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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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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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A recent Fox News poll of registered voters, which purports to illustrate that a majority of voters agree with the network’s dark narrative on the Obama administration’s response to the 2012 Benghazi attacks, relies on questions from a foundation of tired distortions and lies. Fox News conducted a poll of 1,013 registered voters between May 18-20, attempting to discern respondents’ opinions on a variety of questions related to the government’s handling of the Benghazi attacks

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The Wall Street Journal opinion page is turning into the go-to source for documenting President Obama’s supernatural influence over the thoughts and actions of IRS employees. Reagan DOJ veterans David Rivkin and Lee Casey wrote a May 21 Journal op-ed  arguing that fault for the IRS’s inappropriate targeting of conservative non-profit applicants lies with the president. “The Obama administration made clear its deep dislike of  Citizens United  and of the various new conservative groups spawned by the ‘tea party’ movement,” they wrote, and “the IRS has always been well-attuned to even subtle guidance from the White House.” That argument was borrowed from Kimberley Strassel’s May 17 Journal column: “All [Obama] needed to do was exactly what he did do, in full view, for three years: Publicly suggest that conservative political groups were engaged in nefarious deeds.” This notion of bureaucrat whispering is, in isolation, a pretty big stretch

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The  American Spectator ‘s Jeffrey Lord misrepresented White House visitor logs to suggest that President Obama knew about the IRS targeting of conservative nonprofits because he met with the president of a union that represents IRS employees shortly before the agency began its controversial actions.

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Fox News ignored President Obama’s explicit demand for accountability in the wake of news that the Internal Revenue Service applied extra scrutiny to conservative groups. The network’s omission gave it cover to accuse Obama of not taking the IRS’s actions seriously and to call for a special prosecutor. Obama first addressed the IRS controversy during a May 13 joint  press conference  with British Prime Minister David Cameron, where he condemned the IRS’s behavior with the caveat, “If, in fact, IRS personnel engaged in the kind of practices that had been reported,” then “that’s outrageous and there’s no place for it.

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Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) and Fox News have come to the same conclusion — describing the attacks on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya as an “act of terror” is different, and somehow less accurate, than describing them as a terrorist attack

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Fox News anchor Bret Baier complained that President Obama’s description of his administration’s response to attacks on a U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya attempted to rewrite history

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A Wall Street Journal editorial asked questions that have already been answered regarding military deployments in response to the Benghazi attack when it rehashed false claims that U.S. military forces were not deployed to the region around Benghazi, Libya, and suggested that political considerations hampered a quicker response

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