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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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By all accounts, the Heritage Foundation study that would have been the conservative media’s cudgel to defeat comprehensive immigration reform a second time is all but rotting in the ground, buried under accusations of anti-immigrant and race-based bias.

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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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Breitbart.com is promoting the theory that Hitler was secretly gay, playing into one of the most extreme and damaging anti-gay smears in right-wing politics: that gay men were responsible for the Holocaust. In a May 9 post, Breitbart.com touted ” new evidence ” that Hitler was gay, citing a  Washington Examiner   article  that highlighted notes taken from interviews with several of Hitler’s doctors. The “evidence” of Hitler’s alleged homosexuality includes the claims that Hitler took female hormones and did not sleep in the same bedroom as his girlfriend and eventual wife, Eva Braun: There is new evidence that Adolph Hitler was  gay .

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In coverage of a May 8 House Oversight Committee hearing, conservatives are pushing new myths about the Obama administration’s response to the attacks on a U.S.

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The crew at Fox & Friends can’t handle the fact that government documents are beginning to acknowledge same-sex couples, blaming the “P.C. Police” for new, gay-inclusive language on federal student aid forms. In April, the U.S.

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The right-wing media is promoting a study by the conservative policy group Heritage Foundation which claims immigration reform will cost $6.3 trillion dollars and damage the economy. This claim has been repeatedly debunked, even by conservatives, and is a revision of a 2007 study that utilized “fatally flawed” methodology. Heritage Foundation Releases Report Claiming Immigration Reform Will Cost Trillions Heritage Foundation: Immigration Would “Generate A Fiscal Deficit” Of $6.3 Trillion.  On May 6, conservative policy group The Heritage Foundation released a report claiming immigration reform would cost $6.3 trillion by enacting “amnesty” for undocumented immigrants: Over a lifetime, the former unlawful immigrants together would receive $9.4 trillion in government benefits and services and pay $3.1 trillion in taxes

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In the midst of the most promising time for the gun violence prevention debate in decades, the National Rifle Association will name a new president at their annual meeting May 3-5.  Alabama lawyer Jim Porter will replace current NRA President David Keene, whose two-year term is expiring. Here’s what the media should know about Porter , a conspiracy theorist who calls the Civil War the “War of Northern Aggression” and represents more of the same for the organization: 1.

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