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Extremist radio host Pete Santilli is defending and reiterating his  inflammatory attacks  on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, stating on his program that he wants “to shoot her in the vagina and let her suffer right before my eyes.” In a May 17 rant  captured  by Right Wing Watch, Santilli called for the Bush family and President Obama to be shot and for Clinton to be “shot in the vagina.” The Secret Service  told TPM Media  that they would investigate Santilli’s comments in order to “determine what a person’s intent is when making comments like this.” SANTILLI: You need to understand that what I said was very clear. I didn’t want Hillary Clinton to die. I want her to suffer painfully, right in front of me, after she’s convicted for committing crimes against humanity.

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Robert Gates is calling out conservatives for the “cartoonish impression of the military” they promote when baselessly criticizing the Obama administration for not sending additional support during the September attack on diplomatic facilities in Benghazi, Libya. Right-wing media have often criticized the administration for what Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan termed their decision to “do nothing” in the face of the attack, with some suggesting that by failing to send additional troops or fighter jets to respond, President Obama had deliberately “sacrificed Americans” as a “political calculation.” But Gates, who served as Secretary of Defense during the Bush and Obama administrations, debunked these claims and explained that he would have made the same decisions, during his May 12 interview on CBS’ Face the Nation . Gates explained that he “would never have approved sending an aircraft” due to fears it would get shot down, and that he would not have approved sending Special Forces due to a lack of information about what was happening on the ground: GATES: I think the one place where I might be able to say something useful has to do with some of the talk of the military response.

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Fox News ignored economic history to forward the absurd claim that former President George W. Bush exercised “fiscal discipline.” On the April 25 edition of Fox & Friends , former Bush White House Chief of Staff Andy Card claimed that President Bush “probably has the best track record of any modern president in terms of fiscal discipline,” a statement that went unchallenged by the Fox & Friends co-hosts: But facts undermine Card’s claim. According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, the drivers of current and future public debt are policies from the Bush presidency: A recent study from Harvard researcher Linda J

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The Wall Street Journal  and Fox News are suggesting that President Barack Obama’s nomination of Gina McCarthy as head of the Environmental Protection Agency is a sign that he is acting like a “dictator,” using an “end-around” to regulate carbon emissions that drive climate change. But they failed to mention that efforts to curb this greenhouse gas through the EPA are not an invention of the Obama administration — they were given the go-ahead by a George W

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Senate Republicans unveiled their plan to avert sequestration this week, and though they are still demanding that the looming budget cuts be offset totally by a different set of budget cuts, they are refusing to say what new budget cuts they prefer. Instead, they want to give President Obama the authority to choose which programs would face cuts as part of the $85 billion plan.

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The GOP civil war continues to intensify, with numerous prominent conservative media figures lashing out at Karl Rove in recent days over vehement disagreements about the direction of the party. This is far from the first incident pitting Rove against fellow right-wing media figures

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From Progressive News Source- http://feeds.mediamatters.org/~r/MediaMattersForAmerica-CountyFair/~3/jNf2Kqkn_cw/192570 Progressive News Post- Alexander Zaitchik: The Wash. Post ‘s Jennifer Rubin Divide And The Iraq War

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Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) Rep

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Andrew McCarthy A Fox News contributor drew a direct comparison between Iraq in 2004 to current day Mali, claiming President Obama’s actions in Libya were on the same scale in destabilizing the world.

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The Wall Street Journal pushed the misleading claim that small businesses will be harmed by slightly increasing the top tax rates on the wealthy. In fact, only about 3 percent of small businesses will pay more in taxes under President Obama’s plan to let the Bush-era tax cuts expire for household incomes above $250,000. A Journal article claimed that “[i]f ideas proposed by the White House take hold — a long shot — rates for big companies likely would fall next year while those paid by many small-business owners through the individual tax system would rise.” One of the president’s key positions in deficit talks with Republicans is to raise revenue by not extending the Bush tax cuts on incomes over $250,000.

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