Based on the Minnesota Automobile Dealers Association numbers, federal funding has so far helped car owners replace 150 inefficient old cars, not two. That’s 2 percent of the 7,500 consumers who have signed on to participate in the program.

Carlson has a habit of drawing dubiously on her Minnesota roots — for example, citing her childhood experience of Christmas to advocate that free speech be suspended on that day, and claiming “the last time I checked, [former U.S. Sen.] Norm Coleman won the election after election night.”

Here’s today’s Fox News video clip:

CARLSON: By the way, I did my own crack research yesterday, spent a tremendous amount of time on this yesterday finding out information. In my home state of Minnesota, so far only two of these deals have actually been approved –

CO-HOST STEVE DOOCY: That’s all?

CARLSON: — by the government.

DOOCY: Wow.

CARLSON: Two in the entire state of Minnesota. And then you wonder about whether or not these dealers feel like they’re going to get their money from the government. Not so sure.

March 31: Jonah Goldberg on auto bailout: “You can call it corporatism, you can call it socialism, you can call it fascism, what it is not is liberal democratic capitalism.”

March 30: Fox News’ Andrew Napolitano says General Motors CEO Rick Wagoner’s resignation is “an absolute power grab and it’s the road to fascism”, “this is Mussolini on the Potomac.”

March 11: Lee Rodgers claims Obama “clearly is more sympathetic with the long-term goals of world communism, and let’s be blunt about it, Muslim terrorists, than with any legitimate American goals.”

Feb. 6: Glenn Beck on “The O’Reilly Factor”: “We are really truly stepping beyond socialism and starting to look at fascism”; compares proposals to Nazi Germany.

Jan. 27: Numerous media figures equate Pelosi’s defense of family planning provision in recovery package to China’s “one-child policy,” eugenics, Nazism.

Maddox at the 2008 Derby Days parade, via the Shakopee Valley News

Shakopee reporter slain: Ruth Anne Maddox, a schools reporter for the Shakopee Valley News, was found dead early Wednesday morning in her Prior Lake home. Charles Maddox, from whom Maddox was divorcing, was arrested and charged with second-degree murder. According to the coroner’s report, Maddox died from blunt-force head and neck injuries late Monday or early Tuesday. The paper’s staff, “devastated by her loss,” is publishing remembrances of Maddox from readers and co-workers. Our sympathies to Maddox’s family and coworkers.

Online forum shuttered: The Mankato Free Press, watching its community forum section devolve into bickering and name-calling, shut down its “Hey Martha” forum. Reporter Dan Nienaber writes that the forum, which allowed users to comment anonymously, “went down a victim of a contentious election season.” Free Press publisher Jim Santori said, “[A]llowing anonymous posts on the forum opened up the opportunity for people to attack others with impunity. It got so bad that, in some cases, I found people fearful to engage in dialogue because of the actions of others.” “Hey Martha” may return, if the paper can find a good registration and IP-banning application.

Media Matters on NYT’s Franken/Coleman story: Media watchdog group Media Matters is calling reporting on the recount of Minnesota’s U.S. Senate race “woeful.” Written by Christina Cappecchi, who also writes for MinnPost, the piece concludes “with right-wing talk points presented by right-wing talking heads,” according to MM’s Eric Boehlert. The reporter quotes or notes six supporters of Norm Coleman, while only referring to one supporter of Al Franken. Cappechi also quotes Sean Hannity, who muffed some key facts in a recent appearance with Tim Pawlenty, as stating there’s “fishy business” surrounding the Nov. 4 election and vote counting. There’s no proof of wrongdoing, Boehlert writes, “which means there’s absolutely no reason for the newspaper to be legitimize that kinds of GOP conspiracy talk.” (MnIndy’s Chris Steller has more on this story.)

Save the paper! With newspapers from Nov. 5 filling up ebay, The Pew Research Center for People and the Press reports that 23 percent of Americans say they’re saving newspapers marking the election of Barack Obama as president. Among African Americans, the percentage jumps to 55. For those without forethought enough to seal your prized Wednesday edition in cellophane, fear not: the nonprofit Poynter Institute is creating a book featuring 75 front pages from the day after Obama’s historic win.

NEED returns: Nine months after its northeast Minneapolis offices were burglarized, the humanitarian magazine NEED has come out with its fifth edition. The glossy magazine was named “One of the hottest Launches of 2007.”

Media Matters on Strib: Last Thursday, Star Tribune editor Nancy Barnes asked “all columnists to refrain from partisan political commentary in their columns on the news pages, at least until after the election.” The news raised the eyebrows of Media Matters’ Eric Boehlert who notes that the decree came a day after columnist Katherine Kersten attacked Democrat Al Franken as being anti-Catholic. Boehlert goes on to point out other inconsistencies at the paper: its glowing front-page story about GOP operative and Coleman confidante/landlord Jeff Larson (”the ‘Clark Kent’ behind Palin’s wardrobe,” according to the paper’s headline) followed by its endorsement of Coleman, to name one.

Circ sinks: The Star Tribune is among papers that saw circulation drop in September. Audit Bureau of Circulations reported that its 507 papers saw a 4.6 percent dip. Strib daily editions were down 4.26 percent, while its Sunday edition dropped 8.63 percent. One bright spot: the Pioneer Press has reportedly seen “small gains” in Sunday circulation.

“I don’t think homeless people should vote. Frankly. In fact, I have to be very honest. I’m not that excited about women voting, to be honest. … But that’s just me. I’m a pig, and that’s fine. All right? And we’ll see that, I’m sure, on a lame-ass website very soon. But I don’t think hobos ought to vote at all. They’re nuts. And I think that there needs to be a little more care in who votes.”

To be honest, we’re not that excited about Baker voting. But apparently the U.S. Constitution, or somesuch document, says otherwise. Here’s the clip: