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Fox & Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade dismissed the assertions of interrogation experts and those familiar with the Guantánamo Bay military commission system that keeping the prison open and holding trials there help terrorist organizations recruit more members. Fox Dismisses Idea That Guantanamo Is Helping Terrorists Kilmeade Ridicules Idea That “Gitmo Makes Us Look Bad.” Fox & Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade ridiculed the idea that the Guantánamo prison is a national security problem for the U.S.: KILMEADE: They’re going to go, “We’re going to decide to change our policy on letting these Gitmo detainees go back to Yemen.” You know when they go back to Yemen they go to prison, and suddenly they end up tunneled out and disappeared

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Fox News has announced  it’s hired former Rep. Allen West as a contributor. The far-right Republican and the conservative news network are a match made in heaven: West’s incendiary rhetoric against progressives and Democrats closely mirrors Fox News’ own smears and attacks

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It was just ten days ago that Stephen Hayes of  The Weekly Standard  reported “fresh evidence emerged that senior Obama administration officials knowingly misled the country about what had happened in the days following the assaults” last September on U.S.

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William Kristol wants to go to war in Syria, but he won’t say what that war should look like.

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Fox News celebrated the dedication of the George W.

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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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Fox News ignored economic history to forward the absurd claim that former President George W. Bush exercised “fiscal discipline.” On the April 25 edition of Fox & Friends , former Bush White House Chief of Staff Andy Card claimed that President Bush “probably has the best track record of any modern president in terms of fiscal discipline,” a statement that went unchallenged by the Fox & Friends co-hosts: But facts undermine Card’s claim. According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, the drivers of current and future public debt are policies from the Bush presidency: A recent study from Harvard researcher Linda J

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Megyn Kelly hosted Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) to attack former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s supposed lack of concern over the security issues at American facilities in Libya. During the interview there was no mention of Rep.

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Fox News host Brian Kilmeade thinks he’s found the explanation for how someone was able to set off bombs at the Boston Marathon: President Obama’s supposed policy of “disengaging from the Middle East.” Kilmeade linked the alleged actions of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar to President Obama’s foreign policy during his April 19 radio program. Kilmeade stated: “We had a guy in yesterday that worked with Richard Holbrooke and Hillary Clinton and he’s so disappointed that we’re disengaging from the Middle East. But you talk to these radicals in the Middle East and they say, ‘America, don’t get involved, leave us alone.’ So like it or not, this president has left them alone.

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Van Jones and I have an op-ed in “ The Miami Herald ” and many other McClatchy newspapers. I will have more on the moral dimensions of climate change in later posts.

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