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Right-wing media figures are attacking President Obama over his decision to lift a moratorium on a Guantánamo Bay detainee transfer to Yemen — a decision that has earned the praise of a former top Navy judge and is an important step toward closing the detention facility, which experts agree is necessary. On May 23, Obama announced that he is lifting his ban on the transfer of detainees from the Guantánamo Bay detention center to Yemen

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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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In the face of repeated infrastructure related disasters, Fox News host Neil Cavuto has continued to dismiss calls for an increase in infrastructure spending, claiming that spending on infrastructure is high enough. In reality, infrastructure spending has plummeted in recent years

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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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The Wall Street Journal’s Stephen Moore cited figures that independent analysts have called misleading to hype Florida Gov. Rick Scott’s claims about his administration’s job creation record

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Despite previously applauding a Bush administration official who invoked the Fifth Amendment and declined to testify before a Congressional hearing, Rush Limbaugh is now criticizing IRS official Lois Lerner for doing the same.

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Daily Caller contributor Mickey Kaus theorized that recent incidents of sexual assaults in the military may be a diversion tactic aimed at steering attention away from the White House.

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Less than 24 hours after Alex Jones theorized that a “weather weapon” could have been used to cause the devastating Oklahoma tornado, conservative gossip Matt Drudge returned to his pattern of promoting the conspiracy theorist. On May 21, Jones  told  a caller that the government has the ability to “create and steer groups of tornadoes” and that if people spotted helicopters and small aircraft “in and around the clouds, spraying and doing things” in Oklahoma, it could be evidence that a “weather weapon” was used.

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Conspiracy theorist radio host Alex Jones explained to his audience today how the government could have been behind the devastating May 20 tornado in Oklahoma. On the May 21 edition of  The Alex Jones Show , a caller asked Jones whether he was planning to cover how government technology may be behind a recent spate of sinkholes

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