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Fox's Williams and Smith: “You would never know it listening to the news,” but the stimulus “saved us from a depression”

Written by Media Matters Staff

Published 08/25/10 4:13 PM EDT

From the August 25 edition of Fox News' Studio B:

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Previously:

Cavuto guest Ramsey's insightful commentary on CBO finding that Recovery Act helped economy: “Still not buying” it

Krauthammer suggests CBO's numbers on jobs “saved or created” by Recovery Act are “fictional”

Perino falsely claims Dems “don't want to talk about...the stimulus bill because they know that it didn't work”

O'Reilly and Ingraham push falsehood that stimulus didn't create jobs

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