WaPo business columnist Pearlstein on talking point that unemployment insurance money is not stimulus: “Hello, what do you think the guy who's unemployed does with the dollar? He goes out and buys something”
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Did David Gregory just acknowledge the tension between bipartisan “smaller” bill and “bigger” bill that “get[s] the results”?
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Moody's chief economist and former McCain economic advisor Zandi explains to Blitzer that GOP plan to limit tax cut to income taxpayers would “reduce the effectiveness of a tax cut”
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On MSNBC, GOP strategist launches new stimulus talking point: “it just might be the political equivalent of Hillary Clinton's health care bill”
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The Beltway media bubble
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Even more myths and falsehoods surrounding the economic recovery plan
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Learning from history
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Tumulty, Ambinder tout Romney for health care position, citing MA plan he says would be wrong to impose on states
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MS/NBC reporters continue to line up against stimulus
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Hannity falsely claimed CBO “say[s]” economic recovery plan is “not a stimulus bill”
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Carville gives Rush Limbaugh a history lesson
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CNN's Brown, Velshi falsely claimed increased food stamps and unemployment payments are “not stimulus”
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Reich calls out Limbaugh, Hannity and Malkin
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CBS advances falsehood that Obama's stimulus plan gives “tax refunds for people who don't pay taxes”
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Conservative media figures falsely suggest that Reich proposed excluding white males from stimulus package
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CNN's Dobbs, Fox's Hannity featured in Olbermann's “Worst Person” segment
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CNN's Lou Dobbs claimed Obama “didn't talk about NAFTA” during meeting with Calderón -- but Obama spokesman said they did
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Limbaugh falsely asserted “Banking Queen” Barney Frank “created” subprime mortgage crisis