Media Matters nails Fox News three times yesterday for false assertations. Do they honestly believe no one is listening or checking the facts? In this age of YouTube, Media Matters and FactCheck.org nothing usually slips by without someone catching you lying on tevee or the radio.

Gretchen Carlson was the first one they caught, no surprise there. The Fox and Friends Show is always making ludicrous claims that they try to pass off as facts – in there so called Fair & Balanced reporting.

Fox News’ Gretchen Carlson falsely claimed that “roughly 40 percent” of Sen. Barack Obama’s plan to cut taxes “is a handout to people who do not pay taxes.” In fact, all American workers are required to pay taxes on their wages for Social Security and Medicare, and according to an Obama economic adviser, “every person that receives a tax cut under Barack Obama’s plan is working.”

Next up Brit Hume, the GOP cheerleader, and Gretchen yet again – repeated a report of Sarkozy comments about Obama, without noting French Embassy dismissed report as “groundless”.

Special Report host Brit Hume, Fox & Friends co-host Gretchen Carlson, and New York Post writer Geoff Earle uncritically repeated a report by Israeli newspaper Haaretz that French President Nicolas Sarkozy called Sen. Barack Obama’s position on Iran “utterly immature” and “formulations empty of all content” without noting that the French Embassy issued a statement calling the Haaretz report about Sarkozy’s comments “groundless.”

Lastly, Shepard Smith who was disturbed the other day by “Joe the Plumber’s” statement about Obama – yesterday, affirmed Palin’s misleading claim that Obama “voted 94 times for higher taxes.”

After airing video of Gov. Sarah Palin’s misleading assertion that Sen. Barack Obama “voted 94 times for higher taxes,” Fox News’ Shepard Smith affirmed Palin’s claim, saying, “Well, they’ll [Democrats] argue with that, but I guess down to its core, that’s true.” However, Smith offered no support for his purported confirmation of Palin’s assertion, and FactCheck.org has described the claim as “inflated” and “padded.”

Reviewing each of Obama’s 94 votes, FactCheck.org found:

Twenty-three were for measures that would have produced no tax increase at all; they were against proposed tax cuts. Seven of the votes were in favor of measures that would have lowered taxes for many, while raising them on a relative few, either corporations or affluent individuals. Eleven votes the GOP is counting would have increased taxes on those making more than $1 million a year — in order to fund programs such as Head Start and school nutrition programs, or veterans’ health care.

The GOP sometimes counted two, three and even four votes on the same measure. We found their tally included a total of 17 votes on seven measures, effectively padding their total by 10. The majority of the 94 votes — 53 of them, including some mentioned above — were on budget measures, not tax bills, and would not have resulted in any tax change. Four other votes were non-binding motions related to conference report negotiations.

Fox News is the most biased in the business, with a conservative tilt. No wonder John McCain and Sarah Palin do interviews with them; they don’t need to worry about being challenged on any false assertations they make. It’s like playing baseball and having the umpire on your side, you can’t lose.