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Right-wing media are falsely claiming that excerpts of interviews with IRS employees prove that improper targeting of conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status originated from IRS supervisors in Washington, D.C. But House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa admitted on CNN that no such proof is contained in the excerpts

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At least six Fox News contributors have reportedly signed on to an open letter opposing the comprehensive immigration reform legislation currently being debated in the Senate. Fox News, which has admitted it is the “voice of opposition” on certain issues, has long ignored and even fostered such unethical behavior from its personalities.

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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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We’re at the point now where conservatives are going to have to start acknowledging that Barack Obama is the most talented politician in American history.

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Fox News is falsely suggesting a new Weekly Standard article proves the CIA didn’t link the Benghazi attacks to an anti-Islam YouTube video. In fact, CIA talking points obtained by the conservative magazine actually demonstrate the intelligence community believed there was a link between the attacks and reactions to the video

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John Bolton has long been the id of the conservative foreign policy movement — saying what all of his right wing brethren would not dare even mumble in polite company. He continued that trend yesterday on Neil Cavuto’s Fox News program, telling the host during a discussion of theadministration’s reaction to the September 11, 2012,attack on diplomatic facilities in Benghazi, Libya: I’d have to say for the good of the country, I hope it is a cover up rather than the alternative, which is the Obama administration was so blind to the reality of the threat of Islamic terrorism, the continued threat from Al Qaeda… If that’s the problem there’s no cure for it. If it was merely a political cover-up then there can be a political cost to pay

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Media outlets are reporting that a new immigration report from the conservative Heritage Foundation found that passing the proposed Senate comprehensive immigration bill will cost $6.3 trillion. In fact, the Heritage report is not an analysis of the entire Senate’s ”Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act,” and does not take into account costs or savings of the proposal’s broader reforms. Media Report That Heritage Study Found Senate Immigration Proposal Will Cost Trillions  Fox News: “Comprehensive Immigration Overhaul Being Taken Up In The Senate This Week Could Cost Taxpayers $6.3 trillion.”  In an article on a Heritage immigration study headlined, “Study pegs cost of immigration bill’s mass legalization at $6.3 trillion,” Fox News claimed that the “comprehensive immigration overhaul being taken up in the Senate this week could cost taxpayers $6.3 trillion if 11 million illegal immigrants are granted legal status, according to a long-awaited estimate by the conservative Heritage Foundation.” [FoxNews.com,  5/6/13 ]  Wash.

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According to Fox News Sunday ‘s Chris Wallace, the conservative Heritage Foundation is set to release a report that claims immigration reform will cost taxpayers billions of dollars. But Heritage’s analysis is reportedly based on a 2007 study that was widely discredited by experts for its faulty methodology and dubious conclusions. On KFTK’s Allman in the Morning , Wallace stated that he plans to host Heritage Foundation president and former Republican Sen

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U-T San Diego , a California daily newspaper which has been  criticized  for promoting the pro-business and hard-right political activities of new owner Douglas Manchester, is under review by state election regulators for allegedly giving discounted political ad rates to conservative campaigns and Republican candidates it favored.

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Affection for our planet is misdirected and unrequited. We need to focus on saving ourselves. In 2008, I wrote a piece for Salon about renaming ‘Earth’ Day .

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