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Example - Civil Rights Act
CNN made a classic mistake of ignoring a confounding variable in their retrospective on the Civil Rights Act of 1964, by repeating the myth that more Republicans supported the bill, going so far as to link to an article that explains why the opposite its true. On the surface the argument seems compelling:

They ignored the fact that it was not simply a Democratic/Republican divide, there was also a North/South divide