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As of this writing, there is no indication that the IRS’s inappropriate targeting of conservative political groups has any connection whatsoever to the White House. And some conservative talking heads are even acknowledging as much. But they’re not letting that stop them from naming Barack Obama as the culpable party, arguing that the president is responsible due to his preternatural ability to bend the average bureaucrat to his maleficent will from afar.

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Broadcast and cable Sunday political talk shows featured previously debunked myths about the September 11, 2012 attacks on diplomatic facilities in Benghazi, Libya. Were Benghazi Talking Points Edited For Political Purposes? Was President Obama Engaged During The Attacks

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Peggy Noonan goes full wingnut in her Wall Street Journal column this morning, asking if the White House’s response to the Benghazi attack “cost American lives.” The argument she lays out is that President Obama and his team, faced with the death of an ambassador and three other Americans, deliberately scuttled any sort of military response to keep the story from looking bad. All of this is bad enough

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We’re at the point now where conservatives are going to have to start acknowledging that Barack Obama is the most talented politician in American history.

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Rich Lowry and Jennifer Rubin complained that President Obama used the term “women’s health” and did not mention the word “abortion” while speaking in front of Planned Parenthood on April 26, despite the fact that abortions only make up a small portion of the women’s health services that Planned Parenthood provides. On the May 5 edition of Meet the Press , host David Gregory quoted a May 2 blog post by National Review editor Rich Lowry that appeared in Politico in which he wrote : President Barack Obama was proud to become the first sitting president to address Planned Parenthood last Friday.

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Fox News is heavily invested in turning Benghazi into the scandal that takes down Barack Obama. It’s not just the dream of brutishly partisan actors like Sean Hannity, but the stated intention of Fox reporters like James Rosen, who told Bill O’Reilly that “there are certain elements…that are lacking here for this to become Watergate,” among them the self-serving notion that the media — save for Fox News — refuse to dig into the ”major scandal” that is Benghazi

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The National Rifle Association’s annual meeting on May 3-5 will feature a number of conservative media figures — including Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, and Ted Nugent — who often use violent rhetoric and promote gun-related conspiracy theories.

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On August 5, 2012, just before 10:30 in the morning, Wade Michael Page pulled up outside the Sikh temple in Oak Creek, WI., took out his semi-automatic handgun and started killing worshipers. An Army veteran and an avid bass player in a neo-Nazi rock band, Page murdered two Sikhs outside the house of worship and then made his way inside

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Over the objections of their own legal experts, right-wing media continue to argue the alleged Boston bomber should be denied constitutional rights unlike the hundreds of terrorists before him who have been successfully tried and convicted. Prominent right-wing media figures have advocated a wide range of unconstitutional treatment for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the 19-year-old U.S. citizen accused of complicity in the Boston marathon bombing and subsequent murder of a police officer.

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So, Very Serious People are re-evaluating George W. Bush on the occasion of the opening of his  Presidential Library . For instance, did you know that “ George W.

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