Limbaugh program in hopes that the agency would yank the licenses of the stations.

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Murdoch UK paper editor “told me to bribe police” – A former reporter on the News of the World newspaper, the defunct News Corp British paper at the heart of phone-hacking and corruption allegations, said he lost his job as crime correspondent because he refused to bribe police officers.

AFL-CIO boosts ground support for Obama, Democrats [Video] – Labor unions, saying they can’t hope to compete with the new breed of conservative fundraising groups, plan to spend less money this year on specific candidates and political party organizations and more on door-to-door canvassing, phone banks and registration drives to help President Barack Obama and other Democrats.

Watch out Facebook, Twitter. Here comes Pinterest – Pinterest CEO Ben Silbermann, who grew up in Iowa collecting bugs and stamps, said on Tuesday that his goal is to help people discover things that they didn’t know they wanted. He said there are plenty of people trying to tell you what you want via billboards, catalogs or Internet ads.

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What’s the matter with Soledad O’Brien? – CNN’s Soledad O’Brien isn’t used to criticism. In the world of media elites, she’s a beloved figure and an award-winning news anchor. But last week, she revealed her true, decidedly non-neutral colors. And she’s not happy about the hoi polloi questioning her hallowed journalistic objectivity.

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Accuracy in Media’s Daily Links for March 13, 2012

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Washington Post Continues Kaplan Cover-up – Another story in The Washington Post, under the title of “Student loans seen as potential ‘next debt bomb’ for U.S. economy,” continues the paper’s practice of ignoring how a Post subsidiary is contributing to the problem.

The Battle for Israel—An Interview with Bernard Shapiro – “I’m sick of the Israelis, the Americans—everybody talks too much! If you’re going to attack Iran, you attack it! You don’t talk about it endlessly, obnoxiously, ad nauseam-ly.” So said, Bernard Shapiro, founder and chairman of the Freeman Center for Strategic Studies and editor of The Maccabean Online, in a recent interview with Accuracy in Media.

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Piers Morgan Grills Obama Film Producer Over One-Sided “Documentary” [Video] – CNN’s Piers Morgan shocked conservatives with his surprisingly tough interview of Davis Guggenheim last Thursday about his puff-piece “documentary” on Barack Obama.

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Ex-Murdoch editor Brooks arrested again over hacking – Rebekah Brooks, a former editor and close confidante of Rupert Murdoch, was arrested for a second time on Tuesday in a phone-hacking scandal that has rocked the British establishment and embarrassed Prime Minister David Cameron.

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Soldier Murders Afghans, Generals Murder Soldiers – On Sunday, just before dawn, an American staff sergeant walked away from his post in the badlands of Kandahar Province, Afghanistan, went into a nearby village, and methodically murdered sixteen civilians, including women and children. This didn’t happen in the confusion of a firefight amidst the “fog of war.” It was the brutal act of a veteran who cracked. The deed cannot be excused. But I believe it can be explained.

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The Washington Post: Fraud, Lobbying and Insider Trading Exposed

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Chalk it up as another example of public information being ignored by the mainstream press, but this one is beyond the pale. While much of America recognizes the Kaplan brand as a company involved in higher education, few know that they operate as part of The Washington Post Company. Fewer might know that 58 percent of The Post’s value is attributed to the Kaplan subsidiary. But that’s only the tip of the iceberg that has been ignored by the press.

Accuracy in Media’s Center for Investigative Journalism released a study detailing exactly how low CEO Donald Graham and The Post will go to keep their doors open.

Some fun facts uncovered in the research:

-Kaplan University has a consistent dropout rate of 70 percent. If you’re one of the lucky ones who walk the stage, odds are you’ll earn less than the national average for college graduates.

-The Post’s lobbyists do not like that their income received from federal student loan programs are capped at 90 percent. Post CEO Don Graham has openly threatened Congress that he’ll jack up tuition until the cap is removed.

-Are you a veteran? Kaplan University wants you to enroll today. Your GI Bill and Department of Defense tuition funds are exempt from federal assistance caps.

-Kaplan recruiters are trained to seek out students near the poverty line and are encouraged to use “true pain and fear” tactics to sign up.

-The Graham family isn’t clean in this either. Before severe drops to The Washington Post Co. stock price, they sold $40 million worth of shares.

It really isn’t surprising that The Post wouldn’t come clean on this, given its dependence on the Kaplan cash cow. While some news outlets have discussed various aspects to this case, a complete picture has not been shown until now. In order to truly fight back against the corrupt mainstream press, you must understand how its business and finances work.

Read the full report here.

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Accuracy in Media’s Daily Links for March 6, 2012

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Media Matters, or Does It? – The news for Media Matters keeps getting worse and worse.

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Current TV Doubles Down, Adds Morning Block – Al Gore’s Current TV is doubling down on its strategy of building a 24/7 liberal network to compete with MSNBC by announcing that it will add morning programming to complement its primetime lineup.

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Occupy the Money – Who would have thought, three or four decades ago, that Communist activists and terrorists such as Bill Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn, Van Jones, Anita Dunn, David Axelrod, Valerie Jarrett, Tom Haydn, Jane Fonda, and a gallery of other protégés, associates, appointees, and fellow travelers would become the social and political elite to formulate, determine and oversee domestic and foreign policies of the United States?

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Accuracy in Media’s Daily Links for March 5, 2012

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Dear General Dempsey – When I hear someone with your knowledge and your experience talk as if things were moving along nicely with Iran (sanctions are working, the Tehran regime is “rational”), my heart sinks.

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Fox Chairman Praises Rachel Maddow’s New Book – Ailes, who has been a hero to conservatives for having the vision to create Fox News and turn the once fledgling cable news network into both a financial and ratings juggernaut, is sure to raise more than a few eyebrows with his pro-Maddow book blurb.

NBC News Expands on Radio at Expense of CNN – CNN, which is fighting with NBC-owned MSNBC for second place in the cable television news ratings, lost one battle this week to their rival when it was announced that NBC News will replace CNN on the radio airwaves starting next month.

Newspapers Digital Future is Bleak – Newspapers will need to get over this culture of “inertia” and become less dinosaur-like in how fast they adapt to change, if they want to avoid extinction.

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Pentagon says military will still air Rush Limbaugh – A Pentagon spokesman says the military’s network will continue to air Rush Limbaugh’s radio program.

Obama focuses on unity, Netanyahu on sovereignty – Netanyahu used a brief, cordial session before the White House cameras to remind his host that Israel will decide for itself how to confront a looming threat that both unites and divides the longtime allies.

AP Exclusive: Obama’s transgender ex-nanny – Once, long ago, Evie looked after “Barry” Obama, the kid who would grow up to become the world’s most powerful man.

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Sherriff Arpaio – “I Suspect a Forgery.” Now what? – The American people are now in a Cold War to force a corrupt political-media machine to adhere to the Constitution, restore representative government and save the Republic.

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Accuracy in Media’s Daily Links for March 1, 2012

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Andrew Breitbart—New Media Champion – Yes, he was a fearless fighter and a serious media watchdog. That is why we at Accuracy in Media held him in such high regard.

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AIM Statement on Andrew Breitbart’s Passing – Accuracy in Media released the following statement after learning of Andrew Breitbart’s passing.

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Newspaper Ad Revenues are Falling Over a Cliff – While it has been widely reported that ad revenues, which are the lifeblood of every newspaper, have been falling for years, a new chart from the Newspaper Association of America shows just how much those revenues have fallen, portending an even bleaker future for the industry.

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Conservative publisher Andrew Breitbart dies in LA at 43 – (As mentioned on Rush today) Conservative media publisher and activist Andrew Breitbart, who was behind investigations that led to the resignations of former Rep. Anthony Weiner of New York and former U.S. Agriculture Department official Shirley Sherrod, has died in Los Angeles. He was 43.

Arizona sheriff Arpaio probes Obama’s birth certificate – Arpaio scheduled a news conference Thursday to unveil preliminary results of an investigation, conducted by members of his volunteer cold-case posse, into the authenticity of President Barack Obama’s birth certificate, a controversy that has been widely debunked but which remains alive in the eyes of some conservatives.

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BLAME BUSH FOR EVERTHING! Obama Administration Refuses to Man-Up About Afghanistan – Even for the most self-aggrandizing administration in American history, Monday saw a new low: White House spokes-child Jay Carney made the breathtaking claim that George W. Bush is responsible for the current mommy-he-touched-my-Koran violence in Afghanistan.

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New AIM Video – Imam, Priest, Rabbi: Religious Liberty and The Birth Control Mandate

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The controversial contraception, abortifacients and sterilization mandate has quickly become a national debate unlike the country has seen since the passage of Obamacare. Regardless of how the White House is currently positioned to accommodate potentially injured religious parties, Accuracy in Media discovered an alarming narrative developing in the mainstream press. Pundits and reporters have chosen to apply the debate to the horse-race for the GOP nomination, or another battle in the culture war for reproductive rights. Unfortunately a larger, constitutionally intrinsic question is being overlooked: will this pending mandate forever endanger our religious liberties for the sake of public policy? Accuracy in Media sat down with Fr. Joseph Gonzales, Imam Johari Abdul-Malik and Rabbi Charles Feinberg to discuss how this precious balance can be maintained in the 21st Century.

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NEW AIM Video – Catholic Congressman: “Clergy…Stabbed In The Back”

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The recent uproar regarding Obamacare’s contraception and abortifacient mandates has cast the spotlight on the Catholic Church, but what about American Muslims and Jews?  Have their religious liberties been violated as well? Accuracy in Media offers an exclusive preview of this week’s video investigation titled Religious Liberty and The Birth Control Mandate.

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AIM Video: Anarchists, Commies & “Tent Monster!”- Fitting Last Day of Occupy DC

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“Protesters have erected a “tent of dreams” over the statue of General McPherson in McPherson Square in defiance of the National Park Police’s enforcement of a ban on camping.” –NPR, January 30, 2012

AIM has reported just about everything regarding the Occupy Movement in these past months. We’ve challenged key media narratives that sought to justify or apologize for Occupier’s actions. On Eviction Day, AIM wanted to find out what this “tent of dreams” was that  NPR was breathlessly reporting on. What did we find? Oh, you know, smelly hippies and misguided college kids with too much Critical Theory.

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