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• Print media reported that Obama represented ACORN, but not that DOJ was a fellow plaintiff in the lawsuit
  Sunday, October 12, 2008
• McClatchy's Thomma misrepresented Obama's tax plan
  Saturday, October 11, 2008
• Politico quoted from McCain campaign's Ayers ad without noting its distortions
  Thursday, October 9, 2008
• Media repeat Cindy McCain's attack on Obama troop-funding vote, ignore John McCain's troop-funding vote
  Thursday, October 9, 2008
• Politico's Libit repeated Gingrich's false claim days after Politico reported such claims were inaccurate
  Wednesday, October 1, 2008
• Media falsely suggest that only Dems dismissed GOP accusation that Pelosi's speech cost GOP votes as "nonsense"
  Tuesday, September 30, 2008
• CNN airs McCain ad attacking Obama over troop funding vote, but ignores McCain's own record
  Saturday, September 27, 2008
• Reporting attacks over troop funding votes, Politico ignores McCain's own record
  Saturday, September 27, 2008
• ABCNews.com and Time.com headlines mischaracterized Paulson's remarks as blaming Democrats
  Friday, September 26, 2008
• Politico's Martin uncritically reported false claim that "Obama opposed legislation that ... would protect legal protection to babies outside the womb"
  Wednesday, September 17, 2008
• Media uncritically report McCain camp's assertion that Obama "voted against funds for American troops in harm's way"
  Friday, August 29, 2008
• ABC reports that Republicans are mocking Democrats' columned stage, not that 2004 GOP convention stage also had columns
  Thursday, August 28, 2008
• Media repeat Limbaugh's baseless charge that claimed Obama got "sweetheart deals" from Rezko without noting rebuttal
  Friday, August 22, 2008
• Ignoring reported favors to lobbyists, land-swap deals, Politico's Martin and Allen uncritically quoted McCain's assertion that "[l]obbyists don't come to my office"
  Thursday, August 21, 2008
• Citing response about Hanoi prison, Politico characterized as "new" McCain's willingness to discuss his "biography"
  Monday, August 18, 2008
• Politico's Allen repeats RNC ad verbatim, doesn't report Obama response
  Monday, July 7, 2008
• Politico's Smith, Martin reported McCain campaign's claim that Obama would raise taxes on 21 million small businesses without noting it's false
  Monday, July 7, 2008
• In Politico, TNR's Kirchick falsely claimed Clark's comments were part of a "pattern of attacks" on McCain as "psychologically unfit for presidential office"
  Thursday, July 3, 2008
• Ignoring GOP filibuster, Politico falsely claimed Medicare bill needed 60 votes for passage
  Tuesday, July 1, 2008
• Politico's Martin again uncritically quoted "most liberal" charge against Obama
  Monday, June 23, 2008

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