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Right-wing media are increasingly and uniformly pushing the ” personhood ” position in their anti-choice attacks, an absolutist argument that equates fetuses with persons and goes beyond repealing Roe v. Wade to banning all abortions

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Late Friday, after the Heritage Foundation reportedly  considered seeking the counsel  of an outside PR firm to deal with damage to their brand, researcher Jason Richwine, who coauthored the  deeply  fl awed  immigration report pushed by the right-wing think tank,  resigned  his position. His error seemingly had nothing to do with the poor quality of that document, exemplified by the  bipartisan ,  panideological , critiques of the study, as his coauthor Robert Rector is seemingly still employed at Heritage

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Since the April release of a House Republican report on Benghazi, Tom Pickering — co-chairman of the State Department’s Accountability Review Board on the Benghazi attacks last year — has been interviewed only twice on major news programs. Pickering Hosted Only Twice To Discuss Right-Wing Scandal Mongering Since April Report Pickering Has Made Only Two Appearances Since The Release Of The House GOP Report. According to a search of the Nexis database, Tom Pickering made only two media appearances since the April 23 release of the House Republican report: on the May 8 edition of CNN International , and on the May 8 edition of MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Reports

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Fox Business’ Lou Dobbs hosted Cody Wilson – a self-described anarchist who was named one of Wired’s top 15 Most Dangerous People In The World  – to promote his 3D-printed gun, which has come under intense scrutiny. On March 5, Forbes reported that Wilson, a law student at the University of Texas, became the first person to fire a real bullet from a plastic gun made with a 3D-printer. The gun, named the “Liberator,” is made almost entirely of plastic, with the exception of a single nail used as the firing pin and a six-ounce piece of steel to comply with the Undetectable Firearms Act , which makes it illegal to manufacture or possess any firearm that is not detectable by a walk-through metal detector.

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The Las Vegas Review-Journal promoted a plan to create a merit pay system for teachers, but failed to note that merit-based pay schemes have not succeeded and could hurt students in low-income areas. In the May 1 editorial , the paper claims that criteria such as “teacher experience, credentialing, and graduate degrees do not translate to higher student achievement” and should no longer be the basis for pay increases.

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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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Media outlets including NPR and Fox News are targeting federal disability benefits programs through a campaign deceptively portraying these programs as wasteful and unsustainable. In reality, these programs have low fraud rates and help the rising number of Americans with severe disabilities survive when they are   unable to work. Is the recent increase in the number of people receiving disability benefits surprising?

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Fox News is leading the right-wing media chorus baselessly claiming Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the apparent bomber in the Boston Marathon attacks, should be indefinitely detained as an “enemy combatant,” even though legal experts maintain it is unlikely he qualifies for this designation. Militarily detaining U.S. citizens apprehended in this country as “enemy combatants” for acts of terror is extremely rare and constitutionally questionable

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Looking back at the Senate’s failure last week to pass gun safety legislation in the wake of the school massacre in Newtown, CT., Slate’s John Dickerson writes that the bill fell victim to “the structure of the Senate, its partisan makeup, and pressure from gun rights advocates.” I guess that’s one way of putting it. Another way of putting it is that Republicans continued to adhere to their unprecedented, four-year campaign of obstructionism and blocked a bill, whose central proposal, expanded background checks, enjoyed a stunning 90 percent support from the American public. But that’s not the story Beltway pundits and reporters want to tell.

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Wall Street Journal columnist James Taranto questioned the authenticity of a New York Times op-ed authored by former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords by claiming that the op-ed appeared online too quickly to have been written by someone “who has severe impairments of her motor and speech functions.” Giffords’ April 18 op-ed was written in response to the failure of expanded background checks legislation . On January 8, 2011, Giffords was shot in the head during a constituent meeting in an attack that killed six and left 13 wounded

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