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Matthew Gertz
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1. There's a weird phenomenon under way: Fox News is the cable news network providing the most coverage of progressive policies. (The coverage, of course, is very bad.)
2. Here's our study of prime-time coverage of the Green New Deal: mediamatters.org/blog/2019/02/1…
3. And another showing coverage of state abortion measures. mediamatters.org/blog/2019/02/0…
4. If you're looking for coverage of these policies on cable news, you either need to tune in to Fox News and get a hard-right, deceptive take on them, or hope you catch one of the much rarer MSNBC or CNN segments.
5. This trend, I think, poses some serious risks during the Democratic presidential primaries. If voters can't get information on the policy debate from credible sources, that's a problem.
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Dan Bongino's absurd comment came during a Fox & Friends interview around 630 am that was reaired at the tops of the 7 and 8 am hours. Also, Trump added the word "illegal" to the quote.

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Don't really think it's worth it to dunk on that dumb tweet but if you were paying attention from 2007-2016 you know that saying that you and your policies are not socialist has literally no impact on whether your political enemies claim the opposite.
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