Over the long fight for health care reform, Fox News has been a constant source of misinformation, distraction, and smears. We at Media Matters for America have spent more than a year cataloguing and correcting the errors and lies that have come from both the "opinion" side and the "news" side of Fox’s programming.
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In the past year, Fox News has shown that it is not a news network, it’s a political operation. And it threw every tactic and every lie it had against health insurance reform. In its attempt to "kill the bill," Fox failed, thanks in part to the work Media Matters did in refuting Fox’s lies and exposing its agenda. We’ll keep up this fight on all the issues that matter to this country — and you can help.
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Here are just a few of the ways Fox News lied, misled, and whipped up anti-health care activism over the past year:
- Promoting terrifying myths about "death panels," euthanasia, abortion, "government takeovers," and doctors quitting the profession
- Advancing false claims about the bill’s cost, deficit impact, CBO score, and tax impact
- Reporting inaccurate claims of "corruption," "special deals," and rule-breaking in the legislative process
- Allowing hosts and contributors such as Mike Huckabee, Glenn Beck, and Dick Morris to promote campaigns to call members of Congress in opposition to reform.
Fox is a full-time political operation, aimed at spreading misinformation, whipping up fear, and driving politics and policy to the right. We are working around the clock to fight back — and you can help.
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Eric Burns
Media Matters for America
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