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Fox News is misrepresenting President Obama’s position on surveillance and the threat of international terrorism to falsely accuse him of hypocrisy and fecklessness.

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Immigration reform is inching closer to reality, and conservatives standing in (thus far) fruitless opposition are careening ever further from it.

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Fred Barnes sees an Obama presidency in trouble. That’s probably good news for President Obama

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Right-wing media are continuing to claim Attorney General Eric Holder lied under oath because of a a search warrant request that included Fox News reporter James Rosen, a myopic smear conservative legal experts are warning is baseless.

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Right-wing media are falsely claiming that excerpts of interviews with IRS employees prove that improper targeting of conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status originated from IRS supervisors in Washington, D.C. But House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa admitted on CNN that no such proof is contained in the excerpts

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Multiple media outlets repeated Rep. Darrell Issa’s (R-CA) unsubstantiated claim that IRS leadership in Washington, D.C., orchestrated the inappropriate targeting of conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status, neglecting to mention that Issa provided no evidence of the alleged link between IRS officials in Washington and Cincinnati.

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Fox News contributors pushed flawed claims that Attorney General Eric Holder committed perjury while testifying before Congress because Holder’s comments on Justice Department examinations of reporter communications records as part of leak investigations supposedly conflict with Holder signing off on a warrant seeking the communications of a Fox reporter in one such case. House Republicans are now following Fox’s lead by reportedly investigating Holder’s statements, which has one Fox reporter saying Holder is “gonna have to go.” Fox Figures Suggest Holder Approving Warrant For Fox Reporter James Rosen’s Communications May Prove Holder Committed Perjury Karl Rove: Holder May Have Lied To Congress. Fox News contributor Karl Rove reacted to Holder’s May 15 testimony to the House Judiciary Committee by stating: “I don’t think the president was, you know, shooting straight with us, and neither was the attorney general.” Rove contrasted Holder’s testimony with the news that Holder had signed off on the warrant for Rosen’s emails, commenting, “I find that highly unusual and potentially involving a lie to Congress.” [Fox News, On the Record with Greta Van Susteren , 5/23/13 via Nexis] Hosts Of The Five : Holder “On The Hook,” Will Go To Prison “I Hope.” After airing a clip of Holder’s testimony, Eric Bolling said, “So how do you explain your signature on the subpoena of FOX’s phone records?

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Fox News contributor and National Review columnist John Fund fabricated a link between voter suppression and IRS employees inappropriately singling out tea party and conservative groups’ applications for tax-exempt status, claiming that such scrutiny by the IRS is the “real” form of voter suppression.

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The Washington Times attempted to recycle misinformation about Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s warning that GOP obstructionism of President Obama’s nominees is unsustainable, but published an inaccurate argument that doesn’t support its own rhetoric.

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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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